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astrangerhere · 05-31-2011, 07:12 AM

1669 - Diarist Samuel Pepys made the final entry in his nine-and-a-half-year diary, citing his deteriorating eyes as cause.

TenaciousBadger · 05-31-2011, 08:44 AM

May 31

1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time.

1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.

1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released.

(source: wikipedia)

GA Russell · 05-31-2011, 12:07 PM

1790 - George Washington signs the first US copyright law.

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyame...sts/copyright/

TenaciousBadger · 06-15-2011, 02:24 PM

June 15

763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history.

1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta.

1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine.

1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys.

1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown).

1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber.

1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.

1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife.

2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.

1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer wbt (d. 2002)

1954 – James Belushi, American actor wbt

1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress wbt

1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper and actor wbt

1969 – Oliver Kahn, German goal keeper wbt

TenaciousBadger · 06-17-2011, 04:47 AM

June 17

1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth [of her fourteenth child]. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal.

1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result.

1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor.

1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT.

1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison

1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union.

1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic.

1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress.

1987 – With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct.

1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman.

(source: wikipedia)

astrangerhere · 06-17-2011, 06:01 AM

June 18

1938 - T. H. White's The Sword in the Stone was published, the first volume in the eventual quartet known as The Once and Future King.

*note - I sourced this from the great stories in literature website which headed today's entry with "For Those Potter'd out" in reference to the recent media saturation with speculation that JK Rowling is about to write more Potter. I giggled.

TenaciousBadger · 06-20-2011, 04:40 AM

June 20

1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter.

1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne.

1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph.

1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp.

1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35.

1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis.

1991 – The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin.

1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor wbt (d. 1959)

1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet and writer wbt

1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress wbt

1971 – Josh Lucas, American actor wbt

1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer wbt

TenaciousBadger · 06-30-2011, 11:29 AM

June 30

1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.

1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope.

1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place.

1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity.

1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia.

1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place.

1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China.

(source:wikipedia)

Ditchleyportrait · 06-30-2011, 05:16 PM

1995 - Garth Brooks buried a glass record plaque underneath his star at the walk of fame.

1956 - David Allen Grier "Chocolate News" was born.

astrangerhere · 07-01-2011, 06:52 AM

1804 - famous author and even more famous cross-dresser George Sand is born.

TenaciousBadger · 07-07-2011, 09:09 AM

July 7

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues.

1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador.

1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right."

1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere.

1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran.

1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17.

2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others.

1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter bt (d. 1985)

(source: wikipedia)

orlok · 07-07-2011, 03:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenaciousBadger

1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.

I'm sure she feels much better now...

Javed · 07-08-2011, 04:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by TenaciousBadger

1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.

So if someone says "the best thing since sliced bread," it would mean since 1928!

TenaciousBadger · 07-08-2011, 11:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Javed

So if someone says "the best thing since sliced bread," it would mean since 1928!

Yup!
Very important piece of information right there

TenaciousBadger · 07-11-2011, 03:03 PM

July 11

1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille.

1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history.

1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. (

a time when they solved political frustrations the old fashioned way)

1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded.

1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists.

1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark. (and 24 years later, we're nearing 7 billion - out of which 2 billion are politicians)

1274 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland born on this day (d. 1329)

(source:wikipedia)

05-31-2011, 08:44 AM	#137
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	May 31 1859 – The clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, which houses Big Ben, starts keeping time. 1927 – The last Ford Model T rolls off the assembly line after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles. 1929 – The first talking cartoon of Mickey Mouse, "The Karnival Kid", is released. (source: wikipedia) Last edited by TenaciousBadger; 05-31-2011 at 02:39 PM.

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,754 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	1669 - Diarist Samuel Pepys made the final entry in his nine-and-a-half-year diary, citing his deteriorating eyes as cause.

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TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	June 15 763 BC – Assyrians record a solar eclipse that is later used to fix the chronology of Mesopotamian history. 1215 – King John of England puts his seal to the Magna Carta. 1520 – Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther in papal bull Exsurge Domine. 1667 – The first human blood transfusion is administered by Dr. Jean-Baptiste Denys. 1752 – Benjamin Franklin proves that lightning is electricity (traditional date, the exact date is unknown). 1844 – Charles Goodyear receives a patent for vulcanization, a process to strengthen rubber. 1846 – The Oregon Treaty establishes the 49th parallel as the border between the United States and Canada, from the Rocky Mountains to the Strait of Juan de Fuca. 1916 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter. 1985 – Rembrandt's painting Danaë is attacked by a man (later judged insane) who throws sulfuric acid on the canvas and cuts it twice with a knife. 2002 – Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon. 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer wbt (d. 2002) 1954 – James Belushi, American actor wbt 1963 – Helen Hunt, American actress wbt 1969 – Ice Cube, American rapper and actor wbt 1969 – Oliver Kahn, German goal keeper wbt

06-17-2011, 04:47 AM	#140
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	June 17 1631 – Mumtaz Mahal dies during childbirth [of her fourteenth child]. Her husband, Mughal emperor Shah Jahan I, will spend the next 17 years building her mausoleum, the Taj Mahal. 1839 – In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace are established as a result. 1885 – The Statue of Liberty arrives in New York Harbor. 1901 – The College Board introduces its first standardized test, the forerunner to the SAT. 1939 – Last public guillotining in France: Eugen Weidmann, a convicted murderer, is guillotined in Versailles outside the Saint-Pierre prison 1940 – The three Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania fall under the occupation of the Soviet Union. 1944 – Iceland declares independence from Denmark and becomes a republic. 1961 – The New Democratic Party of Canada is founded with the merger of the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and the Canadian Labour Congress. 1987 – With the death of the last individual, the Dusky Seaside Sparrow becomes extinct. 1994 – Following a televised low-speed highway chase , O.J. Simpson is arrested for the murders of his wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend Ronald Goldman. (source: wikipedia)

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TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	June 20 1214 – The University of Oxford receives its charter. 1837 – Queen Victoria succeeds to the British throne. 1840 – Samuel Morse receives the patent for the telegraph. 1877 – Alexander Graham Bell installs the world's first commercial telephone service in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. 1942 – The Holocaust: Kazimierz Piechowski and three others, dressed as members of the SS-Totenkopfverbände, steal an SS staff car and escape from the Auschwitz concentration camp. 1959 – A rare June hurricane struck Canada's Gulf of St. Lawrence killing 35. 1963 – The so-called "red telephone" is established between the Soviet Union and the United States following the Cuban Missile Crisis. 1991 – The German parliament decides to move the capital from Bonn back to Berlin. 1909 – Errol Flynn, Australian actor wbt (d. 1959) 1952 – Vikram Seth, Indian poet and writer wbt 1967 – Nicole Kidman, American-born Australian actress wbt 1971 – Josh Lucas, American actor wbt 1978 – Frank Lampard, English footballer wbt

06-30-2011, 11:29 AM	#143
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	June 30 1688 – The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William (continuing the English rebellion from Rome), which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution. 1859 – French acrobat Charles Blondin crosses Niagara Falls on a tightrope. 1860 – The 1860 Oxford evolution debate at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History takes place. 1905 – Albert Einstein publishes the article On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies, in which he introduces special relativity. 1908 – The Tunguska event occurs in remote Siberia. 1934 – The Night of the Long Knives, Adolf Hitler's violent purge of his political rivals in Germany, takes place. 1997 – The United Kingdom transfers sovereignty over Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China. (source:wikipedia)

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Ditchleyportrait Fanatic Posts: 504 Karma: 780086 Join Date: Jun 2011 Location: ny Device: Kindle DX Graphite	1995 - Garth Brooks buried a glass record plaque underneath his star at the walk of fame. 1956 - David Allen Grier "Chocolate News" was born.

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astrangerhere Professor of Law Posts: 3,754 Karma: 68428716 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Chapel Hill, NC Device: Kobo Elipsa, Kobo Libra H20, Kobo Aura One, KoboMini	1804 - famous author and even more famous cross-dresser George Sand is born.

07-07-2011, 09:09 AM	#146
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 7 1456 – A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death. 1911 – The United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia sign the North Pacific Fur Seal Convention of 1911 banning open-water seal hunting, the first international treaty to address wildlife preservation issues. 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri. 1953 – Ernesto "Che" Guevara sets out on a trip through Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador. 1954 – Elvis Presley made his radio debut when WHBQ Memphis played his first recording for Sun Records, "That's All Right." 1959 – Venus occults the star Regulus. This rare event is used to determine the diameter of Venus and the structure of the Venusian atmosphere. 1980 – Institution of sharia in Iran. 1985 – Boris Becker becomes the youngest player ever to win Wimbledon at age 17. 2005 – A series of four explosions occurs on London's transport system killing 56 people including four alleged suicide bombers and injuring over 700 others. 1887 – Marc Chagall, Russian painter bt (d. 1985) (source: wikipedia)

07-11-2011, 03:03 PM	#150
TenaciousBadger Mrawr? Posts: 1,109 Karma: 15039064 Join Date: Aug 2010 Device: kindle 3 wifi	July 11 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the Bastille. 1801 – French astronomer Jean-Louis Pons made his first comet discovery. In the next 27 years he discovered another 36 comets, more than any other person in history. 1804 – A duel occurs in which the Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr mortally wounds former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton. ( a time when they solved political frustrations the old fashioned way) 1889 – Tijuana, Mexico, is founded. 1893 – The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto. 1895 – The Lumière brothers demonstrate film technology to scientists. 1960 – To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published. 1987 – According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 (5 billion) mark. (and 24 years later, we're nearing 7 billion - out of which 2 billion are politicians) 1274 – Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland born on this day (d. 1329) (source:wikipedia)