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2009/05/24 01:09 |
Sunday, May 24, 2009
Only 221 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Culture Day in Bulgaria
On The Way To Today... May 24th
1822 - Antonio Jose de Sucre defeated the Spanish royalists at the
battle of Pichincha, securing the independence of Quito, later to
become Ecuador.
1830 - The first passenger ralroad in the United States began service
in Maryland.
Washington, DC to Baltimore, Maryland.
1856 - The Pottawatomie Massacre took place in Kansas. A pro-slavery
settlement in Franklin County was attacked by an anti-slavery group
led by John Brown.
Maria" in its first public performance.
1862 - The new Westminster Bridge in London was completely opened.
1881 - About 200 people died when the Candian ferry "princess
Victoryia" sank near London, Ontario.
1883 - The Brooklyn Bridge - linking Manhattan and Brooklyn in New
suspension bridge. It is held together with 5,296 bound-steel cables.
The Brooklyn Bridge, designed by John A. Roebling, took 14 years to
build. The span is 1,595 feet long, cost $16 million to construct and
1899 - W. T. McCullough of Boston, Massachusetts opened the first
public garage. One could rent space for selling, storing and repairing
vehicles.
1913 - The U.S. Department of Labor entered into its first strike
mediation. The dispute of the Railroad Clerks of the New York, New
Haven and Hartford Railroad was settled nine days later.
1920 - French President Paul Deschanel fell from a train and was found
later wandering along the track in his pajamas.
1930 - Amy Johnson landed her Gypsy Moth plane Jason at Darwin in
Northern Australia, the first woman to fly solo from England.
1931 - The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad (B&O) began service on the
"Columbian" run between New York City and Washington, DC. The
passenger train was the first train with air conditioning throughout.
1941 - The British cruiser HMS Hood was sunk by the German battleship
Bismarck, killing over 1,300.
1954 - The first traveling sidewalk in a railroad station was moving
right along its first day of operation, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
1958 - United Press International was formed through a merger of the
United Press and the International News Service.
1962 - Barbados, Leeward and Windward delegates, the "Little Eight,"
agree with the British on the formation of a new West Indies
Federation.
1962 - Malcolm Scott Carpenter completed the second U.S. manned
orbital space flight, when Aurora 7 splashed down after three trips
around the Earth.
1964 - In Lima, Peru, more than 300 soccer fans were killed and over
500 others were injured during a riot and panic following an unpopular
ruling by a referee in a Peru vs. Argentina soccer game. It was the
worst soccer-related disaster on record.
1970 - The Mississippi State Commission for Educational TV reversed an
earlier decision banning the showing of the children's television
program, Sesame Street.
1976 - The British and French Concordes made their first commercial
flights from London and Paris respectively to Washington Dulles
International Airport in just under four hours.
1977 - The Kremlin ousted Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny from the
Communist Party's ruling Politburo.
1980 - Iran rejected a call by the World Court in The Hague to release
the American hostages.
1982 - In the Iran-Iraq war, Iranian troops recaptured Khorramshahr
after it had been occupied by Iraq for 20 months.
1983 - The Brooklyn Bridge celebrated its 100th birthday with a huge
fireworks display.
1984 - Iranian warplanes attacked the Liberian-registered tanker
Chemical Venture off the coast of Saudi Arabia.
1994 - About 270 Muslims performing the annual hajj pilgrimage to
Mecca in Saudi Arabia were killed in a stampede.
1994 - Four men convicted of bombing New York's World Trade Center;
each was sentenced to 240 years in prison.
1996 - Afghan President Burhanuddin Rabbani signed a peace agreement
with one-time arch-foe and former prime minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar
in Kabul.
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