| On The Way To Today... May 10th |
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2009/05/10 02:47 |
Sunday, May 10, 2009
Only 235 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Small Business Day
On The Way To Today... May 10th
1307 - Robert the Bruce, Scottish king, heavily defeated an English
attacking force of cavalry under Aylmer de Valence at the battle of
Louden Hill in Ayrshire.
1655 - Jamaica was taken by the British after being in Spanish hands
for 161 years.
1773 - The British parliament authorized the East India Company to
export half a million pounds of tea to the American colonies without
imposing upon the company the usual duties and tariffs. This measure,
which allowed the company to undersell other tea available in the
colonies, saved the East India Company from bankruptcy.
1796 - Napoleon Bonaparte's Army of Italy defeated the Austrians under
Baron Beaulieu in the Battle of Lodi, southeast of Milan. More than
2,000 Austrians were killed or wounded.
1857 - The Sepoy Mutiny against British rule in India broke out.
1865 - Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy during the
American Civil War, was captured by Union forces.
1869 - The first transcontinental railroad was completed at Promontory
Point, Utah. Officials from the Union Pacific and Central Pacific
lines celebrated by driving a golden spike into the last rail. The
four to six months that generally took pioneers to traverse the United
Stated was now reduced to six days. The event is one of the most
significant in US transportation history.
1871 - France and Germany signed a peace treaty in Frankfurt by which
France ceded Alsace-Lorraine.
1872 - The first woman nominated to be President of the United States
was Victoria Claflin Woodhull. She was chosen for the ballot by the
National Woman Suffrage Association in New York City. Ms. Woodhull was
not elected.
first time at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
He received a paycheck of $5,000.
1933 - Nazis, nationalist students and professors in black robes
gathered on a square in central Berlin to burn books by Karl Marx,
Sigmund Freud, Bertolt Brecht, Albert Einstein and other authors
condemned by Adolf Hitler's followers as decadent or "un-German."
1940 - Winston Churchill took over as British prime minister following
the resignation of Neville Chamberlain.
1940 - Germany invaded Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Belgium.
1941 - Hitler's deputy, Rudolf Hess, flew from Augsburg and parachuted
into Eaglesham near Glasgow, Scotland, in an apparent attempt to
negotiate a peace deal. He was arrested and imprisoned for the rest of
the war.
1945 - Russian troops occupied Prague; the Allies captured Rangoon
from the Japanese.
1960 - The U.S. nuclear-powered submarine Triton completed its 84-day
submerged voyage around the world.
1963 - Pope John XXIII received the Balzan Peace Prize, the first
peace prize ever awarded to a pope.
1967 - Nurse, journalist and writer Betty Mae Jumper became the first
woman chair in the Seminole Council in Florida, and the first woman to
assume the position of "Chief" of a federally-recognized tribe. In
1995 she was inducted into the Women's Hall of Fame of Florida.
1981 - In West Germany, the Social Democrats lost elections in West
Berlin for the first time since World War II.
1986 - Navy Lt. Commander Donnie Cochran became the first black pilot
to fly with the celebrated, Blue Angels precision, aerial
demonstration team.
1994 - Nelson Mandela was sworn in as South Africa's first black
president.
1995 - Britain lifted a 23-year ban on ministerial talks with Sinn
Fein, political wing of the Irish Republican Army.
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