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Date: Fri, 22 May 2009 02:22:29 -0500
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Friday, May 22, 2009
Only 223 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
National Maritime Day
On The Way To Today... May 22nd
1455 - The opening battle in England's 30-year War of the Roses took
place at St. Albans, when the Lancastrians defeated the Yorkists.
1629 - The Peace of Luebeck was signed, ending hostilities between the
Holy Roman Empire and Denmark.
1761 - The first life insurance policy issued in the United States was
issued. It was the Corporation for the Relief of Poor and Distressed
Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and
Children of Presbyterian Ministers.
1804 - Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and members of the Corps of
Discovery left St. Louis, Missouri, in direction to the Pacific Coast,
in what became known as the "Lewis and Clark Expedition." During their
voyage the travelers took detailed topographical notes, collected
specimens of flora and fauna, and established contact with Native
American groups.
1819 - The steamship "Savannah" was the first to cross the Atlantic.
It sailed from Savannah, Georgia to Liverpool, England. This day is
now celebrated in the United States as National Maritime Day.
1841 - Henry Kennedy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania patented the first
reclining chair.
1849 - Abraham Lincoln received patent number 6469 for his floating
dry dock.
1868 - The masked Reno Gang pulled off the great train robbery at
Marshfield, Indiana. They hauled in $98,000 in loot.
1891 - The first public showing of motion pictures took place before a
group of 147 representatives of the National Federation of Women's
Clubs at Thomas Edison's workshop in West Orange, New Jersey. The film
consisted of a polite man bowing, smiling, waving, and doffing his
hat.
1897 - The Blackwall Tunnel under the River Thames was opened by the
Prince and Princess of Wales.
1900 - The Associated Press, successor to several regional news
organizations, was incorporated in New York as a non-profit news
cooperative.
1900 - A. DeVilbiss, Jr. of Toledo, Ohio patented his pendulum-type
computing scale.
1900 - Edwin S. Votey of Detroit, Michigan patented his pianola: a
pneumatic piano player. The device could be attached to any piano.
1908 - In the U.S. the Wright Brothers patented their flying machine.
1915 - The worst train disaster in Britain took place when a troop
train collided with a passenger train at Gretna Green, Scotland,
killing 227.
1931 - The Floridian Products Corporation of Arcadia offered its
product for sale - rattlesnake meat.
1932 - Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly across the
Atlantic Ocean alone. She had departed the previous day from Harbor
Grace, Newfoundland, and arrived to Londonderry, Ireland about 14
hours later.
1939 - Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a "Pact of Steel"
committing Germany and Italy to a military alliance.
1943 - The Third Communist International, known as COMINTERM, was
dissolved by the Soviet Union in a gesture to the West.
1945 - U.S. troops captured Yonabaro on Okinawa island, Japan.
1947 - The Truman Doctrine was enacted as Congress appropriated
military and economic aid for Greece and Turkey.
Scotland.
1955 - Jack Benny signed off his last live network radio broadcast
after a run of 23 years. Mr. Benny was devoting his time fully to TV.
His program brought many of his old cronies to TV as well: announcer
1967 - The Brussels department store "L'Innovation" killed more than
320 people.
debuted.
1967 - The final "To Tell the Truth" program was seen on CBS-TV. It
had been on the air for over 10 years. The show began syndication
sometime later, in a slightly different format.
1969 - The Apollo 10 lunar module Snoopy came within 9.4 miles of the
moon's surface.
1972 - The first U.S. president to visit Moscow did so. President
Richard Nixon met with Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev.
1972 - Ceylon became a republic within the Commonwealth under the name
of Sri Lanka.
1979 - In Canada, the 11-year premiership of Pierre Trudeau ended when
the Liberal Party were defeated in a general election by the
Progressive Conservative Party led by Joe Clark.
1981 - In Britain, Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper) was jailed
for life after being convicted of 13 counts of murder.
1985 - GTE Corporation (General Telephone and Electronics) was named
by "Fortune" magazine as the largest utility in the U.S. In the same
for the 21st year in a row.
1989 - Soviet authorities announced curbs on the number of staff at
the British embassy and other institutions in Moscow, from 375 to 205.
1992 - After 30 years as host of "The Tonight Show," Johnny Carson
lead the popular TV program for the last time. His lightning wit and
great charm made Carson one of the most likable figures of US
television. He was accompanied by sidekick Ed McMahon and bandleader
Doc Severinsen. Carson was replaced by comedian Jay Leno.
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