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In article <pkkk1511rvk1humjp03ddjhg23v2gsacun@4ax.com>,
"::darkshadows::" <bat@cave.org> wrote:
> Monday, May 25, 2009
> Only 220 days until the Year 2010
>
> Today is:
> National Missing Children's Day
>
>
> On The Way To Today... May 25th
>
>
> 1787 - The Constitutional Convention started its first session in
> Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The delegates repealed the "Articles of
> Confederation" and drafted a new US constitution. The new document was
> the result of many compromises between nationalists and federalists.
> Fifty-five delegates from 12 states met in Philadelphia.
>
> 1810 - Argentina began its revolt against Spain.
>
> 1844 - Stuart Perry of New York City patented the gasoline engine.
>
> 1878 - Gilbert and Sullivan's operetta "H.M.S. Pinafore" had its world
> premier in London.
>
> 1895 - Writer Oscar Wilde was sentenced to two years hard labor in
> Britain for being a sodomite.
>
> 1909 - Britain passed the Indian Councils Act, giving more power to
> local legislative councils in India.
>
> 1911 - President Porfirio Diaz resigned after revolutionist forces
> defeated government troops in the Mexican Civil War.
>
> 1915 - In Europe, the second Battle of Ypres ended with casualties
> around 105,000. The Germans used poison gas for the first time.
>
> 1927 - The Ford Motor Company announced that its popular automobile
> model, the Model T, known as the Tin Lizzie, would not be rolling off
> assembly lines anymore. The discontinued car would be replaced by the
> more modern Model A. The first Model T was manufactured in 1908,
> all motor cars in the entire world were Tin Lizzies.
>
> 1927 - The "Movietone News" was shown for the first time at the Sam
> aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" was featured. These newsreels were
> produced for showing in theatres until 1967 when competition from TV
> news forced them into extinction.
>
> 1939 - An audience of 18,000 people waited patiently at Madison Square
> Garden in New York City to hear the piano virtuoso Ignace Jan
> Paderewski begin a much-anticipated piano recital. However, the
> 78-year-old former premier of Poland was unable to perform for the
> arthritic condition that made it impossible for him to play the piano.
>
> 1951 - Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean, British foreign office
> officials, disappeared from London. It was later discovered they had
> spied for Russia.
>
> 1960 - During China-Nepal discussions on their border and ownership of
> Mount Everest, a Chinese team reached the summit via the north face
> and planted a Chinese flag and bust of Mao Zedong.
>
> 1963 - The Organization of African Unity (OAU) was established at
> Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The OAU charter, signed by the 32 heads of
> state, sought to promote unity among African states and to oppose
> colonialism.
>
> 1968 - The Gateway Arch, part of the Jefferson Natioinal Expansion
> Memorial in St. Louis, was dedicated.
>
> 1972 - The last of the U.S. "Corona" spy satellites was launched from
> Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.
>
> 1977 - China lifted its ban on the works of Shakespeare, which had
> been denounced as bourgeois during the cultural revolution.
>
> 1977 - The motion picture "Star Wars" was first shown to the public.
> "Star Wars" became one of the most popular and profitable science
> fiction films ever made. Written and directed by George Lucas, the
> movie depicted the archetypal battle between good and evil.
>
> 1979 - America's worst-ever air disaster (to date) occurred when a
> DC-10 crashed at Chicago's O'Hare airport killing 273.
>
> 1983 - The movie, "Return of the Jedi", topped all previous opening
> day box office records with a gross of $6,219,629. It opened on 1,002
> screens around the U.S.
>
> 1983 - A fire on board three vessels on a trip on the Upper Nile in
> Egypt killed more than 300 people.
>
> 1989 - Mikhail Gorbachev was elected to the new post of Executive
> President in the Soviet Union.
>
> 1995 - A major flare-up in the Bosnian war began when NATO launched
> air strikes against ammunition bunkers near Pale.
The assembly line had been used before Henry Ford and the Model T. The
first use of an assembly line for automobile production was by R. E.
Olds. Ford was second, but by far the biggest producer.
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