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2009/06/03 01:23 |
Wednesday, June 03, 2009
Only 211 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Children's Awareness Day
On The Way To Today... June 3rd
1083 - Henry IV of Germany stormed Rome, capturing St. Peter's
Cathedral.
1098 - After a five-month siege in the First Crusade, the Crusaders
took Antioch.
1621 - The Dutch West India Company received a charter for New
Netherlands -- now known as New York.
1769 - Capt. James Cook, a year into his circumnavigation of the
world, observed the transit of Venus over the sun's disc, the main
purpose of his voyage.
1800 - When John Adams moved to Washington D.C., he became the first
United States President to live in what would become the capital of
House or The Executive Mansion, which would become known as The White
House.
1818 - The last of the Maratha Wars between the British and the
Maratha Confederacy in India ended, securing British supremacy in
India.
1856 - The screw maching was patented by Providence, Rhode Island,
native Cullen Whipple.
1871 - Jesse James and his company of outlaws stole $15,000 in cash
from the Obocock Bank in Corydon, Indiana. James was only 24 at the
time.
1888 - Ernest Lawrence Thayer's 13-stanza poem "Casey at the Bat" was
first published in the San Francisco Daily Examiner. Thayer was heir
to the American Woolen Mills.
1937 - The Duke of Windsor, who, as King Edward VIII, had abdicated
the British throne six months before, married Wallis Simpson, a twice-
divorced American. The duke had been forced to give up the crown
because his title prevented him from marrying a commoner and a
divorcee. Edward VIII was the first British monarch to voluntarily
abdicate the throne.
1940 - In World War II, the evacuation of allied troops from Dunkirk
was completed. Over 335,000 British, French and Belgian troops were
rescued.
1948 - The 200-inch reflecting telescope at the Palomar Mountain
observatory in California was dedicated.
1950 - A French expedition reached the top of the Himalayan peak of
Annapurna in Nepal for the first time.
1959 - The Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado held its
first graduation ceremonies.
1965 - Edward H. White became the first US astronaut to walk in space.
He spent more than 30 minutes outside spacecraft Gemini-IV. The craft,
launched the same day as the walk, had only two crew members: White
and Commander James A. McDivitt. Gemini-IV's flight lasted for four
days.
1979 - The worlds's worst oil spillage occurred as a result of a
marine blow-out beneath the drilling rig Ixtoc 1 in the Gulf of
Mexico.
1985 - "American Health" magazine published a survey that said 52
percent of doctors claimed that no one really needed to eat red meat
more than once or twice a week. It also said that 72 percent of
doctors called the vegetarian diet a passing fad.
1989 - China's crackdown on pro-democracy dissidents protesting in
Tiananmen Square began.
1990 - Presidents Bush and Gorbachev wound up a superpower summit in
the United States with agreement on a number of arms control and trade
issues.
1992 - The world's largest environmental summit opened in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil, with 178 nations taking part.
1995 - Defense ministers from NATO and European Union countries agreed
to set up a "rapid reaction force" to protect embattled U.N.
peacekeeping troops from Bosnian Serb aggression.
1996 - NATO foreign ministers backed a path-breaking deal that boosted
the role of European members within the Atlantic alliance.
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