| On The Way To Today... May 6th |
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2009/05/06 11:26 |
Wednesday, May 06, 2009
Only 239 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
No Diet Day
Today In History
On The Way To Today... May 6th
1527 - What became known as the "sack of Rome" began. For eight days,
the armies of Emperor Charles V pillaged and destroyed thousands of
churches, palaces, and historic sites. The sack of Rome, in which
thousands were killed, ended the city's preeminence as a Renaissance
center.
1626 - A Dutch settler, Peter Minuit, bought what is now Manhattan
Island from the Indians for a handful of trinkets worth no more than
25 dollars.
1757 - Frederick II of Prussia attacked Austrian troops defending
Prague in the Seven Years' War. The attack succeeded and Prague fell
with 10,000 Austrian casualties.
1816 - The American Bible Association was organized on this date in
New York (1816.
1835 - James Gordon Bennett published the "New York Herald" for the
first time.
1840 - The first adhesive postage stamps, the Penny Black and the
Twopenny Blue, went on sale in Britain.
1851 - Inventor John Gorrie was granted a US patent for an ice-making
machine. Gorrie's invention was the first US patent for mechanical
refrigeration. His machine was initially designed for treating yellow
fever. Gorrie is considered the father of refrigeration and
air-conditioning.
1851 - Linus Yale of Newport, New York became well known for his
patent of the clock-type lock.
1861 - Arkansas voted to secede from the Union and join the
Confederacy.
1863 - In the American Civil War, the battle of Chancellorville ended
when the Confederates under General Lee heavily defeated Federal
troops under Hooker.
1864 - The Civil War battle of the Wilderness in Virginia ended;
General Lee's Confederate forces defeated a superior Federal force led
by General Grant.
1889 - The Universal Exposition opened in Paris, France, marking the
dedication of the recently constructed Eiffel Tower. The exposition
also was known for the display of the first automobile in Paris; a
German Mercedes-Benz.
1919 - The Paris Peace Conference disposed of Germany's colonies;
German East Africa was assigned as a League of Nations mandate to
Britain and France, German South-West Africa as a mandate to South
Africa.
1937 - Thirty-six people were killed when the hydrogen-filled German
zeppelin Hindenburg was destroyed by fire at a tower mooring while
docking in Lakehurst, New Jersey. A horrified crowd, gathered to greet
the zeppelin's arrival, witnessed the explosion. The filmed footage of
the disaster was shown in thousands of movie theaters for many months.
1941 - Joseph Stalin became the premier of Russia.
1942 - The island fortress of Corregidor in the Philippines
surrendered to the Japanese.
1945 - The U.S. Third Army captured Pilsen in Czechoslovakia; General
Johannes Blaskowitz surrendered the German armies in The Netherlands.
1954 - Roger Bannister was the first to break the 4-minute mile while
at Oxford University in England. His 4-lap time was 3:59.4. Bannister
was a 25-year-old medical student at the time at St. Mary's Hospital.
1959 - The Pablo Picasso painting of a Dutch girl was sold for
$154,000 in London. It was the highest price paid to that time for a
painting by a living artist.
1968 - The worst street fighting in Paris since the liberation shook
the left bank as students and police fought for control of the
fashionable Boulevard St. Germain. The University of the Sorbonne was
closed.
1974 - West German Chancellor Willy Brandt resigned after an aide was
arrested on charges of spying for East Germany.
1981 - The U.S. expelled all Libyan diplomats, citing was it said was
the Libyan government's support for international terrorism.
1983 - In Germany, alleged diaries supposedly written by dictator
Adolf Hitler and published by Stern Magazine and the Sunday Times were
declared fakes.
1990 - Soviet authorities agreed to open for just one day eight
crossing points along a 400-km (260-mile) stretch of the River Prut,
which had marked the division of Moldavia between Romania and the
Soviet Union since 1945.
1994 - Britain and France were joined for the first time since the Ice
Age by an undersea tunnel hailed as one of the great engineering feats
of the 20th century.
1996 - Guatemala's leftist guerrillas signed a key accord in talks
with the government of President Alvaro Arzu aimed at ending 35 years
of civil war.
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