Post by krisco on Jul 18, 2006 17:01:48 GMT -6
What happened today in history?
64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans
1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montr‚al, PQ
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1940 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
1942 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1966 Gemini 10 launched
1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 Intel incorporates
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000
1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins
(1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1989 Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by an obsessed fan. The killing prompted California in 1990 to pass the nation's first anti-stalking law.
1998 A 23-foot tidal wave along the coast of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.
1999 David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched the 14th perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a game against the Montreal Expos.
2003 Basketball star Kobe Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a Colorado spa. (The charge was later dropped because the woman did not want to go ahead with a trial.)
2003 The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found. He had committed suicide.
2005 An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
2005 Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, died at age 91.
64 Great Fire of Rome begins (Nero didn't fiddle)
390 -BC- Battle of Allia-Gauls inflict heavy casualties on Romans
1536 Pope's authority declared void in England
1716 Jews are expelled from Brussels Belgium
1743 1st half-page newspaper ad is published (New York Weekly Journal)
1814 British capture Prairie du Chien (Wisc)
1853 1st train to cross the US-Canada boundary, Portland, Me.-Montr‚al, PQ
1853 Completion of Grand Trunk Line, Americas 1st intl railroad
1872 Britain introduces secret ballot voting
1914 US army air service 1st comes into being, in the Signal Corps
1915 Boston Braves start move from last place to become world series champs
1918 US & French forces launch Aisne-Marne offensive in WW I
1927 Ty Cobb's 4,000th career hit
1931 1st air-conditioned ship (Mariposa) launched
1932 US & Canada signed a treaty to develop St Lawrence Seaway
1936 Spanish Civil War begans, Gen Francisco Franco led uprising
1938 Douglas "Wrong Way" Corrigan arrives in Ireland-left NY for Calif
1940 1st successful helicopter flight, Stratford, Ct
1940 The Democratic National Convention in Chicago nominated President Franklin D. Roosevelt for an unprecedented third term in office.
1942 1st legal NJ horse race in 50 years; Garden State Park track opens
1942 Messerschmitt Me 262 Schwalbe, 1st jet fighter, takes 1st flight
1947 US receives UN trusteeship over Pacific Islands
1948 Pat Seerey of Chicago White Sox hits 4 HRs in a game
1951 Jersey Joe Walcott at 37 becomes oldest to win heavyweight champion
1951 Uruguay accepts its constitution
1955 1st electric power generated from atomic energy sold commercially
1959 1st black to win a major golf tournament (William Wright)
1960 Baseball's NL votes to add Houston & NY franchises
1965 Zond 3 launched to fly by Moon, enters solar orbit
1966 Carl Sagan turns 1 billion seconds old
1966 Gemini 10 launched
1967 Silver hits record $1.87 an ounce in NY
1968 Intel incorporates
1970 Ron Hunt gets hit by a pitch for a record 119th time
1970 Willie Mays hits # 3,000
1972 200,000 attend Mt Pocono rock festival in Penns
1974 World's tallest structure, 646-m Polish radio mast, completed
1975 Jury can't decide on trial of Dave Fopbes of Boston Bruins
(1st athlete indicted for excessive violence during play)
1976 Thiokol conducts 2-min firing of space shuttle's SRB at Brigham, Ut
1978 Billy Martin suspends Reggie Jackson for not bunting
1980 Rohini 1, 1st Indian satellite, launches into orbit
1984 James Huberty kills 21 McDonalds patrons in San Ysidro Calif
1984 Walter F Mondale wins Democratic presidential nomination in SF
1986 Videotapes released showing Titanic's sunken remains
1989 Actress Rebecca Schaeffer was shot to death at her Los Angeles home by an obsessed fan. The killing prompted California in 1990 to pass the nation's first anti-stalking law.
1998 A 23-foot tidal wave along the coast of Papua New Guinea killed nearly 3,000 people.
1999 David Cone of the New York Yankees pitched the 14th perfect game in modern major league baseball history in a game against the Montreal Expos.
2003 Basketball star Kobe Bryant was charged with sexually assaulting a 19-year-old woman at a Colorado spa. (The charge was later dropped because the woman did not want to go ahead with a trial.)
2003 The body of British scientist David Kelly, a weapons expert at the center of a storm over British intelligence on Iraq, was found. He had committed suicide.
2005 An unrepentant Eric Rudolph was sentenced in Birmingham, Ala., to life in prison for an abortion clinic bombing that killed an off-duty police officer and maimed a nurse.
2005 Retired Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. forces during the Vietnam War, died at age 91.