"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote in
news:u32o05ptgsaivhpo9nru7c7q4rm7kdodqo@4ax.com:
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> Thursday, May 14, 2009
> Only 231 days until the Year 2010
>
> Today is:
> Underground America Day
>
>
> On The Way To Today... May 14th
>
>
> 649 - Theodore I ended his reign as Catholic Pope.
>
> 1264 - The Baron's War was fought in England.
>
> 1607 - The first permanent English settlement in what is now the
> United States got started at Jamestown, Virginia.
>
> 1796 - The first smallpox inoculation was administered by Edward
> Jenner.
>
> 1804 - Lewis & Clark set out from St. Louis for the Pacific Coast.
>
> 1811 - Paraguay gained independence from Spain.
>
> 1862 - Adolphe Nicole of Switzerland patented the chronograph - a
> timepiece that allows for split-second timing of sporting events.
>
> 1874 - McGill University and Harvard met at Cambridge, Massachusetts,
> for the first college football game to charge admission. To make it
> worthwhile for ticket buyers, this was also the first time that a
> goalpost was used at both ends of the playing field.
>
> 1878 - The trademarked name Vaseline (for a brand of petroleum jelly)
> was registered by Robert A. Chesebrough. You have probably heard of
>
> 1897 - A statue of George Washington was unveiled in Philadelphia,
> "The Stars and Stripes Forever" was performed. It was the first public
> McKinley was in the audience.
>
> 1904 - The third modern Olympiad, the first ever held in the U.S.,
> opened in St. Louis. With few contestants from other countries, the
> United States won 21 events.
>
> 1913 - John D. Rockefeller made the largest gift of money to that date
> by establishing the Rockefeller Foundation - for $100,000,000. The
>
> 1940 - The Netherlands surrendered to Germany.
>
> 1948 - Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion establishes the State of
> Israel.
>
> 1955 - The Warsaw Pact was formed.
>
> 1973 - The first Space Station, Skylab, was launched.
>
> 1985 - The third most widely-used form of contraception in the U.S.
> celebrated its 25th birthday. The Pill is now the leading form of
> contraception and continues to be the focus of controversy.
>
> became the first museum of the fast-food business.
>
> 1990 - The Dow Jones industrial average hit a record 2,821.53 points.
>
> 1994 - The West Bank town of Jericho saw its first full day of
> Palestinian self-rule.
>
1796. Dr. Edward Jenner gave the first smallpox vaccination.
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