tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64047357651740502822024-03-13T21:26:37.057-07:00HISTORY IS LIFEWhile Man goes about his life, History is made and it becomes the foundation on which we live.(Brenda A. Ysaguirre)Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.comBlogger308125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-66443152309254118292017-02-23T08:21:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:22:02.238-08:00YOU HELPED INVENT THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL?<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, sunglasses and indoor" height="225" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16681656_10210258056940949_4335485653146612053_n.jpg?oh=1fdeef496ffa4ae09d75c638b3c29fab&oe=59304ABD" width="320" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">DID YOU KNOW?</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Thanks goes to Mexican Chemist, Luis MIramontes, for co-inventing the first oral contraceptive pill, patented in 1956!!!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-6249982670455624732017-02-22T08:22:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:23:24.343-08:00INVENTING A WIRELESS TELEPHONE BEFORE THE iPHONE<div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin-bottom: 6px;">
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It wasn’t quite an iPhone, but Brazilian Roberto Landell de Moura is credited with inventing and patenting a wireless telephone.</div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">First black female millionaire. She gave most of her money away to charity!!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-12973496178415243592017-02-20T08:24:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:24:56.791-08:00FIRST BLACK AMERICAN FEMALE CEO<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, text" height="180" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16864858_10210256945313159_913318560135138044_n.jpg?oh=41f84f91d141c3625d000a9dd7784168&oe=59458E6B" width="320" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 2014 this black female was named one of Forbes most powerful woman in the world!!!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-7865262281945288652017-02-20T02:30:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:40:04.439-08:00Happy President's Day, America<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, suit and text" height="225" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16649186_10210240961833582_7274976832327973206_n.jpg?oh=e2a3db4a2506cab7944089aaadf633da&oe=5949F928" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Serving two terms as President of the USA, this person proved that we were all equal and could be President regardless of colour, race or creed.</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-90690456427018526982017-02-19T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:28:04.586-08:00FIRST BLACK AMERICAN FEMALE DOCTOR TO RECEIVE A MEDICAL PATENT<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, text" height="180" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16938577_10210256028010227_3026452458243826447_n.jpg?oh=e3b221668fc292a86e30f1e49939206c&oe=593D4773" width="320" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1988, Dr. Patricia Bath invented a laser treatment that changed the lives of people with cataracts!!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-60239166448065148442017-02-18T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:29:18.939-08:00FIRST BLACK AMERICAN MAN TO RECEIVE A PATENT<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, text" height="180" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16806885_10210256010409787_6241946751471506942_n.jpg?oh=ff9467ecdaa61e5a29293f89e3c9302c&oe=593C7A9E" width="320" /><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In 1821 his invention was the trail blazer to modern day cleaning!!!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-48419760957805894972017-02-17T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:33:35.061-08:00A Black American who is a Famous Novelist <img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, text and close-up" height="225" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16830979_10210241557328469_5575677020496046592_n.jpg?oh=a9afd2613b85b204de726e5dc2fa9f20&oe=5944AA80" width="400" /><br />
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James Baldwin wrote many novels. He is best known for his novel <span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">"Go Tell it on the Mountain".</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-54807122091612366162017-02-16T02:30:00.000-08:002017-02-24T08:37:20.654-08:00FROM SLAVERY TO NOVELIST, ANTHROPOLOGIST AND CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling, text and close-up" height="225" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16864374_10210241538487998_8113750493194524507_n.jpg?oh=c625a80c0f3d4c407b056f443d74aadb&oe=593DEEF9" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The daughter of two former slaves, ZORA NEALE HURSTON</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Roboto, arial, sans-serif;">was an African-American novelist, short story writer, folklorist, and anthropologist. </span><br />
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-25774626593111391052017-02-15T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T10:00:13.253-08:00A Queen salute to Dorothy Dandridge<img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, smiling" height="400" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t31.0-8/s960x960/12440672_1064342430255025_8924347971224292016_o.jpg?oh=3085c1f3bea887b586e75cb8d93be5ff&oe=59309CC8" width="305" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">In honor of Black History Month...</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Born on November 9, 1922 in Cleveland, Ohio, Dorothy Dandridge sang at Harlem's famed Cotton Club and Apollo Theatre and became the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Academy Award for best actress for her role in the 1954 block buster hit “Carmen Jones”. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Dorothy has been called “one of the most stunning women who ever lived.” But her vocal </span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and acting talents were legendary as well. Dandridge was pushed into show business at a young age by her mother and performed with her sister Vivian until her teenage years. Although her later years were troubled and her life was cut short on September 8, 1965 at the age of 42, her body of work has been an inspiration to many. Her ability to break new ground for African American women in film has drawn comparisons between her and baseball great Jackie Robinson.<br /><br />A Queen salute to Dorothy Dandridge!</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-67336906150365804862017-02-13T03:00:00.000-08:002017-02-24T09:57:42.339-08:00RUBY BRIDGES, FIRST BLACK AMERICAN TO ATTEND AN ALL WHITE PUBLIC SCHOOL<img alt="Image may contain: one or more people and text" height="225" src="https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16807313_10210194038380525_3505997627388512489_n.jpg?oh=8375d34c78b0bb06d5eee317a55bb8f8&oe=59295566" width="400" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Ruby Bridges' first day in a Louisiana pubiic school in November 1960. She was blocked because America still had problems with segregation.</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-84695786062813070192016-08-14T02:00:00.000-07:002016-08-14T02:00:03.516-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 14<img height="267" src="https://img.posterlounge.de/images/wbig/poster-cologne-cathedral-cologne-germany-unesco-world-heritage-site-north-rhine-westphalia-380654.jpg" width="400" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 14 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 14th, 1808, the Cologne Cathedral in Germany was completed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Other Notable Events, August 14 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1784, Grigory Shelikhov, a Russian fur trader, founded the first permanent Russian settlement in Alaska on Kodiak Island. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1900, some 2,000 U.S. Marines joined with European forces to capture Beijing, ending the Boxer Rebellion against the Western presence in China. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1935, the U.S. Congress passed the Social Security Act and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt immediately signed it into law. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1945, U.S. President Harry Truman announced that Japan had accepted terms for unconditional surrender, ending World War II. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1966, the unmanned U.S. Orbiter 1 spacecraft began orbiting the moon. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1991, the Justice Department accused General Electric of fraud for billing the Pentagon $30 million for the non-existent sale of F-16 parts to the Israeli military. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1994, the notorious international terrorist known as "Carlos the Jackal" was captured in Sudan. He was extradited to France the next day. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1995, following a long legal battle, Shannon Faulkner was admitted to the cadet corps of the previously all-male Citadel. She resigned from the South Carolina military school four days later. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1996, the Republican Party nominated Bob Dole for president to face incumbent Bill Clinton in the November election. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, a massive power failure spread through Ohio, Michigan, the Northeastern U.S. and eastern Canada, leaving 50 million people in eight states and the province of Ontario without electricity for as long as two days. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2003, the French Health Ministry said sweltering heat in Europe could be responsible for as many as 3,000 deaths in France. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, Hurricane Charley raked the coast of the Carolinas and moved back ashore at Georgetown, S.C., with 75 mph winds. Meanwhile, Florida, hard hit the day before, searched for more victims and assessed damage. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2004, at least 115 people were reported killed by Typhoon Rananim, the 14th typhoon to hit China that year. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">And, Hutu gunmen killed at least 130 Congolese Tutsi refugees at a camp in Burundi where they came for safety from just such assaults. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, North Korea's top nuclear envoy said the country would be "fully prepared" to prove it has no uranium-based weapons program. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2005, authorities say the crash of a Helios Airways plane in Greece with 121 people aboard could have been caused by a sudden drop in cabin pressure. A report from the scene said there were no survivors. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon ended in a truce, effective on this date, after 34 days of fighting. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, at least 500 people were reported killed and hundreds more were hurt when two pairs of truck bombs exploded about five miles apart in the remote, northwestern Iraqi towns of Qahtaniya and Jazeera. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2007, Mattel, the world's largest toy company, announced it was recalling nearly 19 million toys made in China, about half of them in the United States. Included were more than 400,000 toy cars said to be coated with lead. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">And, in 2007 sports, Tim Donaghy, a former National Basketball Association referee, pleaded guilty to charges growing from a U.S. betting scandal. He was accused of selling inside game information to bettors. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Notable Birthdays for August 14 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this date include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Pioneer psychologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing in 1840</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Naturalist Ernest Thompson Seton in 1860</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Writer Ernest Thayer ( Casey at the Bat ) in 1863</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- English novelist John Galsworthy in 1867</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Writer Russell Baker in 1925 (age 83)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Alice Ghostley in 1926</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Singer Buddy Greco, also in 1926 (age 82)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Rock musician David Crosby in 1941 (age 67)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Comedian Steve Martin in 1945 (age 63)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Susan Saint James in 1946 (age 62)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Author Danielle Steele in 1947 (age 61)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- The Far Side cartoonist Gary Larson in 1950 (age 58)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Former basketball star Earvin Magic Johnson in 1959 (age 49)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Halle Berry in 1966 (age 42) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Copyright 2008 by United Press International</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-21586733434085638702016-08-13T02:00:00.000-07:002016-08-13T02:00:03.808-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 13<img height="320" src="https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/17/bc/68/17bc687d1f0ba03a65a2dcbfd9a76bff.jpg" width="273" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 13</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 13th, 1913, Harry Brearly invented stainless steel. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Other Notable Events, August 13 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1889, William Gray patented the coin-operated telephone. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1930, Capt. Frank Hawkes set an air speed record by flying from Los Angeles to New York in 12 hours, 25 minutes. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1961, East Germany closed the Brandenburg Gate and prepared to start building the Berlin Wall. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1980, U.S. President Jimmy Carter was nominated for a second term by the Democratic National Convention in New York but lost in November to Ronald Reagan. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1990, singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield was left paralyzed when he was hit by a wind-blown lighting rig on an outdoor stage in New York. He died in 1999. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1992, a gunman dressed in military fatigues went on a shooting spree in a plant nursery in Watsonville, Calif., killing three and wounding four others before killing himself. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1993, Israel agreed for the first time to negotiate with a Palestinian delegation whose members belonged officially to the PLO. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1994, North Korea agreed to allow U.N. monitors to inspect a secret nuclear laboratory. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2002, U.S. President George Bush told an economic forum that he was concerned but optimistic about the future of the U.S. economy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the removal of Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat from all positions of influence was the key to Middle East peace. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, Hurricane Charley slammed into Florida's West Coast with winds of up to 145 mph, striking Punta Gorda and offshore islands, causing around 30 deaths and destroying or damaging 16,000 homes. The massive storm earlier hit Jamaica and Cuba, killing seven. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004 sports, the Summer Olympic Games opened in Athens, Greece, with a record 202 countries and 10,500 athletes taking part. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States decided not to allow homosexuals into the clergy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2005, U.S. troops in Mosul, Iraq, found a suspected chemical-weapons factory containing 1,500 gallons of chemicals. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro, who spent his 80th birthday in a Havana hospital after surgery for gastro-intestinal bleeding, urged optimism but warned he might not recover. He promised Cubans he would "fight for it." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, Karl Rove, a controversial figure who had been U.S. President George Bush's chief political strategist for 13 years, announced his retirement. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Notable Birthdays for August 13 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this date include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Social reformer Lucy Stone in 1818</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Sharpshooter Annie Oakley in 1860</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Scottish inventor John Baird, a pioneer in television technology, in 1888</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Comic actor Bert Lahr (Cowardly Lion in The Wizard of Oz ) in 1895</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Regis Toomey in 1898</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Film director Alfred Hitchcock in 1899</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Bandleader Skinnay Ennis in 1909</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Golfer Ben Hogan in 1912</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Neville Brand in 1920</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Cuban leader Fidel Castro in 1926 (age 82)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Pat Harrington Jr. in 1929 (age 79)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Singer Don Ho in 1930</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Former U.S. Surgeon General Joycelyn Elders in 1933 (age 75)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Opera singer Kathleen Battle in 1948 (age 60)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Pop singer Dan Fogelberg in 1951 (age 57)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor/announcer Danny Bonaduce ( The Partridge Family ) in 1959 (age 49) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Copyright 2008 by United Press International</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-44912530088064778122016-08-12T02:00:00.000-07:002016-08-12T02:00:09.623-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 12<img src="https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/theymadeamerica/whomade/images/who_singer_image.jpg" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 12</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 12th, 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Other Notable Events, August 12</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1851, Isaac Singer was granted a patent for his sewing machine. He set up business in Boston with $40 in capital. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1898, a peace protocol was signed, ending the Spanish-American War. The United States acquired Puerto Rico, Guam and the Philippines and annexed Hawaii. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1966, as the Beatles were beginning their last tour, John Lennon apologized for saying the Beatles were more popular than Jesus Christ. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1984, the 23rd Olympic Games ended in Los Angeles with a record attendance of 5.5 million people despite a Soviet-led boycott. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1985, in aviation's worst single-plane disaster, 520 people died when a Japan Air Lines Boeing 747 slammed into a mountain in central Japan. Four passengers survived. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, in his first television address since the Iran-Contra hearings, said he had been "stubborn" in pursuing a policy "that went astray." </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1973, Jack Nicklaus won the Professional Golfers' Association championship for his 14th major title, surpassing Bobby Jones' record of 13 majors. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1992, U.S. President George H.W. Bush signed a free trade pact with Mexico and Canada, creating the world's largest free trade bloc. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1997, Hudson Foods, Inc., a meat processor in Rogers, Ark., announced it was recalling 20,000 pounds of beef due to possible contamination by the E.coli bacterium. The recall ultimately was expanded to 25 million pounds of beef. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1998, the two largest Swiss banks and representatives of Holocaust survivors and their heirs agreed on a settlement of claims against the banks. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2002, monsoons in Asia claimed more than 1,600 lives while floodwaters tore through central Europe and in southwestern Russia, killing 58. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, a U.N. report said Afghanistan has re-emerged as the world's leading source for opium and heroin. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey announced his resignation after revealing a homosexual affair. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2004, the California Supreme Court invalidated more than 4,000 same-sex marriage licenses issued earlier in San Francisco. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, Sri Lankan President Chandrika Kumaratunga imposed a state of emergency following the assassination of Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, the Lebanese Cabinet voted unanimously to accept a U.N. resolution aimed at ending the fighting between Hezbollah and Israel.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, a high tension wire brushed a bus in Mumbai igniting a fire that trapped passengers inside. Eleven people were reported killed and 40 others were injured. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2007, papers once belonging to East Germany's Stasi security ministry allegedly offered key evidence the government ordered attempted defectors to be shot, despite earlier denials. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Notable Birthdays for August 12</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this date include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- English poet laureate Robert Southey in 1774</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- American painter Abbott Thayer, credited with noting camouflage in the animal world, in 1849</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Educator and poet Katherine Lee Bates, who wrote America the Beautiful, in 1859</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Mystery writer Mary Roberts Rinehart in 1876</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Christy Mathewson, baseball Hall of Fame pitcher, in 1880</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Moviemaker Cecil B. DeMille in 1881</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Mexican comic actor Cantinflas, born Mario Moreno Reyes, in 1911</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Jane Wyatt in 1911</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor John Derek in 1926</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Country singer Buck Owens in 1929</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Country singer Porter Wagoner in 1927</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Author William Goldman in 1931 (age 77)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Former national security adviser John Poindexter in 1936 (age 72)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor George Hamilton in 1939 (age 69)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Author Ann Martin ( The Babysitter's Club series) in 1955 (age 53)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Tennis star Pete Sampras in 1971 (age 37) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Copyright 2008 by United Press International</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-1390592825259868242016-08-11T02:00:00.000-07:002016-08-11T02:00:18.913-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 11<img height="172" src="http://natedsanders.com/ItemImages/000008/8412b_lg.jpeg" width="400" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 11 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 11th, 1711, the first race was held at Ascot. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><strong>Other Notable Events, August 11 </strong></em><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1877, Thomas Edison described the fundamentals of the phonograph to an assistant and instructed him to build the first one. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1877, American astronomer Asaph Hall discovered the two moons of Mars, which he named Phobos and Deimos. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1934, the first group of federal prisoners classified as "most dangerous" arrived at Alcatraz Island, a 22-acre rocky outcrop 1.5 miles offshore in San Francisco Bay. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1954, a formal announcement ended the seven-year war in Indochina between France and forces of the communist Viet Minh. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1965, riots began in the Watts section of Los Angeles. In six days of violence, 34 people were killed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1984, in an off-air radio voice check picked up by TV cameras, U.S. President Ronald Reagan joked, "My fellow Americans, I'm pleased to tell you today that I've signed legislation that will outlaw Russia forever. We begin bombing in five minutes." The Kremlin wasn't amused. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1991, a Lebanese terrorist group, the Revolutionary Justice Organization, released U.S. hostage Edward Tracy, held captive since October 1986. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1992, an electrical fire in the 62-story John Hancock office tower forced more than 3,000 workers in Boston's tallest building to flee down smoky, darkened stairwells. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton endorsed the "Brady Bill" handgun control measure and signed an executive order banning the import of semiautomatic assault-style handguns. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1993, U.S. President Bill Clinton named Army Gen. John Shalikashvili to be the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, succeeding the retiring Gen. Colin Powell. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1994, major league baseball players went on strike following the conclusion of the day's games. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1995, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request by The Citadel to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that ordered the all-male South Carolina military college to admit female students. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1997, U.S. President Bill Clinton became the first president to use the line-item veto, a power granted by Congress the year before. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1998, two boys were found to be "delinquent," or guilty, of murder in the fatal March shootings of four students and a teacher at their middle school in Jonesboro, Ark. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1998, British Petroleum announced it would merge with Amoco Corp. in what would be the largest takeover of an American company by a foreign company. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1999, U.S. President Bill Clinton offered to commute the prison sentences of 16 Puerto Rican terrorists if they agreed to renounce violence and comply with other parole requirements. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1999, the Kansas State Board of Education voted to drop the theory of evolution from the public school curriculum. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2002, US Airways, the nation's sixth-largest airline, filed for bankruptcy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, as peacekeepers entered Monrovia, the capital of Liberia, to try to stop fighting between government and rebel troops, President Charles Taylor stepped down and flew into exile in Nigeria, ending a bloody chapter of African history. He vowed he would return. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, fighting in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf raged for the sixth straight day between forces loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and U.S.-backed Iraqi troops. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, right-wing activists staged one of the biggest demonstrations in Israel's history at Tel Aviv. An estimated 350,000 people protested the impending withdrawal from the Gaza Strip and the evacuation of four settlements in the northern West Bank. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2005, Salva Kit Mayandit was sworn in as Sudan vice president succeeding John Garang, whose death in a helicopter crash touched off violent rioting in which 130 people were killed. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, the U.N. Security Council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for "full cessation of hostilities" between Israel and Hezbollah forces in Lebanon. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America voted to refrain from disciplining members of the clergy involved in same-sex relationships. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2007, the Taliban reportedly promised to release two of the 21 South Korean missionaries held in Afghanistan as a gesture of good faith but later reneged on its offer. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><strong>Notable Birthdays for August 11</strong></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this day include: </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Author Robert Ingersoll in 1833</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Songwriter Carrie Jacobs Bond ( I Love You Truly ) in 1862</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Art collector Joseph Hirshhorn in 1899</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Lloyd Nolan in 1902</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Author Alex Haley in 1921</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Singer June Hutton in 1920</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- TV host Mike Douglas in 1925</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Arlene Dahl in 1928 (age 80)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Columnist Marilyn vos Savant, listed in the Guinness Book of Records as having the world's highest IQ (reported at 228), in 1946 (age 62)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Pop singer Eric Carmen, formerly of the Raspberries, in 1949 (age 59)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Apple computer co-founder Stephen Wozniak in 1950 (age 58)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Professional wrestler/actor Hulk Hogan, born Terry Gene Bollea, in 1953 (age 55) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Copyright 2008 by United Press International</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-43400913785715879192016-08-10T02:00:00.000-07:002016-08-10T02:00:38.515-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 10<img height="225" src="http://cbsnews1.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2015/06/19/72757de1-fc36-4355-be23-267c6691dc0c/thumbnail/620x350/d63932a8c9bcb13813743d2cf9c9cd85/cruiseshipap090709043435.jpg" width="400" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 10 </strong><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 10th, 1954, the groundbreaking ceremony for Saint Lawrence Seaway was held at Massena, New York. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Other Notable Events, August 10</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1776, a committee of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson suggested the United States adopt "E pluribus unum" -- "Out of many, one" -- as the motto for its Great Seal. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1821, Missouri entered the United States as the 24th state and the first located entirely west of the Mississippi River. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1977, the United States and Panama reached agreement in principle to transfer the Panama Canal to Panama by the year 2000. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1977, 24-year-old postal employee David Berkowitz was arrested and charged with being the "Son of Sam," the serial killer who terrorized New York City for more than a year, killing six young people and wounding seven others. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1984, Nevada's chief U.S. district judge, Harry Claiborne, was convicted on tax evasion charges. It was the first conviction of a sitting federal judge. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1990, District of Columbia Mayor Marion Barry was convicted on one misdemeanor cocaine possession charge and acquitted on another. The jury deadlocked on the 12 other counts and a mistrial was declared. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1991, China agreed in principle to sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1993, Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the U.S. Supreme Court's 107th justice and second female member. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1994, lawyers for U.S. President Bill Clinton sought the dismissal, for the duration of his presidency, of a sexual harassment lawsuit brought against him by a former Arkansas state worker. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1996, Republican presidential nominee Bob Dole selected former congressman, Cabinet secretary and NFL quarterback Jack Kemp as his running mate. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1999, a white supremacist gunman wounded five people, including three children, when he opened fire in the lobby of a Los Angeles Jewish community center. Police said Buford Furrow Jr. killed a letter carrier as he fled, surrendering the next day in Las Vegas. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2001, about 250 people were killed in a train wreck in Albania, caused by a mine set on the tracks by rebels. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, more than 80 prisoners tunneled their way out of Brazil's Joao Pessoa prison, one of the nation's top security facilities. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, U.S. Rep. Porter Goss, R-Fla., a former CIA clandestine operative, was nominated by U.S. President George Bush to head the spy agency. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, U.S. President George Bush signed a 6-year, $286.4 billion transportation bill to build highways, bridges and other public works and contains also a reported $24 billion in "pork barrel" projects. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2005, the head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said he supports pre-screening airline passengers and providing them with special identification cards. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, Britain and the United States strengthened security after foiling an alleged plot to blow up airplanes flying between the two countries with liquid explosives. Police said as many as 10 aircraft had been targeted. U.S. officials banned the transportation of liquids and gel in carry-on luggage. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, the U.S. Federal Reserve put a reported $72 billion into the American financial system over two days to steady the volatile markets that fell in response to losses in the U.S. mortgage market. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 2007, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution unanimously expanding the United Nation's role in Iraq, focused on helping promote reconciliation and safety of citizens. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Notable Birthdays for August 10</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this day include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Edmund Jennings Randolph, the first U.S. attorney general, in 1753</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Herbert Hoover, 31st president of the United States, in 1874</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Jack Haley (the Tin Woodsman in The Wizard of Oz ) in 1898</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Norma Shearer in 1902</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Rhonda Fleming in 1923 (age 85)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Guitar maker Leo Fender in 1909</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Singer Jimmy Dean in 1928 (age 80)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Singer Eddie Fisher in 1928 (age 80)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Rock musician Ian Anderson of Jethro Tull in 1947 (age 61)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Rosanna Arquette in 1959 (age 49)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Antonio Banderas in 1960 (age 48) </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Copyright 2008 by United Press International</span>Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-36800708753976858952016-08-09T07:51:00.000-07:002016-08-09T07:52:14.994-07:00HISTORY FOR AUGUST 9<img height="213" src="http://www.livescience.com/images/i/000/058/615/i02/last-judgment.jpg?1383108207?interpolation=lanczos-none&downsize=640:*" width="320" /><br />
<strong style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">This Day in History, August 9</strong><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">On August 9th, 1483, the Sistine Chapel was opened. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><strong>Other Notable Events, August 9</strong></em><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"> </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 480 B.C., after one of history's most famous battles, Persian forces overran the heavily outnumbered Spartan defenders of the narrow pass at Thermopylae in Greece. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1936, American track star Jesse Owens won his fourth Olympic gold medal in Berlin. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1945, a U.S. B-29 bomber dropped an atomic bomb nicknamed "Fat Man" on the Japanese city of Nagasaki. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1969, actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain in Los Angeles by the followers of Charles Manson in the first of two nights of bizarre killings. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1974, U.S. President Richard Nixon's resignation became effective at noon and Vice President Gerald Ford was sworn in as the nation's 38th chief executive. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1991, Vietnamese Prime Minister Do Muoi resigned. He was succeeded by Vo Van Kiet, who vowed to transform Vietnam into a market economy. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1995, the 50th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombing of Nagasaki was observed in the Japanese city. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1996, a Florida jury ordered $750,000 be paid to lung cancer patient Gracy Carter, whose suit against the maker of Lucky Strikes was based on company memos indicating knowledge of tobacco's addictiveness when the company said otherwise in public. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Also in 1996, an ill-looking Boris Yeltsin attended a brief swearing-in ceremony for his new term as president of Russia. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 1997, Elvis Week began in Memphis as fans commemorated the 20th anniversary of the death of Elvis Presley. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2001, U.S. President George Bush announced he would allow federal funding for limited stem-cell research using human embryos. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2003, more than 150 candidates signed up to try to replace California Gov. Gray Davis if he lost his recall vote. Davis was voted out of office and replaced by actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, an Austrian-born Republican. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2004, Terry Nichols was sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole for his role in the Oklahoma City federal building bombing, worst act of domestic terrorism in U.S. history. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2005, hundreds of Iraqi women staged a sit-in in a central Baghdad square to press for political rights in Iraq's new constitution.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2006, British authorities reported the arrest of 25 people believed involved in a major terrorist plot to blow up airplanes flying from Britain to the United States. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">In 2007, U.S. investigators looking into the deadly bridge collapse in Minneapolis said there was a possible design flaw and issued a national alert for other bridges. A 2006 federal report cited more than 70,000 U.S. bridges as structurally deficit. </span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><em style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;"><strong>Notable Birthdays for August 9 </strong></em><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">Those born on this day include:</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- English author and angler Izaak Walton in 1593</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Pioneer Swiss child psychologist Jean Piaget in 1896</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Violinist Zino Francescatti in 1902</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- English actor/playwright Robert Shaw in 1927</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Hall of Fame basketball player Bob Cousy in 1928 (age 80)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Australian tennis star Rod Laver in 1938 (age 70)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Comedian David Steinberg in 1942 (age 66)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actor Sam Elliot in 1944 (age 64)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Heavyweight boxer Ken Norton in 1945 (age 63)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Melanie Griffith in 1957 (age 51)</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #555544; font-family: tahoma, "Trebuchet MS", lucida, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.2px;">- Actress Amanda Bearse in 1958 (age 50)</span><br style="background-color: white; 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Sigmund Freud</div>
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Sigmund Freud fue un médico neurólogo austriaco de origen judío, padre del psicoanálisis y una de las mayores figuras intelectuales del siglo XX.</div>
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<span class="_xdb" style="font-weight: bolder;"><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQ6BMIowEoADAY" href="https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&hl=es&biw=1300&bih=621&q=sigmund+freud+fecha+de+nacimiento&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MMutLNASy0620i9IzS_ISQVSRcX5eVZJ-UV5ADr31y8kAAAA&ved=0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQ6BMIowEoADAY" style="color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Fecha de nacimiento</a>: </span><span class="_Xbe kno-fv">6 de mayo de 1856, <a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQmxMIpAEoATAY" href="https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&hl=es&biw=1300&bih=621&q=P%C5%99%C3%ADbor+Rep%C3%BAblica+Checa&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MMutLFDiBLHMyy2S07TEspOt9AtS8wtyUoFUUXF-nlVSflEeABBnYXEvAAAA&ved=0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQmxMIpAEoATAY" style="color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Příbor, República Checa</a></span></div>
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<span class="_xdb" style="font-weight: bolder;"><a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQ6BMIpwEoADAZ" href="https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&hl=es&biw=1300&bih=621&q=sigmund+freud+fecha+de+la+muerte&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MMutLNCSz0620i9IzS_ISdVPSU1OTSxOTYkvSC0qzs-zSslMTQEAgpZq-S0AAAA&ved=0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQ6BMIpwEoADAZ" style="color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Fecha de la muerte</a>: </span><span class="_Xbe kno-fv">23 de septiembre de 1939, <a class="fl" data-ved="0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQmxMIqAEoATAZ" href="https://www.google.com/search?sa=X&hl=es&biw=1300&bih=621&q=Hampstead+Reino+Unido&stick=H4sIAAAAAAAAAOPgE-LQz9U3MMutLFACs_Isiyy05LOTrfQLUvMLclL1U1KTUxOLU1PiC1KLivPzrFIyU1MAGyNOwDcAAAA&ved=0ahUKEwiihZ2Tu8XMAhUKQiYKHUsoBrgQmxMIqAEoATAZ" style="color: #1a0dab; cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none;">Hampstead, Reino Unido</a></span></div>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1797</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Spanish fleet is destroyed by the British under Admiral Jervis (with<a href="http://www.historynet.com/nelsons-pursuit-of-napoleons-egypt-expedition.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Nelson</a> in support) at the battle of Cape St. Vincent, off Portugal.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1900</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">General Roberts invades South Africa’s Orange Free State with 20,000 British troops.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1904</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The “Missouri Kid” is captured in Kansas.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1912</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Arizona becomes the 48th state in the Union.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1915</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Kaiser Wilhelm II invites the U.S. Ambassador to Berlin in order to confer on the<a href="http://www.historynet.com/world-war-i" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"> war</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1918</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Warsaw demonstrators protest the transfer of Polish territory to the Ukraine.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1920</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The League of Women Voters is formed in Chicago in celebration of the imminent ratification of the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/how-long-must-we-wait.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">19th Amendment</a>, giving <a href="http://www.historynet.com/womens-suffrage-movement" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">women the right to vote</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1924</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Thomas Watson founds International Business Machines Corp.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1929</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Chicago gang war between <a href="http://www.historynet.com/al-capone-a-new-book-about-the-crime-lord.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Al Capone</a> and George “Bugs” Moran culminates with several Moran confederates being gunned down in the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1939</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Germany launches the battleship <i>Bismark</i>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1940</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Britain announces that all merchant ships will be armed.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1942</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japanese paratroopers attack Sumatra. <a href="http://www.historynet.com/wwii/blmaccarthy/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Aidan MacCarthy</a>‘s RAF unit flew to Palembang, in eastern Sumatra, where 30 Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed A-28 Hudson bombers were waiting.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1945</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">800 Allied aircraft firebomb the German city of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/a-dresden-survivor-offers-bitter-condolences.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Dresden</a>. Smaller followup bombing raids last until April with a <a href="http://www.historynet.com/why-did-dresdens-residents-gather-in-the-square-the-night-of-the-bombing.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">total death toll</a> of between 35,000 to 130,000 civilians.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1945</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/mhq/blbudapest" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">siege of Budapest</a> ends as the Soviets take the city. Only 785 German and Hungarian soldiers managed to escape.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1949</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The United States charges the Soviet Union with interning up to 14 million in labor camps.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1955</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">A Jewish couple loses their fight to adopt Catholic twins as the U.S. Supreme Court refuses to rule on state law.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1957</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Georgia state senate outlaws interracial athletics.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1965</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Malcolm X’s home is firebombed. No injuries are reported.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1971</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Moscow publicizes a new five-year plan geared to expanding consumer production.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1973</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The United States and Hanoi set up a group to channel reconstruction aid directly to Hanoi.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1979</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Armed guerrillas attack the U.S. embassy in Tehran.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1985</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Vietnamese troops surround the main <a href="http://www.historynet.com/losing-ground-to-the-khmer-rouge.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Khmer Rouge</a> base at Phnom Malai.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1989</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Iranian leader Ayatollah Ruholla Khomeini charges that Salman Rushdie’s novel, <i>The Satanic Verses</i>, is blasphemous and issues an edict (<i>fatwa</i>) calling on Muslims to kill Rushdie.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td colspan="3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><br />Born on February 14</b></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1760</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Richard Allen, first black ordained by a Methodist-Episcopal church.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1819</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Christopher Latham Sholes, inventor of the first practical typewriter.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1845</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Quinton Hogg, English philanthropist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1859</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">George Washington Gale Ferris, inventor of the Ferris Wheel.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1894</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Jack Benny, comedian, radio and television performer, and violinist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1894</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Mary Lucinda Cardwell Dawson, founded the National Negro Opera Company (NNOC) and was appointed to President <a href="http://www.historynet.com/john-f-kennedy" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">John F. Kennedy</a>‘s National Committee on Music.</td></tr>
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-64867539428271328772016-02-13T02:00:00.000-08:002016-02-13T02:00:16.051-08:00What Happened This Day In History - February 13<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 8px auto 18px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;">
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>167</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Polycarp, a disciple of St. John and bishop of Smyrna, is martyred on the west coast of Asia Minor.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">1542</span></b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII, is beheaded for adultery.</span></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1689</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">British Parliament adopts the Bill of Rights.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1692</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">In the Glen Coe highlands of Scotland, thirty-eight members of the MacDonald clan are murdered by soldiers of the neighboring Campbell clan for not pledging allegiance to William of Orange. Ironically the pledge had been made but not communicated to the clans. The event is remembered as the Massacre of Glencoe.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1862</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The four day <a href="http://www.historynet.com/fort-donelson" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Battle of Fort Donelson</a>, Tennessee, begins.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1865</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/confederacy" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Confederacy</a> approves the recruitment of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/slavery-in-america" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">slaves</a> as soldiers, as long as the approval of their owners is gained.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1866</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/jesse-james" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Jesse James</a> holds up his first bank.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1914</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) is founded.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1936</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">First social security checks are put in the mail.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1945</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Royal Air Force Bomber Command devastates the German city of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/a-dresden-survivor-offers-bitter-condolences.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Dresden</a> with night raids by 873 heavy bombers. The attacks are joined by 521 American heavy bombers flying daylight raids.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1949</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">A mob burns a radio station in Ecuador after the broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “<a href="http://www.historynet.com/war-of-the-worlds-panicked-america-or-did-it.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">War of the Worlds.</a>“</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1951</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">At the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/ansil-lwalker-recalls-the-battle-of-chipyong-ni-during-the-korean-war.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Battle of Chipyong-ni</a>, in Korea, U.N. troops contain the Chinese forces’ offensive in a two-day battle.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1953</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Pope asks the United States to grant clemency to convicted spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1968</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The United States sends 10,500 more combat troops to <a href="http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Vietnam</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1970</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">General Motors is reportedly redesigning automobiles to run on unleaded fuel.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1972</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Enemy attacks in Vietnam decline for the third day as the United States continues its intensive bombing strategy.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1984</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Konstantin Chernenko is selected to succeed Yuri Andropov as Party General Secretary in the Soviet Union.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td colspan="3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><br />Born on February 13</b></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1599</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Alexander VII, Roman Catholic Pope.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1682</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Giovanni Piazzetta, painter (<i>Fortune Teller</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1764</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Charles de Talleyrand, <a href="http://www.historynet.com/napoleon-bonaparte" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Napoleon</a>‘s foreign minister.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1849</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Lord Randolph Churchill, English politician, <a href="http://www.historynet.com/churchill-takes-charge.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Winston Churchill</a>‘s father and member of Parliament.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1873</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Feodor Chaliapin, opera singer.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1892</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Grant Wood, painter (<i>American Gothic</i>).</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1919</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Tennessee Ernie Ford, country and gospel singer.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1922</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Harold “Hal” Moore Jr., US Army lieutenant general, author; led 1st Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment at 1965 Battle of Ia Drang Valley; his best-known book, co-authored with combat journalist Joe Galloway, is “We Were Soldiers Once . . . And Young,” an account of that battle.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1923</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/supersonic-revolution.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Charles “Chuck” Yeager</a>, American test pilot, the first man to break the sound barrier.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1933</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Kim Novak, actress.</td></tr>
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-86046578435552835012016-02-12T02:00:00.000-08:002016-02-12T02:00:04.994-08:00What Happened This Day In History - February 12<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 8px auto 18px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;">
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1294</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1554</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Lady Jane Grey, the Queen of England for thirteen days, is beheaded on Tower Hill. She was barely 17 years old.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1709</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the creation of Daniel Dafoe’s <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, is taken off Juan Fernandez Island after more than four years of living there alone.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1793</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The first fugitive <a href="http://www.historynet.com/slavery-in-america" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">slave</a> law, requiring the return of escaped slaves, is passed.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1818</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Chile gains independence from Spain.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1836</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Mexican <b style="line-height: 28.8px;">February 12</b><br />
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1294</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Kublai Khan, the conqueror of Asia, dies at the age of 80.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1554</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Lady Jane Grey, the Queen of England for thirteen days, is beheaded on Tower Hill. She was barely 17 years old.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1709</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish seaman whose adventures inspired the creation of Daniel Dafoe’s <i>Robinson Crusoe</i>, is taken off Juan Fernandez Island after more than four years of living there alone.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1793</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The first fugitive <a href="http://www.historynet.com/slavery-in-america" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">slave</a> law, requiring the return of escaped slaves, is passed.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1818</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Chile gains independence from Spain.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1836</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Mexican General Santa Anna crosses the Rio Grande en route to the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Alamo</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1909</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/black-history" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a> (NAACP) is formed.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1912</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1921</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/churchill-charges-forth-with-sword-and-pen.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Winston Churchill</a> of London is appointed colonial secretary.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1924</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">George Gershwin’s groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition <i>Rhapsody in Blue</i> premieres with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1929</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Charles Lindbergh announces his engagement to Anne Morrow.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1931</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japan makes its first television broadcast–a baseball game.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1935</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <i>Macon</i>, the last U.S. Navy dirigible, crashes off the coast of California, killing two people.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1938</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japan refuses to reveal naval data requested by the U.S. and Britain.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1940</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Soviet Union signs a trade treaty with Germany to aid against the British blockade.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1944</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Wendell Wilkie enters the American presidential race against <a href="http://www.historynet.com/franklin-d-roosevelt" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1949</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Moslem Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1953</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Soviets break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the bombing of Soviet legation.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1966</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The South Vietnamese win two big battles in the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/operation-marauder-allied-offensive-in-the-mekong-delta.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Mekong Delta</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1972</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Senator Edward Kennedy advocates amnesty for <a href="http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Vietnam</a> draft resisters.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1974</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Symbionese Liberation Army asks the Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1980</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Lake Placid Winter Olympics open in New York.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1987</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">A Court in Texas upholds $8.5 billion of a fine imposed on Texaco for the illegal takeover of Getty Oil.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1999</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The U.S. Senate fails to pass two articles of impeachment against President<a href="http://www.historynet.com/bill-clinton" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Bill Clinton</a>. He had been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice by the House of Representatives.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1768</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1775</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Louisa Adams, wife of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/john-quincy-adams" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">John Quincy Adams</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1809</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Charles Darwin, naturalist and influential theorist of evolution (<i>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1809</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/ah/bllincolnstatesman/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Abraham Lincoln</a>, 16th U.S. President of the United State (1861-1865).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1828</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">George Meredith, English poet and novelist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1857</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Eugene Atget, French photographer, took over 10,000 photographs documenting Paris.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1874</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer in designs of reinforced concrete buildings.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1880</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">John L. Lewis, American labor leader.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1893</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/omar-bradley-the-generals-general.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Omar Bradley</a>, U.S. army general during <a href="http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">World War II</a>.</td></tr>
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crosses the Rio Grande en route to the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-the-alamo" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Alamo</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1909</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/black-history" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">National Association for the Advancement of Colored People</a> (NAACP) is formed.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1912</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">China becomes a republic following the overthrow of the Manchu dynasty.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1921</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/churchill-charges-forth-with-sword-and-pen.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Winston Churchill</a> of London is appointed colonial secretary.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1924</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">George Gershwin’s groundbreaking symphonic jazz composition <i>Rhapsody in Blue</i> premieres with Gershwin himself playing the piano with Paul Whiteman’s orchestra.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1929</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Charles Lindbergh announces his engagement to Anne Morrow.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1931</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japan makes its first television broadcast–a baseball game.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1935</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <i>Macon</i>, the last U.S. Navy dirigible, crashes off the coast of California, killing two people.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1938</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japan refuses to reveal naval data requested by the U.S. and Britain.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1940</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Soviet Union signs a trade treaty with Germany to aid against the British blockade.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1944</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Wendell Wilkie enters the American presidential race against <a href="http://www.historynet.com/franklin-d-roosevelt" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1949</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Moslem Brotherhood chief Hassan el Banna is shot to death in Cairo.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1953</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Soviets break off diplomatic relations with Israel after the bombing of Soviet legation.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1966</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The South Vietnamese win two big battles in the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/operation-marauder-allied-offensive-in-the-mekong-delta.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Mekong Delta</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1972</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Senator Edward Kennedy advocates amnesty for <a href="http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Vietnam</a> draft resisters.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1974</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Symbionese Liberation Army asks the Hearst family for $230 million in food for the poor.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1980</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Lake Placid Winter Olympics open in New York.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1987</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">A Court in Texas upholds $8.5 billion of a fine imposed on Texaco for the illegal takeover of Getty Oil.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1999</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The U.S. Senate fails to pass two articles of impeachment against President <a href="http://www.historynet.com/bill-clinton" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Bill Clinton</a>. He had been accused of perjury and obstruction of justice by the House of Representatives.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1768</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Francis II, the last Holy Roman Emperor</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1775</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Louisa Adams, wife of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/john-quincy-adams" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">John Quincy Adams</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1809</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Charles Darwin, naturalist and influential theorist of evolution (<i>On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1809</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/ah/bllincolnstatesman/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Abraham Lincoln</a>, 16th U.S. President of the United State (1861-1865).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1828</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">George Meredith, English poet and novelist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1857</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Eugene Atget, French photographer, took over 10,000 photographs documenting Paris.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1874</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Auguste Perret, French architect, pioneer in designs of reinforced concrete buildings.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1880</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">John L. Lewis, American labor leader.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1893</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/omar-bradley-the-generals-general.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Omar Bradley</a>, U.S. army general during <a href="http://www.historynet.com/world-war-ii" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">World War II</a>.</td></tr>
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Brendahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15661110023200303952noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6404735765174050282.post-17445722170606849982016-02-11T02:00:00.000-08:002016-02-11T02:00:07.533-08:00What Happened This Day In History - February 11<div style="-webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; background-color: #fafafa; border: 0px; color: #141414; font-family: Roboto; font-size: 16px; line-height: 28.8px; margin: 8px auto 18px; overflow: visible; padding: 0px;">
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>660 BC</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Traditional founding of Japan by Emperor Jimmu Tenno.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1531</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/the-kings-reformation-henry-viii-and-the-remaking-of-the-english-church-book-review.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Henry VIII</a> is recognized as the supreme head of the Church of England.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1805</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Sixteen-year-old <a href="http://www.historynet.com/we/blsacagaweaofthelcexpedition/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Sacajawea</a>, the Shoshoni guide for <a href="http://www.historynet.com/lewis-and-clark-expedition" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Lewis & Clark</a>, gives birth to a son, with Meriwether Lewis serving as midwife.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1809</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Robert Fulton patents the steamboat.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1815</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">News of the Treaty of Ghent, ending the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/war-of-1812" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">War of 1812</a>, finally reaches the United States.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1858</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">14-year-old Bernadette Soubirous, a French miller’s daughter, claims to have seen an apparition of the Virgin Mary at Lourdes.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1903</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Congress passes the Expedition Act, giving antitrust cases priority in the courts.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1904</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">President <a href="http://www.historynet.com/theodore-roosevelt" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Theodore Roosevelt</a> proclaims strict neutrality for the United States in the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/wwii/blred_star_rising_sun/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Russo-Japanese War</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1910</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Theodore Roosevelt Jr. and Eleanor Alexander announce their wedding date–June 20, 1910.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1926</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Mexican government nationalizes all church property.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1936</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Reich arrests 150 Catholic youth leaders in Berlin.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1939</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Negrin government returns to Madrid, Spain.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1942</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The German battleships <i>Gneisenau</i>, <i>Scharnhorst</i> and <i>Prinz Eugen</i> begin their famed channel dash from the French port of Brest. Their journey takes them through the English Channel on their way back to Germany.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1945</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The meeting of the President <a href="http://www.historynet.com/franklin-d-roosevelt" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Franklin Roosevelt</a>, Prime Minister <a href="http://www.historynet.com/what-if-franklin-d-roosevelt-had-disliked-churchill.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Winston Churchill</a> and Marshal <a href="http://www.historynet.com/stalin-the-puppetmaster.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Joseph Stalin</a> in Yalta, adjourns.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1951</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">U.N. forces push north across the 38th parallel for the second time in the<a href="http://www.historynet.com/korean-war-a-fresh-perspective.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Korean War</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1953</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Walt Disney’s film <i>Peter Pan</i> premieres.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1954</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">A 75,000-watt light bulb is lit at the Rockefeller Center in New York, to commemorate the 75th anniversary of Thomas Edison’s first light bulb.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1955</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Nationalist Chinese complete the evacuation of the Tachen Islands.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1959</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Iran turns down Soviet aid in favor of a U.S. proposal for aid.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1962</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Poet and novelist Sylvia Plath commits suicide in London at age 30.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1964</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Cambodian Prince Sihanouk blames the United States for a South Vietnamese air raid on a village in his country.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1965</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">President <a href="http://www.historynet.com/lyndon-b-johnson" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Lyndon Johnson</a> orders air strikes against targets in North Vietnam, in retaliation for guerrilla attacks on the American military in South Vietnam.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1966</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Vice President Hubert Humphrey begins a tour of <a href="http://www.historynet.com/vietnam-war" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Vietnam</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1974</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Communist-led rebels shower artillery fire into a crowded area of Phnom Pehn, killing 139 and injuring 46 others.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1990</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">South African political leader Nelson Mandela is released from prison in Paarl, South Africa, after serving more than 27 years of a life sentence.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1535</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Gregory XIV, Roman Catholic Pope.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1800</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">William Henry Fox Talbot, photography pioneer, produced the first book with photographic illustrations (<i>The Pencil of Nature</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1833</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Melville Weston Fuller, eighth U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1898</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/weaponry-scientists-meet-at-berkeley-to-lay-foundation-to-build-an-atomic-bomb.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Leo Szilard</a>, physicist, instrumental in the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/oak-ridge-the-town-the-atomic-bomb-built.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Manhattan Project</a>.</td></tr>
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<b>February 10</b></div>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1258</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Huegu, a Mongol leader, seizes Baghdad, bringing and end to the Abbasid caliphate.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1620</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Supporters of Marie de Medici, the queen mother, who has been exiled to Blois, are defeated by the king’s troops at Ponts de Ce, France.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1763</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Treaty of Paris ends the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/french-and-indian-war" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">French-Indian War</a>. France gives up all her territories in the New World except New Orleans and a few scattered islands.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1799</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/mh/blfrenchtriumph/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Napoleon Bonaparte leaves Cairo, Egypt</a>, for Syria, at the head of 13,000 men.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1814</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/napoleon-bonaparte" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Napoleon</a> personally directs lightning strikes against enemy columns advancing toward Paris, beginning with a victory over the Russians at Champaubert.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b><span style="font-size: x-large;">1840</span></b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><span style="font-size: x-large;">Queen Victoria marries Prince Albert</span>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1846</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Led by religious leader Brigham Young, the first Mormons begin a long<a href="http://www.historynet.com/mormon-handcart-horrors.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">westward exodus</a> from Nauvoo, Il., to Utah.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1863</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">P.T. Barnum’s star midgets, Tom Thumb and Lavinia Warren, are married.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1904</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/wwii/blred_star_rising_sun/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Russia and Japan declare war on each other.</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1915</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/woodrow-wilson" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">President Wilson</a> blasts the British for using the U.S. flag on merchant ships to deceive the Germans.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1939</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japanese occupy island of Hainan in French Indochina.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1941</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">London severs diplomatic relations with Romania.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1941</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Iceland is attacked by German planes.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1942</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/wwii/blhenryford/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">The war halts civilian car production at Ford.</a></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1945</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">B-29s hit the Tokyo area.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1955</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Bell Aircraft displays a fixed-wing vertical takeoff plane.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1960</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Adolph Coors, the beer brewer, is kidnapped in Golden, Colo.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1966</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Protester David Miller is convicted of burning his draft card.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1979</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Metropolitan Museum announces the first major theft in 110-year history, $150,000 Greek marble head.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1986</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The largest Mafia trial in history, with 474 defendants, opens in Palermo, Italy.</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1890</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Boris Pasternak, Russian novelist and poet (<i>Dr. Zhivago</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1893</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Jimmy Durante, American comedian and film actor.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1894</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Harold MacMillan, British prime minister (1957-1963).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1897</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">John F. Enders, virologist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1898</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Bertolt Brecht, German poet and dramatist (<i>The Threepenny Opera</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1901</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Stella Adler, actress and teacher.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1902</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Walter Brattain, physicist, one of the inventors of the transistor.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1910</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Dominique Georges Pire, Belgian cleric and educator.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1914</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Larry Adler, harmonica virtuoso.</td></tr>
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<b>February 9</b></div>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1567</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Lord Darnley, the second husband of Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in his sick-bed in a house in Edinburgh when the house blows up.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1799</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/uss-constellation-union-man-of-war-in-the-american-civil-war.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">USS</a> <i>Constellation</i> captures the French frigate <i>Insurgente</i> off the West Indies.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1825</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The House of Representatives elects <a href="http://www.historynet.com/john-quincy-adams" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">John Quincy Adams</a>, sixth U.S. President.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1861</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/jefferson-davis" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Jefferson F. Davis</a> is elected president of the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/confederacy" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Confederate States of America</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1864</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Union General <a href="http://www.historynet.com/cwti/bl-george-custer/" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">George Armstrong Custer</a> marries Elizabeth Bacon in their hometown of Monroe, Mich.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1904</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Japanese troops land near Seoul, Korea, after disabling two Russian cruisers.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1909</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">France agrees to recognize German economic interests in Morocco in exchange for political supremacy.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1916</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Conscription begins in Great Britain as the Military Service Act becomes effective.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1922</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The U.S. Congress establishes the World War Foreign Debt Commission.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1942</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Chiang Kai-shek meets with Sir Stafford Cripps, the British viceroy in India.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1943</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The <a href="http://www.historynet.com/going-deep-the-red-army-in-world-war-ii.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Red Army</a> takes back <a href="http://www.historynet.com/the-battle-of-kursk-clash-of-the-tanks.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Kursk</a> 15 months after it fell to the Germans.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1946</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Stalin announces the new five-year plan for the Soviet Union, calling for production boosts of 50 percent.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1951</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Actress Greta Garbo gets U.S. citizenship.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1953</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The French destroy six Viet Minh war factories hidden in the jungles of Vietnam.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1964</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The U.S. embassy in Moscow is stoned by Chinese and Vietnamese students.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1978</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Canada expels 11 Soviets in spying case.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1994</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Nelson Mandela becomes the first black president of South Africa.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td colspan="3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b>Born on February 9</b></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1773</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">William Henry Harrison, ninth U.S. President and the first to die in office.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1814</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Samuel Tilden, philanthropist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1819</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Lydia E. Pinkham, patent-medicine maker and entrepeneur.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1846</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">William Maybach, German engineer, designed the first Mercedes automobile.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1871</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Howard T. Ricketts, pathologist.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1874</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Amy Lowell, poet.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1880</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">James Stephens, Irish writer (<i>The Charwoman’s Daughter</i>, <i>The Crock of Gold</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1909</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under presidents <a href="http://www.historynet.com/john-f-kennedy" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">John F. Kennedy</a> and <a href="http://www.historynet.com/lyndon-b-johnson" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Lyndon B. Johnson</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1923</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and poet (<i>The Hostage</i>, <i>The Quare Fellow</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1944</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Alice Walker, Pulitzer prize winning author (<i>The Color Purple</i>).</td></tr>
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<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1587</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded in Fotheringhay Castle for her alleged part in the conspiracy to usurp Elizabeth I.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1807</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">At Eylau, <a href="http://www.historynet.com/napoleon-bonaparte" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Napoleon</a>‘s Marshal Pierre Agureau attacks Russian forces in a heavy snowstorm.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1861</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Delegates from <a href="http://www.historynet.com/secession" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">seceded</a> states adopt a provisional Confederate Constitution.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1862</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Union troops under<a href="http://www.historynet.com/ambrose-burnside" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;"> Gen. Ambrose Burnside</a> defeat a Confederate defense force at the Battle of Roanoke Island, N.C.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1865</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Confederate raider <a href="http://www.historynet.com/americas-civil-war-guerrilla-leader-william-clarke-quantrills-last-raid-in-kentucky.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">William Quantrill</a> and men attack a group of Federal wagons at New Market, Kentucky.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1887</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Congress passes the Dawes Act, which gives citizenship to Indians living apart from their tribe.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1900</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">British General Buller is beaten at Ladysmith, South Africa as the British flee over the Tugela River.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1904</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">In a surprise attack at Port Arthur, Korea, the Japanese disable seven Russian warships.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1910</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1924</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The gas chamber is used for the first time to execute a murderer.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1942</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The Japanese land on <a href="http://www.historynet.com/battle-of-singapore" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Singapore</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1943</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">British General Orde Wingate leads a guerrilla force of “Chindits” against the Japanese in <a href="http://www.historynet.com/burma-campaign-seizing-imphal-and-kohima-in-world-war-ii.htm" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">Burma</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1952</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Elizabeth becomes Queen of England after her father, King George VI, dies.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1962</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">The U.S. Defense Department reports the creation of the Military Assistance Command in South Vietnam.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1965</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">South Vietnamese bomb the North Vietnamese communications center at Vinh Linh.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1971</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">South Vietnamese ground forces, backed by American air power, begin Operation Lam Son 719, a 17,000 man incursion into Laos that ends three weeks later in a disaster.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1990</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">CBS television temporarily suspends Andy Rooney for his anti-gay and ant-black remarks in a magazine interview.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td colspan="3" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><b><br />Born on February 8</b></td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>412</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">St. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1820</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><a href="http://www.historynet.com/general-william-tecumseh-sherman" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">William T. Sherman</a>, Union general in the <a href="http://www.historynet.com/civil-war-facts" style="border: 0px; color: #fa0505; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; transition: all 0.2s ease-in;">American Civil War</a>.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1828</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Jules Verne, French novelist, one of the first writers of science fiction (<i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1834</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Dmitri Ivanovich Medeleyev, Russian chemist, developed the periodic table of elements.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1851</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Kate (O’Flaherty ) Chopin, novelist, short story writer (<i>The Awakening</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1906</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Chester F. Carlson, physicist, inventor of xerography, the electrostatic dry-copy process.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1906</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Henry Roth, writer (<i>Call it Sleep</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1911</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Elizabeth Bishop, poet.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1926</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Neal Cassaday, writer, counterculture proponent.</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1931</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">James Dean, film actor and 1950s teenage icon (<i>Rebel Without a Cause</i>,<i>East of Eden</i>, <i>Giant</i>).</td></tr>
<tr style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top"><b>1940</b></td><td style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"></td><td align="left" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;" valign="top">Ted Koppel, television journalist.</td></tr>
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