| Re: On The Way To Today... May 14th |
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| ::darkshadows:: (bat@cave.org) |
2009/05/14 06:32 |
On 14 May 2009 12:21:53 GMT, WingedMessenger <Boy@FlyingHigh.com>
wrote:
>"::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.
noted way up there at the beginning.... ;o)
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