| On The Way To Today... April 25th |
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2009/04/25 21:52 |
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Only 250 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Anzac Day in Australia and New Zealand
Today In History
April 25, 1980
On The Way To Today... April 25th
1792 - Jacques Pelletier, a highwayman, became the first person to be
guillotined in France, on the Place de Greve in Paris.
1850 - Paul Julius Reuter, founder of the news agency that bears his
name, used 40 pigeons to carry stock market prices between Brussels
and Aachen.
1859 - Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
1862 - New Orleans fell to the Union fleet of Adm. David Farragut in
the American Civil War.
1867 - Tokyo was opened for international trade.
1898 - The United States declared war on Spain.
1901 - New York became the first state to require auto license plates.
1925 - Field Marshal Paul von Hindenburg became the second president
of Germany's postwar Weimar Republic.
1926 - Arturo Toscanini conducted the first performance of Giacomo
Puccini's opera "Turandot" at La Scala, Milan.
1928 - Buddy, the first seeing eye dog ever, was given to Morris S.
Frank. Even today, seeing eye dogs are put through rigorous training
with instructors and their blind companions. A seeing eye dog becomes
an crucial part of the family, whose purpose is to serve, trust, love,
and obey its master. The owners are taught to always trust their loyal
companions, as the dogs are their eyes.
1945 - The last Boeing B-17 attack against Nazi Germany occured.
1945 - United States and Soviet forces met at Torgau, Germany, on the
Elbe River.
1950 - Chuck Cooper became the first black man to play in the NBA.
1952 - The American Bowling Congress approved the use of an automatic
pinsetter.
1954 - In New York City, Bell Laboratories announced the prototype of
a new solar battery.
1959 - The St. Lawrence Seaway opened, saving shippers millions of
dollars in shipping cost. The Seaway went from the sea to the Great
Lakes across upstate New York, so companies no longer had to ship
goods the long, expensive way around.
1961 - Robert Noyce patented the integrated circuit, or chip, a small
complex of electronic components placed in a slice of semiconductor
material. The actual invention of the chip is attributed to two
engineers working for different companies in the 1950s: Noyce and Jack
Kilby.
1961 - An unmanned Mercury test rocket exploded on its launch pad.
1967 - Colorado Governor John Love signed the first law legalizing
abortion in the United States. It was limited to therapeutic abortions
that were unanimously agreed upon by a three physician panel.
1967 - Britain granted internal self-government to Swaziland.
1971 - 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters marched on Washington.
1976 - Elections took place in Vietnam for a National Assembly to
reunite the two halves of the country.
1980 - A United States commando mission to rescue 53 American embassy
hostages in Iran was abandoned in the desert with the loss of eight
American lives when a helicopter collided with a tanker aircraft.
1982 - British troops recaptured South Georgia, part of the Falkland
Islands, from occupying Argentine forces.
1982 - In accordance with Camp David, Israel completes Sinai
withdrawl.
1985 - Smokey Bear didn't help prevent forest fires for the first time
in 40 years. The symbol of the United States Forest Service was pushed
out of the limelight for a public service announcement about an arson
suspect being booked at a police station. Representatives of the Ad
Council, which produced these messages for radio and television said
returned and is doing fine.
1990 - The Hubble space telescope was placed into orbit by the shuttle
Discovery.
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