| On The Way To Today... June 10th |
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Today is ....
Julian: 2454993 Day of Year: 161
Hebrew: 18th of Sivan, 5769
Islamic: Wednesday 17 Jumaada al-THaany 1430 A.H.
Chinese Year: 4707 Ox (Earth-Ox-26-79)
Chinese Lunar: Bing Xu Day, Geng Wu Month, Ji Chou Year
Chinese Solar: Day 18, Fifth Month, Ji Chou Year
Wednesday, June 10, 2009
Only 204 days until the Year 2010
Today is:
Race Unity Day
On The Way To Today... June 10th
1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan
Island
1624 Netherlands and France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiegne
1652 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1720 Mrs. Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 New York passes 1st effective law regulating practice of
medicine
1772 Burning of Gaspee, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 Washington replaced Philadelphia as U.S. capital
1801 Tripoli declares war on U.S. for refusing tribute. The north
African state of Tripoli declared war on the United States in a
dispute over safe passage of merchant vessels through the
Mediterranean.
1809 1st U.S. steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves New York
for Philadelphia
1834 HMS Beagle with Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1854 Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 The U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland graduated its
first class.
1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency
system
1869 'Agnes' arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of
frozen beef
1898 U.S. Marines land in Cuba, during Spanish-American War
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1909 The SOS distress signal was used for the first time by the
Cunard liner SS Slavonia, wrecked off the Azores.
1911 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 British/French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915 Girl Scouts founded
1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1935 After completing one full day without imbibing liquor, Dr.
Robert Smith, better known as Doctor Bob, and his friend William G.
Wilson founded Alcoholics Anonymous. This was the beginning of a
lifetime without booze for the two - and for thousands more throughout
the years.
1940 French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 German 'Dutch Q-ship Atlantis' sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940 Italy declares war on France and Britain during WW II
1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 Nazis burn village of Lidice Bohemia, as reprisal of killing
Heydrich
1943 Hungarian journalist Laszlo Biro patented his ballpoint pen.
1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1945 U.S. destroyer William D. Porter ('Willie Dee') sunk by
kamikaze
1954 The first successful gas-turbine bus was produced and
announced by General Motors.
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1966 The first use of reversed tape was heard in the Beatles song
"Rain." The tune was on the "B" side of "Paperback Writer". By
accident John Lennon discovered and refined the technique. The group
used the technique is several other songs.
1967 The Six-Day War ended. Israel capturing Syrian, Jordanian and
Egyptian territories, including eastern Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza
Strip and the Sinai peninsula; the Soviet Union broke off diplomatic
relations with Israel and threatened sanctions unless Israeli forces
stopped their advance towards Damascus.
1971 The U.S. formally ended its 20-year-old embargo on trade with
China.
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from
prison
1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old
formula
1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at
Aarle-Rixtel
1994 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
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