Sunday, April 26, 2009
Only 249 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Secretaries Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... April 26th
1807 - Russia and Prussia signed the Convention at Bartenstein,
forming an alliance to drive France out of German states.
1828 - Russia declared war on Turkey to support Greece's battle for
independence.
1890 - Australian country music pioneer Banjo Paterson's poem, The Man
from Snowy River, was first published as a supplement to the Bulletin.
Over 10,000 copies were sold during the following year.
1915 - Italy secretly signed the Pact of London with Britain, France
and Russia which would put them on the side of the allies in World War
I.
1921 - In St. Louis, Missouri, weather broadcasts were heard for the
first time on radio when WEW aired weather news. Today, weather
forecasts are still the main reason people listen to radio; rating
higher than music, news, sports and commercials.
1923 - The Duke of York -- Britain's future King George VI -- married
Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in Westminster Abbey.
1926 - Actress Mae West was arrested on this date for "corrupting the
morals of youth" for her play Sex. Allegedly, she "gyrated her navel
seductively" during a belly dance performance. West was also the
playwright of the scandalous production.
1937 - The German Luftwaffe destroyed the Basque town of Guernica in
Spain. The planes swooped down on the village, bombing the citizens
for several hours. This was considered one of the worst massacres of
the Spanish Civil War. The Guernica massacre was immortalized in a
mural by the Spanish painter Pablo Picasso.
1937 - For the first and only time ever, Life Magazine was published
without the word "LIFE" in the upper left-hand corner. The reason for
this break of tradition was, a picture of a rooster would have its
comb obscured if the logotype was used in the upper left-hand corner
as usual.
1942 - At least 1,540 people died in the world's worst mining disaster
at a colliery in Benxi, in Japanese-occupied China.
1949 - "Look" magazine announced radio was doomed and within three
years would be totally overshadowed by television.
1962 - Britain's first satellite, Ariel I, was launched from Cape
Canaveral by a Thor-Delta booster.
1964 - Tanganyika, Zanzibar and Pemba joined to form the United
Republic of Tanganyika and Zanzibar. It was re-named Tanzania on
October 29.
1983 - For the first time, the Dow Jones industrial average went over
the 1200 mark, only two months after breaking the 1100 barrier.
1985 - A poll in "Money" magazine said, Baby Boomers, those then 25-39
years old, had more loans, fewer investments than other generations,
and yet were more optimistic than most of the population.
1986 - At 1:23 a.m. in Pripyat, Ukraine, the Chernobyl atomic power
station exploded. In an attempt to save the 100,000 people living in
the area from radiation poisoning, a three-hundred-square-mile area
was evacuated. Still, 31 people died and unknown thousands were
exposed as the radioactive material spread through the world, carried
in the atmosphere.
1992 - Thousands of Russians celebrated Orthodox Easter, bells ringing
out from the walled Kremlin for the first time since Bolshevik leaders
vowed to crush Christianity for ever.
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