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2009/05/20 01:32 |
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Only 225 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Neighbor Day
On The Way To Today... May 20th
1303 - The Treaty of Paris restored Gascony to the British in the
Hundred Years War.
1347 - In Rome, Cola di Rienza took the title of Tribune and assumed
dictatorial powers in his drive to revive the city as the capital of
Italy.
1498 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama arrived at Calicut, India,
after sailing from Europe.
1501 - The Portuguese discovered an island in the south Atlantic on
Ascension Day and named it Ascension Island.
1774 - Britain passed the Quebec Act, extending its boundaries
northwards to Hudson's Bay land and as far south as the junction of
the Ohio and Mississippi rivers.
1830 - H.D. Hyde of Reading, Pennsylvania patented the fountain pen.
1861 - North Carolina became the last of the Confederate states to
secede from the Union.
1861 - The capital of the Confederacy was moved from Montgomery,
Alabama, to Richmond, Virginia.
1867 - In London, Queen Victoria laid the foundation stone of the
Royal Albert Hall.
1875 - The International Bureau of Weights and Measures was
established.
1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be
arrested for speeding. Mr. German was whipping his taxicab all over
Lexington Avenue and being a pain in the neck by going over the posted
12 mile-per-hour speed limit!
1902 - Cuba was handed over to a republican government and the last
U.S. troops left.
1922 - the P&O liner Egypt sank off Ushant with the loss of 90 lives
after colliding in fog with the French steamship Seine. The ship was
also carrying one million sterling worth of gold and silver.
1927 - Great Britain signed the Treaty of Jeddah with King Ibn Saud,
recognizing the independence of Saudi Arabia.
aboard the small airplane "Spirit of St. Louis", en route to Paris,
France. Thirty-three and one-half hours later, Charles A. Lindbergh
arrived at his destination - and flew into history.
1930 - A San Francisco newspaper reported that a University of
California committee had awarded the sum of $1,500 to continue
research on the prevention and cure of a burning issue of the day,
1932 - Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland for Ireland to became
the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic.
1939 - The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison
Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in
midtown Manhattan. A bicycle race was the event broadcast to a
breathless audience.
1939 - The "Yankee Clipper" took off from Port Washington, New York,
bound for Europe. The plane, the flagship of Pan American Airways,
established the first regular air-passenger service across the
Atlantic Ocean.
1941 - German troops invaded the Mediterranean island of Crete.
1956 - The first hydrogen bomb to be dropped from the air was exploded
by the Americans over the Bikini Atoll in the Pacific.
1961 - A white mob attacked a busload of Freedom Riders in Montgomery,
Alabama, prompting the federal government to send in U.S. marshals to
restore order.
1978 - Mavis Hutchinson, 53, made it to New York City to become the
first woman to run across America. The 3,000-mile trek took her 69
days. She ran an average of 45 miles each day.
1980 - The Canadian province of Quebec voted against a proposal to
negotiate independence from Canada.
network run on ABC-TV. Hal Linden as Barney, Abe Vigoda as Fish and a
talented cast continue to bring the fictional 12th Precinct to TV
screens through syndication today.
1983 - In one of the worst incidents of political violence in South
Africa, a car bomb exploded outside air force headquarters in
Pretoria, killing some 20 people.
1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average broke the 1300 mark for the
first time. The Dow gained 19.54 points to close at 1304.88.
1989 - Chinese communist authorities slapped martial law on the
capital of Beijing after student-led protests brought millions of
people onto the streets.
1989 - During China's pro-democracy protests, Beijing officials
ordered CBS and CNN to end their live on-scene reports.
1991 - The Soviet parliament approved in principle a law which would
allow citizens to travel abroad freely.
1993 - The British parliament finally passed a bill aimed at ratifying
the Maastricht treaty, after six months of feuding.
1995 - Vietnamese refugees rioted at the Whitehead detention camp in
Hong Kong in protest at an order that they be forcibly repatriated.
1996 - Iraq, its economy devastated by nearly six years of sanctions,
accepted a tough U.N. plan to sell limited quantities of oil in order
to buy food and medicine.
1998 - The House voted overwhelmingly to block future satellite
exports to China.
1998 - The costly Godzilla, starring Matthew Broderick as scientist
Nick Tatopoulos, opened in U.S. theaters. While it placed in the
Number 5 spot for box office receipts for films released that year,
the film was a disappointment to the film's producers and critics.
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