| On The Way To Today... May 15th |
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2009/05/15 01:25 |
Friday, May 15, 2009
Only 230 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
International Day of Families
On The Way To Today... May 15th
1004 - Henry II, the last Saxon ruler of Germany, was crowned king of
Lombardy following the defeat of Arduin of Ivrea. The city of Pavia
rioted at the news.
1602 - Cape Cod was discovered by English navigator Bartholomew
Gosnold.
1718 - James Puckle, a London lawyer, patented the world's first
machine gun.
1800 - King George III survived a second assassination attempt when
James Hadfield fired a shot during a performance at the Drury Lane
Theater, London.
1806 - Lt. Zebulon Montgomery Pike sighted a mountain peak that now
was changed to honor the young army lieutenant. Lt. Pike was leading a
survey party into the newly acquired Louisiana Purchase when he
was the familiar slogan of many a wagon train settler traveling west
in the 1800s.
1860 - Giuseppe Garibaldi with 1,000 volunteers heavily defeated the
superior Neapolitan army under General Landi at the Battle of
Calatafimi.
1862 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture was created by an act of
Congress.
1886 - Poet Emily Dickinson died on this date at the age of 56 in
Amherst, Massachusetts. Of the more than 3,000 poems written by her,
only seven were published during her lifetime.
1911 - The Supreme Court ordered the dissolution of Standard Oil
Company, ruling it violated the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1916 - In Italy, Asiago fell when Austrian troops under von Hotzendorf
attacked the Italian front along the Trentino.
1918 - Regular airmail service between New York City, Philadelphia and
Washington, DC began under the direction of the Post Office
Department, a forerunner of the United States Postal Service.
1930 - Ellen Church became the first stewardess for an airline. Church
served passengers flying between San Francisco, California and
Cheyenne, Wyoming on United Airlines.
1936 - Amy Johnson arrived in Croydon, England, after a
record-breaking return flight from South Africa taking just four days
and 16 hours.
1940 - Nylon stockings were sold in stores throughout the US for the
first time. The stockings were such a success that 64 million pairs
were sold the first year. This buying frenzy was curtailed when the
Allied forces began to buy most of the available nylon to make
parachutes and tents during World War II. After the war, nylon
stockings became a favorite consumer item.
1940 - The Dutch army surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1941 - Britain's first jet-propelled aircraft, the Gloster-Whittle
E.28/39, flew for the first time.
1948 - Hours after declaring its independence, the new state of Israel
was attacked by Transjordan, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.
1955 - The Vienna Treaty, signed by Britain, France, the United States
and the USSR, restored Austria's independence.
1957 - Britain dropped its first hydrogen bomb on Christmas Island in
the Pacific.
1988 - Moscow began the withdrawal of its estimated 115,000 troops in
Afghanistan by pulling a unit out of Jalalabad.
1989 - Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev arrived in Beijing for
the first Sino-Soviet summit in 30 years.
1990 - "Portrait of Doctor Gachet" by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $82.5
million at Christies in New York smashing the world record of $53.9
million.
1992 - Opposition Popular Front forces in Azerbaijan swept President
Ayaz Mutalibov from power only a day after parliament reinstated him.
1993 - French police rescued six schoolgirls and a teacher after a
46-hour hostage drama at a Paris suburban school.
1995 - China conducted an underground nuclear test just days after it
had agreed to an extension of the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
1998 - Hundreds of looters in Jakarta were trapped in blazing shopping
malls and burned to death in rioting.
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