November 24th
 

Queen lead singer Freddie Mercury (real name Farouk Bulsara) died today in 1991


Abel Tasman discovered Van Diemen's land, later renamed Tasmania, today in 1642


Darwin's "Origin of Species" was published in 1859. It caused HUGE controversy for years to come.


In 1871, The National Rifle Association was incorporated


Today in 1874, Joseph Farwell Glidden patented barbed wire


This day in 1963, Jack Ruby shot Lee Harvey Oswald, JFK's accused assassin, in the garage of Dallas police headquarters

For all (any?) of you who still follow this thread-ful of interesting & inane guff (:)) . server problems prevented any post yesterday, and absence from my loved one (& my OWN P.C.) will likely prevent any today, too.

So, if anyone out there has some amusing little date-stamped anecdotes to share (STEPH?!?!) please, feel free!!

DM

November 26th

1832: Public streetcar service began in New York City. The fare: 12 1/2 cents

1942: The movie Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theater in New York City.

On Nov. 27, 1973, the Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro T. Agnew, who'd resigned.

November 27th
 

The French navy scuttled it's ships in Toulon harbour in 1942, to keep them out of the hands of the Nazis.


In 1841, the thirty-five survivors of the slave-ship 'Amistad' finally return to Africa.


In 1895, Alfred Nobel signed his last will, which established the Nobel Prize.


New York's Pennsylvania Station opened today in 1910


Playwright Eugene O'Neill died in Boston at age 65 this day in 1953


In 1970, Pope Paul VI was attacked at the Manila airport by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest

November 28th
 

In 1942, nearly 500 people died in a fire that destryoed the Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston


In 1520, Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan passed through the strait which bears his name to the Pacific ocean


William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway today in 1582


In 1919, American-born Lady Astor became the first woman to take a seat in the British Parliament


Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin met in Tehran for their first meeting during World War II on this day in 1942


Today in 1964 the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 launched—on its way to the first successful mission to Mars.

On Nov. 29, 1947, the U.N. General Assembly passed a resolution calling for the partitioning of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.

November 29th
 

At Sand Creek, Colorado, in 1864, Major Chivington's Militia attacked the Cheyenne encampment there, massacring over 400 people, many of them chidren. His explanation for this atrocity later... "Nits make Lice!"


Italian composer Giacomo Puccini died in Brussels in 1924 before he could complete his opera "Turandot


Commander Richard E. Byrd and a crew of three became the first to fly over the South Pole today in 1929


The Beatles released I Want to Hold Your Hand in Great Britain today in 1963


Also today, in 1963, President Johnson named a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy


Actor Cary Grant died in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82, in 1986


Beatle George Harrison died of cancer today in 2001.

November 30th
 

Oscar Wilde's last words, "One or other of us HAS to go!", were uttered to the wallpaper in a Paris hotel in 1900


In 1894, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase was tried for political bias


Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were married in 1940


Barbados became independent of Great Britain today in 1966


In 1974 the fossilized remains of a female human ancestor named Lucy (after the Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds) were found in Ethiopia.


The Brady Bill, requiring a five-day waiting period for handgun purchases, is signed today in 1993


In 1995, President Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland


Finally........


Today is Saint Andrews day, a celebration of the Patron Saint of Scotland!! (of Russia too, but we don't talk about that!!)


Slainte, everybody!

DM

1696 St. John's, Newfoundland - Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville takes St. John's with Bonaventure; troops loot and burn on the other side of the peninsula.

1782 Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence

1803 Spain cedes her claims to Louisiana Territory to France

1981 Porn star John Holmes arrested on fugitive charges

On Dec. 1, 1959, representatives of 12 countries, including the United States, signed a treaty in Washington setting aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve, free from military activity.

December 1st
 

Today is, as many of you will probably know, is World AIDS Day!


The 1824 presidential election between John Q. Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Crawford, and Henry Clay was turned over to the House of Representatives due to the lack of an electoral-vote majority


Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes appeared for the first time in print in the story "A Study in Scarlet" today in 1887


Today in 1955, Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to give up her front-section bus seat to a white man in Montgomery, Alabama.


Representatives from more than 150 countries gathered at a global warming summit in Kyoto, Japan, in 1997, and over the course of ten days forged an agreement to control the emission of greenhouse gases.

On Dec. 2, 1954, the Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R Wis., for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute."

December 2nd
 

"Official" Lunatic the Marquis de Sade died today in 1814. (He probably enjoyed it, too!! :))


Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned emperor of France in Paris by Pope Pius VII in 1814.


In 1823 President James Monroe outlined his famous doctrine opposing European expansion in the Western Hemisphere


In 1859 Abolitionist John Brown was hanged for his raid on Harper's Ferry


The first controlled nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated at the University of Chicago today in 1942


Today in 1970 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established


Barney B. Clark became the first person to receive an artificial heart in a transplant operation carried out today in 1982


A combined Protestant and Catholic cabinet convened for the first time in Northern Ireland today in 1999.

On Dec. 3, 1984, more than 4,000 people died after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India.

December 3rd
 

1918 ~ Illinois becomes the 21st State of the United States


1833 ~ Oberlin College in Ohio became the first coed institution of higher learning in the U.S.


1919 ~ French painter and sculptor Pierre A. Renoir died at age 78.


1967 ~ Dr. Christiaan N. Barnard performed the world's first successful human heart transplant.

December 4th
 

1993 ~ Frank Zappa, Rock Legend, died of prostate cancer


1783 ~ George Washington delivered his farewell address to his officers at Fraunces Tavern in New York City.


1816 ~ James Monroe of Virginia was elected (by electors) the fifth president of the United States


1875 ~ William Marcy "Boss" Tweed of New York's Tammany Hall escaped from jail and fled the country.


1945 ~ The Senate approved U.S. participation in the United Nations


1991 ~ Associated Press correspondent Terry Anderson is released after seven years as a hostage in Lebanon

1918 Pres Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France, 1st chief executive to travel outside US while in office

1927 Duke Ellington opens at the Cotten Club in Harlem

1952 Killer fogs begin in London, England; 'smog' becomes a word



And Holidays for Today:

Mexico: Day of the Artisans

Tonga: Proclamation Day

1995 United Nations New York - Former Newfoundland premier Brian Tobin signs UN Treaty on migrating fish stocks; Fisheries Minister wants to protect Grand Bank stocks outside Canada's jurisdiction.

1933, national Prohibition came to an end as Utah became the 36th state to ratify the 21st Amendment to the Constitution, repealing the 18th Amendment.

December 5th
 

I must apologise (to those who care!!) for not posting today...... a combination of 4 nights crap sleep, having the news my dog is being given away by my Ex, and smashing my car...... NOT a good day!!

AND....... I'm pissed!! (Drunk, that is!) ....... so, SUE ME!!

:D


DM

December 6th
 

1557 ~ A Pig was sentenced to be "Buried all alive" after eating a child in St. Quentin, France


1877 ~ The first sound recording, "Mary Had a Little Lamb," was made by Thomas Edison.


1884 ~ Construction of the Washington Monument was completed.


1889 ~ Jefferson Davis, the first and only president of the Confederate States of America, died in New Orleans.


1923 ~ A presidential address was broadcast on the radio for the first time when Calvin Coolidge spoke before Congress.


1926 ~ French impressionist painter Claude Monet died at age 86.


1998 ~ Hugo Chavez elected president of Venezuela.

1921 CANADIAN WOMEN EXERCISE FIRST FEDERAL VOTE

Agnes McPhail (1890-1954) is elected to the House of Commons for the United Farmers of Ontario in the first election in which all Canadian women exercise their right to vote (wives of soldiers could vote during World War I); a country schoolteacher, she is Canada's first female MP.

It's not even 100 years ago!!!!!!!

December 7th
 

1882 ~ Charles Brooks became the first person to be executed by lethal injection in Texas.


1787 ~ Delaware became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution


1917 ~ The U.S. declared war on Austria-Hungary in World War I.


1941 ~ The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor.


1972 ~ America's final moon mission, Apollo 17, blasted off from Cape Canaveral


1975 ~ Indonesia invaded East Timor, leading to a 25-year occupation


1988 ~ A 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit Armenia, killing 25,000.


2001 ~ Taliban forces fled from Kandahar, their last stronghold in Afghanistan

In the year 185, Emperor Lo-Yang of China saw a supernova which is now identified as MSH15-52 (?).

In 1842, the New York Philharmonic played it's 1st concert.

On Dec. 7, 1941, Japanese warplanes attacked the home base of the U.S. Pacific fleet at Pearl Harbor, an act that led to America's entry into World War II.

On Dec. 7, 2003, I woke up early and joined the hardy few at Pixies for some posting. :D That's noteworthy, isn't it? ;)

Don't mean to be picky or anything Steph....... but, didn't I already do that one? ;) (Not in as much detail, admittedly!!)
{Just my wee joke, sweetie.....hehehehe! :D}





Sure is dicksbro!! :D

DM

On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan one day after the attack on Pearl Harbor.

(Whoops, missed the double post! :D)

December 8th
 

1980 ~ John Lennon was shot dead outside his New York apartment


1854 ~ Pope Pius IX proclaimed the dogma of the Immaculate Conception.


1886 ~ The American Federation of Labor was founded at a convention of union leaders in Columbus, Ohio.


1987 ~ President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev signed the first treaty to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the two superpowers


1993 ~ President Bill Clinton signed The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) into law

On Dec. 9, 1992, Britain's Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their separatio

December 9th
 

1753 ~ Newgate Prison in London held its first public execution.


1941 ~ China declared war against Japan, Germany, and Italy


1958 ~ The anti-Communist John Birch Society was formed.


1965 ~ "A Charlie Brown Christmas" premiered.


1993 ~ U.S. astronauts completed repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope.


1996 ~ Archaeologist and anthropologist Mary Leakey died in Kenya at age 83.

December 10th
 

1990 ~ Buff, the "Human beat-box" of The Fat Boys, died of heart failure


1817 ~ Mississippi became the 20th state in the United States.


1869 ~ The territory of Wyoming authorized women to vote and hold office.


1901 ~ The first Nobel Prizes were awarded in Stockholm, Sweden, in the fields of physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace.


1948 ~ The United Nations General Assembly adopted its Universal Declaration on Human Rights.


1950 ~ Dr. Ralph Bunche became the first black to receive a Nobel Peace Prize.


1964 ~ Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., received the Nobel Peace Prize.

1985 - Supreme Court of Canada upholds firing of public servant Neil Fraser for criticizing the government's metric conversion policies.

On Dec. 11

1941, Germany and Italy declared war on the United States; the U.S. responded in kind.

December 11th
 

1816 ~ Indiana became the 19th state.


1844 ~ Nitrous oxide was used for the first time in dentistry.


1936 ~ King Edward VIII abdicated the throne of Britain for the woman he loved, Mrs. Wallis Simpson.


1946 ~ The United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund (UNICEF) was established


1994 ~ Russian troups invade Chechnya in an unsuccessful attempt to restore Moscow's power in the region.


1997 ~ Housing secretary Henry Cisneros is indicted for conspiracy, obstructing justice, and false statements to the FBI.

I haven’t been here for a while after becoming frustrated with myself for ferreting out little ditties from random sources only to miss posting them at the right time. :o Today just had too many significant events happen to let it go past. I have to start with something near and dear to my heart.;)

In 1998, the Mars Climate Orbiter was successfully launched on a Delta II rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Station in Florida. However, the probe disappeared on 23 Sep 1999, apparently destroyed because scientists had failed to convert English measures to metric values. The orbiter's instruments would have monitored the Martian atmosphere and image the planet's surface on a daily basis for one Martian year (1.8 Earth years) with observations of the appearance and movement of atmospheric dust and water vapor, as well as characterizing seasonal changes on the surface.

The deeds of a lady of note has to be mentioned today also. In 1911, at Stockholm, Sweden, Marie Curie became the first person to be awarded a second Nobel prize. She had isolated radium by electrolyzing molten radium chloride. This second prize was for her individual achievements in Chemistry, whereas her first prize (1903) was a collaborative effort with her husband, Pierre, and Henri Becquerel in Physics for her contributions in the discovery of radium and polonium.

An old chat buddy of Al’s was born 11 Dec 1882, and his insights has effected mankind’s concepts forever. Max Born, was a German physicist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1954, with Walther Bothe of Germany, for his statistical formulation of the behavior of subatomic particles. His studies of the wave function led to the replacement of the original quantum theory, which regarded electrons as particles, with a mathematical description.

The anniversary of the last thing that HAS to be noted is in 1998, scientists announced in the Dec 11 issue of the journal Science that they have deciphered the entire genetic blueprint of an animal - the tiny nematode worm, Caenorhabditis elegans. This is the first time genetic instructions have been spelt out for an animal that, like humans, has a nervous system, digests food, and has sex. The worm's genetic code is spelt out by 97 million genetic letters corresponding to 20,000 genes. This work is a milestone in global efforts to unravel the entire human genetic code - or genome - which was completed earlier this year and is the tool for medical wonders undreamt of. The research grew into a collaboration between 1,500 scientists in 250 laboratories worldwide. The efforts were led by John Sulston, in England and Dr Bob Waterston in the U.S.

Somebody was busy today.:D

Today our new Prime Minister, Paul Martin is being sworn in.

Also in political news, on this day in 2000, a divided U.S. Supreme Court halted the presidential recount in Florida, effectively making Republican George W. Bush the winner.

December 12th
 

1917 ~ An overloaded French troop train cuaght fire near Modane in the Alps, and de-railed at 75mph. More than 800 died in the world's WORST rail accident


1787 ~ Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.


1913 ~ The Mona Lisa was recovered in Florence after having been stolen two years earlier (August 1911) from the Louvre.


1963 ~ Kenya gained its independence from Britain.


1998 ~ The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Clinton.


2001 ~ Yasir Arafat closed the offices of Hamas and Islamic Jihad.