Thursday, May 28, 2009
Only 217 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Memorial Day
On The Way To Today... May 28th
1156 - William of Sicily crushed a revolt against his rule, defeating
the Byzantine fleet at Brindisi.
1863 - The first black regiment from the North left Boston to fight in
the Civil War.
1922 - Otto Krueger conducted the Detroit News Orchestra, the first
known radio orchestra, which was heard on WWJ Radio in Detroit,
Michigan. The "Detroit News" owned the radio station at the time.
1929 - Warner Brothers debuted the first all-color talking picture.
The film debuted at the Winter Garden Theatre in New York City. Ethel
Waters, Joe E. Brown and Arthur Lake starred in "On With the Show".
1934 - The Dionne quintuplets were born near Callender, Ontario to
Oliva and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quints to survive infancy
- Marie, Cecile, Yvonne, Emilie and Annette.
1940 - Belgium's King Leopold surrendered to Nazi Germany.
1940 - Norwegian and British forces captured Narvik in Norway.
1940 - Evacuation of the defeated Allied armies from Dunkirk began. By
its completion on the night of June 2, a total of 224,585 British and
112,546 French and Belgian troops had been saved.
1953 - The first 3-D (three-dimensional) cartoon premiered at the
Paramount Theatre in Hollywood, California. The production, a Walt
Disney creation, and an RKO picture, was titled, "Melody".
1959 - Abel and Baker were two monkeys who survived a trip into space
from a launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida.
1982 - The legendary train, "Orient Express", made popular through
Express", was reborn. The 26-hour train trip resumed across the
European continent after a long respite.
1982 - Pope John Paul II arrived in Britain on the first papal visit
there since 1531.
1982 - In the Falklands war, British troops recaptured Port Darwin and
Goose Green from the Argentine army, taking at least 1,400 prisoners.
1985 - Gay Mullins, a retiree from Seattle, Washington, founded The
Old Cola Drinkers of America. This was an effort to bring back the
original Coca-Cola, instead of the New Coke that the Atlanta-based
company had foisted on the American cola-drinking market. By July of
1985, with arms firmly twisted behind their backs, Coca-Cola Company
executives relented and returned the old formula to colaholics and
with a new name: Classic Coke.
1987 - A 19-year-old West German, Mathias Rust, flew a plane from
Helsinki to Moscow, passing through Soviet airspace unchallenged and
eventually landing on Red Square.
1995 - Russia's worst recorded earthquake killed 1,989 people in the
Far East oil-producing town of Neftegorsk, on the north of Sakhalin
Island.
1996 - President Jacques Chirac announced France would end military
conscription from 1997, earlier than previously planned.
1998 - Pakistan matched India with five nuclear test blasts of its
own.
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