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2009/06/05 02:12 |
Friday, June 05, 2009
Only 209 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
World Environment Day
On The Way To Today... June 5th
1249 - In the Sixth Crusade, Louis IX of France landed in Egypt.
1783 - Joseph and Jacques Montgolfier made their first balloon trip
today. They rose up to 1,500 feet in the air for about ten minutes.
1794 - Congress passed the Neutrality Act, which prohibited Americans
from enlisting in the service of another country.
1806 - Holland was declared a kingdom with Louis Bonaparte as its
king.
1865 - New York City opened the first ever safe-deposit vault.
Depositors paid $1.50 a year for each $1,000 stored in the vault.
1865 - Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly when his composition,
"Onward Christian Soldiers", was performed for the first time in
Horbury, England.
1873 - Under pressure from the British, the sultan of Zanzibar signed
a treaty abolishing slavery.
1900 - British troops under Redvers Buller captured Pretoria in the
Boer War.
1916 - Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener of Khartoum, Irish soldier,
statesman and conqueror of Sudan, was lost at sea when his ship struck
a mine off the Orkneys.
1917 - About 10 million American men began registering for the draft
in World War I.
1933 - The United States went off the gold standard.
1940 - During the World War II Battle of France, Germany attacked
French forces along the Somme line.
1944 - The first British gliders touched down on French soil in
preparation for D-Day.
1945 - At the end of World War II, the Allied Control Commission took
control of Germany, dividing it into four occupation zones.
1946 - Detroit, Michigan offered the first medical sponges for sale.
1947 - U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall announced his plan to
help Europe recover financially from the effects of World War II. (The
Marshall Plan)
1953 - King Frederick signed the new Danish constitution into effect,
under which Greenland and the Faroes became integral parts of Denmark.
1956 - Making his second appearance on Milton Berle's "Texaco Star
Theatre," Elvis Presley sang "Heartbreak Hotel", his number one hit.
1967 - Ongoing political problems with the control and reunification
of Jerusalem, access through the strait of Tiran, and control of the
West Bank of the Jordan River, among other things, came to a head,
causing an outbreak of violence which later came to be known as the
Six Day War between Israel and Egypt. The Israelis, who first met
strong Egyptian resistance, destroyed 50 Egyptian tanks and stormed
through Gaza, on Day One alone. This was the beginning of a quick and
brutal victory for Israeli ground and air forces, led by Defense
Minister Moshe Dayan. It was also a humiliating defeat for Egypt's
Gamal Abdel Nasser. Both sides still blame the other for firing the
first shot.
1968 - Sen. Robert F. Kennedy was shot and mortally wounded just after
claiming victory in California's Democratic presidential primary.
Gunman Sirhan Bishara Sirhan was immediately arrested.
1975 - Egypt reopened the Suez Canal to international shipping.
1987 - On ABC's "Nightline," Ted Koppel and guests discussed AIDS for
four hours. It is thought this was a record for the longest live
television broadcast, other than those devoted to space coverage and
political conventions.
1988 - Solo yachtswoman Kay Cottee sailed into Sydney Harbor to become
the first woman to circle the globe alone.
1989 - Solidarity's defeat of the Communists in Poland's first free
elections since World War II was confirmed.
1989 - In one of the most remembered images of China's crushed
pro-democracy movement, a lone man stood defiantly in front of a line
of tanks in Beijing until friends pulled him out of the way.
1998 - It was announced that Riverdance fans were getting something
for which they hadn't bargained. The New York Post said audiences
flocking to the wildly popular Irish dancing show heard more than taps
- they'd been hearing tapes. Riverdance executive producer Julian
Erskine affirmed that the troupe pre-recorded the sound of its
tap-dancing. He stated that audiences had become so demanding, they
expect perfection every night, which he said was impossible. Erskine
also said since only the first few rows can hear the taps in large
arenas, the recordings help those in the far-away seats.
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