Today in History

Set Avatar · #1 10-05-2003, 08:45 PM

Although Sunday is almost over I thought I'd end with some famous facts that happened on this day in the past...

Today In History for Sunday, October 5, 2003

1813 - Battle of the Thames in Canada; Americans defeat British
1864 - Most of Calcutta destroyed by cyclone
1906 - Giant's Henry Matthewson walks 14
1908 - Bulgaria declares independence from Turkey
1970- PBS becomes a network
1985 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 launched

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1905 - Ray Kroc, who gave Ronald McDonald a job
1921 - Bill Willis, AAFC NFL guard (Browns)
1929 - Richard F. Gordon Jr., U.S. astronaut (Gemini 11 Apollo 12)
1930 - Pavel R. Popovich, Soviet cosmonaut (Vostok 4 Soyuz 14)
1951 - Karen Allen, in Illinois

Goodnight for today

Set Avatar · #2 10-05-2003, 09:21 PM

.....They say, it's not the guy who invents something that becomes Rich and Famous...but the guy who knows how to market it !!!!...Ray Kroc was smart enought to reconize that the McDonald brothers had a winning formula for serving Fresh, Good Tasting Food in a clean enviroment and FAST!.....Ray was the man who took this concept and ran with it to create the most successful Franchise Food Chain in the WORLD!!!!....Two whole beef patties, special sauce , cheese , pickle and Lettuce on a sesame seed Bun....THE BIG MAC !!!...Happy Birthday RAY KROC......OVER a 100 Billion served !!!

Set Avatar · #3 10-06-2003, 04:03 AM

Thought we'd start this one in the A.M.

1863 - Dr Charles H Sheppard opens the 1st public bath in Brooklyn
1889 - Thomas Edison shows his 1st motion picture
1926 - Babe Ruth hits 3 homers in a world series game
1935 - Market Street Railway starts using trackless trolley coaches
1959 - Soviet Luna 3 1st successful photographic spacecraft impacts moon
1973 - Egypt & Syria invade Israel - The Yom Kippur war
1981 - Anwar Sadat assassinated Hosnai Mubarak becomes Egytian president

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1846 - George Westinghouse, responsible for alternating current in US
1887 - Mart¡n Luis Guzm , Mexican novelist (The Eagle & the Serpent)
1906 - Janet Gaynor, in Phila (Sunrise A Star Is Born)
1909 - Carol Lombard
1942 - Britt Ekland, in Sweden
1956 - Stephanie Zimbalist, NYC (Remington Steele)

Set Avatar · #4 10-06-2003, 08:33 AM

I was at Stephanie Zimbalist's birthday party once. Well, actually, I was at a nearby table at an outdoor restaurant in Woodland Hills and she and her daddy and a couple of other people were nearby, and the waiter brought her a cake with candles on it and the others presented her with gifts, so I'm presuming it was her birthday and I was there.

And for you baseball nuts: There actually was a Henry Mathewson at the same time as Christy Mathewson. Henry only appeared in two games in 1906, pitched ten innings total, and did indeed walk fourteen batters.

Love this feature, Gwennie! Keep 'em coming!

Set Avatar · #5 10-07-2003, 04:28 AM

1765 - The Stamp Act Congress convenes in NY
1777 - British defeated by Americans in Battle of Saratoga
1849 - Edgar Allen Poe dies in Balt at 40
1908 - Crete unites with Greece
1931 - 1st infra-red photograph Rochester NY
1950 - US forces invade Korea by crossing the 38th parallel
1959 - Luna 3 photographs far side of moon
1968 - Motion Picture Association of America adopts film rating system
1985 - 21st Space Shuttle Mission - Atlantis 1 returns to Earth

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1885 - Niels Bohr, physicist expanded quantum physics (Nobel 1922)
1917 - June Allyson, actress
1931 - Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu, (Nobel Peace Prize 1982) 1943 - Oliver North
1951 - John Cougar Mellencamp, singer
1955 - Yo-Yo Ma, cellist

Set Avatar · #6 10-08-2003, 04:24 AM

1604 - The supernova called "Kepler's nova" is 1st sighted
1860 - Telegraph line between LA & SF opens
1896 - Dow Jones starts reporting an average of industrial stocks
1935 - Ozzie & Harriet Nelson married
1945 - Truman announced atomic bomb secret shared with Britain & Canada
1957 - Brooklyn Dodgers announced they would move to LA
1981 - Pres Reagan greeted predecessors Jimmy Carter Gerald R. Ford and Richard Nixon before sending them to Egypt for Anwar Sadat's funeral

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1890 - Eddie Rickenbacker, aviator
1940 - David Carradine
1941 - Jesse Jackson, (D) clergyman presidential candidate
1943 - Chevy Chase, comedian actor
1949 - Sigourney Weaver
1951 - Johnny Ramone, rock guitarist

Set Avatar · #7 10-08-2003, 08:19 AM

In 1871 The Great Chicago Fire began

Juan Person, President of Argentina (from 1946-1955) was born in 1895

Lynda51

Set Avatar · #8 10-08-2003, 09:03 AM

Thanks for the additional info Lynda!

Set Avatar · #9 10-08-2003, 09:31 AM

Thanks! You do such a great job, it is hard to come up with any! I was lucky today, I found mine on AOL this morning!

Lynda51

Set Avatar · #10 10-09-2003, 04:11 AM

1000 - Leif Ericson discovers "Vinland" (possibly New England)
1635 - Religious dissident Roger Williams banished from Mass Bay Colony
1701 - Collegiate School of Ct (Yale U) chartered in New Haven
1876 - 1st 2-way telephone conversation
1921 - Babe Ruth's 1st WS homer Only Sunday game ever pitched by Carl Mays
1936 - Hoover Dam begins transmitting electricity to LA
1961 - Yank Whitey Ford breaks Ruth record of 29 2/3 consecutive inning - world series scoreless pitching streak Yanks beat Reds 4 games to 1
1962 - Uganda gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1547 - Miguel de Cervantes, novelist (Don Quixote)
1940 - John Lennon, Beatle
1948 - Jackson Brown, rocker Germany
1959 - Mike Singletary
1975 - Sean Lennon

Set Avatar · #11 10-10-2003, 03:03 PM

On this day in history...

1845 - US Naval academy opens at Annapolis Maryland
1886 - 1st dinner jacket worn to autumn ball at Tuxedo Park NY (the tuxedo)
1911 - China Revolutionaries under Sun Yat-sen overthrew Manchu dynasty
1913 - Pacific & Atl mix as engineers blow Gamboa Dam opening Panama Canal
1933 - 1st synthetic detergent for home use marketed
1957 - Pres Eisenhower apologized to finance minister of Ghana Komla Agbeli Gbdemah after he was refused service in a Dover Del. restaurant
1963 - treaty banning atmospheric nuclear tests signed by US UK USSR
1976 - NJ Meadowlands' Giant's Stadium opens
1978 - Pres Carter signs a bill authorizing the Susan B. Anthony dollar
1982 - Pope John Paul II proclaimed Rev. M Kolbe who volunteered to die in place of another inmate at Auschwitz concentration camp a saint
1985 - US fighter jets force Egyptian plane carrying hijackers of Italian ship Achille Lauro to land in Italy gunmen were placed in custody

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1731 - Henry Cavendish, English physicist chemist
1830 - Emily Dickinson
1946 - Ben Vereen, dancer actor singer
1955 - David Lee Roth, rocker
1958 - Tanya Tucker, in Seminole Texas country singer

Set Avatar · #12 10-10-2003, 03:43 PM

October 10, 1965: The Red Baron made his first apperance in the Peanuts Comic Strip with the defender of all good, Snoopy!

October 10, 1973: Vice President Spiro Agnew resigned.

Lynda51

Set Avatar · #13 10-10-2003, 06:24 PM

Yep, he resigned after conviction of income tax evasion. Didnt know that about The Red baron. Thanx Lynda.

Set Avatar · #14 10-10-2003, 11:51 PM

On this day in history ..

1811 - The Juliana the 1st steam-powered ferryboat begins operation
1864 - slavery abolished in Maryland
1890 - Daughters of the American Revolution founded
1927 - Lou Gehrig elected MVP
1958 - Pioneer 1 launched; 1st spacecraft launched by NASA
1968 - Apollo 7 launched 1st of manned Apollo mission
1975 - Saturday Night Live premiers
1980 - Cosmonauts Popov & Ryumin set space endurance record of 184 days
1984 - Kathy Sullivan becomes 1st American woman to walk in space

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1758 - Wilhelm Olbers, discoverer of asteroids Pallas & Vesta
1844 - Henry John Heinz, founded a prepared-foods company
1884 - Eleanor Roosevelt
1932 - Dottie West, country singer

Set Avatar · #15 10-12-2003, 10:04 PM

On this day in history ..

1775 - Continental Congress establishes a navy
1792 - Washington lays cornerstone of the Executive Mansion (White House)
1845 - Texas ratifies a state constitution
1943 - Italy declares war on former ally Germany
1953 - Burglar alarm - ultrasonic or radio waves - patented - Samuel Bagno
1982 - Intl Olympic Comm restores 2 gold medals from 1912 Olympics to Jim Thorpe. Medals taken away because he played baseball for pay
1985 - 13th Space Shuttle Mission - Challenger 6 is launched
1987 - 1st military use of trained dolphins by US Navy in Persian Gulf

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1853 - Lillie Langtry, (the Jersey Lily) actress
1909 - Herblock (Herbert L. Block), political cartoonist
1918 - Cornell Wilde, actor
1925 - Margaret Thatcher
1942 - Art Garfunkel
1959 - Marie Osmond

Have a great Monday everyone!

Set Avatar · #16 10-13-2003, 06:24 AM

October 13, 1792 the Cornerstone of the White House was put into place.

October 13, 1957 Two Superstars introduced a new car on ABC-TV, Frank Sinatra and Bing Crosby joined forces in an hour long special that turned out to be a big ratings hit. Too bad the Edsel, the car that Ford Motor Cpmpany was introducing, didn't fare as well.

Lynda51

Pedro · #17 10-13-2003, 08:37 AM

The 29th birthday of Frank's 'The Main Event'!

Pedro.

Set Avatar · #18 10-13-2003, 09:38 PM

On this day in history ..

1066 - Battle of Hastings in which William the Conqueror wins England
1774 - 1st declaration of colonial rights in America
1884 - George Eastman patents paper-strip photographic film
1912 - Theodore Roosevelt is shot in the chest in Milwaukee while campaigning for President with the Bull Moose Party
1922 - 1st automated telephones-Pennsylvania exchange in NYC
1977 - Bing Crosby dies in Madrid Spain

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1857 - Elwood Haynes, auto pioneer built one of the 1st US autos
1890 - Dwight D Eisenhower, (R) 34th Pres (1953-1961)
1894 - E. E. Cummings, poet
1926 - Roger Moore, the 'saintly' James Bond

Set Avatar · #19 10-14-2003, 06:14 AM

October 14, 1971, it was John and Yoko Day on the Dick Cavett Show on ABC. The couple promoted Lennon's new LP (Imagine) and film (Imagine) and Yoko's Book, two films and a fine art show.

October 14, 1933 Nazi, Germany announced it was withdrawing from the League of Nations.

October14, 1965, Civil Rights Leader Martin Luther King Jr. was named winner of the Nobel Peace Prize.

October 14, 1990, Composrer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein died in New York at age 72.

Lynda51

Set Avatar · #20 10-15-2003, 05:34 PM

On this day in history ..

1582 - Catholic countries switch to Gregorian calendar cut 10 prior days
1860 - Grace Bedell writes to Lincoln tells him to grow a beard
1917 - Mata Hari executed by firing squad outside of Paris
1939 - LaGuardia Airport opened in NYC
1951 - I Love Lucy premiers
1981 - Yanks defeat A's 4-0 & win 33 pennant

Famous birthdays for this day ..

1829 - Asaph Hall, discoverer of the moons of Mars Phobos & Deimos
1905 - C P Snow, British novelist & scientist
1921 - Mario Puzo, author (Godfather)
1924 - Lee Iacocca, CEO of Chrysler Corp
1942 - Penny Marshall, NYC (Laverne & Shirley) former Mrs Rob Reiner
1959 - Princess Sarah Ferguson, (Fergie) the Duchess of York