This Day In History

This Day In History

1804 - French civil Code of Napoleon adopted

1844 - Bah '¡ New Year

1851 - Yosemite Valley discovered in Cal

1860 - US extradition treaty with Sweden

1907 - US invades Honduras

1918 - During WW I Germany launchs Somme Offensive -

1945 - During WW II Allied bombers begin 4 day raid over Germany

1946 - UN set up temporary hq at Hunter College (Bronx)

1960 - S African authorities kill 69 demonstrators at Sharpeville

1963 - Alcatraz fed pen in SF Bay closed

1965 - Martin Luther King Jr begins march from Selma to Montgomery

1965 - US Ranger 9 launched takes 5 -814 pictures before lunar impact

1986 - 199.22 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange

Famous Birthday

Famous Birthday

76 - Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)


938 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)


1275 - Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)


1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)


1824 - Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)


1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)


1830 - Paul von Heyse, Germany, writer (Nobel 1910)


1844 - Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)


1866 - Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)


1868 - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)


1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)


1901 - Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader


1905 - Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler


1907 - Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)


1918 - Richard Ellmann, US, literary scholar/writer (Oscar Wilde)


1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine


1945 - Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)


1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer


1955 - Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)


1959 - Renny Harlin, Finnish film director


1959 - Lisa Holton, American writer


1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model


1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist


1971 - Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)


1972 - Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle (Pitts Steelers)


1972 - Steve Danielson, Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)


1975 - Eva Longoria, American actress


1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist


1977 - Brian Tee, American actor


1982 - Emily Tyndall, American actress


1985 - Eva Amurri, American actress


1985 - Tom Chilton, British racing driver


1991 - Kie Kitano, Japanese actress

Historical Day

• 1600 - Giordano Bruno burned in Rome as a heretic
• 1854 - British recognize independence of Orange Free State (South Africa)
• 1870 - Mississippi readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
• 1876 - Sardines were 1st canned - in Eastport - Maine
• 1878 - 1st telephone exchange in SF opens with 18 phones
• 1908 - Geronimo - Apache hero - dies (birth date unknown)

Famous Birthday

• 1723 - Tobias Mayer, "method of lunars" for longitude determination
• 1774 - Raphael Peale, American painter
• 1781 - Ren‚-Th‚ophile-Hyacinthe Laennec, invented stethoscope
• 1844 - A Montgomery Ward, found mail-order a nice business
• 1857 - Samuel Sidney McClure, Irish-American newspaper editor & publisher
• 1874 - Thomas J. Watson Sr., founder of IBM
• 1888 - Otto Stern, physicist (Nobel 1943)
• 1902 - Marian Anderson, operatic contralto
• 1908 - Red (Walter L) Barber, sports announcer
• 1924 - Margaret Truman, daughter of Harry S
• 1925 - Hal Holbrook, actor
• 1929 - Chaim Potok, novelist
• 1934 - Alan Bates, actor (Zorba the Greek)
• 1936 - Jim Brown, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns)
• 1942 - Huey Newton, Black Panther leader
• 1945 - Pat Morrow, in Los Angeles - Peyton Place
• 1947 - Dodie Stevens,

HISTORICAL DAY

• 1663 - Earthquake in Canada
• 1887 - Snow falls on SF
• 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
• 1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
• 1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
• 1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
• 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
• 1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
• 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
• 1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million

FAMOUS BIRTHDAY

• 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
• 1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
• 1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
• 1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
• 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
• 1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
• 1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
• 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
• 1906 - John Carradine, actor
• 1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
• 1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
• 1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
• 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
• 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
• 1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
• 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
• 1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
• 1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright

HISTORICAL DAY

• 1663 - Earthquake in Canada
• 1887 - Snow falls on SF
• 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted
• 1921 - Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx for Yankee Stadium
• 1937 - FDR proposes enlarging Supreme Court - plan failed "court packing"
• 1953 - Walt Disney's "Peter Pan" released
• 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars
• 1971 - US Apollo 14 - 3rd manned expedition to moon - lands near Fra Mauro
• 1974 - US Mariner 10 returns 1st close-up photos of Venus's cloud structure
• 1979 - According to Census Bureau - US population reaches 200 million

FAMOUS BIRTHDAY

• 1723 - John Witherspoon, clergyman & signer of Declaration of Independence
• 1744 - John Jeffries, colonial physician & meteorologist
• 1778 - Sir Robert Peel, (C) British P.M. (1834-46) & founder of Tories
• 1837 - Evangelist Dwight Lyman Moody,
• 1840 - John Boyd Dunlop, developed pneumatic rubber tire
• 1848 - Belle Starr, of the wild west
• 1878 - Andre-Gustave Citron, French auto maker
• 1900 - Adlai Stevenson, (D) Ill gov & pres candidate
• 1906 - John Carradine, actor
• 1907 - Norton Simon, business executive
• 1914 - William Burroughs, U.S. novelist (Naked Lunch)
• 1919 - Red Buttons, comedian/Actor
• 1926 - Arthur Ochs Sulzberger, publisher (NY Times)
• 1934 - Hank Aaron, baseball player (record 755 HR's)
• 1939 - Jane Bryant Quinn, newscaster
• 1946 - Charlotte Rampling, in England
• 1948 - Barbara Hershey, in Atlanta Georgia
• 1951 - Elizabeth Swados, American composer & playwright

This Day In History

This Day In History

HISTORICAL DAY

• 1600 - Tycho Brahe & Johannes Kepler meet for 1st time outside of Prague
• 1847 - 1st US Telegraph Company established in Maryland
• 1865 - Hawaiian Board of Education is formed
• 1887 - Interstate Commerce Act authorizes federal regulation of railroads
• 1899 - Revolt against US occupation of Philippines
• 1932 - 1st Winter Olympics held at Lake Placid - NY
• 1936 - 1st radioactive substance produced synthetically - radium E
• 1945 - Roosevelt - Stalin & Churchill meet in Yalta - USSR
• 1948 - Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) gains independence from Britain (Nat'l Day)
• 1957 - 1st electric portable typewriter placed on sale - Syracuse NY
• 1964 - Amendment 24 banning poll tax
• 1973 - Islanders & Sabres had a penality free game
• 1973 - Reshef - Israel's missile boat - is unveiled
• 1974 - Patricia Hearst kidnapped by Symbionese Liberation Army
• 1984 - Backstage Magic" opens at CommuniCore
• 1985 - 20 countries (not US) sign UN treaty outlawing torture

HISTORICAL BIRTHDAY

• 1875 - Ludwig Prandtl, German physicist & father of aerodynamics
• 1902 - Charles A. Lindbergh, (Lucky Lindy) 1st to fly solo across Atlantic
• 1906 - Clyde Tombaugh, discoverer of Pluto
• 1912 - Erich Leinsdorf, musical conductor (or 0203)
• 1918 - Ida Lupino, actress
• 1921 - Betty Friedan, feminist & writer (The Feminine Mystique)
• 1923 - Conrad Bain, actor
• 1931 - Isabel Peron, Argentine president
• 1935 - Martti Talvela, Finnish operatic basso
• 1943 - Cheryl Miller, in Sherman Oaks
• 1944 - Florence LaRue, in Gordon Pennsylvania & one of 5th Dimension
• 1948 - Alice Cooper, singer
• 1950 - Pamela Franklin,
• 1952 - Lisa Eichhorn,
• 1959 - Lawrence Taylor, NY Giants linebacker
• 1960 - Pamela Ferdin,

What Happen on This Historical Day

What Happen on This Historical Day

1697 - Isaac Newton receives Jean Bernoulli's 6 month time limit - solves problem before going to bed that same night


1788 - 1st settlement established by English in Australia (Sydney)


1837 - Mich admitted as 26th US state


1841 - Hong Kong was proclaimed a sovereign territory of Britain


1861 - La becomes 6th state to secede from US


1871 - American income tax repealed


1885 - Gen Gordon & troops slain by Sudanese in Khartoum


1905 - World's largest diamond found Cullinan diamond


1946 - Indian Republic Day


1950 - India becomes a republic ceaseing to be a British dominion


1954 - Ground breaking begins on Disneyland


1961 - 1st woman `personal physician to President' - JG Travell


1976 - Israel opens "Good Fence" to Lebanon


1979 - Nelson Rockefeller former VP & 4 time governor of NY died


1980 - Islanders & Whalers had a penality free game


1982 - Islanders score 4 goals within 1:38 5 within 2:37 vs Penguins


1984 - Nordiques' Michel Goulet scored on 9th penalty shot against Islanders


1986 - Chicago Bears defeat Patriots 46-10 in Super Bowl 20