This Day in History
By
1733 John Winthrop was granted the first honorary Doctor of Law Degree in the United States. The honor was given by Harvard College in Cambridge, MA.
1861 The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
1873 Jesse James and his gang pulled off the first U.S. train robbery. They took $3,000 from the Rock Island Express at Adair, IA.
1925 The “Monkey Trial” ended in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes was convicted of violating the state law for teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned.
1947 Loren MacIver’s portrait of Emmett Kelly as “Willie the Clown” appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine.
1954 The Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam.
1980 Draft registration began in the United States for 19 and 20-year-old men.
1987 Mary Hart, of “Entertainment Tonight,” had her legs insured by Lloyd’s of London for $2 million.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1939 Dr. Roy P. Scholz became the first surgeon to use fiberglass sutures.
1943 During World War II, more than 150 B-17 and 112 B-24 bombers attacked Rome for the first time.
1946 Marilyn Monroe acted in her first screen test.
1974 The House Judiciary Committee recommended that U.S. President Richard Nixon should stand trial in the Senate for any of the five impeachment charges against him.
1975 The Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
1979 The Marxist Sandinistas seized control of Nicaragua.
1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. She died with six others when the Challenger exploded the following year.
1989 112 people were killed when a United Airline DC-10 airplane crashed in Sioux City, Iowa. 184 people did survive the accident.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1926 The first underwater color photographs appeared in “National Geographic” magazine. The pictures had been taken near the Florida Keys.
1935 Oklahoma City became the first city in the U.S. to make use of parking meters.
1945 The United States detonated the first atomic bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
1951 J.D. Salinger’s novel, The Catcher in the Rye, was first published.
1957 Marine Major, John Glenn, set a transcontinental speed record when he flew a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds.
1969 Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL, and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
1973 Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of recorded tapes.
1979 Saddam Hussein became president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign.
1985 The All-Star Game, televised on NBC-TV, was the first program broadcast in stereo by a TV network.
1999 The plane of John F. Kennedy Jr., crashed off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard, MA. His wife, Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, and her sister, Lauren Bessette, were also on board the plane. The body of John Kennedy was found on July 21, 1999.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1776 The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington’s troops in New York.
1850 U.S. President Zachary Taylor died in office at the age of 55. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Taylor had only served 16 months.
1922 Johnny Weissmuller became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in less than a minute.
1951 U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.
1953 New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service by helicopter.
1968 The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.
1982 A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, LA, all 146 people aboard, and eight people on the ground, were killed.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1881 Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolate syrup on ice cream in a dish. Up to this time, chocolate syrup had only been used for making ice-cream sodas.
1889 The Wall Street Journal was first published.
1907 Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first “Follies” on the roof of the New York Theater in New York City.
1947 Demolition work began in New York City for the new, permanent headquarters of the United Nations.
1953 Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its football games would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV.
1960 The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. He was shot down in a U-2 spy plane.
1970 The San Francisco Giant’s, Jim Ray Hart, became the first National League player in 59 seasons to collect six runs batted (RBI) during a single inning.
1997 The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that the diet-drug combination known as “fen-phen” could cause serious heart and lung damage.
1997 NATO invited Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic to join the alliance in 1999.
2000 J.K. Rowling’s “Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire” was released in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1933 Germany became a one political party country when Hitler banned parties other than the Nazis.
1944 U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt signed the “GI Bill of Rights” to provide broad benefits for veterans of the war.
1946 Jet airplanes were used to transport mail for the first time.
1970 U.S. President Richard Nixon signed the 26th amendment, lowering the voting age to 18.
1973 Skylab astronauts splashed down safely in the Pacific after a record 28 days in space.
1998 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that evidence illegally obtained by authorities could be used at revocation hearings for a convicted criminal’s parole.
1999 The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that persons with remediable handicaps cannot claim discrimination in employment under the Americans with Disability Act.
No related posts.
Leave a Reply
This Day in History
By1812 The War of 1812 began as the U.S. declared war against Great Britain.
1959 A Federal Court annulled the Arkansas law allowing school closings to prevent integration.
1983 Dr. Sally Ride became the first American woman in space aboard the space shuttle Challenger.
1998 “The Boston Globe” asked Patricia Smith to resign after she admitted to inventing people and quotes in four of her recent columns.
2002 In Jerusalem, a suicide bomber killed 19 people and injured at least 50 more on a city bus. The Islamic militant group Hamas claimed responsibility for the attack.
No related posts.
You forgot 2005:
That is when blue became brown!