Today In history....
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i thought this might be an interesting and educational thread. it is amazing to see how many big events occur each day in history. feel free to add your own....
This day in history....May 31...
2010- In international waters, armed shayetet 13 commandos boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the gaza strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths. (this seems like just yesterday....)
2009- anti abortion activist scott roeder shoots and kills physician George Tiller during church services in wichita, ks.
2005- vanity fair reveals that mark felt was deep throat.
1977- the trans-alaska pipeline system completed
1970- the ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of yungay, peru killing more than 47,000 people.
1962- adolf eichmann is hanged in israel.
1942- WWII japanese midget subs begin a series of attacks on sydney, australia.
1941- anglo iraqi war. the uk completes the re-occupation of iraq and returns 'abd al-ilah to power as regent for faisel II.
1935- a 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys quetta, pakistan. 40,000 dead.
1929- the first talking cartoon of mickey mouse, "the karnival, kid" is released.
1927- the last ford model t is completed after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1911- the hull of the titanic is launched.
1909- the national negro committee, forerunner to naacp, convenes for the first time.
1864- american civil war: battle of cold harbor- army of northern virginia under robert e. lee engages the army of the potomac under ulysses s. grant and george meade.
1859- the clock tower at the houses of parliament, which houses big ben, starts keeping time.
1854- the civil death procedure is abolished in france.
1790- the US enacts its first copyright statute, the copyright act of 1790.
526- a devestating earthquake strikes antioch, turkey, 250,000 dead.
1279 bc- rameses II (the great) becomes phaaoh of ancient egypt.
This day in history....May 31...
2010- In international waters, armed shayetet 13 commandos boarded ships trying to break the ongoing blockade of the gaza strip, resulting in 9 civilian deaths. (this seems like just yesterday....)
2009- anti abortion activist scott roeder shoots and kills physician George Tiller during church services in wichita, ks.
2005- vanity fair reveals that mark felt was deep throat.
1977- the trans-alaska pipeline system completed
1970- the ancash earthquake causes a landslide that buries the town of yungay, peru killing more than 47,000 people.
1962- adolf eichmann is hanged in israel.
1942- WWII japanese midget subs begin a series of attacks on sydney, australia.
1941- anglo iraqi war. the uk completes the re-occupation of iraq and returns 'abd al-ilah to power as regent for faisel II.
1935- a 7.7 magnitude earthquake destroys quetta, pakistan. 40,000 dead.
1929- the first talking cartoon of mickey mouse, "the karnival, kid" is released.
1927- the last ford model t is completed after a production run of 15,007,003 vehicles.
1911- the hull of the titanic is launched.
1909- the national negro committee, forerunner to naacp, convenes for the first time.
1864- american civil war: battle of cold harbor- army of northern virginia under robert e. lee engages the army of the potomac under ulysses s. grant and george meade.
1859- the clock tower at the houses of parliament, which houses big ben, starts keeping time.
1854- the civil death procedure is abolished in france.
1790- the US enacts its first copyright statute, the copyright act of 1790.
526- a devestating earthquake strikes antioch, turkey, 250,000 dead.
1279 bc- rameses II (the great) becomes phaaoh of ancient egypt.
"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry." - Lincoln
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
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2009- gm files for chapter 11 bankrupycy. the 4th largest US bankruptcy in history.
2009- air france flight 447 crashes into the atlantic ocean off the coast of brazil killing all 228 passengers and crew.
2001- dolphanarium massacre- hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in tel aviv.
2001- nepalese royal massacre. crown prince of nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother the king and queen.
1993- dobrinja morter attack- 13 dead and133 wounded as serb morter chells are fired at a soccer game in dobrinja, west of sarajevo.
1990- george h w bush and mikhail gorbachev sign treaty to end xhemical weapon production.
1980- cnn begins broadcasting.
1974- the heimlich maneuver for rescuing choking victims is published in the journal Emergency Medicine.
1960- new zealand's first official television broadcast commences at 7:30 from auckland.1921- tulsa race riot- civil unrest in tulsa, ok.
1861- US civil war battle of fairfax courthouse, the first land battle of the civil war, after the battle of fort sumter. first confederate casualties occur in this battle.
1812- president james madison asks congress to declare war on the UK. beginning the war of 1812.
1796- tennessee admitted as the 16 state.
1792- kentucky becomes the 15th state.1779- benedict arnold is court-marshalled for malfeasance.
1533- anne boleyn crowned queen of engand.
1495- friar john cor records the first known batch of scotch whiskey.
987- hugh capet is elected king of france.
193- roman emperor didius julianus is assassinated.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
1985 UK Stonehenge
1st June 1985 : 500
Hippy travellers clash with police on their way to the ancient stone circle of Stonehenge in Wiltshire for an illegal festival, the police set up a roadblock seven miles from Stonehenge. The day is known as "The Battle of the Beanfield" and was the first major test of an English Heritage ban on midsummer festivals at Stonehenge.
Adelaide 1998
Adelaide 2003
Adelaide 2006 night 1
Adelaide 2006 night 2
Adelaide 2009
Melbourne 2009
Christchurch NZ 2009
Eddie Vedder, Adelaide 2011
PJ20 USA 2011 night 1
PJ20 USA 2011 night 2
Adelaide BIG DAY OUT 2014
Does it count as a day in history if it is still March 31st?
Key Arena - Nov 05, 2000
Gorge Amphitheater - Sep 01, 2005, Jul 22,23, 2006
Key Arena - Sept 21,22, 2009
Alpine Valley - Sept 3, 4 2011
1990 : During an historic meeting between President George H. W. Bush and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev the leaders sign an historic agreement to end the production of chemical weapons and begin the destruction of reserves of chemical weapons.
1985 : The United States and the Soviet Union faced a stalemate when discussing arms control . Neither side seemed willing to compromise but both sides opened up the possibility for discussion.
1980 : The first 24-hour news television station – CNN is launched in Atlanta, Georgia
1979: End of white rule in Rhodesia: Rhodesia formally ends nearly 90 years of white minority rule and declares it will now be known as Zimbabwe-Rhodesia
1968 : The famous blind and deaf author Helen Keller, who became a world-famous speaker, Political Activist and author, dies.
1967 : One of the most iconic LP's from the 1960's is released by The Beatles Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band selling over 8 million copies worldwide.
1958: De Gaulle returns to tackle Algeria: France's General Charles de Gaulle is invited back to the helm as the crisis in Algeria threatens to bring civil war to France itself.
1944 : The British Broadcasting Corp. aired the coded message from the first line of a poem by Paul Verlaine to underground resistance fighters in France to inform the French resistance that the D-Day invasion was imminent.
1942 : A Warsaw underground newspaper, the Liberty Brigade, is the first public newspaper to tell the world about the death camps in Poland where tens of thousands of Jews are gassed to death at Chelmno, a death camp in Poland.
1938 : Superman created by American writer Jerry Siegel and Canadian artist Joe Shuster made his first appearance in D.C. Comics’ Action Comics Series issue #1 which sold for 10 cents.
1935 : Compulsory Driving Test is introduced for all drivers in England who started driving on or after 1 Apr 1934. A voluntary test was introduced by the Road Traffic Act in 1934 and the first person in Britain to take the test and pass is Mr R.E.L. BEERE. The test took place on the 16th March 1935. The son of Mr R.E.L. BEERE. still has the certificate 00001 signed in behalf of the (then) Minister of Transport. All drivers buying a temporary driving license must now put ‘L’ plates on the car and take a driving test to get their full license.
1754 : Lieutenant Colonel George Washington begins the Seven Years' War
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-hist ... -years-war
History is a good way to guide our the future.
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Godfather.
1994: MI5 officers killed in helicopter crash. Twenty of Britain's top intelligence experts are killed when a RAF helicopter crashes on the Mull of Kintyre.
1989: 10,000 Chinese soldiers are blocked by 100,000 citizens protecting students demonstrating for democracy in Tiananmen Square, Beijing.
1985: UEFA bans English clubs from Europe. English clubs are banned from playing in Europe indefinitely, after the riot at Brussels' Heysel stadium in which 39 people died.
1979: Millions cheer as the Pope comes home. The Pope is greeted by two million people as he sets foot on his native soil of Poland.
1966: First US space probe lands on Moon. The United States lands a spacecraft on the Moon on its first try, but four months behind the Soviet Union.
1953: Queen Elizabeth takes coronation oath. Queen Elizabeth II is crowned at a coronation ceremony in Westminster Abbey in London.
1863: Harriet Tubman leads Union guerrillas into Maryland, freeing slaves.
1857: James Gibbs, Va, patents chain-stitch single-thread sewing machine.
1851: 1st U.S. alcohol prohibition law enacted, Maine.
1835: P. T. Barnum and his circus begin 1st tour of US.
1692: Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
1676: Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
1615: First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
455 A D Gaiseric and the Vandals sacked Rome.
1935 : Babe Ruth retires
On this day in 1935, Babe Ruth, one of the greatest players in the history of baseball, ends his Major League playing career after 22 seasons, 10 World Series and 714 home runs. The following year, Ruth, a larger-than-life figure whose name became synonymous with baseball, was one of the first five players inducted into the sport's hall of fame.
1537 - Pope Paul III banned the enslavement of Indians.
1774 - The Quartering Act, which required American colonists to allow British soldiers into their houses, was reenacted.
1793 - Maximillian Robespierre initiated the "Reign of Terror". It was an effort to purge those suspected of treason against the French Republic.
1818 - The British army defeated the Maratha alliance in Bombay, India.
1851 - Maine became the first U.S. state to enact a law prohibiting alcohol.
1883 - The first baseball game under electric lights was played in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
1886 - Grover Cleveland became the second U.S. president to get married while in office. He was the first to have a wedding in the White House.
1896 - Guglieimo Marconi's radio was patented in the U.S.
1897 - Mark Twain, at age 61, was quoted by the New York Journal as saying "the report of my death was an exaggeration." He was responding to the rumors that he had died.
1910 - Charles Stewart Roll became the first person to fly across the English Channel.
1924 - All American Indians were granted U.S. citizenship by the U.S. Congress.
1928 - Nationalist Chiang Kai-shek captured Peking, China.
1930 - Mrs. M. Niezes of Panama gave birth to the first baby to be born on a ship while passing through the Panama Canal.
1933 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt accepted the first swimming pool to be built inside the White House.
1935 - George Herman "Babe" Ruth announced that he was retiring from baseball.
1937 - "The Fabulous Dr. Tweedy" was broadcast on NBC radio for the first time.
1941 - Lou Gehrig died in New York of the degenerative disease amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.
1946 - Italians voted by referendum to form a republic instead of a monarchy.
1953 - Elizabeth was crowned queen of England at Westminster Abbey.
1954 - U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy charged that there were communists working in the CIA and atomic weapons plants.
1957 - Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was interviewed by CBS-TV.
1966 - Surveyor 1, the U.S. space probe, landed on the moon and started sending photographs back to Earth of the Moon's surface. It was the first soft landing on the Moon.
1969 - The National Arts Center in Canada opened its doors to the public.
1969 - Australian aircraft carrier Melbourne sliced the destroyer USS Frank E. Evans in half off the shore of South Vietnam.
1979 - Pope John Paul II arrived in his native Poland on the first visit by a pope to a Communist country.
1985 - The R.J. Reynolds Company proposed a major merger with Nabisco that would create a $4.9 billion conglomerate.
1985 - Tommy Sandt was ejected from a major-league baseball game before the national anthem was played. He had complained to the umpire about a call against his team the night before.
1995 - Captain Scott F. O'Grady's U.S. Air Force F-16C was shot down by Bosnian Serbs. He was rescued six days later.
1997 - Timothy McVeigh was found guilty of the bombing of a federal building in Oklahoma City in which 168 people were killed.
1998 - Royal Caribbean Cruises agreed to pay $9 million to settle charges of dumping waste at sea.
1998: Barrie
2000: Montreal, Toronto, Auburn Hills
2003: Cleveland, Buffalo, Toronto, Montreal
2004: Boston X2, Grand Rapids
2005: Kitchener, London, Hamilton, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto
2006: Toronto X2
2009: Toronto
2011: PJ20, Montreal, Toronto X2, Hamilton
2012: Manchester X2, Amsterdam X2, Prague, Berlin X2, Philadelphia, Missoula
2013: Pittsburg, Buffalo
2014: Milan, Trieste, Vienna, Berlin, Stockholm, Oslo, Detroit
2016: Ottawa, Toronto X2
2018: Padova, Rome, Prague, Krakow, Berlin, Barcelona
2023: Chicago X2
2024: New York X2
1989: Election boost for Solidarity. Initial results suggest Poland's Solidarity party will claim a remarkable success in the country's elections.
1981: Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays, AIDS.
1975: British population agrees to European Common Market membership.
1972: Duke of Windsor laid to rest. World leaders attend the funeral in Windsor of the former King of Britain who abdicated in 1936.
1968: Robert Kennedy injured in shooting. Senator Robert Kennedy is shot and seriously wounded shortly after giving a victory speech in a Los Angeles hotel.
1967: Israel launches attack on Egypt. Israeli forces launch a pre-emptive strike on Egypt prompting Arab allies to get involved in a ground and air battle.
1963: Profumo resigns over sex scandal. Secretary of State for War, John Profumo, resigns admitting he lied to Parliament about his relationship with a call girl.
1950: U.S. Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation.
1945: U.S., U.K., U.S.S.R., France declare supreme authority over Germany.
1944: 1st B-29 bombing raid; 1 plane lost due to engine failure.
1944: 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day.
1944: Allies march into Rome.
1944: Celebrations as Rome is liberated. The people of Rome crowd onto the streets to welcome the victorious Allied troops.
1805: 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley", Southern Illinois.
754: Friezen murders bishop Boniface and over 50 companions.
70: Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem
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Here are a few more for June 5..
2006- Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro.
2003- severe heatwave in pakistan and india reaches it's peak with temperatures reaching 50 degrees C, or 122 degrees F...
2001- Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall in texas causing $5.5 billion in damage making Allison the costliest tropical storm in US history.
1998- 7 week long strike at the GM plants factory in Flint ,MI begins. this spread to five other assembly plants.
1989- the unknown rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over 30 minutes after the tiananmen square protests. this was one of the lasting images to come from that protest.
1977- the apple II, one of the first home personal computers goes on sale.
1976- Teton dam collapses in Idaho.
1975- suez canal opens for the first time since the six day war.
1967- six day war begins. israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive strikes on the air forces of egypt and syria.
1956- Elvis Presley introduces his new single "hound dog" on the milton berle show scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1942- US declares war on bulgaria, hungary, and romania.
1917- WWI conscription begins in the US as "army registration day".
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
I first read that as "huge carpet".
Fargo 2003
Winnipeg 2005
Winnipeg 2011
St. Paul 2014
1933 : FDR takes United States off gold standard
On June 5, 1933, the United States went off the gold standard, a monetary system in which currency is backed by gold, when Congress enacted a joint resolution nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold. The United States had been on a gold standard since 1879, except for an embargo on gold exports during World War I, but bank failures during the Great Depression of the 1930s frightened the public into hoarding gold, making the policy untenable.
Godfather.
The Normandy landings, also known as Operation Neptune, were the landing operations of the Allied invasion of Normandy, in Operation Overlord, during World War II. The landings commenced on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 (D-Day), beginning at 6:30 AM British Double Summer Time (GMT+2). In planning, D-Day was the term used for the day of actual landing, which was dependent on final approval.
1752: Franklin flies kite during thunderstorm
On this day in 1752, Benjamin Franklin flies a kite during a thunderstorm and collects a charge in a Leyden jar when the kite is struck by lightning, enabling him to demonstrate the electrical nature of lightning. Franklin became interested in electricity in the mid-1740s, a time when much was still unknown on the topic, and spent almost a decade conducting electrical experiments. He coined a number of terms used today, including battery, conductor and electrician. He also invented the lightning rod, used to protect buildings and ships.
2008 Irish voters reject the Treaty of Lisbon
2004 Former President George H. W. Bush celebrates his 80th birthday by skydiving
1994 Pope John Paul II visits Spain
1994 Cab Calloway suffered massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY
1991 Boris Yelstin elected president of Russian Federation
1991 Mount Pinatubo volcano on Philippines erupts
1989 Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids
1986 P. W. Botha declares South African national emergency
1982 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park New York City
1982 Battle of Mount Longdon, Falkland Islands
1982 Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel perform in Rotterdam
1981 "Raiders Of The Lost Ark" starring Harrison Ford premieres
1979 Bryan Allen flew man-powered Gossamer Albatross over English Channel in a human-powered aircraft; flight took 2 hours, 49 minutes
1978 David Berkowitz sentenced in New York Supreme Court to 25 years to life
1978 U.S. House of Representatives allows live radio coverage
1977 Ground-breaking ceremonies for President Kennedy library
1967 Race riot in Cincinnati Ohio, 300 arrested
1967 Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages
1967 U.S.S.R. launches Venera 4 for parachute landing on Venus
1965 Beatles are awarded MBE
1965 Rolling Stones release "Satisfaction"
1965 Sonny and Cher make their 1st TV appearance, "American Bandstand"
1965 Big Bang theory of creation of universe is supported by announcement of discovery of new celestial bodies know as blue galaxies
1964 Nelson Mandela is sentenced to life in prison in South Africa
1962 3 convicts used spoons to dig their way out of Alcatraz
1962 USAF Major Robert M White takes X-15 to 56,270 m
1957 Paul Anderson of U.S. back-lifts a record 2850 kg (6,270 lbs)
1954 Bill Haley's "Rock Around the Clock," is originally released
1952 U.S.S.R. declares peace treaty with Japan invalid
1945 U.S. 7th Marine regiment conquer summit of Kunishi Ridge, Okinawa
1944 1st V-1 rocket assault on London
1944 Churchill/Marshall/Arnold visit Montgomery's HQ in Chateau de Creully
1943 Himmler orders extermination of all Polish ghettos
1942 Anne Frank gets her diary as a birthday present, Amsterdam
1942 Hitler orders enslavement of Slavic peoples
1939 Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York
1937 U.S.S.R. executes 8 army leaders as Stalin's purge continues
1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana spoke continually for 15 hours in Senate's longest speech on record (150,000 words)
1931 Al Capone is indicted on 5,000 counts of prohibition and perjury
1926 Brazil leaves League of Nations
1923 Harry Houdini frees himself from a straight jacket while suspended upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above ground in New York City
1918 1st airplane bombing raid by an American unit, France
1917 Secret Service extends protection of president to his family
1908 Lusitania crosses Atlantic in record 4 days 15 hours, New York City
1900 German Navy Law calls for massive increase in sea power
1859 Comstock Silver Lode in Nevada discovered
1849 Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Kentucky
1839 1st baseball game played in America
1812 Napoleon invades Russia
1792 George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver BC
1787 Law passes providing a senator must be at least 30 years old
1775 1st naval battle of Revolution-Unity (U.S.) captures Margaretta (Br)
1714 Prussia and Russia sign secret treaty
1701 Act of Settlement gives English crown to Sophia, Princess of Hanover
1691 Pope Innocent XII succeeds Alexander VIII
1683 Rye House-plot against English king Charles II uncovered
1673 Charles II's brother duke James of York resigns as Lord High Admiral
1672 French army under General Turenne crosses Rhine at Lobith
1667 Michiel de Ruyter destroys English fleet
1665 English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out
1653 Battle at North Foreland: English fleet beats Dutch
1575 William of Orange marries Charlotte de Bourbon
1553 King Edward VI accept archbishop Cranmers "42 Articles"
1552 Land guardians of Netherlands attacks Verdun
1534 Turkish Admiral Chaireddin "Barbarossa" allows Giulia Gonzaga to kidnap and plunder Naples
1523 Frisian rebel leader Jancko Douwama arrested
1442 King Alfonso V of Aragon occupies Naples
28 Gaius Carrinas' triumphant procession through Rome
1777: Congress adopts the Stars and Stripes
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress adopts a resolution stating that "the flag of the United States be thirteen alternate stripes red and white" and that "the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." The national flag, which became known as the "Stars and Stripes," was based on the "Grand Union" flag, a banner carried by the Continental Army in 1776 that also consisted of 13 red and white stripes. According to legend, Philadelphia seamstress Betsy Ross designed the new canton for the Stars and Stripes, which consisted of a circle of 13 stars and a blue background, at the request of General George Washington. Historians have been unable to conclusively prove or disprove this legend.
With the entrance of new states into the United States after independence, new stripes and stars were added to represent new additions to the Union. In 1818, however, Congress enacted a law stipulating that the 13 original stripes be restored and that only stars be added to represent new states.
On June 14, 1877, the first Flag Day observance was held on the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the Stars and Stripes. As instructed by Congress, the U.S. flag was flown from all public buildings across the country. In the years after the first Flag Day, several states continued to observe the anniversary, and in 1949 Congress officially designated June 14 as Flag Day, a national day of observance
1992: Teflon Don sentenced to life
Mafia boss John Gotti, who was nicknamed the "Teflon Don" after escaping unscathed from several trials during the 1980s, is sentenced to life in prison after being found guilty on 14 accounts of conspiracy to commit murder and racketeering. Moments after his sentence was read in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, hundreds of Gotti's supporters stormed the building and overturned and smashed cars before being forced back by police reinforcements.
Gotti, born and educated on the mean streets of New York City, became head of the powerful Gambino family after boss Paul Castellano was murdered outside a steakhouse in Manhattan in December 1985. The gang assassination, the first in three decades in New York, was organized by Gotti and his colleague Sammy "the Bull" Gravano. The Gambino family was known for its illegal narcotics operations, gambling activities, and car theft. During the next five years, Gotti rapidly expanded his criminal empire, and his family grew into the nation's most powerful Mafia family. Despite wide publicity of his criminal activities, Gotti managed to avoid conviction several times, usually through witness intimidation. In 1990, however, he was indicted for conspiracy to commit murder in the death of Paul Castellano, and Gravano agreed to testify against him in a federal district court in exchange for a reduced prison sentence.
On April 2, 1992, John Gotti was found guilty on all counts and on June 23 was sentenced to multiple life terms without the possibility of parole.
While still imprisoned, Gotti died of throat cancer on June 10, 2002.
and........SANTA MONICA, Calif. -- James "Whitey" Bulger, a notorious Boston gangster on the FBI's "Ten Most Wanted" list for his alleged role in 19 murders, was captured Wednesday near Los Angeles after living on the run for 16 years, authorities said.
Bulger, 81, was arrested along with his longtime girlfriend, 60-year-old Catherine Greig, in the early evening at a residence in Santa Monica, said a law enforcement official who was not authorized to speak publicly about the case. The arrest was based on a tip.
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today they posted a hundred or so articles from july 6, 1861. i found this one from the new york times particularly interesting. it was called "accidents" and talks of how many people were injured celebrating the july 4th holiday. many many accidental gunshot wounds, a firecracker mishap, a man passed out drunk shot in the arm and didn't wake up, and most interesting to me is a 99 year old man fell out of a 5 story building. at age 99 he would have been born in 1761, so before the american revolution occurred...
ACCIDENTS.
Published: July 6, 1861
http://www.nytimes.com/1861/07/06/news/ ... 1&sq=&st=p
Many casualties are reported, mainly among boys, by the careless use of firearms. Fourteen persons, injured in this manner, were received in the New-York Hospital during Wednesday night and Thursday, and about the same number were taken to Bellevue Hospital. Some of the wounded are very much disfigured by the explosion of gunpowder, while at least a dozen were injured so seriously as to make amputation of the fingers or portions of the hands necessary.
A boy named GEORGE BUCKEY, aged fourteen years, accidentally shot himself, through the hand, while discharging a pistol in Division-street, near the Bowery.
A woman named JOANNA KRIPPS was seriously injured by the discharge of a pistol in the hands of a boy, while passing along Market-street. The contents of the pistol, an iron ramrod, passed through her thigh, producing a dangerous wound. She was taken to the New-York Hospital.
GEORGE HARTFORD was shot by a pistol in the hands of another boy, on the corner of Cherry and Oliver streets. Taken to the New-York Hospital, where a finger was amputated.
WM. BURKE, a boy residing at No. 51 Cherry-street, was shot by a pistol in the thumb of the left hand.
WM. WAGENER, a boy, had his hand severely lacerated by the premature discharge of a pistol at No. 83 Baxter-street. Taken to the New-York Hospital.
WM. H. BOYLE, a boy, had his thumb taken off by the discharge of a pistol, in Lispenard-street.
THOMAS SIMPSON, a boy, received a gunshot in his left shoulder, at No. 105 Mott-street, at the hands of another boy, named JOHN MCDERMOTT. Taken to the New-York Hospital.
A man named WILLIAM MURPHY endeavord to recuperate from the effects of a debauch by taking a snooze on the pier, at the foot of James-street. While lying there asleep, he was accidentally shot in the arm by a boy, but the injury did not disturb his slumbers and he knew nothing of it until morning, when he found blood streaming from the wound. He was placed in the City Hospital.
THOMAS WARD, a lad 14 years of age, residing at No. 56 Rutgers street, was dreadfully injured, on Wednesday night, by the bursting of a pistol, which he was discharging in the street, near his residence. After receiving medical attention he was taken home.
EDWARD DALTON received a pistol shot in the head in Mott-street, near Grand. He was taken home.
JACOB GOODBREAD had his finger shot in Stanton street; was taken to Bellevue Hospital.
JAMES PILLON, residing at No. 326 East Thirteenth-street, was seriously shot in the knee.
ALONZO ALENO, a boy living at No. 3 Baxter-street, was accidentally shot by a pistol in the hands of another boy, and seriously injured in the arm. Taken to the New-York Hospital.
MICHAEL HANNAN, a boy, was shot in the face at the corner of Baxter and Worth-streets. Taken to the Hospital.
HENRY WENSEL, shot in the face at the corner of Thomas and Hudson-streets, and taken to the New-York Hospital.
DAVID FRISCO, a man living at No. 43 Elizabeth street, was very seriously injured by the premature discharge of a pistol. He was taken to the New-York Hospital by officer WELCH.
A boy named JAMES HUNT, was badly burned in the face while blowing into a large fire-cracker which he had a moment before ignited and thrown upon the ground. Taken to New-York Hospital.
PATRICK DOYLE was wounded by a pistol shot, while looking at a crowd on the corner of Chatham and Baxter-streets. Taken to New York Hospital.
CORNELIUS SULLIVAN, seventeen years of age, was shot in the eye while firing a cannon on the corner of Moore and Front streets. He had his left eye blown out. Taken to New-York Hospital.
DANIEL MCINERVE, a boy living at No. 5 Broad-street, was badly wounded in the hand by the discharge of a pistol he was firing. He was taken to the Hospital.
MARY SMITH, a colored woman, was dangerously stabbed by CHARLES SMITH, her husband. Thursday morning, at No. 10 Mulberry-street. She was taken to the Hospital, and the ruffian was quickly arrested.
Two brothers, named JAMES and WILLIAM MCLAUGHLIN, residing at No. 4 Clarkson-street, went on board the steamship Kangaroo, at Pier No. 44, North River Thursday afternoon, and they were both precipitated into the hold. WILLIAM was injured about the head, and his recovery is doubtful. JAMES suffered a fracture of several ribs. Both were taken to the New-York Hospital.
THOMAS FRAZIER, a lad, died at the City Hospital yesterday, in consequence of injuries received on Thursday evening, when a stage ran over him at the corner of Broadway and Walker-street.
PATRICK O'HEARN, a watchman employed by the Harlem Railroad Company, was killed on Thursday evening on the track near One hundred and Seventh street. He had gone to sleep on the rails and a train passed over his body.
A boy, 14 years of age, named DANIEL FERNEY, had one of his hands badly injured by the premature discharge of a pistol. He was taken to his home in Third-avenue, near Eighty-first-street, by Officer RILEY.
PATRICK DUNN, a man 99 years of age, fell from the fifth story of No. 578 Second avenue, and was instantly killed.
A boy named JAMES BRADY was shot in the side and dangerously wounded by a pistol loaded with ball, fired by a youth named JOHN O'BRIEN. BRADY was taken to Bellevue Hospital, and O'BRIEN was arrested and locked up.
PATRICK GANNON, a child, was run over in Second-avenue, corner of Thirty-ninth-street, by car No. 12, and instantly killed. The body was taken to the residence of his parents, in Thirty-ninth street, near First-avenue.
Mrs. O'HARE, residing in Carmansville, was thrown from a wagon in Third avenue, and badly injured. Her husband and child, who were also in the wagon, escaped injury.
A boy, named LEAVICK, shot himself in the hand.
PETER PARKER was shot in the side by a pistol loaded with ball. Wound serious.
"Well, you tell him that I don't talk to suckas."
July 7
On this day in 1930, construction of the Hoover Dam begins. Over the next five years, a total of 21,000 men would work ceaselessly to produce what would be the largest dam of its time, as well as one of the largest manmade structures in the world.
Although the dam would take only five years to build, its construction was nearly 30 years in the making. Arthur Powell Davis, an engineer from the Bureau of Reclamation, originally had his vision for the Hoover Dam back in 1902, and his engineering report on the topic became the guiding document when plans were finally made to begin the dam in 1922.
Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States and a committed conservationist, played a crucial role in making Davis’ vision a reality. As secretary of commerce in 1921, Hoover devoted himself to the erection of a high dam in Boulder Canyon, Colorado. The dam would provide essential flood control, which would prevent damage to downstream farming communities that suffered each year when snow from the Rocky Mountains melted and joined the Colorado River. Further, the dam would allow the expansion of irrigated farming in the desert, and would provide a dependable supply of water for Los Angeles and other southern California communities.
Even with Hoover's exuberant backing and a regional consensus around the need to build the dam, Congressional approval and individual state cooperation were slow in coming. For many years, water rights had been a source of contention among the western states that had claims on the Colorado River. To address this issue, Hoover negotiated the Colorado River Compact, which broke the river basin into two regions with the water divided between them. Hoover then had to introduce and re-introduce the bill to build the dam several times over the next few years before the House and Senate finally approved the bill in 1928.
In 1929, Hoover, now president, signed the Colorado River Compact into law, claiming it was "the most extensive action ever taken by a group of states under the provisions of the Constitution permitting compacts between states."
Once preparations were made, the Hoover Dam's construction sprinted forward: The contractors finished their work two years ahead of schedule and millions of dollars under budget. Today, the Hoover Dam is the second highest dam in the country and the 18th highest in the world. It generates enough energy each year to serve over a million people, and stands, in Hoover Dam artist Oskar Hansen's words, as "a monument to collective genius exerting itself in community efforts around a common need or ideal."
-The US Atomic bombing of Nagasaki
@ 11:02 am, the bomb code named "Fat Boy" was dropped over Nagasaki Japan, killing est -80,000-100,000 people on the first day, thousands more months and years later due to cancers/radiation/burns. (65 years on)
The bomb did not differentiate the young from the old, nor the soldier from the school child, The bomb destroyed without hesitation, with no bias. It did it's job and killed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyqN_rutJIc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqXX4GUETSg
in truth,
The Mall of America, Americas largest mall (Church?place of worship?) opened it's doors. Cost 650Million (USD)
The crew placed the ship on autopilot and did not have a crew member watch the ship. Even with autopilot standard practice calls for one crew member to watch the controls since the wind and currents drag the ship to a degree that cannot be compensated by the electronic systems. The crew deployed the fin stabilizers system to decrease the motions in bad weather; normally both stabilizer fins deployed, but in this case the port stabilizer fin did not deploy. This caused the ship to drift and therefore not travel in a straight line. A crew member discovered the problem and, at the last minute, tried to steer the ship to port. This action occurred too late. At 10:12 P.M. the ship struck the east face of the taller Portes pinnacle. The rocks tore a six-meter long and one-meter wide hole above the water line. After that impact, the rocks bent the stabilizer fin backwards, and the fin cut through the hull through the side, below the waterline, and next to the engine room. The water from the three-meter gash destroyed the main generators and ended electrical power. Professor David Molyneaux, a ship safety expert, said that the damage sustained by the MS Express Samina should not normally sink such a ship. The ship sank because nine of the ship's eleven watertight compartment doors were open when safety laws require ship operators to close and lock the safety doors. The water spread beyond the engine room, and due to a lack of power the operators could not remotely shut the doors. Molyneaux described the open watertight doors as the most significant aspect of the sinking.
* MS Express Samina (Greek: Εξπρές Σαμίνα) was a RORO passenger ferry built as MS Corse In 1966 at Chantiers de l'Atlantique, St Nazaire, France for Compagnie Generale Transatlantique along with her sister ship MS Comte De Nice. In 1969 she was transferred to Compagnie Generale Transmediterraneenne. After six years service, the company changed its name again, to SNCM to which she was transferred. In 1982 she sailed from France for the last time as she was sold to a Greek company, Stability Maritime, to operate their Italy-Greece-Israel route under her new name MS Golden Vergina. In 1988 she was sold to the Agapitos Bros for service in the Aegean sea without name change under Agapitos Lines. In 1999 she was sold to Minoan Flying Dolphins, again for service in the Aegean, re-named MS Express Samina.