On this Day...

[Bellicose]

1542 – Navigator João Rodrigues Cabrilho of Portugal arrives at what is now San Diego, California, United States.

1787 – The newly completed United States Constitution is voted on by the U.S. Congress to be sent to the state legislatures for approval.

1867 – Toronto becomes the capital of Ontario.

1924 - Two U.S. Army planes landed in Seattle, Wash., having completed the first round-the-world flight in 175 days.

1951 – CBS makes the first color televisions available for sale to the general public, but the product is discontinued less than a month later.

1991 Jazz musician Miles Davis died at age 65.

2000 The Food and Drug Administration approved the use of RU-486, a pill that allows a woman to terminate a pregnancy days or weeks after conception.

2005 The U.S. Treasury unveiled the new $10 bill, which features splashes of red, yellow and orange.

Births
1901 - Ed Sullivan
1954 Steve Largent, Football Hall of Famer, former congressman, turns 57
1962 Grant Fuhr, Hockey Hall of Famer, turns 49
1964 Janeane Garofalo, Actress, comedian, turns 47
1972 – Dita Von Teese, American burlesque artist
1976 – Fedor Emelianenko, Russian mixed martial artist
1979 – Bam Margera, American skateboarder
1984 – Ryan Zimmerman, American baseball player
1987 – Hilary Duff, American actress and singer
2000 – Frankie Jonas, American actor

Holidays and Observances
Ask a Stupid Question Day (United States)

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1535 – The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Miles Coverdale.

1824 – Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.

1876 – Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.

1883 – First run of the Orient Express.

1895 – The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.

1927 – Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.

1941 – Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post.

1957 – Space Race: Launch of Sputnik I, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.

1957 – Leave It To Beaver premieres on CBS.

1965 – Becoming the first Pope to ever visit the United States of America and the Western hemisphere, Pope Paul VI arrives in New York.

1976 – Official launch of the Intercity 125 High Speed Train (HST).

1997 – The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. An FBI investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million in cash which had been taken.

2004 – SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.

Births
1944 – Tony La Russa, American baseball manager

1946 – Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist

1957 – Russell Simmons, American entrepreneur

1979 – Rachael Leigh Cook, American actress

1988 – Derrick Rose, American basketball player

1989 – Lil Mama, American rapper

Deaths
1970 – Janis Joplin, American singer (b. 1943)

1982 – Stefanos Stefanopoulos, Greek politician, 165th Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1898)

1989 – Secretariat, American race horse (b. 1970)

Holidays and Observances
The beginning of World Space Week (International)

World Animal Day (International)

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1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar this day does not exist in this year in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1793 – French Revolution: Christianity is disestablished in France.

1857 – The City of Anaheim is founded.

1895 – The first individual time trial for racing cyclists is held on a 50-mile course north of London.

1905 – Wilbur Wright pilots Wright Flyer III in a flight of 24 miles in 39 minutes, a world record that stood until 1908.

1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time.

1947 – The first televised White House address is given by U.S. President Harry S. Truman.

1969 – The first episode of Monty Python's Flying Circus airs on BBC.

1970 – The Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) is founded.

1984 – Marc Garneau becomes the first Canadian in space, aboard the Space Shuttle Challenger.

1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper in Melbourne, Australia, is published for the last time as a separate newspaper.

1991 – The first official version of the Linux kernel, version 0.02, is released.

Births
1957 – Bernie Mac, American actor and comedian (d. 2008)

1960 – Daniel Baldwin, American actor

1962 – Michael Andretti, American race car driver

1965 – Mario Lemieux, Canadian ice hockey player

1965 – Patrick Roy, Canadian ice hockey player

1972 – Grant Hill, American basketball player

1978 – Jesse Palmer, Canadian-born American football player

1978 – Morgan Webb, Canadian-born television presenter

1978 – James Valentine, American musician (Maroon 5)

Deaths
1992 – Eddie Kendricks, American singer (The Temptations) (b. 1939)

1997 – Brian Pillman, American professional wrestler (b. 1962)

2004 – Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (b. 1921)

2011 – Steve Jobs, Co-founder of Apple Inc. (b. 1955)

Holidays and Observances
World Teachers' Day (International)

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1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal and Spain.

1600 – Jacopo Peri's Euridice, the earliest surviving opera, receives its première performance in Florence, signifying the beginning of the Baroque Period

1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

1876 – The American Library Association was founded.

1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

1889 – Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1898 – Ossian Everett Mills founds Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia in Boston, Massachusetts.

1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

1945 – Baseball: Billy Sianis and his pet billy goat are ejected from Wrigley Field during Game 4 of the 1945 World Series (see Curse of the Billy Goat).

1977 – The first prototype of the MiG-29, designated 9-01, makes its maiden flight.

1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Births
1951 – Kevin Cronin, American musician (REO Speedwagon)

1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach

1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr., American bowler and horseshoes champion
Used to watch him on TV with my Uncle, when I was a kid

Deaths
877 – Charles the Bald (b. 823) hahahah, that's a funny name

Holidays and Observances
German-American Day (United States)

[Bellicose]

Let's see if we can revive this again....

1911 – The first official flight with air mail takes place in Allahabad, British India, when Henri Pequet, a 23-year-old pilot, delivers 6,500 letters to Naini, about 10 kilometres (6.2 mi) away.

1930 – While studying photographs taken in January, Clyde Tombaugh discovers Pluto.

1930 – Elm Farm Ollie becomes the first cow to fly in a fixed-wing aircraft and also the first cow to be milked in an aircraft.

1954 – The first Church of Scientology is established in Los Angeles, California.

1955 – Operation Teapot: Teapot test shot "Wasp" is successfully detonated at the Nevada Test Site with a yield of 1.2 kilotons. Wasp is the first of fourteen shots of the Teapot series.

1977 – The Space Shuttle Enterprise test vehicle is carried on its maiden "flight" on top of a Boeing 747.

1978 – The first Ironman Triathlon competition takes place on the island of Oahu, won by Gordon Haller.

1979 – Snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria for the only time in recorded history.

2001 – Seven-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion Dale Earnhardt dies in an accident during the Daytona 500.

Birthdays

1933 – Yoko Ono, Japanese-born American singer and performance artist

1950 – Cybill Shepherd, American actress

1954 – John Travolta, American actor

1957 – Vanna White, American game show presenter

1964 – Matt Dillon, American actor

1965 – Dr. Dre, American record producer and rapper (World Class Wreckin' Cru and N.W.A)

1982 – Juelz Santana, American rapper (Skull Gang and The Diplomats)

Deaths

As mentioned above...
2001 – Dale Earnhardt, American race car driver (b. 1951)

[Bellicose]

1582 – Because of the implementation of the Gregorian calendar, this day is skipped in Italy, Poland,Portugal and Spain.

1683 – German immigrant families found Germantown in the colony of Pennsylvania, marking the first major immigration of German people to America.

1876 – The American Library Association was founded.

1884 – The Naval War College of the United States Navy is founded in Newport, Rhode Island.

1889 – American inventor Thomas Edison shows his first motion picture.

1927 – Opening of The Jazz Singer, the first prominent talking movie.

1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pontiff to visit the White House.

2007 – Jason Lewis completes the first human-powered circumnavigation of the globe.

Births....
1955 – Tony Dungy, American football coach

1959 – Walter Ray Williams Jr., American bowler and horseshoes champion

1963 – Elisabeth Shue, American film actress

Deaths....
1951 – Will Keith Kellogg, American food manufacturer (b. 1860)

1989 – Bette Davis, American actress (b. 1908)

1999 – Gorilla Monsoon, American professional wrestler/commentator (b. 1937)

Holidays and observances....
German-American Day (United States)

[EpicWin]

1635 - Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.

1701 - The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.

1776 - A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.

1781 - The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.

1812 - During the War of 1812 American forces captured two British brigs, the Detroit and the Caledonia.

1855 - Isaac Singer patented the sewing machine motor.

1855 - Joshua C. Stoddard received a patent for his calliope.

1858 - Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.

1872 - Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Watson made their longest telephone call to date. It was a distance of two miles.

1888 - The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.

1914 - During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.

1919 - The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the "Black Sox" scandal.

1930 - Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.

1935 - "Cavalcade of America" was first broadcast on CBS radio.

1936 - The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.

1940 - St. Paul's Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.

1943 - "Land of the Lost" debuted on ABC radio.

1946 - "The Iceman Cometh" opened in New York City, NY.

1946 - The first electric blanket went on sale in Petersburg, VA.

1947 - The Broadway show, "High Button Shoes", opened.

1963 - Over 2,000 people were killed in northeast Italy when the Vaiont Dam was overrun by water. The incident was caused by landslide that occurred behind the dam.

1967 - Che Guevara was executed by Bolivian soldiers for attempting to incite a revolution in Bolivia.

1974 - Oskar Schindler died in Frankfurt, Germany. Schindler is credited with saving the lives of about 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust.

1975 - Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of the hydrogen bomb."

1983 - Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.

1985 - The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.

1986 - U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of "high crimes and misdemeanors."

1986 - Joan Rivers debuted her new "The Late Show" on the FOX network.

1986 - The musical "Phantom of the Opera" by Andrew Lloyd Webber opened in London.

1989 - The official Soviet news agency Tass reported an unidentified flying object. The report included a trio of tall aliens that had visited the city of Voronzh.

1991 - The play revival "On Borrowed Time" opened.

1994 - The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.

1995 - Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.

2000 - Brett Hull (Dallas Stars) scored his 611th National Hockey League (NHL) goal. The goal allowed him to pass his father, Bobby Hull, on the all time scoring list bringing him to number 9.

2001 - Prosecutors in Miami, FL, announced that they would seek a prison sentence if O.J. Simpson was convicted in his road rage trial. Jury selection began for the trial just after the announcement.

2003 - Britain's Queen Elizabeth II knighted Roger Moore and made Sting a CBE (Commander of the British Empire).

2009 - NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon.

[Bellicose]

Damn you went and posted it all, I just post up the good facts that some people may care about. I also try and keep the killings and slaughters out as well.

[EpicWin]

Damn you went and posted it all, I just post up the good facts that some people may care about. I also try and keep the killings and slaughters out as well.

The Good the bad and the ugly, I never leave it out.

[Beau Stockard]

On This Date

By The Associated Press

1635	Religious dissident Roger Williams was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
1701	The Collegiate School of Connecticut – later Yale University – was chartered in New Haven.
1776	A group of Spanish missionaries settled in present-day San Francisco.
1888	The public was first admitted to the Washington Monument.
1930	Laura Ingalls became the first woman to fly across the United States as she completed a nine-stop journey from Roosevelt Field in New York to Glendale, Calif.
1936	The first generator at Boulder (later Hoover) Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles.
1946	The Eugene O'Neill drama "The Iceman Cometh" opened on Broadway.
1958	Pope Pius XII died at age 82.
1967	Guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in Bolivia while attempting to incite revolution.
1975	Soviet scientist Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
1985	The hijackers of the Achille Lauro cruise liner surrendered after the ship arrived in Port Said, Egypt.
1990	David Souter was sworn in as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
2001	Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., that later tested positive for anthrax spores were mailed to Sens. Tom Daschle, D-S.D., and Patrick Leahy, D-Vt.
2006	North Korea announced that it had conducted its first nuclear weapons test.
2006	Google Inc. announced it was snapping up YouTube Inc. for $1.65 billion in a stock deal.
2007	The Dow Jones industrial average closed at an all-time high of 14,164.53.
2008	The Dow Jones industrials fell below 9,000 – to 8,579.19 – for the first time in five years.
2009	President Barack Obama was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
2010	Chile's 33 trapped miners cheered and embraced each other as a drill punched into their underground chamber where they had been stuck for an agonizing 66 days. www.newyorktimes.com

[Bellicose]

Thanks for the list Beau, just curious though. Is the reason you picked said list and decided to post it, because of the second to last one?

[Beau Stockard]

Do you have a one-tracked mind,Bellicose? lol

[Bellicose]

I was just asking a simple question, a simple yes or no would of sufficed, the comment above. Did not actually answer the question.

[EpicWin]

I was just asking a simple question, a simple yes or no would of sufficed, the comment above. Did not actually answer the question.

Where you actually surprised by the response?