tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-45605105436784205272024-03-13T17:29:29.025-04:00Kay Bigelow"This I regard as history's highest function, to let no worthy action be uncommemorated. - TacitusKay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.comBlogger246125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-68011006033635638062012-03-18T08:00:00.000-04:002012-03-15T20:05:57.430-04:00March 18 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 18</b> is the 78th day of the year. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year. </span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and last Grand Master of the Knights Tempar, was burned at the stake.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1634 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, French author of first historical novel, was born. She died in 1693.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sold his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, known as Quakers.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1766 – The British Parliament repealed the Stamp Act.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1834 – Six farm laborers from Tolpuddle, England were sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1850 – American Express was founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1874 – Hawaii signed a treaty with the US granting exclusive trading rights. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi was sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1925 – A tornado hit Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1942 – The War Relocation Authority was established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov left his spacecraft for 12 minutes, becoming the first person to walk in space.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1968 – The U.S. Congress repealed the requirement for a gold reserve to back United States currency.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy was found near the Pyramid of Cheops.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1990 – The largest art theft in United States history: 12 paintings worth $300 million were stolen from a museum in Boston, Massachusetts.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favor to end the racist policy of Apartheid.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2003 – British Sign Language was recognized as an official British language. </span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-22839143003238849932012-03-17T08:00:00.000-04:002012-03-17T08:00:06.558-04:00March 17 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 17</b> is the 77th day of the year. There are 289 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">460 CE – Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland, died. He was born in 387 CE.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1756 – St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in NYC for the first time (at the Crown and Thistle Tavern).</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1845 – The rubber band was patented.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1941 – In Washington, DC, the National Gallery of Art was officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1950 – Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley announced the creation of element 98, which they name Californium.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1959 – Tenzin Gyatso the 14th Dalai Lama, fled Tibet for India.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1969 – Golda Meir became the first woman Prime Minister of Israel.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1992 – A referendum to end Apartheid in South Africa was passed, 68.7% to 31.2%.</span></span></li>
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<br />Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-77273379162264103682012-03-16T08:00:00.000-04:002012-03-16T08:00:06.111-04:00March 16 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 16</b> is the 76th day of the year. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1190 – 150 Jews were massacred in York Castle in England.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1621 - Samoset, of the Mohegan tribe, strolled into the Plymouth Colony and greeted the colonists in English.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers was established to found and operate the US Military Academy at West Point.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1912 – Lawrence Oates, a member of Robert Falcon Scott’s South Pole expedition who had become ill, his tent into a blizzard, saying, "I am just going outside and may be some time." He died in the blizzard.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1926 – Robert Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket in Auburn, Massachusetts.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1958 – The Ford Motor Company produced its 50 millionth automobile, a Thunderbird.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1968 – General Motors produced its 100 millionth automobile, an Oldsmobile Toronado.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1988 – The Kurdish town of Halabjah in Iraq was attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1995 – Mississippi formally ratified the 13th Amendment becoming the last state to aboloish slavery. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1998 – Pope John Paul II asked God for forgiveness for the inactivity and silence of Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-19487595282215525722012-03-11T08:00:00.000-04:002012-03-11T08:00:00.382-04:00March 11 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 11</b> is the 71st day of the year. There are 295 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 11</b> is Johnny Appleseed Day in the United States.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1702 – <i>The Daily Courant, </i>England’s first national daily newspaper, was published for the first time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1824 – The US War Department created the Bureau of Indian Affairs.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1851 – The first performance of <i>Rigoletto</i> by Giuseppe Verdi occurred in Venice. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1867 – The first performance of <i>Don Carlos</i> by Giuseppe Verdi took place in Paris.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1888 – The Great Blizzard of 1888 began on the US eastern seaboard, killing more than 400.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1955 – Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish biologist who discovered penicillin and won the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, died. He was born in 1881.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1983 – Pakistan successfully conducts a cold test of a nuclear weapon. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1993 – Janet Reno was confirmed by US Senate as the first female US Attorney General.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1999 – Infosys became the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2002 – James Tobin, American economist & 1981 Nobel laureate, died. He was born in 1918.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2006 – Michelle Bachelet was inaugurated as first female president of Chile.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011 – An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 81 miles east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami that killed thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-46277105564938859592012-03-10T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-10T08:00:09.695-05:00March 10 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 10</b> is the 70th day of the year. There are 296 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1804 – In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1831 – The French Foreign Legion was established by King Louis-Philppe to support his war in Algeria.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo was ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1876 – Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful telephone call saying, "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patented the Strowger switch, a device that led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1906 – Europe’s worst mine disaster, in Courrières, France, killed 1099 miners.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1922 – Mahatma Gandhi was arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison. He was released after two years for an appendectomy.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1959 – Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surrounded the Dalai Lama’s palace to prevent his removal.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1977 – Astronomers discovered rings around Uranus.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-7833430869686041792012-03-09T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-09T08:00:15.490-05:00March 9 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 9</b> is the 69th day of the year. There are 297 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1841 – The United States Supreme Court ruled that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1842 – The first documented discovery of gold in California occurred at Rancho San Francisco, six years before the California Gold Rush.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1933 – President Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1959 – The Barbie doll made its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1990 – Dr. Antonia Novello was sworn in as the first woman and Hispanic American US Surgeon General.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, D.C. took place.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011 – Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-10932684985010239802012-03-08T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-08T08:00:00.453-05:00March 8 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 8</b> is the 68th day of the year. There are 298 days remaining until the end of the year. </span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1618 – Johannes Kepler discovered the third law of planetary motion, which says that the square of the orbital period of a planet is directly proportional to the cube of the semi-major axis of its orbit.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1655 – John Casor became the first legally recognized slave in Britain's North American colonies.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate, was born. She died in 1782.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1775 – An anonymous writer, thought to be Thomas Paine, published <i>African Slavery in America</i>, the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1817 – The New York Stock Exchange was founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, was born. He died in 1935.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1910 – Raymonde de Laroche became the first woman to receive a pilot’s license.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1911 – International Women’s Day was launched in Copenhagen, Denmark by Clara Zetkin.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1917 – The United States Senate voted to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1917 – International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg contributed to the February Revolution.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state, was established.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1936 – Daytona Beach Road Course held their first oval stock car race.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1949 – American Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") was tried for treason and sent to prison.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1979 – Philips demonstrated the compact disc publicly for the first time.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-8276360107394235162012-03-07T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-07T08:00:07.535-05:00March 7 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 7</b> is the 67th day of the year. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year. </span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1765 – Nicephore Niepce, French inventor of photography, was born. He died in 1833.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist, was born. He died in 1926. He developed the Shasta daisy, the Fire poppy, the July Elberta peach, the Santa Rosa plum, the Flaming Gold nectarine, the Wickson plum, the Freestone peach, and the white blackberry.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1876 – Alexander Graham Bell was granted the first patent for the telephone.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1900 – The German liner SS <i>Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse</i> became the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1912 – Roald Amundsen announced his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14,1911.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1965 – A march of 600 civil rights advocates was forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1986 – Divers from the USS <i>Preserver</i> located the crew cabin of <i>Challenger </i>on the ocean floor.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1994 – The US Supreme Court ruled that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2007 – The British House of Commons voted to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, entirely elected.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2009 – The Kepler space observatory, designed to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars, was launched.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-26627829449789413832012-03-06T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-06T08:00:18.118-05:00March 6 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 6</b> is the 65th day of the year. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1476 – Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor, was born. He died in 1564.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1820 – The Missouri Compromise was signed into law by President James Monroe, allowing Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1834 – York, Upper Canada was incorporated as Toronto.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1836 – After a 13-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and Colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo were killed and the fort captured.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1840 – The Baltimore College of Dental Surgery opened, the first dental school.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1853 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera <i>La Traviata </i>premiered in Venice.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1857 – US Supreme Court ruled in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case, which said African-Americans could never be citizens.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presented the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American novelist, died. She was born in 1832.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1899 – Bayer registered aspirin as a trademark.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1946 – Ho Chi Minh signed an agreement with France that recognized Vietnam as an autonomous state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg for espionage began.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1953 – Georgy Maksimilanovich Malenkov succeeded Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1957 – Ghana becomes the first sub-Saharan country to gain Independence from the British.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1967 – Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, defected to the US.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American writer & Nobel laureate, died. She was born in 1892.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1981 – After 19 years of presenting the <i>CBS Evening News, </i>Walter Cronkite signed off for the last time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1986 – Georgia O’Keeffe, American artist, died. She was born in 1887.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2010 – Betty Millard, writer, artist, political activist, philanthropist, and feminist, died. She was born in 1911.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-44716319110801212092012-03-05T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-05T08:00:00.745-05:00March 5 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 5</b> is the 65th day of the year. There are 301 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus’ book <i>De revolutionibus orbium coelestium</i> was banned by the Catholic Church.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1770 – Five colonists, including Crispus Attucks, an African-American, were killed by British troops in Boston.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1836 –Samuel Colt made the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1868 – The impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson began.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1872 – George Westinghouse patented the railroad air brake.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1882 – Great Britain’s first electric trams began service in east London.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 11.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1942 – US Navy Seabees were established.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-5800516691427929412012-03-04T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-04T08:00:03.907-05:00March 4 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 4</b> is the 63rd day of the year. There are 303 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1675 – John Flamsteed was appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1681 – Charles II granted a land charter to William Penn for what would become Pennsylvania.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1789 – In NYC, the first Congress of the United States met, putting the US Constitution into effect.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1791 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th US state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1794 – The Eleventh Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, dealing with each state’s sovereign immunity, was passed by the US Congress.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1797 – In the first peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders, John Adams was sworn in as President succeeding George Washington.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1837 – Chicago was incorporated as a city.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1861 – Abraham Lincoln was inaugurated for his first term as US President.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1877 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet <i>Swan Lake</i> premièred at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1882 – Britain’s first electric trams ran in east London.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet long, was opened.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1894 – A fire in Shanghai destroyed1,000 buildings.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1902 – In Chicago, the American Automobile Association was established.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approved a blood test for AIDS.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1998 – The US Supreme Court ruled that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same gender in Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-72314831598564731972012-03-03T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-03T08:00:01.906-05:00March 3 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 3</b> is the 62nd day of the year. There are 304 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1820 – The US Congress passed the Missouri Compromise.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1845 – Florida was admitted as the 27th US state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1849 – The US Department of the Interior was established. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1849 – The U.S. Congress passed the Gold Coinage Act allowing the minting of gold coins.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1857 – France and the United Kingdom declared war on China (Second Opium War).</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1865 – The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the founding member of the HSBC Group, opened its doors.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1873 – U.S. Congress enacted the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, or lascivious" books through the mail.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1875 – Georges Bizet’s opera <i>Carmen</i> premièred at the Opera Comique in Paris.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1875 – The first organized indoor ice hockey game was played in Montreal.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1879 – The United States Geological Survey was created.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1913 - 5,000 march to support women's voting rights the day President-elect Woodrow Wilson arrived in DC for his swearing in.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1915 – NACA, the predecessor of NASA, WAs founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1923 – <i>TIME</i> magazine was published for the first time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1931 – The United States officially adopted <i>The Star-Spangled Banner</i> as its national anthem.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1938 – Oil was discovered in Saudi Arabia.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 2.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1939 – In Mumbai, Mohandas Gandhi began his fast in protest the autocratic British rule in India.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1967 – Go Mi-Young, South Korean mountaineer who climbed Makalu, Kangchenjunga, and Dhaulagiri in six weeks, was born. She died in a fall in 2009.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-16140626798403667572012-03-02T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-02T08:00:11.151-05:00March 2 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 2</b> is the 61st day of the year. There are 305 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1717 – <i>The Loves of Mars and Venus</i> was the first ballet performed in England.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1791 – Long-distance communication sped up with the unveiling of a semaphore telegraph machine in Paris.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1797 – The Bank of England issued the first one-pound and two-pound banknotes.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1807 – US Congress passed an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into any port or place within the jurisdiction of the US from any foreign kingdom, place, or country.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1836 – Declaration of independence of the Republic of Texas from Mexico.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1861 – Tsar Alexander II signed the emancipation reform into law, abolishing Russian serfdom.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1877 – Two days before inauguration, Congress declared Rutherford B. Hayes the winner of the election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular vote.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escaped an assassination attempt in Windsor.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1899 – Mount Rainier National Park was established in Washington.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1903 – In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel opened, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1917– The enactment of the Jones-Shafroth Act granted Puerto Ricans US citizenship.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1933 – The film <i>King Kong</i> opened at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1949 – The first automatic street light was installed in New Milford, Connecticut.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1953 – The Academy Awards were first broadcast on TV by NBC.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1962 – Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the NBA by scoring 100 points.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1983 – CD players and discs were released for the first time in the US.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-43774277464780568592012-03-01T08:00:00.000-05:002012-03-01T08:00:01.882-05:00March 1 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 1</b> is the 60th day of the year. There are 306 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March 1</b> is National Pig Day in the US.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>March </b>1886 - Alfred Spink established “The Sporting News,” the first newspaper dedicated to sports, in St. Louis, Missouri.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"></span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1565 – The city of Rio de Janeiro was founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1642 – Georgeana, Massachusetts (now York, Maine) became the first incorporated city in the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba appeared before magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts thus beginning the Salem Witch Trials.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1781 – The Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1790 – The first US census was authorized.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1803 – Ohio was admitted as the 17th US state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1805 – Justice Samuel Chase was acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the US Senate.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1845 – President John Tyler signed a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1847 – The state of Michigan formally abolished capital punishment.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1867 – Nebraska was admitted as the 37th US state.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1872 – Yellowstone National Park became the world's first national park.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1873 - E. Remington & Sons began production of the first practical typewriter.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1886 – The Anglo-Chinese, Singapore was founded by Bishop William Oldham. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1893 – Nikola Tesla gave the first public demonstration of the radio in St. Louis, Missouri.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1896 – Henri Becquerel discovered radioactivity.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1901 – The Australian Army was formed.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1912 – Albert Berry made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1914 – The Republic of China joined the Universal Postal Union.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1932 – Charles Augustus Lindbergh III was kidnapped.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1936 – Hoover Dam was completed. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1936 – A strike on board the SS <i>California</i> led to the demise of the International Seamen’s Union and the creation of the National Maritime Union.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1941 – W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) began operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1946 – The Bank of England was nationalized.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1947 – The International Monetary Fund began financial operations.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> 1952 - Jerri Nielsen Fitzgerald, physician who performed a breast biopsy on herself while stationed in Antarctica in 1999. She died on June 23, 2009. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1961 – Uganda became self-governing and held its first elections.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1961 – President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1995 – Yahoo! was incorporated.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2003 – The International Criminal Court held its inaugural session in The Hague.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-46041170722152717612012-02-29T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-29T08:00:02.307-05:00February 29 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 29</b> is the 60th day of the Gregorian calendar in such a year, with 306 days remaining until the end of that year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 29</b>, known as a leap day in the Gregorian calendar.</span></span></div>
<ul>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1916 – In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1940 – For her role as Mammy in the film <i>Gone with the Wind, </i>Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1940 – In a ceremony held in Berkeley, California, due to WWII, physicist Ernest Lawrence received the 1939 Nobel Prize in Physics from Sweden’s Consul General.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1972 – Hank Aaron became the first player in the history of major league baseball to sign a $200,000 contract.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1988 – South African archbishop Desmond Tutu was arrested with 100 other clergymen during a five-day anti-apartheid demonstration in Cape Town.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-21108646542812720702012-02-28T19:28:00.000-05:002012-02-28T19:28:00.290-05:00February 28 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 28</b> is the 59th day of the year. There are 307 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1784 – John Wesley chartered the Methodist Church.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1787 – The charter establishing the institution now known as the University of Pittsburgh was granted.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1827 – The Baltimore & Ohio Railroad became the first railroad in United States offering commercial transportation of both people and freight.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1849 – Regular steamboat service from the west to the east coast began with the arrival of the SS <i>California </i>in San Francisco Bay, four months and twenty-two days after leaving New York Harbor.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1854 – The Republican Party of the United States was organized in Ripon, Wisconsin.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1883 – The first vaudeville theater opened in Boston, Massachusetts.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1885 – AT&T was incorporated in New York as the subsidiary of American Bell Telephone.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1893 – The USS <i>Indiana</i>, the lead ship of her class and the first battleship in the US Navy comparable to foreign battleships, was launched.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1897 – Queen Ranavalona III, the last monarch of Madagascar, was deposed by a French military force.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1922 – The United Kingdom ended its protectorate over Egypt.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1935 – Wallace Carothers, a scientist at DuPont, invented nylon. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1939 – The erroneous word "dord” was discovered in the <i>Webster’s New International Dictionary </i>(2nd edition).</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1940 – Basketball was televised for the first time from Madison Square Garden in New York City.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1953 – James D. Watson and Francis Crick announced to friends that they have determined the chemical structure of DNA. The formal announcement took place on April 25 following publication in April's issue of the scientific journal <i>Nature</i>.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1954 – The first color television sets, using the NTSC standard, were offered for sale to the general public.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1993 – Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agents raided the Branch Davidian church in Waco, Texas with a warrant to arrest the group's leader. Four BATF agents and five Davidians die in the initial raid, starting a 51-day standoff.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1995 – Denver International Airport officially opened in Denver, Colorado.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2004 – Over 1 million Taiwanese participated in the 228 Hand-in-Hand Rally form a 310 mile-long human chain to commemorate the 228 Incident in 1947.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-76973902589924394642012-02-27T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-27T08:00:06.495-05:00February 27 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 27</b> is the 58th day of the year. There are 308 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">425 – The University of Constantinople was founded by Emperor Theodosius II at the urging of his wife Aelia Eudocia.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1700 – The island of New Britain in Papua New Guinea was discovered.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1797 – The Bank of England issued the first one-pound and two-pound notes.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1801 – Pursuant to the District of Columbia Organic Act of 1801, Washington, D.C. was placed under the jurisdiction of the US Congress.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1812 – Lord Byron gave his first address as a member of the House of Lords, in defense of Luddite violence against industrialism.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1860 – Abraham Lincoln gave his Cooper Union speech in New York City.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1864 – The first Union prisoners arrived at the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1900 – The British Labour Party was founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1922 – A challenge to the 18th Amendment to the US Constitution, allowing women the right to vote, was rebuffed by the Supreme Court in <i>Leser v. Garnett</i>.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1939 – The US Supreme Court ruled that sit-down strikes violate property owners' rights and are therefore illegal.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1951 – The 22nd Amendment to the US Constitution, limiting Presidents to two terms, was ratified.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1964 – The Italian government asked for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from falling over.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1973 – The American Indian Movement occupied Wounded Knee, South Dakota.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1974 – <i>People</i> magazine was published for the first time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1986 – The US Senate allowed its debates to be televised on a trial basis.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-32606608348398154512012-02-26T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-26T08:00:10.508-05:00February 26 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 26</b> is the 57th day of the year. There are 309 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1815 – Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from Elba.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln signed the National Currency Act into law.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1870 – In New York City, the first demonstration of a pneumatic subway opened to the public.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1909 - Kinemacolor, the first successful color motion picture process, was first shown to the general public at the Palace Theatre in London.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1917 – The Original Dixieland Jass Band recorded the first jazz record for the Victor Talking Machine Company in New Jersey.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1919 – President Woodrow Wilson signed an act of the US Congress establishing most of the Grand Canyon as a US National Park. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1920 – The first German Expressionist film and early horror movie, “<i>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari,” </i>premièred in Berlin.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1929 – President Calvin Coolidge signed an Executive Order establishing the 96,000 acre Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1971 – UN Secretary General U Thant signed a UN proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1980 – Egypt and Israel establish full diplomatic relations.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1993 – In New York City, a truck bomb parked below the North Tower of the World Trade Center explodes, killing six and injuring over a thousand.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1995 – The United Kingdom’s oldest investment banking institute, Barings Bank, collapsed after a securities broker, Nick Leeson, lost $1.4 billion by speculating on the Singapore International Monetary Exchange using futures contracts.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-84710326806315596332012-02-25T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-25T08:00:03.089-05:00February 25 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 25</b> is the 56th day of the year. There are 310 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1570 – Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth I of England.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1793 – President George Washington held the first Cabinet meeting as President of the US. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1836 – Samuel Colt was granted a US patent for the Colt revolver.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1841 – Pierre-Auguste Renoir, French painter, was born. He died in 1919</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1866 – CA miners discovered the Calaveras Skull, indicated that man, mastodons, and elephants co-existed. The human skull was later proven to be a hoax.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1870 – Hiram Revels, from MS, was sworn into the US Senate becoming the first African American to sit in Congress.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1901 – J.P. Morgan incorporated the United States Steel Corporation. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1919 – Oregon became the 1st state to impose a gasoline tax.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1925 – Glacier Bay National Monument was established in Alaska.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1928 – Charles Jenkins Laboratories of Washington, DC became the first holder of a television license from the Federal Radio Commission.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1933 – The USS <i>Ranger</i> was launched. It is the first US Navy ship to be built solely as an aircraft carrier.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1941 – In occupied Amsterdam, a general strike was declared in response to increasing anti-Jewish measures by the Nazis.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1951 – The first Pan American Games were held in Buenos Aires, Argentina.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">1975</span><span style="font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica; letter-spacing: 0px;"> – </span><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;">Elijah Muhammad, American Black Muslim leader, died. He was born in 1897.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1983 – Tennessee Williams, American playwright, died. He was born in 1911.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1986 – Corazon Aquino became the Philippines first woman president.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-79372740338081644712012-02-23T08:00:00.001-05:002012-02-23T08:00:06.162-05:00February 24 in History<br />
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 24</b> is the 55th day of the year. There are 311 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1582 – Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1607 – <i>L’Orfeo </i>by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera premièred.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1711 – Handel’s <i>Rinaldo</i>, the first Italian opera written for the London stage, premiered.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1803 – In <i>Marbury v. Madison</i>, the US Supreme Court established the principle of judicial review.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1839 – William Otis received a patent for the steam shovel.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1863 – Arizona is organized as a US territory.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1868 – The first parade to have floats was staged at Mardi Gras in New Orleans, Louisiana.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1868 – Andrew Johnson became the first US President to be impeached by the US House of Representatives.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1877 – Ettie Rout, New Zealand war hero, was born. She died in 1936.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1896 – The Tootsie Roll was invented in Chicago. It was the first penny candy to be individually wrapped.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1909 – The Hudson Motor Car Company was founded. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1917 – The US ambassador to the United Kingdom was given the Zimmermann Telegram, in which Germany pledged to ensure the return of New Mexico, Texas, and Arizona to Mexico if Mexico declared war on the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1920 – The Nazi Party was founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1970 – National Public Radio was founded in the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1980 – The US Olympic hockey team defeated Finland 4-2 to win the gold medal.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1981 – Buckingham Palace announced the engagement of The Prince of Wales and Lady Diana Spencer.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1983 – The US Congress released a report that condemned the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2008 – Fidel Castro retired as the President of Cuba after nearly 50 years.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2011 – The final launch of the Space Shuttle <i>Discovery.</i></span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-68541295446707710512012-02-23T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-23T08:00:10.260-05:00February 23 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 23</b> is the 54th day of the year There are 312 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">632 – The Last Sermon (Khutbah, Khutbatul Wada’) of the prophet Muhammad.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1455 – The Gutenberg Bible, the first Western book printed with movable type, was published.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1836 – The Battle of the Alamo began in San Antonio, Texas.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1861 – President-elect Abraham Lincoln secretly arrived in Washington, DC, after thwarting an assassination plot in Baltimore, Maryland.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1883 – Alabama became the first US state to enact an antitrust law.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1886 – Charles Martin Hall produced the first samples of man-made aluminum, after several years of intensive work. He was assisted in this project by his older sister Julia Brainerd Hall.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1898 – Emile Zola was imprisoned in France after publishing <i>J’accuse</i>, a letter accusing the French government of anti-Semitism and wrongfully imprisoning Captain Alfred Dreyfus. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1903 – Cuba leased Guantanamo Bay to the United States "in perpetuity.”</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1905 – Chicago attorney Paul Harris and three other businessmen met for lunch to form the Rotary Club, the world's first service club.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1927 – The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) began to regulate the use of radio frequencies in the US.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1941 – Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1942 – Japanese submarines fired artillery shells at the California coastline near Santa Barbara.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1947 – The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) was founded.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1954 – The first mass inoculation of children against polio with the Salk vaccine began in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1983 – The US Environmental Protection Agency announced its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-40285808633686218762012-02-22T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-22T08:00:02.047-05:00February 22 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 22</b> is the 53rd day of the year. There are 313 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1632 – Galileo’s <i>“Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief World Systems</i>” was published.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1732 – George Washington, first President of the US, was born. He died in 1799.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1819 – Spain sold Florida to the US for five million US dollars.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1853 – Washington University in St. Louis was founded as Eliot Seminary in St. Louis, Missouri.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1855 – Pennsylvania State University was founded in State College, Pennsylvania as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1856 – The Republican Party opened its first national meeting in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opened the first of his Woolworth stores.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1889 – North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Washington were admitted to the US.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1924 – Calvin Coolidge became the 1st US President to deliver a radio address from the White House.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1997 – In Roslin, Scotland, scientists announced that an adult sheep named Dolly had been successfully cloned.</span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-38118322315633905342012-02-21T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-21T08:00:08.448-05:00February 21 in History<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 21</b> is the 52nd day of the year. There are 314 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></div>
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<span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 21</b> is International Mother Language Day (UNESCO)</span></span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 7.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1804 – The first self-propelling steam locomotive made its debut in Wales.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1842 – John Greenough was granted the first United States patent for the sewing machine.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1848 – Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels published the Communist Manifesto.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1874 – The <i>Oakland Daily Tribune</i> published its first newspaper.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1878 – The first telephone book was issued in New Haven, Connecticut. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1885 – The newly completed Washington Monument was dedicated.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1918 – The last Carolina Parakeet died in captivity at the Cincinnati Zoo.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1925 – <i>The New Yorker </i>published its first issue. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1947 – In New York City, Edwin Land demonstrated the first "instant camera,” the Polaroid Land Camera. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1952 – The British government, under Winston Churchill, abolished identity cards in the United Kingdom to "set the people free.”</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1953 – Francis Crick and James D. Watson discovered the structure of the DNA molecule. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1965 – Malcolm X was assassinated at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City by members of the Nation of Islam.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1972 – US President Richard Nixon visited the People’s Republic of China to normalize Sino-American relations.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1974 – The last Israeli soldiers leave the west bank of the Suez Canal pursuant to a truce with Egypt.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1995 – Steve Fossett became the first person to make a solo flight across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2004 – The first European political party, the European Greens, was established in Rome.</span></span></li>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 20</b> is the 51st day of the year. There are 315 days remaining until the end of the year. </span></div>
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<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1685 – Rene-Robert Cavelier established Fort St. Louis at Matagorda Bay thus forming the basis for France’s claim to Texas.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1792 – The United States Post Office Department was created.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1872 – In New York City, the Metropolitan Museum of Art opened.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1873 – The University of California opened its first medical school in San Francisco.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1877 – Tchaikovsky’s ballet <i>Swan Lake </i>premièred at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1901 – The legislature of Hawaii Territory convened for the first time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1931 – Congress approved the construction of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge by the state of California.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1933 – The Congress of the US proposed the 21st Amendment to US Constitution ending prohibition.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1935 – Caroline Mikkelsen became the first woman to set foot in Antarctica.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1942 – Lieutenant Edward O’Hara became America's first World War II flying ace.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1943 – American movie studio executives agreed to allow the Office of War Information to censor films.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1943 – <i>The Saturday Evening Post </i>published the first of Norman Rockwell’s <i>Four Freedoms</i> in support of US President Franklin Roosevelt’s 1941 State of the Union address theme of Four Freedoms.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1952 – Emmett Ashford became the first African-American umpire in organized baseball.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1962 – While on Friendship 7, John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1998 – American figure skater Tara Lipinski became the youngest gold-medalist at the Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. </span></span></li>
</ul>Kay Bigelowhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03220061695021619850noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4560510543678420527.post-73101307115579848622012-02-19T08:00:00.000-05:002012-02-19T08:00:03.636-05:00February 19 in History<div style="font: 12.0px 'Times New Roman'; margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>February 19</b> is the 50th day of the year. There are 316 days remaining until the end of the year.</span></span></span></div>
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<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1674 - A provision of the Treaty of Westminster transferred the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam to England, and it was renamed New York.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1807 – In Alabama, former US Vice President Aaron Burr was arrested for treason.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1846 – In Austin, Texas, the newly formed Texas state government was officially installed. </span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1847 – The first group of rescuers reached the Donner Party, which had become snow bound in the Sierra Nevada mountains in November. There were only seven survivors from the original 87 members of the wagon train, and they had resorted to cannibalism to stay alive.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1859 – The defense of temporary insanity was successfully used in the United States for the first time.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1861 – Serfdom was abolished in Russia.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">1963 – The publication of Betty Friedan’s <i>The Feminine Mystique</i> reawakened the feminist movement in the United States.</span></span></li>
<li style="font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Times New Roman'; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">2002 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey space probe began mapping the surface of Mars using a thermal emission imaging system.</span></span></li>
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