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Thursday, January 5
Jody Victor® : A Day of History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 05 Jan 2012 02:41 PM EST
Jody Victor®: One of the best known sites in American, the Golden Gate Bridge, began construction on this day, January 5. Let's see what happened from an article on history.com.
"On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.
Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north of San Francisco Bay would increase in value in direct proportion to its accessibility to the city. Soon, a plan was hatched to build a bridge that would span the Golden Gate, a narrow, 400-foot deep strait that serves as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, connecting the San Francisco Peninsula with the southern end of Marin County.
Although the idea went back as far as 1869, the proposal took root in 1916. A former engineering student, James Wilkins, working as a journalist with the San Francisco Bulletin, called for a suspension bridge with a center span of 3,000 feet, nearly twice the length of any in existence. Wilkins’ idea was estimated to cost an astounding $100 million. So, San Francisco's city engineer, Michael M. O'Shaughnessy (he’s also credited with coming up with the name Golden Gate Bridge), began asking bridge engineers whether they could do it for less.
Engineer and poet Joseph Strauss, a 5-foot tall Cincinnati-born Chicagoan, said he could.
Eventually, O'Shaughnessy and Strauss concluded they could build a pure suspension bridge within a practical range of $25-30 million with a main span at least 4,000 feet. The construction plan still faced opposition, including litigation, from many sources. By the time most of the obstacles were cleared, the Great Depression of 1929 had begun, limiting financing options, so officials convinced voters to support $35 million in bonded indebtedness, citing the jobs that would be created for the project. However, the bonds couldn’t be sold until 1932, when San-Francisco based Bank of America agreed to buy the entire project in order to help the local economy.
The Golden Gate Bridge officially opened on May 27, 1937, the longest bridge span in the world at the time. The first public crossing had taken place the day before, when 200,000 people walked, ran and even roller skated over the new bridge.
With its tall towers and famous red paint job, the bridge quickly became a famous American landmark, and a symbol of San Francisco."
Jody Victor®
Thursday, December 29
Jody Victor® : It Happened On This Day
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 29 Dec 2011 08:00 AM EST
Jody Victor: Here's what happened on this day, December 29, in history.
1503 Battle at Carigliano: Spanish army beats France
1539 St Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
1541 Isabella of Poland & King Ferdinand of Austria sign Treaty of Gyalu
1558 Charles V, German emperor, buried
1705 Prosper Jolyot's "Idomenée" premieres in Paris
1708 Great Alliance occupies Gent
1778 English troops occupy Savannah, Georgia
1782 First nautical almanac in US published by Samuel Stearns, Boston
1813 British burn Buffalo New York during the War of 1812
1837 Canadian militia destroy Caroline, a US steamboat docked at Buffalo
1837 Steam-powered threshing machine patented, Winthrop ME
1841 King/grand duke Willem II installs Order of Eikenkroon
1845 Texas admitted as the 28th state
1848 Gas lights 1st installed at White House (Polk's administration)
1851 First Young Men's Christian Association chapter opened (Boston)
1852 Emma Snodgrass arrested in Boston for wearing pants
1857 Franz Liszt's "Die Hunnenschlacht" premieres in Weimar
1862 Battle of Chichasaw Bayou: confederate armies defeat General Sherman
1862 Bowling ball invented
1864 Fire Department celebrates 1st annual ball
1867 Firsttelegraph ticker used by a brokerage house, Groesbeck & Company, New York
1876 11 passenger cars crash in a ravine near Ashtabula OH, 92 die
1876 Frédéric A Bartholdi (Statue of Liberty sculptor) weds Jeanne-Emilie
1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents 1st bike (Germany)
1890 US 7th Cavalry massacre 200+ captive Sioux at Wounded Knee SD; Indian "war" in the west
1891 Edison patents "transmission of signals electrically" (radio)
1895 Dr L S Jameson begins failed raid on Johannesburg
1899 English fleet brings German postschip Bundesrath up
1900 General Viljoen surprise attack British garrison to Helvetia
1903 French Equatorial Africa separates into Gabon, Chad & Ubangi-Shari
1906 Montréal Wanderers beat New Glasgow (Nova Scotia) for Stanley Cup (2nd of 1906)
1908 Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake, Clintonville WI
1911 San Francisco Symphony is formed
1911 Proclamation restores "Dei Gratia" from Canada's coins
1913 Firstmovie serial, "Adventures of Kathlyn" premieres in Chicago IL
1920 The netherlands/Venezuela recover diplomatic relations
1920 Yugoslav government bans communist party
1921 William Lyon Mackenzie King succeeded Arthur Meighen as Canadian PM
1922 Revised Netherlands Law proclaims suffrage
1926 Vatican puts French fascist Charles Maurras' work on the index
1926 Victoria (1107) beat New South Wales (221 & 230) by an innings 656 runs
1929 Police arrest Sukarno & 100s PNI-leaders
1930 Fred P Newton completes longest swim ever (1826 miles), when he swam in the Mississippi River from Ford Dam MN, to New Orleans LA
1931 Identification of heavy water publicly announced, HC Urey
1931 Victoria score 7 for 435 in second innings to beat New South Wales
1933 Yankees refuse to release Babe Ruth so he can manage the Cincinnati Reds
1934 First collegiate basketball doubleheader (Madison Square Garden)
1934 Japan renounces Washington Naval Treaty of 1922 & London Treaty of 1930
1934 Federico García Lorca's "Yerma" premieres in Madrid
1937 Pan Am starts San Francisco CA-to-Auckland, New Zealand service
1937 Ireland adopts constitution (Irish Free State becomes Eire)
1937 Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champion
1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle WA, begins
1940 Germany begins dropping incendiary bombs on London (WWII)
1940 NFL Pro Bowl: Chicago Bears beats NFL All-Stars 28-14
1944 Belgian Nazi Léon Degrelle at default to the death sentenced
1944 General Eisenhowers train returns to Versailles
1947 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
1948 US State Department announces work on placing objects into Earth orbit
1948 "Rape of Lucretia" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 23 performances
1948 Canada recognizes Israel
1949 First UHF television station operating regular basis (Bridgeport CT)
1949 Hungary nationalized its industries
1952 First transistorized hearing aid offered for sale (Elmsford NY)
1954 Kingdom of the Netherlands, with Netherlands & Netherlands Antilles as autonomous parts, comes into being
1955 Barbra Streisand's 1st recording, "You'll Never Know" at age 13
1957 Detroit Lions beat Cleveland Browns 50-14 in NFL championship game
1957 Singers Steve Lawrence & Eydie Gormé wed in Las Vegas
1958 Baltimore Colts beat New York Giants 23-17 in NFL championship game
1958 TV soap "Young Dr Malone" debuts
1959 Saul Levitt's "Andersonville Trial" premieres in New York NY
1962 Doug Walters makes 1st-class debut for New South Wales 17 years 8 days
1963 52nd Davis Cup: USA beats Australia in Adelaide (3-2)
1965 CBS purchases NFL TV rights for 1966-68 at $18.8 million per year
1965 Supremes release "My World is Empty Without You"
1965 "Thunderball" premieres in US
1966 Pirate Radio Phoenix, 1st transmission (Worcester MA)
1967 Star Trek's "The Trouble With Tribbles" 1st airs
1967 Turkish-Cypriot government forms in Cyprus
1968 Baltimore Colts beat Cleveland Browns 34-0 in NFL championship game
1968 New York Jets beat Oakland Raiders 27-23 in AFL championship game
1968 Israeli commandos destroy 13 Lebanese airplanes
1969 New York Times reports Curt Flood will sue baseball & challenge the reserve clause
1972 Eastern Tristar Jumbo Jet crashes near Everglades killing 101
1972 Life magazine ceases publication
1972 Test Cricket debut of Jeff Thomson & Max Walker vs Pakistan at MCG
1974 Murray Schisgal's "All Over Town" premieres in New York NY
1975 11 killed, 75 hurt by terrorist bomb at LaGuardia Airport in New York NY
1977 Ronald Ribman's "Cold Storage" premieres in New York NY
1978 Shah of Iran, asks Shapour Bahktiar to form a civilian government
1978 Spain constitution goes into effect
1978 Test Cricket debut of Allan Robert Border, vs England at the MCG
1979 Red Army beats New York Islanders 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1980 Shuttle STS-1 moves from Vandenberg AFB to Launch Complex 39A
1982 Bob Marley postage stamp issued in Jamaica
1982 Coach Paul "Bear" Bryant ends his career with Alabama (323 wins)
1983 US announces withdrawal from UNESCO
1983 Gavaskar makes the highest Test Cricket score by an Indian, 236 vs West Indies
1983 Graeme Yallop completes 268 vs Pakistan at cricket MCG
1984 Blues take 27 shots against Islanders in 1 period
1984 Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi claims victory in parliamentary elections
1984 5th United Negro College Fund
1988 Soviet Red Army Team edges New York Islanders, 3-2 at Nassau Coliseum
1988 Victorian Post Office Museum in Australia closes
1989 Vaclav Havel becomes President of Czechoslovakia
1989 Wayne Gretzky & Martina Navratilova are named athletes of the decade by the Associated Press
1989 Jane Pauley says goodbye to NBC's "Today" show
1990 Olympic gymnast Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley
1991 "Christmas Carol" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 14 performances
1991 12th United Negro College Fund
1991 Boeing 747-200F of China Airlines crash into mountain at Taipei
1992 Governor Cuomo grants Jean Harris ("Scarsdale Diet" Murderess) clemency
1993 Courtney Love sues doctors for leaking news of her methadone treatment
1993 Todd Bridges arrested for transporting methamphetamine (speed)
1994 B737-400 flies into a mountain at Edremit East Turkey, 54 killed
1994 Bangladesh government of Zia resigns
1994 Billionaire J Paul Getty Jr marries Victoria Holdsworth on Barbados
1994 Last Dutch electro-magnetic telephone exchange shuts down
1994 Shane Warne takes a hat-trick vs England at cricket MCG
1996 "Dreams & Nightmares" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1996 "Skylight" closes at Royale Theater NYC after
1996 "Taking Sides" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC
1997 Carquest Bowl 8: Georgia Tech beats West Virginia, 35-30
1997 Hong Kong begins slaughtering all its chickens to prevent bird flu
1997 Orville Lynn Majors, 36, arrested for many deaths under his care
1997 Russia signs agreement to build a $3B nuclear power plant in China
Jody Victor
Thursday, December 22
Jody Victor® : Those Were The Days
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 22 Dec 2011 02:06 PM EST
Jody Victor: Today is the Winter Solstice and here's what happened on this day, December 22, in history.
0401 St Innocent I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
0795 Leo III succeeds pope Adrianus I
1135 Norman nobles recognize Stefanus van Blois as English king
1216 Pope Honorius III delegates degree "Religiosam vitam eligentibus"
1465 Peace of St Truiden: Louis van Bourbon becomes bishop of Luik
1536 English scholar Reginald Pole appointed cardinal
1596 Ferryboat Meuniers crashes in Paris, 150 die
1642 Pope Urbanus VIII publishes degree In eminente
1688 Pro-James II, Earl of Danby occupies York
1689 Heavy earthquake strikes Innsbruck
1715 English pretender to the throne James III lands at Peterhead
1731 Dutch people revolt against meat tax
1772 Moravian missionary constructs 1st schoolhouse west of Allegheny
1775 Continental navy organized with 7 ships
1783 Washington resigns his military commission as US Army's commander-in-chief
1790 Russian troops occupy Ismail on Turks
1807 Congress passes Embargo Act, to force peace between Britain & France
1810 British frigate Minotaur sinks killing 480
1815 Spaniards execute Mexican revolutionary priest José Maria Morelos
1832 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin reaches Barnevelts Islands
1862 Raid on Morgan's: Bardstown to Elizabethtown KY
1870 Jules Janssen flies in a balloon in order to study a solar eclipse
1877 "American Bicycling Journal" first published (Boston MA)
1882 First string of Christmas tree lights created by Thomas Edison
1883 August Strindberg's "Lycko-Pers Reja" premieres
1885 Pope Leo XIII proclaims extraordinary jubilee
1886 First national accountants' society in US formed (New York NY)
1888 Heavyweight Boxing Champion John L Sullivan challenges Jake Kilrain
1894 French officer Alfred Dreyfus court-martialed for treason, triggers worldwide charges of anti-Semitism (Dreyfus later vindicated)
1894 United States Golf Association is formed (New York NY)
1894 Debussy's "Prélude à l'apres-midi d'un faune" premieres
1894 Dutch coast hit by hurricane
1907 Saint-Saëns/Fokines ballet "Le Cygne" premieres in St Petersburg
1910 US postal savings stamps 1st issued
1915 Federal Baseball League is dissolved
1915 Organized baseball & Federal League sign a peace treaty at Cincinnati OH
1917 Flanders declares it's independence, under Pieter Tack
1919 Government of Ireland Act of Power (Home Rule for Ireland)
1919 US deports 250 alien radicals, including anarchist Emma Goldman
1922 Belgian parliament rejects Dutch University in Ghent
1923 Bill Ponsford & Edgar Mayne make 456 opening stand for Victoria
1924 Babe Dye of NHL's Toronto St Patricks scores 5 goals beat Bruins 10-2
1924 Philip Barry's "Youngest" premieres in New York NY
1930 6 West europe lands signs Convention of Oslo
1934 Miss Theo Trowbridge sets female bowling record 702 pins
1934 1st flight from Netherlands to Curaçao (Christmas flight 1934)
1935 Yaeko Iwasaki, student of D S Harada Roshi, 1st awakening in Kamakura
1936 First common carrier license issued by ICC, Scranton PA
1937 Lincoln Tunnel (New York NY) opens to traffic
1939 125 die in train wreck at Magdeburg Germany; 99 die in 2nd wreck at Friedrichshafen Germany
1939 Bradman scores 138 in South Australia's 7-821 vs Queensland
1939 Finnish counter offensive at Petsamo
1941 Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrives in Washington DC for a wartime conference
1941 Japan's invasion leader lands on Luzon, Philippines
1941 Tito establishes 1st Proletarian Brigade in Yugoslavia
1943 WEB Du Bois elected 1st black member, National Institute of Arts & Letters
1943 Manufacturers get permission to use synthetic rubber for baseball core
1944 Germans demand surrender of American troops at Bastogne, Belgium
1944 Sub Swordfish departs Pearl Harbor for Japan
1945 Utrecht: Catholic People's party (KVP) established
1946 Cleveland Browns beat New York Yankees 14-9 in AAFC championship game
1946 "Bal Negre" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 54 performances
1947 Italian constituent assembly adopts new constitution
1948 KPIX TV channel 5 in San Francisco CA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1950 2 self-propelled trains of Long Island RR collide, killing 77
1951 Australia cricket all out 82 vs West Indies at Adelaide
1952 French government of Pinay, resigns
1952 WSBA (now WPMT) TV channel 43 in York PA (IND) begins broadcasting
1953 Jack Dunn III, owner of Baltimore Orioles in International League, turns name over to newly relocated St Louis Browns 1956 "New Faces of 1956" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 221 performances
1956 Last British/French troops leave Egypt
1957 KWRB (now KFNE) TV channel 10 in Lander-Riverton WY (ABC) begins
1958 "Chipmunk Song" reaches #1
1958 "Whoop-Up" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 56 performances
1958 2nd Dutch Beel government forms
1959 New York Ranger goalie Marcel Paille wears a customized mask
1959 Continental League awards its last franchise to Dallas-Fort Worth
1961 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 Kinderman Place in the Bronx named
1962 1,000,000th NBA point scored
1962 Harris County voters approve all-weather stadium for Houston Colt .45s
1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1963 Oakland Raider Tom Flores passes for 6 touchdowns vs Houston (52-49)
1963 Official 30-day mourning period for President John F Kennedy ends
1964 Lockheed SR-71 spy aircraft reaches 3,530 kph (record for a jet)
1965 Radio Mil (Dominican Republic) transmitter blown up
1965 Belgian government shuts 6 coal mine
1965 Director David Lean's "Dr Zhivago" premieres
1965 Great-Britain sets maximum speed at 70 MPH
1966 WCVW TV channel 57 in Richmond VA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Julie Nixon weds Dwight David Eisenhower
1969 Pete Marovich sets NCAA record of hitting 30 of 31 foul shots
1970 SS Commander Franz Stangl of Treblinka, sentenced to life imprisonment
1971 UN General Assembly ratifies Kurt Waldheim as Secretary-General
1971 KUAC TV channel 9 in Fairbanks/College, Alaska (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 USSR performs underground nuclear test
1972 6.25 earthquake strikes Managua Nicaragua, 12,000+ killed
1974 Phil Esposito, Boston, became 6th NHLer to score 500 goals
1974 Referenda in Comoros-3 islands for independence, 1 stays French
1974 2nd cease-fire between IRA & British; lasts until approximately April 1975
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York NY
1976 "Your Arm's Too Short to Box with God" opens at Lyceum NYC for 429 performances
1976 German Democratic Republic banishes singer Nina Hagen
1977 36 die as grain elevator at Continental Grain Company plant explodes
1978 Kenny Jones becomes The Who's new drummer
1978 Thailand adopts constitution
1980 President-elect Reagan appoints Jean Kirkpatrick (UN delegate) & James Watt (Interior)
1980 Cardinals release outfielder Bobby Bonds
1981 Argentine General Leopoldo Galtieri sworn in as president
1981 Belgium's 5th government of Martens forms
1982 William Mastrosimone's "Extremities" premieres in New York NY
1983 Islanders score 3 shorthanded goals against Capitals
1983 Egyptian President Mubarak meets with PLO leader Yasser Arafat
1984 Bernhard Goetz shoots 4 black youths (muggers) on a NYC subway train
1984 Madonna's "Like a Virgin" single goes #1 for 6 weeks
1984 Test Cricket debut of Craig McDermott, vs West Indies at the MCG
1985 STS 51-L vehicle moves to Launch Pad 39B
1985 "Wind in the Willows" closes at Nederlander Theater NYC after 4 performances
1985 74th Davis Cup: Sweden beats Germany in Munich (3-2)
1986 India score 7-676 vs Sri Lanka at Kanpur in Cricket
1987 Mötley Crue's Nikki Sixx overdoses from Heroin
1988 2 robbers wearing police uniforms rob armored truck of $3 million in New Jersey
1988 South Africa signs accord granting independence to South-West Africa
1988 Tug hits oil barge, spreads 231,000 gal on 300 miles of Western Australia & British Columbia coast
1989 After 23 years of dictatorial rule, Romania ousts Nicolae Ceausescu
1989 Cold wave: -4ºF in Oklahoma City OK, -6ºF in Tulsa OK, -12ºF in Pittsburgh PA, -18ºF in Denver CO, -23ºF in Kansas City MO, -42ºF in Scottsbluff NE, -47ºF in Hardin MT & -60ºF in Black Hills SD
1989 Chad adopts its Constitution
1990 Iraq announces it will never give up Kuwait
1990 Israeli ferry capsizes killing 21 US servicemen
1990 Lech Walesa sworn in as Poland's 1st popularly elected president
1992 Libyan MIG-23UB attacks Boeing 727 at Souk al-Sabt, 158 die
1994 Italian Prime Minister Berlusconi resigns
1994 "Christmas Carol" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 18 performances
1995 David Cone signs $19.5 million 3 year contract with New York Yankees
1996 Steelers' Kordell Stewart runs quarterback record 80 yds for TD
1996 Wendy's Three Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Zimbabwe & England draw Bulawayo Test Cricket with England need 1 to win
1997 Hunter Tylo awarded $4 million in Melrose Place breach of contract
1997 Merck baldness pill for men approved by FDA
1997 Nancy Kerring & Tonya Harding pre-record a show to air on FOX on Feb 5
Have a Merry Christmas!
Jody Victor
Thursday, December 15
Jody Victor® : Once Upon a Time In History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 15 Dec 2011 08:00 AM EST
Jody Victor:There's always so many stories everyday in history - here's today's events, December 15.
0687 St Sergius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope succeeding Conon
1124 Chancellor Haimeric selects pope (Lamberto becomes Honorius II)
1488 Bartholomeus Diaz returns to Portugal after sailing round Cape of Good Hope
1569 Westmoreland flees to Scotland
1582 Leidse University names Rembert Dodoens professor of botany/medicine
1582 Spanish Netherlands/Denmark/Norway adopt Gregorian calendar
1586 Laevinus Torrentius, becomes bishop of Antwerp
1593 State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft
1612 Simon Marius, is 1st to observe Andromeda galaxy through a telescope
1640 Duke of Bragança crowned King Johan IV of Portugal
1660 Philippines: Andres Malongs rebels plunders Bagnotan
1664 English colonizing Connecticut
1667 Brandenburg declares himself neutral in Devolutie War
1680 Tax revolt on Terschelling due to tax on cereal
1688 Lord Delamere sides with King James II
1745 Battle at Kesseldorf: Prussia beats Saksen & Austria
1791 Bill of Rights ratified when Virginia gave its approval
1791 First US law school established at University of Pennsylvania
1792 First life insurance policy issued in US (Philadelphia)
1794 Revolutionary Tribunal abolished in France
1810 First Irish magazine in US, The Shamrock, is published
1815 Rossini gets assignment for Il barbiere di Siviglia
1820 First general pharmacopoeia in US published, Boston
1836 Patent Office burns in Washington DC
1854 First street-cleaning machine in US 1st used in Philadelphia
1859 GR Kirchoff describes chemical composition of Sun
1863 Skirmish at Bean's Station TN (Knoxville Campaign)
1864 Battle of Nashville TN
1864 Raid on Stoneman: Abingdon & Glade Springs VA
1874 First reigning king to visit US (of Hawaii) received by President Grant
1877 Thomas Edison patents phonograph
1891 James Naismith invents basketball (Canada)
1893 Dvoráks "From the New World" premieres at Carnegie Hall NYC
1894 Cricket day 2 1st T Australia vs England Australia 586 (Gregory 201) England 3-130
1899 Third defeat of "Black Week" - Battle at Colenso South Africa (Boers-British army)
1909 Thomas J Lynch becomes president of baseball's National League
1914 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded by Hiram Percy Maxim
1914 Battle of Lódz ends; Russians retreat toward Moscow
1914 British fleet forfeits chance to destroy German fleet in North Sea
1914 Swedish troops over run Belgrade in Austria-Hungary
1916 French defeat Germans in WWI Battle of Verdun
1917 Moldavian Republic declares independence from Russia
1918 American Jewish Congress holds it's 1st meeting
1919 Edna St Vincent Millay's "Aria da Capo" premieres in New York NY
1919 Fiume (Rijeka) declares it's Independence
1922 IVVV (association) peace congress on war forms in Hague
1925 First hockey game at Madison Square Garden, Montréal Canadiens 3, New York Americans 1
1925 First road with a depressed trough (Texas) opens to traffic
1926 Facist national symbol elevated in Italy
1927 Ed Hickman kidnaps child he later beheads
1929 Walter Mittelholzer flies as 1st about the Kilimanjaro
1930 Don Bradman takes his 1st Test Cricket wicket (Ivan Barrow, West Indies, lbw)
1933 Baseball owners agree to ban Sunday doubleheaders until after June 15
1934 Fokker F18 Snip flies to Netherlands West Indies
1935 Detroit Lions win NFL championship
1935 Max Euwe becomes world champion chess beating Alexander Aljechin
1936 KVL-AM in Seattle WA changes call letters to KEEN (now KING)
1938 Groundbreaking begins for Jefferson Memorial in Washington DC
1939 First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, Seaford DE
1939 World premiere of "Gone With The Wind" in Atlanta GA
1939 Snip departs for 1st flight to Paramaribo, Curaçao
1941 USS Swordfish becomes 1st US sub to sink a Japanese ship
1941 Gas/electrical use restricted in Holland
1941 German submarine U-127 sinks
1941 Nazi's transfers 100 Czechoslovakian citizens/Heinrich Himmler falls faint
1941 North Africa: allied assault up Italians Gazala-posing
1942 Massachusetts issues 1st US vehicular license plate tabs
1944 Bandleader, Major Glenn Miller, lost over English Channel
1944 Hizbu'allah (Arm forces for Allah) forms
1944 US Congress gives General Eisenhower his 5th star
1944 US troops lands on Mindoro
1945 John J "Cardinal" O'Connor, ordained as a priest
1946 Chicago Bears beat New York Giants 24-14 in NFL championship game
1946 Giants Frank Filchock & Merle Hapes suspended by NFL, because they didn't report bribe attempt
1948 Former state department official Alger Hiss indicted in NYC for perjury
1949 Albert Camus' "Les Justes" premieres in Paris
1950 Ezzard Charles KOs Nick Barone to retain heavyweight boxing title
1950 NYC's Port Authority opens
1952 "Two's Company" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 90 performances
1952 Christine Jorgenson is 1st person to undergo a sex-change operation
1952 KHON TV channel 2 in Honolulu HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Orientales Ecclesias
1953 WJHG TV channel 7 in Panama City FL (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1954 Fordham University scraps football team for financial reasons
1954 Netherlands Antilles becomes co-equal part of Kingdom of Netherlands
1956 Emergency crisis in North Ireland proclaimed after IRA strikes
1956 KGW TV channel 8 in Portland OR (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 WRAL TV channel 5 in Raleigh-Durham NC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Everly Brothers record "Let It Be Me"
1960 King Boudouin of Belgium marries doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragon
1961 Adolf Eichmann convicted of crimes against humanity in Israel
1961 Equal access rule, political parties get TV broadcasting time
1961 JFK visits Puerto Rico
1961 L J Suenens appointed archbishop of Mechelen-Brussels
1962 Vaughn Meader's "The 1st Family" album goes #1 & stays #1 for 12 weeks
1964 Canada adopts maple leaf flag
1964 First time 4 people in space
1964 American Radio Relay League (organization for hams) founded
1965 3rd cyclone of year kills another 10,000 at mouth of Ganges River, Bangladesh
1965 Gemini 6 launched; makes 1st rendezvous in space (with Gemini 7)
1965 William Eckert replaces Ford Frick as 4th commissioner of baseball
1965 D Heneker & J Taylor's musical "Charlie Girl" premieres in London
1965 Queen Juliana opens Zeeland Bridge to Oosterschelde
1966 Audouin Dollfus discovers 10th satellite of Saturn, Janus
1966 John W Mecom Jr becomes 1st owner of the New Orlean Saints
1966 "Joyful Noise" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 12 performances
1967 Beatles release "Christmas Time is Here Again"
1967 Joe Garagiola joins the Today Show panel
1967 Silver Bay bridge (Ohio-West Virginia) collapses during afternoon rush hour, 34 die
1969 San Francisco Fire Department replaces leather helmets with plastic ones
1969 Plastic Ono Band, play their only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom
1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)
1970 South Korean ferry Namyong-Ho sinks in Strait of Korea, 308 killed
1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakhstan/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 Golf Resort (The Disney Inn) opens
1973 Sandy Hawley becomes 1st jockey to win 500 races in 1 year
1973 Tennessee beats Temple 11-6 in low scoring NCAA basketball game
1973 American Psychiatric Association declares homosexuality is not mental illness
1973 Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland
1974 A's Catfish Hunter is ruled a free agent (later signs with Yankees)
1976 Argo Merchant tanker off Massachusetts' SE coast, spills 7.6 million gallons of crude when the ship runs aground
1976 Jamaica premier Manley wins elections
1978 Saint Maarten Patriotic Movement (SPM) forms under W James
1978 Test Cricket debut of Malcolm Marshall, vs India at Bangalore
1979 Deposed Shah of Iran leaves US for Panamá
1979 World Court in Hague rules Iran should release all US hostages
1980 New York Yankee Dave Winfield becomes highest-paid player, 10 years $15 million
1980 Premier Queddei troops conquers Chad capital N'djamena
1980 ZBZ Sangha (now ZBZ Bodhidharma) officially registered after 5 years of administrative hassles in Warsaw
1981 NASA launches Intelsat V
1981 Fourth Emmy Sports Award presentation
1982 Bill Parcells becomes the 12th head coach of the New York Giants
1982 Roy Williams, Teamsters president, & 4 others convicted of bribery
1982 Spain reopens border with Gibraltar
1982 Sao Tome & Principe constitution approved
1983 Columbia flies to Kennedy Space Center via El Paso, Kelly AFB
1983 3 Kansas City Royals suspended due to cocaine usage
1983 Last 80 US combat soldiers in Grenada withdrew
1983 Wendy Wasserstein's "Isn't It Romantic" premieres in New York NY
1984 USSR launches Vega 1 for rendezvous with Halley's Comet
1985 Sylvester Stallone & Brigitte Nielson wed
1986 Carnegie Hall reopens after a $50 million facelift
1986 CIA director William Casey suffers a cerebral seizure
1986 150 killed during race riot in Karachi Pakistan
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Shubert Theatre, Boston
1988 Lori Davis of Long Island sues Mike Tyson for grabbing her buttocks
1990 Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
1991 "Nick & Nora" closes at Marquis Theater NYC after 9 performances
1991 Deb Richard wins JBP Cup LPGA Match Play Golf Championship
1992 Arthur Ashe is named Sports Illustrated Sportman of Year
1992 WNEW AM (1130) NYC resigns air, replaced by WBBR
1993 GATT Uruguay Round completed
1993 British premier major/Irish premier Reynolds signs Downing Street Declaration concerning Northern Ireland self determination
1993 C-130 flies into a Philippines hill & explodes, 16 killed
1993 Haitian premier Robert Malval resigns
1993 John Williams final appearance as conductor of Boston Pops
1993 Lee Aspen resigns as Secretary of Defense
1993 Y-12 crashes at Phonesavanh, Laos: 18 killed
1994 Diane Modahl banned from Athletics for Drug Use, in the UK
1994 "Tuna Christmas" opens at Booth Theater NYC for 20 performances
1994 John Bruton becomes Ireland's premier
1994 Liberia militia kills 48 inhabitants of Monrovia
1995 Playboy goes back on sale after 36 year ban in Ireland
1996 Dottie Pepper & Juli Inkster win LPGA Diner's Club Golf Matches
1996 Jim Colbert & Bob Murphy win Diner's Club Senior PGA Golf Matches
1996 Tom Lehman & Duffy Waldoff win Diner's Club PGA Golf Matches
1997 San Francisco 49ers retire Joe Montana's #16
Jody Victor
Thursday, December 8
Jody Victor® : Today's History Lesson
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 08 Dec 2011 02:45 PM EST
Jody Victor: Here's what happened on this day, December 8, in history.
1326 Daitokuji temple, Rinzai line, established in Kyoto by Daito Kokushi
1710 Battle at Brihuega: English General Stanhope captured
1776 George Washington's retreating army crosses Delaware River from New Jersey
1777 Captain Cook leaves Society Islands
1792 First cremation in US, Henry Laurens
1794 First issue of the Herald of Rutland VT published
1813 Ludwig von Beethoven's 7th Symphony in A, premieres
1846 Hector Berlioz's "La Damnation de Faust" premieres
1849 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Luisa Miller" premieres in Naples
1852 Gustav Freytag's "Die Journalisten" premieres in Breslau
1854 Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception, makes Mary, free of Original Sin
1857 1st production of Dion Boucicaults "Poor of New York"
1863 Abraham Lincoln announces plan for Reconstruction of South
1863 Jesuit Church of La Compana in Santiago Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
1864 Pope Pius IX publishes encyclical Quanta cura ("Syllabus errorum")
1869 20th Roman Catholic ecumenical council, Vatican I, opens in Rome
1874 Jesse James gang takes train at Muncie KS
1875 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's "Volki i Ovsty" premieres in St Petersburg
1876 Suriname begins compulsory education for 7-12 years
1880 5,000 armed Boers gather in Paardekraal South-Africa
1881 Vienna's Ring Theater destroyed by fire, kills between 640-850
1886 American Federation of Labor (AFL) formed by 26 craft unions; Samuel Gompers elected AFL president
1895 Battle at Amba Alagi: Ethiopian emperor Menelik II drives Italian General Baratieri's out
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Missing 3 Quarter" (BG)
1899 Natal: British fall/burst out belegerd Ladysmith
1902 Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr became Associate Justice on Supreme Court
1909 Bird banding society found
1913 Construction starts on Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco
1914 British & German fleets battle at Falkland Island
1914 Connie Mack sells Eddie Collins to the White Sox
1914 Irving Berlin's musical "Watch your Step" premieres in New York NY
1915 Jean Sibelius' 5th Symphony in E, premieres
1921 Eamon de Valera publicly repudiates Anglo-Irish Treaty
1923 German-US friendship treaty signed
1923 Labour/Liberals win British parliament
1923 Salary & price freeze in Germany
1930 Broadway Theater opens at 1681 Broadway New York NY
1930 Cole Porter's musical "NYCers" premieres in New York NY
1931 Coaxial cable patented
1934 Friedrich Wolf's "Professor Mamlock" premieres in Zürich
1936 NAACP files suit to equalize the salaries of black & white teachers
1936 Anastasio Somoza elected President of Nicaragua
1938 Highest temperature for December in US recorded in La Mesa CA
1938 LP Beria follows Nikolai Jezjov as head of Russian secret police
1940 First NFL championship on national radio; Bears beat Redskins 73-0
1941 San Francisco 1st blackout, at 6 15 PM
1941 Destruction Camp Chelmo opens
1941 London: Dutch government declares Japan the war
1941 Russian 16th army recaptures Krijukovo
1941 US & Britain declare war on Japan, US enters WWII
1942 8th Heisman Trophy Award: Frank Sinkwich, Georgia (HB)
1943 John Van Druten's "Voice of the Turtle" premieres in New York NY
1946 Army rocket plane XS-1 makes 1st powered flight
1947 "Caribbean Carnival" opens at International Theater NYC for 11 performances
1948 "Marinka" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 168 performances
1948 14th Heisman Trophy Award: Doak Walker, SMU (HB)
1948 Jordan annexs Arabic Palestine
1949 Chinese Nationalist government moves from Chinese mainland to Formosa
1949 Jule Styne's "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" premieres at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 740 performances
1951 "Tree Grows in Brooklyn" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 267 performances
1951 American League alters its restrictions on night games, adopting National League's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
1952 First TV acknowledgement of pregnancy (I Love Lucy)
1952 French troops shoot on demonstrators at Casablanca, 50 die
1952 Isaak Ben-Zwi elected President of Israel
1953 19th Heisman Trophy Award: John Lattner, Notre Dame (HB)
1954 Maxwell Anderson's "Bad Seed" premieres in New York NY
1954 WPTZ TV channel 5 in Plattsburgh NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 21st Heisman Trophy Award: Howard Cassady, Ohio State (HB)
1955 Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins his 3rd MVP Award
1955 Turkish government of Menderes forms
1956 1st test firing of the Vanguard satellite program, TV-0
1956 Guy Mitchell's "Singing the Blues" single goes #1 for 10 weeks
1956 16th Olympic games close in Melbourne, Australia
1959 Dom Mintoff demands independence for Malta
1959 President Eisenhower watches Pakistan vs Australia Test Cricket at Karachi
1960 Expansion Los Angeles Angels sign a 4 year lease to use Dodger Stadium
1961 Larry Costello scores 32 consecutive points without a miss (NBA record)
1961 Antwerp Belgium diocese forms
1961 South Africa vs New Zealand, Durban debuts for Eddie Barlow & Peter Pollock
1961 Wilt Chamberlain scores the 2nd highest total in the NBA - 78
1962 114-day newspaper strike begins in New York NY
1962 "I Can Get It For You Wholesale" closes at Shubert NYC after 300 performances
1962 Failed coup in Brunei
1962 Funeral for Queen Wilhelmina of Holland (New Kerk, Delft)
1963 "Girl Who Came to Supper" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 112 performances
1963 3 fuel tanks explode when jetliner is struck by lightning crashing near Elkton MD-Only case of lightning caused crash, 81 die
1963 Mickey Wright/Dave Ragan Jr win LPGA Haig & Haig Scotch Mixed Golf
1965 Abe Burrows' "Cactus Flower" premieres in New York NY
1965 Nikolai Podgorny succeeds Mikojan as President of USSR
1965 Pope Paul VI signs 2nd Vatican council
1966 A terrible Yankee trade, Roger Maris for Card's Charlie Smith
1966 US & USSR sign treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space
1967 Beatles "Magical Mystery Tour" album is released in UK
1967 NHL California Seals change name to Oakland Seals
1969 Greek DC-6B crashes in storm at Athens, 93 killed
1969 Police surprise attack on Black-Panthers in Los Angeles
1972 United Airlines airplane crashes at Chicago's Midway Airport killing 45
1973 "Seesaw" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 296 performances
1973 39th Heisman Trophy Award: John Cappelletti, Penn State (RB)
1974 Soyuz 16 returns to Earth
1974 Greek monarchy rejected by referendum
1974 Irish Republican Socialist Party forms
1974 Sandra Post wins LPGA Colgate Far East Golf Open
1975 "Raisin" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 847 performances
1976 UN General Assembly re-elects Kurt Waldheim Secretary-General
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1977 43rd Heisman Trophy Award: Earl Campbell, Texas (RB)
1977 Portugal's premier Soares resigns
1978 Commencement of the 1st day/night WSC cricket supertest at VFL Park
1980 "Bravo" network premieres on cable TV
1981 France performs nuclear test
1982 Clark Gilles fails in 7th Islander penalty shot
1982 Demanding an end to nuclear weapons, Norman Mayer, holds the Washington Monument hostage - After 10 hours, police kill him; he has no explosives
1982 "Herman Van Veen: All of Him" opens at Ambassador NYC for 6 performances
1982 Suriname army leader Bouterse murders 15 opponents
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-lands at Edwards AFB
1983 Richard Baker, Zen teacher, steps down from abbotship of San Francisco Zen Center
1984 Ringo Starr appears on Saturday Night Live
1984 73rd Australian Men Tennis: Mats Wilander beats K Curren (67 64 76 62)
1984 Europe & 64 developing countries sign Lomé III treaty
1985 Ken O'Brien's 96 yard TD pass (New York Jet record) to Wesley Walker
1985 60th Australian Women's Tennis: M Navratilova beats C Evert (62 46 62)
1985 Laurie Rinker/Larry Rinker win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1986 House Democrats select majority leader Jim Wright as 48th speaker
1987 Flyers' Ron Hextall becomes 1st goalie to actually score a goal
1987 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) begins NBA free throw streak of 51 games
1987 Occupied Palestinians start "intefadeh" (uprising) against Israel
1987 President Reagan & Soviet General Secretary Gorbachev sign a treaty eliminating medium range nuclear missiles
1988 Knick's set NBA record of 11 3-pointers & sink Bucks, 113-109
1989 Great Britain performs nuclear test
1990 Galileo Earth-1 Flyby
1990 Indians agree to a lease new ballpark in Gateway (Jacobs Field)
1991 Russia, Byelorussia & Ukraine form Commonwealth of Independent States
1991 "Homecoming" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 49 performances
1991 "Nick & Nora" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 9 performances
1991 Kris Tschetter/Billy Andrade win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1992 Galileo's nearest approach to Jupiter (303 km)
1992 NBC announces that "Cheers" will go off the air in May 1993
1993 30 killed at religious rebellion in Algeria
1993 4th Billboard Music Awards
1993 Dow-Jones hits record 3734.53
1993 Storm hits West Europe, 11 killed in England
1994 "What's Wrong With this Picture?" opens at Circle in Square NYC for 12 performances
1994 Darryl Strawberry indicted on tax evasion charges
1994 Fire in cinema in Karamay China, 310 killed
1996 "God Said, Ha!" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 22 performances
1996 Donna Andrews & Mike Hulbert win LPGA J C Penney Golf Classic
1997 8th Billboard Music Awards: LeAnn Rimes & Spice Girls win
Jody Victor
Thursday, December 1
Jody Victor® : A Day of History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 01 Dec 2011 10:28 AM EST
Jody Victor: Here's what happened on this day, December first, in history.
0772 Pope Adrian I elected
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1566 Spanish king Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1626 Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh tyrannical Governor of Jerusalem, driven out
1640 Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule
1641 Massachusetts becomes 1st colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
1656 Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
1708 Great Alliance occupies Brussels
1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1750 First American school to offer manual training courses opens, Maryland
1783 Charles & M N Roberts ascend 2,000' in a hydrogen balloon
1783 J van North launches unmanned balloon
1804 Emperor Napoleon marries Joséphine of Martinique
1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Republic) proclaims independence from Spain
1822 Dom Pedro crowned emperor of Brazil
1822 Franz Liszts (11) debut as pianist Isabella Colbran
1824 House of Representatives begins to end election deadlock between John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson, William Harris Crawford & Henry Clay - Adams eventually declared president
1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1835 Hans Christian Andersen published his 1st book of fairy tales
1843 First chartered mutual life insurance company opens
1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville TN to Saltville VA
1864 Skirmish at Millen Brutal GA
1868 John D Rockefeller begins anti oil war
1878 First White House telephone installed
1887 Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print: "A Study In Scarlet"
1887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
1891 James Naismith creates the game of basketball
1896 First certified public accountants receive certificates (New York)
1900 South African President Paul Kruger visits Flanders
1903 "The Great Train Robbery", the 1st Western film, released
1906 Cinema Omnia Pathe, world's 1st cinema, opens (Paris)
1906 Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Captain of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years
1909 First Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Company, Pennsylvania
1909 First Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1913 First drive-up gasoline station opens (Pittsburgh)
1913 Continuous moving assembly line introduced by Ford (car every 2 38)
1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan, west of Omaha NE
1918 Danish parliament passed an act to grant Iceland independence
1918 Serbian-Croatian-Slovic kingdom proclaimed in Belgrade
1919 AA Milne's "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
1919 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
1921 First US helium-filled dirigible makes 1st flight
1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1922 First skywriting over US-"Hello USA"-by Captain Turner, RAF
1922 Polish state chief marshal Jozef Pilsudski, resigns
1923 CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University beats Regina, 54-0 at Toronto
1924 Calles becomes President of México
1924 George/Ira Gershwin's musical "Lady Be Good" premieres in New York NY
1925 Treaty of Locarno signed
1928 CFL Grey Cup: Ham Tigers beats Regina, 30-0 at Hamilton
1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht Netherlands
1929 Game of BINGO invented by Edwin S Lowe
1930 NHL drops 20 minute slashing-about-the-head penalty
1930 Ruth Nichols becomes first woman pilot to cross the continent
1931 Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
1933 Rudolf Hess & Earnest Röhm become a minister in Hitler government
1935 Austria has world's 1st Day of Postage Stamp
1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1936 EW Brundin & FF Lyon obtain patent on soilless culture of plants
1936 2nd Heisman Trophy Award: Larry Kelley, Yale (E)
1937 Japan recognizes Franco government
1938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City UT
1939 SS-Führer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
1941 US Civil Air Patrol (CAP) organizes
1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Python
1941 Japanese emperor Hirohito signs declaration of war
1941 Last day of first-class cricket in Australia for 4 years
1942 Gasoline rationed in US
1943 FDR, Churchill & Stalin agree to Operation Overlord (D-Day)
1944 Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres
1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1944 Prokofjev's 8th Piano sonata, premieres
1945 CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Winnipeg, 35-0 at Toronto
1946 Australia compile 645 vs India at the Gabba (Bradman 187)
1947 Bradman scores 185 in the 1st Cricket Test vs India at the Gabba
1947 India cricket all out for 58 vs Australia at the Gabba, Toshack 5-2
1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan, King of Palestine
1948 Piet Roozenburg becomes world champion checker player
1949 WBNG TV channel 12 in Binghamton NY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WKTV TV channel 2 in Utica NY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1951 17th Heisman Trophy Award: Dick Kazmaier, Princeton (HB)
1951 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
1953 Walter Alston named Dodger manager
1953 Red Sox trade M McDermott & Tom Umphlett for Washington's Jackie Jensen
1953 WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1953 WCSH TV channel 6 in Portland ME (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Yankees send Miller, Segrist, Leppert & 2 minors to Orioles for Blayzka, Kryhoski, Johnson, Fridley & Del Guercio (completing 18 player deal)
1954 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement
1955 Rosa Parks (black) arrested for refusing to move to the back of the bus
1956 "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 73 performances
1956 Alain Mimoun wins 13th Olympic marathon (2:25:00.0)
1956 Frank Robinson (National League) & Luis Aparicio (American League) voted Rookie of the Year
1956 Indonesian Vice-President Mohammed Hatta, resigns
1957 Sam Cooke and Buddy Holly and Crickets debut on Ed Sullivan Show
1958 Our Lady of Angels School burns, killing 92 students & 3 nuns (Chicago)
1958 "Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater NYC for 602 performances
1959 12 nations sign a treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1959 25th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Cannon, LSU (HB)
1959 The 1st color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1962 Grey Cup halted by fog, resumed next day (Winnipeg 28, Hamilton 27)
1962 KGMB TV channel 9 in Honolulu HI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Nagaland becomes a state of the Indian union
1963 New York Jets 1st shutout, beat Kansas City 17-0
1964 Houston Colt .45s change name to Astros
1964 Martin Luther King speaks to J Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US began
1965 South Africa government says children of white fathers are white
1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt MD to Boulder CO
1967 Queen Elizabeth inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1967 Wilt Chamberlain set NBA record of 22 free throws misses
1967 Pacific Northwest Sports awarded is one of 2 American League expansion franchise teams(Seattle)
1968 Pirate Radio Modern (259) (England) begins transmitting
1968 Burt Bacharach/Hal David's musical "Promises Promises" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 1281 performances
1968 Gonzalo Barrios elected President of Venezuela
1968 Peggy Wilson wins LPGA Hollywood Lakes Golf Open
1969 US government holds its 1st draft lottery since WWII
1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen becomes the People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1970 NHL takes control of the Pittsburgh Penguins
1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as President of México
1971 John & Yoko release "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in US
1971 Cubs release Ernie Banks & sign him as a coach
1971 Galt MacDermot/John Guare's "2 Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 performances
1971 People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
1973 Australia grants self-government to Papua New Guinea
1973 Jack Nicklaus becomes 1st golfer to earn $2 million in a year
1973 Jan Ferraris wins LPGA-Japan Golf Classic
1973 Stan Stasiak beats Pedro Morales in Philadelphia, to become WWF champion
1974 Los Angeles Skid Row slasher kills first of 8
1974 Boeing 727 crashes in Upperville VA, 92 die
1974 Jacqueline Hansen runs female world record marathon (2:43:54.5)
1975 US President Gerald Ford visits China People's Republic
1976 Angola admitted to UN
1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1978 President Carter more than doubles national park system size
1978 Test Cricket debut of Rodney Hogg, vs England at the Gabba
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 Mel Harris appears on MASH in "Cementing Relationships"
1980 US Justice Department sues Yonkers citing racial discrimination
1980 46th Heisman Trophy Award: George Rogers, South Carolina (RB)
1981 Yugoslavic DC-9 crashes into mountain at Corsica, 174 killed
1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of México
1982 Michael Jackson releases "Thriller"
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1984 50th Heisman Trophy Award: Doug Flutie, Boston College (QB)
1984 France performs nuclear test
1984 Greg Page KOs Gerrie Coetzee in 8 for WBA heavyweight boxing title
1985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 Noraly Beyer becomes Netherlands' 1st black TV newscaster
1985 South Africa's Cosatu union centre forms
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
1986 Musée d'orsay opens in Paris
1987 Digging begins to link England & France under the English Channel
1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female PM of a Moslem country (Pakistan)
1988 NBC bids record $401 million to capture rights to 1992 Barcelona Olympics
1988 New York Islanders greatest shutout loss (8-0) vs St Louis Blues
1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
1989 "Day Without Art"-Artists demonstrate against AIDS
1989 East Germany drops the communist monopoly from its constitution
1989 Mark Langston signs record $3.2 million per year California Angels contract
1989 USSR President Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990 British & French workers meet in English Channel's tunnel (Chunnel)
1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1990 New York Knicks Patrick Ewing scores 50 points beating Charlotte 113-96
1990 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1990 Hissene Habré of Chad flees to Cameroon
1991 AIDS awareness day
1991 Ukranian people vote for independence
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 performances
1991 "Once on this Island" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 469 performances
1991 80th Davis Cup: France beats USA in Lyon (3-1); this is France's 1st Davis Cup since 1932
1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as President of Kazakhstan
1992 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
1992 Amy Fisher sentenced 5-15 years for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minnesota, killing 18
1994 3 Seattle Seahawks injured in a car accident
1994 Cindy Crawford & Richard Gere announce they are seperating
1994 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as President of México
1994 PTL leader Jim Bakker released from jail
1994 Rober Schumanns 2nd Symphony premieres in London
1996 Colin Montgomerie of Scotland wins Million Dollar Challenge, the richest first prize in golf - $1 million
1996 85th Davis Cup: France beats Sweden in Malmo (3-2)
1996 Lance Klusener takes 8-64 in debut Test Cricket to trounce India
1997 GS Warrior guard Latrell Sprewell, attacks his coach P J Carlesimo
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
1997 Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
Jody Victor
Thursday, November 24
Jody Victor® : Today's History Lesson
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 24 Nov 2011 08:00 AM EST
Jody Victor: Thanksgiving does not always fall on the same date. Let's see what happened on this day, November 24, in history.
166 -BC- Origin of Era of Maccabees
496 Anastasius II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
642 Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1639 First observation of transit of Venus occurred (only 2, record event)
1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1703 First Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Philadelphia
1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1863 Civil War battle for Lookout Mountain began in Tennessee
1871 National Rifle Association organized (NYC)
1874 Joseph F Glidden patents barbed wire
1880 Southern University established
1896 First US absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1903 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1930 First woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, NY to CA), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1938 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
1944 US bombers based on Saipan, 1st attack Tokyo
1947 John Steinbeck's novel "The Pearl" published
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1949 Britain nationalizes its steel & iron industry
1952 Agatha Christie's "The Mousetrap" opens in London
1954 First US Presidential airplane christened
1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1963 First live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1964 Rebellion ends in Zaire
1966 First TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Za‹re)
1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attack in killer NYC smog
1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1970 Stanford's QB Jim Plunkett wins Heisman Trophy
1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison NJ
1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak
1977 Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St Louis (55-14)
1979 Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
1980 Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians & Lebanese
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1991 First international flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 After going 12-0 Washington loses to Dallas 24-21
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 launched
1992 Chinese air crash kills 141
Jody Victor
Thursday, November 17
Jody Victor® : Once Upon a Time In History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 17 Nov 2011 02:21 PM EST
Jody Victor: History is no fairy tale but when it happened in the past it can seem so. Here's what happened on this day, November 17, in history.
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins
1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY col gov; later acquitted
1796 Battle of Arcole-Napoleon I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1800 Congress held first session in Washington DC
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1842 The opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Period
1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
1866 The opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1869 Suez Canal opens (Egypt)
1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky & Col Olcott
1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland & San Francisco
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1913 First US dental hygienists course established, Bridgeport, Ct
1913 Panama Canal opens
1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Toronto St Pats 4-1
1927 Tornado hit Washington DC
1934 Lyndon B Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1937 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1938 Italy passes their own version of the anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1956 Fullback Jim Brown, Syracuse, scores 43 pts (NCAA rec) vs Colgate
1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Wash DC
1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1967 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off the Moon
1968 Heidi bowl-NBC misses Oakland's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1973 Teri Garr plays the role of a stripper on "The Nurse"
1973 President Nixon told AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 Miss World Contest - Miss UK wears $9,500 platinum bikini
1979 NY Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in NYC
1980 John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in UK
1981 NBA NY Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
1984 Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
1984 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1985 NY Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1988 Benzir Bhutto wins election in Pakistan
1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract
1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralyzed in a game vs Los Angeles Rams
1993 US Congress votes for NAFTA
1994 Irish Taoiseach, Albert Reynolds resigns
Jody Victor
Thursday, November 10
Jody Victor® : Today In History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 10 Nov 2011 12:27 PM EST
Jody Victor: Tomorrow is Veteran's Day - here's some great history events for November 11.
537 St Silverius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1215 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1620 41 pilgrims land in Massachusetts, sign Mayflower Compact (just & equal laws)
1647 Massachusetts passes 1st US compulsory school attendance law
1648 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
1714 A highway in the Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1778 Iroquois Indians in NY kill 40 in Cherry Valley Massacre
1790 Chrysanthemums are introduced into England from China
1811 Cartagena Colombia declares independence from Spain
1860 First Jewish wedding in Buenos Aires Argentina
1862 The opera "La Forza Del Destino" is produced (St Petersburg Russia)
1864 Sherman's troops destroy Rome, Georgia
1865 Mary Edward Walker, 1st Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1868 First American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state
1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of the Cape Colony
1918 Armistice Day-WW I ends (at 11 AM on Western Front)
1921 President Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier
1922 Largest US flag displayed (150' X 90') expanded in 1939 (270' X 90')
1924 Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated (San Francisco)
1925 Louis Armstrong records first of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
1925 Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1928 WGL-AM in Fort Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1928 WOL-AM in Washington DC begins radio transmissions
1931 Cornerstones laid for Opera House & Veterans Building
1933 "Great Black Blizzard" first great dust storm in the Great Plains
1934 First penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
1934 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
1935 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over SD
1939 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1942 During WW II Germany completes their occupation of France
1944 NY Rangers set NHL record of 25 games without a win (0-21-4)
1946 NewYork Knicks' first basketball game at Madison Sq Garden loses 78-68 to Chicago Stags
1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde (San Francisco)
1959 First episode of "Rocky & His Friends" airs
1959 Seals Stadium in San Francisco, demolished
1960 Largest NY Knick 49th St MSG crowd-18,499
1963 Brian Epstein & Ed Sullivan sign a 3 show contract for the Beatles
1963 Gordie Howe ties Rocket Richard's lifetime 544 goal record
1965 Rhodesia proclaimed independence from Britain by PM Ian D Smith
1966 Gemini 12 launched on 4-day flight
1968 John Lennon & Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of "2 Virgins" album
1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) become a republic
1968 Ron Hill sets record 10-mile run (46:44) at Leicester England
1969 Beatles with Billy Preston release "Get Back" in the UK
1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness
1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
1975 Australian PM removed by crown (1st elected PM removed in 200 years)
1977 Wings release "Mull of Kintyre" & "Girl's School"
1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1980 Islander's Mike Bossy scores 4 goals against North Stars
1982 30th time Islanders shut-out-2-0 vs North Stars
1982 5th space shuttle mission-Columbia 5-launched 1st commercial flight
1982 Solidarity leader Lech Walesa is let out of jail in Poland
1983 President Reagan became first US President to address Japan's legislature
1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan AFB
1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
1987 Judge Anthony M Kennedy nominated to the Supreme Court
1987 Van Gogh's "Irises" sells for record $53.6 M at auction
1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years) reported in Science
1992 General Synod votes for Ordination of women in the UK
Jody Victor
Thursday, November 3
Jody Victor®: It Happened Today...
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 03 Nov 2011 08:00 AM EDT
Jody Victor: Here's what happened on this day, November 3, in history.
1394 Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1679 Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet
1762 Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded
1820 Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence
1839 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 Ulysses S.Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1888 Jack the Ripper kills last victim
1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for President
1899 Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey
1900 1st national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Colombia grants Panama independence
1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 1st class mail now costs $0.03
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1931 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1936 President FDR wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1953 "Sacrifice fly" reactivated in baseball (1939)
1953 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1955 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands
1956 "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1962 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers
1964 LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President
1968 NY Jet Jim Turner kicks 6 field goals to beat Buffalo 25-21
1970 Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1973 Good Morning America premiers on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1978 UK grants Dominica independence (National Day)
1979 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1982 Detroit blocks 20 Cleveland Cavalier shots tying NBA regulation game record
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for Presidency (D)
1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 John Lennon album, "Menlove Avenue" released
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 PresidentReagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill
1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 Minnesota Timberwolves' 1st NBA game, lose to Seattle, 106-94
1991 NYC Marathon winners are Salvador Garcia (Mex) & Liz McColgan (Scot)
1992 Bill Clinton elected US President
Jody Victor
Thursday, October 27
Jody Victor®: Those Were The Days
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 27 Oct 2011 01:58 PM EDT
Jody Victor: Let's see what happened on this day, October 27, in history.
625 Honorius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1775 US Navy established
1787 Federalist letters start appearing in NY newspapers
1795 Treaty of San Lorenzo, provides free navigation of Mississippi
1810 US annexes West Florida from Spain
1858 RH Macy & Co opens 1st store, (6th Ave-NYC) Gross receipts $1106
1871 Boss Tweed (William Macy Tweed), Democratic leader of Tammany Hall, arrested after NY Times exposed his corruption
1880 Theodore Roosevelt marries Alice Lee, on his 22nd birthday
1886 Musical fantasy "Night on Bald Mountain," performed in Russia
1893 Hurricane hits coast between Savannah Ga & Charleston SC
1896 1st Pali Road completed in Hawaii (winds so strong streams flow UP!)
1904 World's 1st subway, the IRT (Interborough Rapid Transit), opens in NYC, subway/bus fare is set at one nickel
1916 1st published reference to "jazz" appears (Variety)
1919 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
1920 League of Nations moves headquarters in Geneva
1920 Westinghouse radio station in East Pittsburgh, KDKA begins
1922 1st commemoration of Navy Day
1924 The Uzbek SSR forms
1925 Water skis patented by Fred Waller
1931 Chuhei Numbu of Japan, sets then long jump record at 26' 2¬"
1938 DuPont announces its new synthetic fiber will be called "nylon"
1941 Chicago Daily Tribune editorialize there will not be war with Japan
1947 "You Bet Your Life", with Groucho Marx, premieres on ABC radio
1948 Israel recaptures Nizzanim in the Negev
1954 B O Davis Jr becomes 1st black general in USAF
1954 Walt Disney's 1st TV show, "Disneyland," premieres on ABC
1959 Rare Pacific hurricane kills 2,000 in Western Mexico
1961 1st Saturn launch vehicle makes an unmanned flight test
1961 American Basketball League starts play
1961 Outer Mongolia & Mauritania become the 102nd & 103rd members of UN
1967 4 people from Baltimore pour blood on selective service records
1967 Expo '67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1969 Ralph Nader sets up a consumer organization known as Nader's Raiders
1969 St Vincent & the Grenadines gains associated status with Britain
1971 Republic of the Congo becomes Republic of Za‹re
1971 Steve Garvey weds Cynthia Truhan
1972 Golden Gate National Recreation Area created
1973 1st time Islanders beat the Rangers-3-2
1973 Alabama sets offensive record (828 yds), beats Virginia Tech 77-6
1977 NASA launches space vehicle S-200
1978 Begin & Sadat win the Nobel Peace prize
1978 President Carter signs Hawkins-Humphrey full employment bill
1979 Islanders score 2 goals within 6 seconds 3 goals within 44 seconds
1979 St Vincent & the Grenadines becomes independent of UK (Nat'l Day)
1979 Voluntary Euthanasia Society publishes how-to-do-it suicide guide
1980 Dave Gryllis sets world bicycle speed record of 94.37 kph
1981 Andrew Young, former UN Ambassador, elected mayor of Atlanta, Georgia
1982 China announces its population at 1 billion people plus
1982 IBM ROM is capable of EGA graphics
1984 Wash State's Rueben Mayes sets col football rec of 357 yards rushing
1985 KC Royals beat St Louis Cards, 4 games to 3 in 82nd World Series
1985 Thieves steal 9 paintings, including 5 Monet's & 2 Renoir's
1986 NY Mets beat Boston Red Sox, 4 games to 3 in 83rd World Series
1986 Paul McCartney release "Pretty Little Head"
1987 South Korean voters overwhelmingly approved a new constitution
1988 "ET" released to home video (14 million presold)
1988 Larry Flynt paid hitman $1M to kill Hefner, Guccione & Sinatra
1991 Minnesota Twins beat Altanta Braves 1-0 in 10 to win the 8th World Series in 7
Jody Victor
Thursday, October 20
Jody Victor®: Today's History Lesson
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 20 Oct 2011 08:00 AM EDT
Jody Victor: There seems to be a lot that happened on this day, October 20, for today's history lesson.
1600 Battle of Sekigahara sets Tokugawa clan as Japan's rulers (shoguns)
1740 Maria Theresa became ruler of Austria, Hungary & Bohemia
1803 US Senate ratifies the Louisiana Purchase
1813 German Kingdom of Westphalia abolished
1817 1st Mississippi showboat leaves Nashville on maiden voyage
1818 49th parallel established as the border between US & Canada
1818 US & Britain agree to joint control of Oregon country
1845 The opera "Tannh„user" is produced (Dresden)
1847 Little William Nelman poisons his grandpa
1883 Treaty of Ancon, Peru cedes Tarapaca to Chile
1888 Chicago & All America baseball teams play exhibition in Auckland, NZ
1891 1st International 6 day bike race (NY MSG) begins
1898 NC Mutual & Provident Insurance Company forms
1899 Columbia (US) beats Shamrock (England) in 11th America's Cup
1903 US wins disputed boundary between the District of Alaska & Canada
1905 Great General Strike in Russia begins; lasts 11 days
1906 Dr Lee DeForest demonstrates his radio tube
1910 1st appearance of cork centered baseball in World Series (World Series #7)
1911 Roald Amundsen sets out on race to South Pole
1922 Kennelworth in the Bronx renamed Dwight Place
1929 Bayshore Highway opens (San Francisco)
1930 British White Paper restricts Jews from buying Arab land
1942 "Durham Manifesto" calls for fundamental changes in race relations
1944 30 blocks of Cleveland Ohio burn after a liquid gas factory explodes
1944 Revolution by workers & students in Guatemala
1944 US 1st army wins battle of Aachen
1944 US forces under Gen Douglas MacArthur return to the Philippines
1946 Frank Seno returns kickoff 105 yd, Chicago Cards vs NY Giants
1947 HUAC opens hearings into alleged Communist influence in Hollywood
1955 Yankees begin 16-game exhibition in Japan
1956 58ø F (15ø C), Esperanza Station, Antarctica (Antarctic record high)
1956 Hannes Lindemann begins journey across Atlantic in a 17' craft
1960 1st fully mechanized post office opened, Providence, RI
1960 Ralph Houk replaces Casey Stengel as Yankee manager
1963 Jim Brown sets NFL single-season football rushing record, 1,863 yds
1963 S Africa begins trial of Nelson Mandela & 8 others on conspiracy
1964 Riot at Rolling Stones show in Paris (150 arrested)
1967 7 men are convicted of civil rights violations in Meridan Miss
1967 All white fed jury convicts 7 in murder of 3 civil rights workers
1968 Jacqueline Kennedy marries Aristotle Onassis
1973 Mariette Hartley appears on Bob Newhart in "Have You Met Miss Dietz"
1973 OPEC oil embargo begins
1973 President Nixon proclaims Jim Thorpe greatest athlete of 1st « century
1973 William Shatner marries Marcy Lafferty
1973 Sat Night Massacre, Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox dismissed by Solicitor Gen Bork, AG Richardson & Deputy AG Ruckelshaus resigned
1973 The Family Station Inc buys shortwave Radio Station WNYW, changes calls to WYFR & moves station from NYC to Scituate Massachusettes
1976 70 die as Norwegian tanker Frosta collides with George Prince
1976 NY Nets Julius "Dr J" Erving sold to the Phila 76ers
1977 3 members of rock group Lynyrd Skynyrd die in charter plane crash
1979 John F Kennedy Library dedicated in Boston
1981 3 members of Weather underground arrested for armored truck robbery
1982 Billy Martin fired as manager of the Oakland A's
1982 St Louis Cards beat Mil Brewers, 4 games to 3 in 79th World Series
1983 IBM-PC DOS Version 2.1 released
1984 Islander's Mike Bossy's 30th career hat trick-4 goals
1987 10 die as Air Force jet crashed into a Ramada Inn near Indianapolis
1987 Subway gunman Bernhard Goetz sentenced to 6 months in jail
1988 Britain ends suspects right to remain silent in crackdown on IRA
1988 Gastineau sacks Jets, retires from football "for personal reasons"
1988 LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's in 85th World Series 4 games to 1
1988 Man armed with explosives blows self up in 125 St subway station (NYC)
1988 Reggie Rogers, Det Lion's # 1 pick, kills 3 by driving intoxicated
1988 LA 1st to have both NBA & baseball champs as LA Dodgers beat Oakland A's, 4 games to 1 in 85th World Series
1989 US Senate impeaches US District Judge Alcee L Hastings
1990 3 members of 2 Live Crew acquitted on obscenity charges in Florida
1990 Antiwar protest marches begin in 20 US cities (US-Iraq)
1990 Cincinatti Reds sweep Oakland A's in the 87th World Series
1991 Actress Lisa Hartman weds country singer Clint Black
Jody Victor
Thursday, October 13
Jody Victor®: Once Upon a Time in History
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 13 Oct 2011 08:00 AM EDT
Jody Victor: Although history is no fairy tale, it sometimes takes on some of those characteristics since it happened so long ago. Here's what happened on this day, October 13, once upon a time.
1483 Rabbi Issac Abarbanel starts his exegesis on the Bible
1775 Continental Congress orders construction of a naval fleet
1792 Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
1812 Battle of Queenston Heights
1843 B'nai B'rith founded in NY
1845 Texas ratifies a state constitution
1860 1st aerial photo taken in US (from a balloon), Boston
1903 Pirates beat Pilgrims (Red Sox) 5 games to 3 in 1st World Series
1914 Boston Braves sweep Philadelphia A's, 1st sweep in World Series history (World Series #11)
1915 Boston Red Sox beat Philadelphia Phillies, 4 games to 1 in 12th World Series
1919 Race riot at Elaine Arkansas
1921 NY Giants beat New York Yankees, 5 games to 3 in 18th baseball World Series
1943 Italy declares war on former ally Germany
1944 US 1st army begins battle of Aachen
1947 "Kukla, Fran & Ollie" premieres
1947 NHL All Star Game - All Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs
1953 Burglar alarm-ultrasonic or radio waves-patented-Samuel Bagno
1957 German Dem Rep recalls the East Mark & issues new currency
1960 3rd presidential debate with Nixon in Hollywood & Kennedy in NY
1960 Pirate's Mazeroski's bottom of 9th lead off HR beats NY Yankees 10-9 in game 7 of 57th baseball World Series
1962 "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" opens on Broadway, with Uta Hagen
1963 "Beatlemania" is coined after the Beatles appear at the Palladium
1964 Voskhod 1 crew returns
1969 Soyuz 8 is launched
1970 Angela Davis arrested in NYC
1971 1st world series night game (Pittsburgh 4-Baltimore 3) (World Series #68)
1972 Aeroflot Il-62 crashes in large pond outside Moscow, 176 die
1972 Uruguay to Chile plane crashes in Andes Mountain, (12/23 rescue)
1973 Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Emily in for Carol"
1978 James Earl Ray, assassin of Martin Luther King weds Anna Sandhu
1978 Tiros N, US's 1st 3rd generation weather satellite, is launched
1978 Graig Nettles at 3rd makes many spectactular plays in WS game 3 as Guidry beats Dodgers, after trailing 2 games to 0 Yanks win next 4
1980 Unprovoked slayings of 6 blacks in Buffalo, NY
1981 Vice President Hosni Mubarak elected president of Egypt
1982 IOC restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe
1982 NJ Devils 1st short handed goal-Don Lever
1984 Blackhawk Bill Gardner scores on 10th penalty shot against Islanders
1984 John Henry becomes 1st thoroughbred to win $6 million
1984 STS 41-G mission; lands at Kennedy Space Center
1986 25th NY, NL appearance in World Series (Mets vs A's) (World Series #83)
1987 1st military use of trained dolphins (US Navy in Persian Gulf)
1987 Costa Rican Pres Oscar Arias wins Nobel Peace Prize
1988 Concert at Masada ends Israel's 40th-anniversary fest
1989 Dow Jones down 190.58 points
1991 Blue Jay Cito Gaston is 1st manager ejected in a playoff game
Jody Victor
Thursday, October 6
Jody Victor®: Back In The Day......
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 06 Oct 2011 12:36 PM EDT
Jody Victor: Here's some great historical events from back in the day.
891 Formosus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1683 13 German families arrive in present day Philadelphia
1781 Americans & French begin siege of Cornwallis at Yorktown; last battle of the Revolutionary War
1857 American Chess Assn organized; 1st major US chess tournament (NYC)
1863 Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath, in Brooklyn
1866 1st train robbery in US
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
1884 Naval War College established in Newport RI
1886 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure "The Resident Patient" (BG)
1889 Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1908 Austria annexes Bosnia & Herzegovina
1908 Yankees lose 100th game of the year go 51-103 for season
1910 Braves beat Phillies 20-7
1923 1st NL unassisted triple play (Ernie Padgett, Braves against Phillies)
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar
1926 Babe Ruth hits 3 HRs in a world series game, Yankees beat Cards 10-5 (World Series #23)
1927 "Jazz Singer," 1st movie with a sound track, premieres (NYC)
1928 Chiang Kai-Shek becomes president of China
1935 Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1936 NY Yankees beat Giants 4 games to 2 in 33rd World Series
1939 Hitler announces he has no intention of war with Britain & France
1940 Zoological Gardens opens on Sloat & Skyline in San Francisco
1941 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 1, in 38th baseball World Series
1947 NY Yankees beat Dodgers 4 games to 3, in 44th baseball World Series
1949 Iva Toguri D'Aquino (Tokyo Rose) sentenced to 10 years & $10,000 fine
1949 President Truman signs Mutual Defense Assistance Act (for NATO)
1959 Single game World Series (World Series #56) attendance record set (92,706 in LA)
1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon
1963 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Judy Garland Show"
1963 LA Dodgers sweep New York Yankees, in 60th World Series
1965 Supremes release "I Hear a Symphony"
1966 Oriole Jim Palmer, 20, is youngest to pitch a World Series shutout (World Series #63)
1967 Haight-Ashbury hippies throw a funeral to mark the end of hippies
1972 22-car train carrying 2,000 pilgrims derails, kills 208 in Mexico
1973 Yom Kippur War begins as Syria & Egypt attack Israel
1976 John Hathaway completes a bicycle tour of every continent in the world & cycling 50,600 miles
1976 President Ford says there is "no Soviet domination in Eastern Europe"
1977 Yankees win AL pennant by rallying for 3 runs in 9th to beat KC Royals 5-3 in 5th & deciding playoff game
1978 Royals' George Brett hits 3 HRs, Yanks win championship game 3, 6-5
1979 Harry Drake set long distance footbow shot record of 2,006 yds 1'9"
1979 Pope John Paul II is 1st Pope to visit the White House
1982 Auburn's Al Del Greco kicks 6 field goals
1983 Buffalo Bill QB Joe Ferguson passes 419 yards with 5 TDs
1983 Islander's Mike Bossy's 25th career hat trick
1983 NY Jets announce they are leaving Shea for the Meadowlands
1985 Marita Koch of Germany sets 400m women's record (47.6) in Australia
1985 Yankee Phil Niekro becomes the 18th pitcher to win 300 games & also at 46 becomes the oldest to pitch a shut-out beating Toronto 8-0
1988 Oakland A's sweep Boston Red Sox in 4 games for AL pennant
1990 US 67th manned space mission STS 41 (Discovery 11) launches into orbit
1991 Elizabeth Taylor weds for the 8th time (Larry Fortensky)
1991 NY Met David Cone ties NL record by striking out 19 Phillies
Jody Victor
Thursday, September 29
Jody Victor®: It Happened Today
by
Jody Victor
on Thu 29 Sep 2011 03:32 PM EDT
Jody Victor: Let's see what happened on this day, September 29, in history.
235 St Pontianus ends his reign as Catholic Pope
855 Benedict III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1349 People of Krems Austria accuse Jews of poisoning the wells
1364 Battle of Auray, English forces defeat French at Brittany
1650 Henry Robinson opens 1st marriage bureau (England)
1785 Chaidic sect is excommunicated in Cracow Poland
1789 1st congress adjourns
1789 US War Dept established a regular army
1793 Tennis is 1st mentioned in an English sporting magazine
1829 London's Metropolitan Police Force goes on duty
1829 Scotland Yard formed in London
1849 1st passenger train service to Peekskill NY (New Haven Railroad)
1853 Emigrant ship "Annie Jane" sinks off Scotland, drowning 348
1859 Great auroral display in US
1863 The opera "Pescatori di Perle", more properly known as "Les Pêcheurs de Perles", is produced (Paris)
1879 NL owners meeting in Buffalo adopt the reserve clause, giving each team exclusive rights to their players
1890 1st pro baseball game, NY Metropolitans beat the Washington Nationals 4-2 in 5 innings at the Polo Grounds in NYC
1892 1st night football game played (Mansfield, Penn)
1902 Impresario David Belasco opened his 1st Broadway theater
1907 Construction begins on Washington National Cathedral
1911 Yanks steal 15 bases & get 13 walks, beating Browns 16-12; with a major-league record 6 stolen bases in 1 inning
1913 Wash Senator Walter Johnson wins his 36th game
1915 A hurricane claims 275 in the Mississippi Delta
1915 Phila Phillies clinch their 1st pennant
1918 Allied forces scored a decisive breakthrough of the Hindenburg Line
1920 Babe Ruth sets then home run season record at 54
1923 Steinhart Aquarium in Golden Gate Park opens to public
1927 Ruth ties record by hitting grand slams in consecutive games
1927 Tornado strikes St Louis Missouri
1928 Yanks (17) Tigers (28) set 9 inning hit record (45)-Tigers win 19-10
1930 1st Canadian football game played under lights, Hamilton-UBC
1930 Boquer¢n battle ends Paraguay border dispute
1936 Radio used for 1st time for a presidential campaign
1940 1st US merchant ship "Booker T Washington" commanded by a black captain (Hugh Mulzac), launched at Wilmington Delaware
1941 Heavyweight Champ Joe Louis KOs Lou Nova in 6
1943 Eisenhower & Italian Marshal Pietro Badoglio sign an armistice
1944 Soviet troops invade Yugoslavia
1946 1st time NL pennant ends in a tie (Cards & Dodgers)
1946 Al Couture knockouts Ralph Walton in Lewiston Maine in 10« secs
1946 Los Angeles (previously Cleveland) Rams play 1st NFL game in LA
1951 1st color telecast of football game on network, Phila (CBS)
1951 S B Nicholson discovers 12th satellite of Jupiter
1953 AL approves Balt group purchase of St Louis Browns for $2,475,000
1953 Milton Berle Show premiers
1954 Willie Mays famous over-the-shoulder catch of Vic Wertz' 460' drive
1957 300 die as express train hits stalled train (Montgomery W Pakistan)
1957 NY Giants play & lose their last game at Polo Grounds (9-1 to Pitts)
1959 Sultan of Brunei promulgates a constitution
1962 Launch of Alouette 1, 1st Canadian satellite (on US Delta rocket)
1963 2nd session of Ecumenical council, `Vatican II,' opens in Rome
1963 Card's Stan Musial's final game, gets his 3,630th hit
1963 Houston Colt .45 John Paciorek goes 3 for 3 in his only game
1963 Rolling Stones 1st tour (opening act for Bo Diddley & Everly Bros)
1965 Ralph Boston of the US, sets then long jump record at 27' 4 3/4"
1965 St L Cards Charlie Johnson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Cleve (49-13)
1968 Chuck Latourette, sets NFL record 47.7 yd punt return avg (3 punts)
1969 "Love American Style," premiers on ABC
1969 7th Mayor's Trophy Game, Mets beat Yanks 7-6
1969 Steve O'Neal of NY Jets, kicks longest NFL punt; 98 yards vs Denver
1973 Balt Orioles pull their 5th triple play (5-4-3 vs Detroit)
1973 Insurance ind announces auto racers get into more highway accidents
1973 Soyuz 12 returns to Earth
1976 SF Giant John Montefusco no-hits Atlanta Braves, 9-0
1977 Muhammad Ali won a unanimous, 15-round decision over Earnie Shavers
1977 Soviet space station Salyut 6 launched into Earth orbit
1979 Gold hits record $400.20 an ounce in Hong Kong
1979 Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pope to visit Ireland
1982 Cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kills 7 in Chicago
1983 1st time Congress invokes War Powers Act
1983 Oakland A's Mike Warren no-hits Chicago White Sox, 3-0
1985 First of 5 cyanide-laced Tylenol victims dies
1986 Cubs Greg Maddux defeats Phillies Mike Maddux (1st rookie brothers)
1986 USSR releases US journalist Nicholas Daniloff confined on spy charges
1987 NY Yankee Don Mattingly hits record 6th grand slam of the year
1988 26th Space Shuttle mission, Discovery 7 launched
1988 Florence Griffith Joyner of USA sets the 200m woman's record (21.34)
1988 UN peacekeeping forces win Nobel Peace prize
1990 Washington National Cathedral construction is completed after 83 years
1991 US beats Europeans 14« to 13« to capture the Ryder's cup
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