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On This Day: Saturday August 26, 2006

This is the 238th day of the year, with 127 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: muses

In Greek and Roman mythology, the muses were a group of sister goddesses whose cult was based on Mount Helicon in Greece. They were probably originally the patron goddesses of poets, who in ancient times were also musicians. However, they later influenced all liberal arts and sciences, hence their connection with such institutions as the "museum."

Holidays

Feast Day of St. Bergwine, archbishop of Canterbury, St. John Wall, St. Mary Desmaisieres, St. Pandonia, and St. Teresa Jornet Ihars.
Namibia: Heroes' Day.
United States: Women's Equality Day.

Events

55 B.C.E. - Roman forces under Julius Caesar invaded Britain.
1429 - Joan of Arc made a triumphant entry into Paris.
1791 - John Fitch was granted a United States patent for the steamboat.
1847 - Liberia was proclaimed an independent republic.
1883 - The volcano Krakatoa erupted in the largest recorded explosion.
1939 - WXBS of New York City televised the first major league baseball games.
1957 - Ford Motor Company unveiled the Edsel.
1968 - As the Democratic National Convention began in Chicago, thousands of antiwar demonstrators protested the Vietnam War and its support by presidential candidate, Vice President Hubert Humphrey.

Births

1743 - Antoine Laurent Lavoisier, French chemist, known as the "Father of Modern Chemistry."
1874 - Lee De Forest, American physicist, inventor, considered the "Father of radio."
1906 - Albert Sabin, Polish-born American polio researcher.
1982 - crypticvitality!!!!! Happy Birthday!!!!

Deaths

1974 - Charles Lindbergh, American pioneer aviator and first person to fly solo, nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.

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Apathetic

S'been a while...so, here ya go:

On This Day: Friday August 25, 2006

This is the 237th day of the year, with 128 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: New England

New England is in the northeastern region of the United States. The six states that make up New England are Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut. The region was named by Captain John Smith, who explored its shores in 1614 on behalf of some London merchants. New England was soon settled by English Puritans who believed in hard work and were happy to spend their time building new communities.

Holidays

Feast Day of St. Ebba, St. Genesius the Comedian, St. Gregory of Utrecht, St. Louis IX, King of France, St. Mennas of Constantinople, and St. Patricia.
Uruguay: Independence Day.
Philippines: National Heroes' Day.

Events

1718 - Hundreds of French colonists arrived in Louisiana, some settling in what is now New Orleans.
1825 - Uruguay declared independence from Brazil.
1875 - Navy Captain Matthew Webb became the first person to swim across the English Channel (in 21 hours, 45 minutes).
1916 - The National Park Service was established.
1944 - Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
1950 - President Harry Truman ordered the Army to seize control of the nation's railroads to avert a strike.
1980 - The Broadway musical "42nd Street" opened; the show's director, Gower Champion, died earlier that day.

Births

1530 - Ivan IV "Ivan the Terrible," Czar of Russia.
1819 - Allan Pinkerton, American, started first private detective agency.
1900 - Sir Hans Adolf Krebs, German-born English Nobel Prize-winning biochemist.
1909 - Ruby Keeler, Canadian-born American dancer, actress.
1913 - Walt Kelly, American cartoonist, creator of the character Pogo.
1916 - Van Johnson, American actor.
1918 - Leonard Bernstein, American conductor, composer.
1930 - Sean Connery, Scottish-born Academy Award-winning actor.

Deaths

1900 - Friedrich Nietzsche, German philosopher.
1984 - Truman Capote, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright.

Beware, for I am: Awake

Awake

On This Day: Sunday August 20, 2006

This is the 232nd day of the year, with 133 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: bamboo

Bamboo is a grass with more than 1,000 species. These vary in size, some plants being as small as one foot tall while others can grow up to 130 feet tall. Some species can grow one foot per day! Bamboo can be useful or decorative. It can be used for food and medicine as well as building material and furniture. Thomas Edison experimented with more than 100 varieties of bamboo when trying to come up with a filament for the first electric light bulb.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Rognwald or Ronald, St. Bernard of Clairvaux, St. Amator or Amadour, St. Philibert, and St. Oswin.
Hungary: St. Stephen's Day.
Morocco: Revolution of the King and the People.

Events

1667 - John Milton published "Paradise Lost," an epic poem about the fall of Adam and Eve.
1741 - Danish navigator Vitus Jonas Bering, commissioned by Peter the Great of Russia to find land connecting Asia and North America, discovered Alaska. His name still graces the Bering Sea and the Bering Strait.
1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declared the Civil War over, even though the fighting had stopped months earlier.
1866 - The newly organized National Labor Union called on the U.S. Congress to mandate an eight-hour workday.
1940 - Radar was used for the first time, by the British during the Battle of Britain.
1960 - Senegal gained independence from France.
1968 - The Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact nations began invading Czechoslovakia to crush the "Prague Spring" liberalization drive of Alexander Dubcek's regime.
1975 - Viking 1, an unmanned U.S. planetary probe, was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Mars.
1977 - The U.S. Voyager I spacecraft was launched on its journey via Jupiter and Saturn to become the first artificial object to leave the solar system.
1979 - Swimmer Diana Nyad succeeded in her third attempt at swimming from the Bahamas to Florida.
1991 - Estonia declared independence.

Births

1833 - Benjamin Harrison, the 23rd President of the United States of America (1889-1893).

Deaths

1940 - Leon Trotsky, Russian communist politician and rival of Joseph Stalin, assassinated.

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Impressed

Oh...also..I thought this was cool, because I didn't really know there was a difference between an Age and an Era. So, since I learned something new, I've decided to punish you all by posting it ^_^ Tootles!

On This Day: Tuesday August 8, 2006

This is the 220th day of the year, with 145 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: age and era

An age is a period of existence, a generation to which one belongs, or a long but indefinite space of time. In this context, it is any great period of human history distinguished by certain mythical or real characters: the Bronze Age, the Golden Age, the Middle Ages, etc. An era is an historical period marked by particular influences or social conditions, or a new stage in the history of an individual, institution, or nation: Christian Era, Depression Era. Ages and eras are also spoken of in the context of geology.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Dominic, Saints Cyriacus, Largus, and Smaragdus, St. Hormidas the Martyr, and the Fourteen Holy Helpers.
Tanzania: Farmers' Day.

Events

117 - Hadrian became emperor of Rome following the death of his father Trajan.
1844 - Brigham Young was chosen to head The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, succeeding Joseph Smith.
1876 - Thomas A. Edison received a patent for his mimeograph.
1899 - The first household refrigerating machine was patented.
1940 - The Battle of Britain, or "The Blitz," began when the German air force waged a sustained series of daytime air attacks on Britain.
1942 - During World War II, six German saboteurs who secretly entered the United States on a mission to attack its civil infrastructure were executed by the United States for spying; two others were imprisoned.
1945 - President Harry Truman signed the United Nations Charter.
1963 - Britain's "Great Train Robbery" took place as thieves made off with 2.6 million pounds.
1974 - President Richard M. Nixon announced he would resign following new damaging revelations in the Watergate scandal.
1994 - Israel and Jordan opened the first road link between the two countries.

Births

1865 - Matthew A. Henson, American explorer who accompanied Robert Peary to North Pole.
1879 - Emiliano Zapata, Mexican revolutionary leader.
1896 - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, American journalist, short story writer, novelist.
1919 - Dino DeLaurentis, American film producer.
1923 - Esther Williams, American swimmer, actress.

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On This Day: Friday August 4, 2006

This is the 216th day of the year, with 149 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: continents

The continents are the world's seven great land masses which are continuously coming together and drifting apart. The earth's outer shell (crust) is made up of nine major moving slabs of rock, called tectonic plates, in which the continents are embedded. Over millions of years, the continents' placement has changed dramatically. Two hundred and twenty million years ago, all the continents were joined into a single 'supercontinent' we refer to as Pangaea. The word continent comes from Latin continens, short for terra continens, meaning "land held together."

Holidays

Feast day of St. Molua or Lughaidh, St. Ia, St. Sezni, and St. John Baptist Vianney.
Burkina Faso: Revolution Day.

Events

1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason, the highest rank in the Fraternity of Freemasonry.
1790 - The Revenue Cutter service, the forerunner of the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard, was organized.
1892 - Andrew Borden and Abby Borden were axed to death in their home in Fall River, Massachusetts. Lizzie Borden, Andrew Borden's daughter from a previous marriage, was accused of the killings, but acquitted at trial.
1914 - Britain declared war on Germany while the United States proclaimed its neutrality.
1916 - The United States purchased the Danish Virgin Islands for $25 million.
1966 - In a U.S. radio interview, John Lennon claimed that the Beatles were probably more popular than Jesus Christ.
1977 - President Jimmy Carter signed a measure establishing the Department of Energy.
1997 - The Teamsters Union went on a 15-day strike against United Parcel Service after talks broke down with nation's largest package delivery service.

Births

1792 - Percy Bysshe Shelley, English poet.
1900 - Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother of Britain's royal family.
1901 - Louis (Satchmo) Armstrong, American jazz musician, Grammy Award-winning singer.

Deaths

1875 - Hans Christian Andersen, Danish fairy tale writer.

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I'm Hot just thinking about working with the files in the hot room...

On This Day: Monday July 31, 2006

This is the 212th day of the year, with 153 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: lunar sea

A lunar sea is any flat, dark plain of lower elevation on the Moon. The term was erroneously applied to this feature of the lunar surface by telescopic observers of the 17th century; in actuality, a lunar sea (or mare) is a huge lava flow and does not contain any water. All lunar seas occur on the side of the Moon that always faces the Earth. They are the largest topographic features on the Moon and can be seen from the Earth with the unaided eye, appearing as dark patches on a paler background.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Ignatius of Loyola, St. Justin de Jacobis, St. Neot, and St. Helen of Skövde.

Events

1498 - Christopher Columbus first sighted the island of Trinidad.
1777 - Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old French nobleman, became a major-general in the Continental Army of the U.S.
1790 - The first U.S. Patent Office opened and the first patent was issued to Samuel Hopkins of Vermont for a method of making pearlash and potash.
1792 - The first government building's cornerstone was laid: the Philadelphia Mint.
1904 - The Trans-Siberian railroad connecting the Ural Mountains with Russia's Pacific coast, was completed.
1919 - Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted.
1922 - The first water skis were demonstrated, by Ralph Samuelson.
1948 - New York's International Airport was dedicated; it was later renamed John F. Kennedy Airport.
1964 - Ranger 7, an unmanned U.S. lunar probe, took the first close-up images of the Moon.
1971 - The Apollo 15 astronauts drove a car on the Moon.
1972 - U.S. Democratic vice-presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton withdrew from the ticket with George McGovern, following disclosures Eagleton had once undergone psychiatric treatment.
1981 - A seven-week-old Major League Baseball strike ended.

Births

1867 - S.S. Kresge, American five-and-dime merchant, chain store developer.
1912 - Milton Friedman, American Nobel Prize-winning economist.
1929 - Lynne Reid Banks, English author.

Deaths

1875 - Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States of America.

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Giddy

On This Day: Saturday July 29, 2006

This is the 210th day of the year, with 155 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: elevator and escalators

An elevator is a car that moves in a vertical shaft to carry passengers or freight between the levels of a multi-story building. The passenger elevator was introduced in 1853. An escalator is a moving staircase used as transportation between floors or levels in subways, buildings, and other places where there are many pedestrians. The name escalator was first applied to a moving stairway shown at the Paris Exposition of 1900.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Martha, Saints Beatrice and Simplicius, Saints Faustinus and Beatrice, St. Felix, antipope, St. William of Saint-Brieuc, St. Lupus of Troyes, and St. Olav, King of Norway.
Faroe Islands: Olavsoka / Olav's Wake.
Norway: Olsok Eve.

Events

1588 - The Spanish Armada was defeated by an English naval force under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake.
1914 - Transcontinental telephone service began with the first phone conversation between New York and San Francisco.
1957 - Jack Paar made his debut as host of NBC's "Tonight" show.
1957 - The International Atomic Energy Agency was established.
1958 - President Dwight Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which created NASA.
1981 - Britain's Prince Charles married Lady Diana Spencer at St. Paul's Cathedral in London. Nearly one billion television viewers in 74 countries tuned in.
2006 - July 29th Sloths' Con!!!!

Births

1805 - Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and politician.
1869 - Booth Tarkington, American Pulitzer Prize-winning author.
1883 - Benito Mussolini, dictator of Italy (1922-1945).
1905 - Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish Nobel Peace Prize winner, secretary-general of the United Nations (1953-1961).
1907 - Melvin Belli, American attorney, author.
1926 - Don Carter, American bowler.
1938 - Peter Jennings, American TV journalist.

Deaths

1890 - Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter.
1900 - King Umberto I of Italy, assassinated by an anarchist (and succeeded by Victor Emmanuel).
1983 - David Niven, British stage and film actor.

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Chipper

Wah! Reiko's coming over soon! Oh yeah, and here's your daily reference =.=

On This Day: Tuesday July 25, 2006

This is the 206th day of the year, with 159 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: sushi

Sushi, the Japanese specialty, consists of rice mixed with a dressing that not only adds flavor but makes the rice shapeable in a mold or by rolling. Additional ingredients include raw or cooked fish or seafood and vegetables. Layers of sushi rice and prepared ingredients are pressed into a mold to form little cakes, or wrapped in a sheet of nori seaweed and served in slices. Dipping sauce, mustard, and pickled ginger are typical accompaniments.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Christopher, Saints Thea, Valentina and Paul, St. James the Greater, and St. Magnericus.
Spain: St. James Day.
Costa Rica: Guanacaste Day.
Puerto Rico: Constitution Day.
Tunisia: Republic Day.

Events

1832 - The first recorded railroad accident in U.S. history occurred, on the Granite Railway near Quincy, Massachusetts.
1866 - Ulysses S. Grant was named General of the Army, the first officer to hold the rank.
1868 - The U.S. Congress passed an act creating the Wyoming Territory.
1898 - During the Spanish-American War, U.S. forces launched their invasion of Puerto Rico.
1909 - Louis Bleriot first crossed the English Channel in an airplane.
1917 - Margaretha Zelle, the Dutch spy known as Mata Hari, was sentenced to death.
1943 - Benito Mussolini was forced to resign as Dictator of Italy, bringing an end to the Fascist regime.
1952 - Puerto Rico became a self-governing commonwealth of the United States.
1956 - The Italian liner Andrea Doria sank after colliding with the Swedish ship Stockholm, 45 miles south of Nantucket Island; 51 people died.
1978 - Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham, England; she'd been conceived through in-vitro fertilization.
1984 - Soviet cosmonaut Svetlana Savitskaya became the first woman to walk in space.
2000 - A New York-bound Air France Concorde crashed outside Paris shortly after takeoff, killing all 109 people on board and four people on the ground.
2004 - Lance Armstrong won a record sixth Tour de France bicycle race, in an amazing comeback after his bout with cancer.

Births

1844 - Thomas Eakins, American painter.
1937 - Colin Renfrew, British archaeologist.
1986 - Dark Horse (aka David), MM's friend from MySpace ^_^

Deaths

1843 - Charles Macintosh, Scottish chemist and inventor.

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Apathetic

On This Day: Monday July 24, 2006

This is the 205th day of the year, with 160 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: college and university

A university is an institution of higher education, usually comprising a liberal arts and sciences college and graduate and professional schools and having the authority to confer degrees in various fields of study. A university differs from a college in that it is usually larger, has a broader curriculum, and offers graduate and professional degrees in addition to undergraduate degrees. In Europe, the first modern-style universities were set up in Italy (Bologna) in the 11th century, and in France and England (University of Paris and University of Oxford respectively) in the 12th century.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Christina the Astonishing, St. Boris or Romanus, St. Declan, St. Christina of Bolsena, St. Lewinna, and St. Gleb or David.
Utah, western U.S. states: Pioneer Day.
Venezuela: Bolivar's Birthday.

Events

1701 - Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac established Fort Ponchartrain for France at present-day Detroit.
1847 - Brigham Young arrived with 148 Mormon pioneers at Utah's Valley of the Great Salt Lake.
1866 - Tennessee became the first state to be readmitted to the Union after the Civil War.
1911 - Machu Picchu was discovered by Hiram Bingham.
1974 - The U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that President Richard Nixon had to turn over subpoenaed White House tape recordings to the Watergate special prosecutor.

Births

1783 - Simón Bolivar, Latin American revolutionary.
1802 - Alexander Dumas (Davy de La Pailleterie) (Dumas PÈre), French playwright, novelist.
1897 - Amelia Earhart, American aviator.
1920 - Bella Abzug, American feminist, U.S. Congresswoman.

Deaths

1862 - Martin van Buren, 8th President of the United States of America.
1980 - Peter Sellers, English comic actor.

Beware, for I am: Cranky

Cranky

On This Day: Saturday July 22, 2006

This is the 203rd day of the year, with 162 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Pied Piper

The legend of the Pied Piper dates back to 1284. The German town of Hamelin had a rat problem and hired a rat-catcher to get rid of the rats. The rat-catcher used a pipe to lure the rats out of town with music, leading them into the Weser River where they drowned. The townspeople refused to pay the Pied Piper, so he came back into town several weeks later and lured the town's children away with music into a cave, never to be seen again. According to historians, the story probably got its roots when young men of Hamelin, Germany, left the city on colonizing adventures in Eastern Europe.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Mary Magdalen, St. Joseph of Palestine, St. Philip Evans, St. Vandrille or Wandregesilus, and St. John Lloyd.

Events

1587 - A second English colony, also ill-fated, was established on Roanoke Island off North Carolina.
1793 - Sir Alexander Mackenzie arrived at Canada's Pacific coast.
1796 - Cleveland, Ohio, was founded by General Moses Cleveland.
1894 - The first automobile race took place between Paris and Rouen, France.
1933 - American aviator Wiley Post completed the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours, and 49 minutes.
1934 - Notorious criminal John Dillinger, America's "Public Enemy No. 1," was shot and killed outside a Chicago theater by federal agents.
1943 - American forces led by General George S. Patton captured Palermo, Sicily.
1944 - The Bretton Woods Conference, (in New Hampshire), created the International Monetary Fund.
2003 - Saddam Hussein's sons Uday Hussein and Qusay Hussein were killed when American forces stormed a villa in Mosul, Iraq.

Births

1784 - Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, German astronomer and mathematician.
1822 - Gregor Mendel, Austrian monk and botanist.
1881 - Margery Williams Bianco, British-born American author.
1890 - Rose Kennedy, mother of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Attorney General Robert Kennedy, U.S. Senator Edward Kennedy.
1893 - Karl Menninger, American psychiatrist.
1898 - Stephen Vincent Benet, American author, Pulitzer Prize-winning poet.
1899 - Alexander Calder, American sculptor.
1908 - Amy Vanderbilt, American journalist and authority on etiquette.

Deaths

1934 - John Dillinger, American bank robber.
1976 - Mortimer Wheeler, British archaeologist.

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Tired

On This Day: Friday July 14, 2006

This is the 195th day of the year, with 170 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: The Flintstones

The Flintstones was the first animated television sitcom created for adults and one of the first cartoons to air during prime time. Created by Hanna-Barbera Studios in 1960, the show was based on "The Honeymooners" television program. The original title for the show was "The Flagstones," but was changed to "The Flintstones" to avoid confusion with the characters in the popular "Hi and Lois" comic strip, the Flagstones.

Holidays

France: Bastille Day.
Feast day of St. Marcellinus or Marchelm, St. Camillus de Lellis, St. Ulric of Zell, and St. Deusdedit of Canterbury.

Events

1099 - During the First Crusade, Christian knights from Europe captured Jerusalem and began massacring the city's Muslim and Jewish population.
1789 - The French Revolution began as Parisian revolutionaries and mutinous troops stormed and dismantled the Bastille, a royal fortress that had come to symbolize the tyranny of the Bourbon monarchs.
1798 - Congress passed the Sedition Act, making it a federal crime to publish false, scandalous, or malicious writing about the United States government.
1867 - Alfred Nobel demonstrated dynamite for the first time at a quarry in England.
1868 - Alvin J. Fellows of New Haven, Connecticut patented the tape measure.
1914 - Robert H. Goddard of Worcester, Massachusetts patented liquid rocket fuel.
1933 - Germany outlawed all political parties except the Nazi Party.
2000 - A Florida jury ordered five major tobacco companies to pay smokers a record $145 billion in punitive damages.

Births

1834 - James McNeill Whistler, American-born painter, designer.
1858 - Emmeline Pankhurst, British suffragist, founder of the Women's Social and Political Union.
1903 - Irving Stone (Tennenbaum), American novelist.
1904 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish author.
1910 - William Hanna, American cartoonist.
1912 - Woody Guthrie, American folk singer and songwriter.
1913 - Gerald R. Ford (Leslie King, Jr.), 38th President of the United States of America (1974-77).
1917 - Douglas Edwards, American newscaster, TV's first evening news anchor.
1918 - Ingmar Bergman, Swedish movie director.
1927 - John Chancellor, American radio/TV newscaster.

Deaths

1965 - Adlai Stevenson, United States political leader who helped found the United Nations.

Beware, for I am: Guilty

Not so good...

On This Day: Thursday July 13, 2006

This is the 194th day of the year, with 171 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Oregon Trail

The Oregon Trail is approximately 2,000 miles long and goes from Independence, Missouri to Oregon City, Oregon. It took at least four months to travel the 2,000-mile trail the first time. The Oregon Trail was in regular use from 1841 through 1869, during which time it was traveled by an estimated 500,000 pioneers. In 1869, the first transcontinental railroad was completed, displacing use of the Trail for long distance travel.

Holidays

Feast day of Saints Bridget and Maura, St. Henry the Emperor, St. Silas or Silvanus, St. Francis Solano, and St. Eugenius of Carthage.
France: Night Watch or La Retraite Aux Flambeaux.
Japan: Bon Festival / Feast of Lanterns.

Events

1787 - The U.S. Congress, under the Articles of Confederation, enacted the Northwest Ordinance, establishing rules for governing the Northwest Territory, for admitting new states to the Union and limiting the expansion of slavery.
1837 - Queen Victoria became the first sovereign to move into Buckingham Palace, London.
1863 - Deadly rioting against the Civil War military draft erupted in New York City.
1939 - Frank Sinatra made his recording debut with the Harry James band, singing "Melancholy Mood" and "From The Bottom of My Heart."
1977 - A blackout lasting 25 hours hit the New York City area after lightning struck upstate power lines.

Births

1729 - John Parker, leader of the volunteer Minutemen in the American Revolution.
1913 - Dave Garroway, American newscaster and television host.
1921 - Charles Scribner, Jr., American book publisher.
1942 - Harrison Ford, American actor.
1944 - Erno Rubik, Hungarian inventor.

Deaths

1712 - Richard Cromwell, Lord Protector of England and son of Oliver Cromwell.
1793 - Jean-Paul Marat, French politician, physician, journalist and revolutionary leader.

Beware, for I am: Awake

Awake

On This Day: Tuesday July 4, 2006

This is the 185th day of the year, with 180 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: America The Beautiful

The national hymn, "America The Beautiful," was published in "The Congregationalist" in 1895. The poem was written by a Wellesley College English literature professor, Katharine Lee Bates, to commemorate the Fourth of July.

Holidays

United States: Independence Day.
Feast day of The Martyrs of Dorchester, St. Andrew of Crete, St. Elizabeth of Portugal, St. Ulric of Augsburg, St. Bertha of Blangy, and St. Odo of Canterbury.
Wisconsin: Indian Rights Day.

Events

1776 - The Continental Congress adopted the "Declaration of Independence."
1802 - The United States Military Academy officially opened at West Point, New York.
1817 - Construction began on the Erie Canal, to connect Lake Erie and the Hudson River.
1832 - "America," written by Dr Samuel Francis Smith, was sung in public for the first time, at the Park Street Church in Boston.
1845 - Henry David Thoreau began his two-year simple living experiment at Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts.
1848 - The "Communist Manifesto" was published by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels.
1894 - After seizing power, Judge Stanford B. Dole declared Hawaii a republic.
1946 - The United States granted the Philippine Islands their independence.
1955 - "The Soupy Sales Show" premiered on TV.
1959 - America's 49-star flag, honoring Alaskan statehood, was officially unfurled.
1960 - The 50-star flag, to include Hawaii, made its debut, in Philadelphia.
1966 - President Lyndon Johnson signed the Freedom of Information Act.
1970 - Casey Kasem hosted "American Top 40" on the radio for the first time.
1997 - NASA's Mars Pathfinder became the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars in more than two decades.
2003 - Los Angeles Lakers guard Kobe Bryant was arrested on suspicion of sexual assault after a woman accused him of sexual misconduct. The case is later dismissed (September 1, 2004) and the charges dropped when the accuser says she will no longer cooperate.

Births

1804 - Nathaniel Hawthorne, American author.
1826 - Stephen Foster, American songwriter.
1872 - Calvin Coolidge, 30th President of the United States of America (1923-1929).
1883 - Rube Goldberg, American cartoonist.
1900 - Louis Armstrong (Satchmo), American jazz trumpeter and singer.
1911 - Mitch Miller, American musician, record company executive, producer, arranger.
1918 - Ann Landers (Esther Pauline Friedman) and Abigail Van Buren (Pauline Esther Friedman), American advice columnists.
1927 - Neil Simon, American award-winning playwright.

Deaths

1826 - John Adams, 2nd President of the United States of America.
1826 - Thomas Jefferson, 3rd President of the United States of America .
1831 - James Monroe, 5th President of the United States of America.

Beware, for I am: Awake

Awake

I know that, because I am a looser -.-

On This Day: Sunday July 2, 2006

This is the 183rd day of the year, with 182 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Tour de France

The Tour de France, the most prestigious road bicycle race in the world, takes place for three weeks in July. The Tour de France was established in 1903 by Henri Desgrange and covers some 2,235 miles, usually in 20 stages of one day each.

Holidays

Feast day of Saints Processus and Martinian, St. Monegundis, and St. Otto of Bamberg.

Events

1776 - The Continental Congress passed a resolution saying that "these United Colonies are, and of right, ought to be, Free and Independent States."
1777 - Vermont became the first American colony to abolish slavery.
1788 - The Constitution of the United States of America went into effect after nine states ratified it.
1839 - Africans on the Cuban schooner Amistad rose up against their captors, killing two crewmembers and seizing control of the ship, which had been transporting them to a life of slavery on a sugar plantation at Puerto Príncipe, Cuba.
1850 - The gas mask was patented by B.J. Lane of Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1857 - New York City's first elevated railroad opened for business.
1881 - Only four months into his administration, President James A. Garfield was shot at the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Depot in Washington, D.C.; he died in September from his wounds.
1890 - Congress passed the Sherman Antitrust Act.
1900 - Count Ferdinand Graf von Zeppelin successfully demonstrated the world's first rigid airship.
1900 - The second modern Olympic Games opened in Paris.
1926 - The United States Army Air Corps was created.
1937 - Aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan disappeared over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first round-the-world flight at the equator.
1947 - A purported Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) crashed near Roswell, New Mexico. This report has been the subject of controversy ever since.
1955 - "The Lawrence Welk Show" premiered on television.
1964 - U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed into law the Civil Rights Act of 1964; it was sweeping legislation prohibiting racial discrimination in employment and education, and outlawing racial segregation in public facilities.
1976 - The Supreme Court ruled the death penalty was not inherently cruel or unusual.
2002 - American Steve Fossett became the first person to fly a balloon solo around the world.

Births

1855 - Clarence Barron, American financial editor and publisher.
1877 - Hermann Hesse, German poet and novelist.
1905 - Jean Rene Lacoste, French tennis player, founder of Lacoste tennis clothing.
1908 - Thurgood Marshall, first black U.S. Supreme Court Justice.

Deaths

1566 - Nostradamus, French physician and astrologer.
1961 - Ernest Hemingway, American novelist and short-story writer.
1997 - Jimmy Stewart, American actor.

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On This Day: Friday June 30, 2006

This is the 181st day of the year, with 184 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Leap Second

June 30 is one of the two times (the other being December 31) when the addition or subtraction of a second from our clock time is allowed to coordinate atomic and astronomical time. The determination to adjust is made by the International Earth Rotation Service of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures at Paris. A leap second is an intercalary, one-second adjustment that keeps broadcast standards for time of day close to mean solar time. Leap seconds are necessary to keep time standards synchronized with civil calendars, the basis of which is astronomical. The announcement to insert a leap second is given whenever the difference between UTC and UT1 approaches one-half second, to keep the difference between UTC and UT1 from exceeding ±0.9 s. After UTC 23:59:59, a positive leap second at 23:59:60 would be counted, before the clock indicates 00:00:00 of the next day. Negative leap seconds are also possible should the Earth's rotation becomes slightly faster; in that case, 23:59:58 would be followed by 00:00:00.

Holidays

Congo: Independence Day.
Guatemala: Armed Forces Day.
Sudan: Salvation Revolution Day.
Feast day of St. Theobald of Provins, the Martyrs of Rome, St. Emma, St. Bertrand of Le Mans, St. Erentrude, and St. Martial of Limoges.

Events

1520 - Montezuma II was murdered as Spanish conquistadors fled the Aztec capital of Tenochtilan during the night.
1572 - Great Britain passed a Poor Law, giving assistance to the poor who were unemployed or vagrant.
1859 - A French acrobat known professionally as Émile Blondin (Jean-François Gravelet) became the first daredevil to walk across Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
1864 - President Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite Land Grant.
1870 - Ada Kepley became the first female law school graduate.
1906 - The Meat Inspection Act and the Pure Food and Drug Act each became law.
1908 - One of the most powerful, natural explosions in recorded history occurred, in Central Siberia, devastating 70 miles in diameter.
1921 - President Warren Harding appointed former President Howard Taft to be Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
1921 - Radio Corporation of America (RCA) was incorporated.
1934 - Nazi leader Adolf Hitler ordered a purge ("Night of the Long Knives") of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future.
1936 - "Gone With the Wind" was published.
1952 - "Guiding Light" premiered as a television soap opera.
1966 - The National Organization for Women was founded in Washington, D.C.
1971 - Three Soviet cosmonauts who served as the first crew of the world's first space station died when their spacecraft depressurized during reentry.
1982 - The Equal Rights Amendment (passed by Congress in 1972), prohibiting discrimination on the basis of sex, failed to secure ratification by a sufficient number of states to ensure its inclusion in the Constitution of the United States of America.

Deaths

1984 - Lillian Hellman, American playwright.

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On This Day: Thursday June 29, 2006

This is the 180th day of the year, with 185 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Treaty of Versailles

The Treaty of Versailles was a peace document signed at the end of World War I by the Allied and Associated Powers and by Germany in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles, France. It took effect on January 10, 1920. The population and territory of Germany was reduced by about 10 percent by the treaty. The "war guilt clause" of the treaty deemed Germany the aggressor in the war and consequently made Germany responsible for making reparations to the Allied nations in payment for the losses and damage they had sustained in the war. The Treaty of Versailles was revised and altered over the years, mostly in Germany's favor. Numerous concessions were made to Germany before the rise of Adolf Hitler, and by 1938 only the territorial settlement articles remained in effect. The harsh treaty and its lax enforcement are blamed by many historians for Hitler's rise and his militarism setting the stage for World War II.

Holidays

Seychelles: Independence Day.

Events

1566 - The Stationers Company was granted a monopoly in Great Britain.
1652 - Massachusetts declared itself an independent commonwealth.
1767 - The British parliament passed the Townshend Revenue Act, levying taxes on America. Colonists bitterly protested the Acts, which were repealed in 1770.
1776 - The Virginia state constitution was adopted, and Patrick Henry made governor.
1880 - France annexed Tahiti.
1906 - Mesa Verde National Park was established.
1938 - Olympic National Park, Washington, was established.
1956 - The U.S.Interstate Highway System was born when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a bill providing $33.5 billion for highway construction.
1966 - In the Vietnam War, U.S. aircraft bombed the major North Vietnamese cities of Hanoi and Haiphong for the first time, destroying oil depots located near them.
1967 - Israel united east and west Jerusalem.
1970 - U.S. troops pulled out of Cambodia.
1974 - With Argentine President Juan Perón on his deathbed, Isabela Martinez de Perón, his wife and vice president, was sworn in as the leader of the South American country.
1995 - The space shuttle Atlantis and the Russian space station Mir docked, forming the largest manmade satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

Births

1861 - William James Mayo, American physician, co-founder of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota.
1900 - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French author and aviator.
1910 - Frank Loesser, American composer, librettist and lyricist.
1919 - Slim Pickens (Louis Lindley), American actor.

Deaths

1967 - Jayne Mansfield, American film actress and sex symbol.
2003 - Katharine Hepburn, American actor.

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On This Day: Wednesday June 28, 2006

This is the 179th day of the year, with 186 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Happy Birthday

Mildred J. Hill, a schoolteacher born in Louisville, Kentucky, composed the melody "Happy Birthday to You." Her younger sister, Patty Smith Hill, wrote the lyrics. The song was first published in 1893 as "Good Morning to All," a classroom greeting, in the book Song Stories for Sunday School. Mildred Hill died in 1916 without knowing that her melody would become the world's most popular song, but her sister Patty did not die until 1946. The lyrics were amended in 1924 to include a stanza beginning, "Happy Birthday to You." It is now sung somewhere in the world every minute of every day. Though its writers earned very little from the song, its copyright owner earns about $1 million a year. The song is expected to enter the public domain upon expiration of the copyright in 2010.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Austell, Saints Potamiaena and Basilides, St. Irenaeus, St. Heimrad, St. John Southworth, Saints Sergius and Germanus of Valaam, and St. Paul, pope.

Events

1519 - Charles I of Spain was elected Holy Roman Emperor. He was crowned as Emperor Charles V.
1635 - The French colony of Guadeloupe was established in the Caribbean.
1778 - Molly Pitcher (Mary Hays), wife of an American artilleryman, carried water to the soldiers during the Battle of Monmouth.
1894 - Labor Day was established as a holiday for federal employees on the first Monday of September.
1905 - Sailors on the Russian battleship Potemkin mutinied as unrest spread through the Russian navy.
1914 - Austrian Archduke Francis Ferdinand and his wife, Sofia, were assassinated in Sarajevo by a Serb nationalist; it was the event which triggered World War I.
1919 - The Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, ending World War I.
1939 - Pan American Airways began regular trans-Atlantic air service.
1950 - North Korean forces captured Seoul, South Korea.
1951 - "Amos 'N' Andy" premiered on TV, the first series to have an all-black cast.
1969 - A police raid of the Stonewall Inn--a gay club located on New York City's Christopher Street--turned violent. This incident is regarded as the spark for the gay liberation movement.
1976 - Women entered the Air Force Academy for the first time.
2000 - The Supreme Court ruled the Boy Scouts can bar homosexuals from serving as troop leaders.

Births

1491 - Henry VIII, King of England (1509-1547), founder of the Church of England.
1577 - Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
1712 - Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher.
1902 - Richard Rodgers, American award-winning composer with Lorenz Hart and Oscar Hammerstein.
1926 - Mel Brooks (Kaminsky), American writer, director, actor.

Deaths

1836 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States of America.

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On This Day: Tuesday June 27, 2006

This is the 178th day of the year, with 187 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Pirate

"A pirate or buccaneer was a person who seized a ship and took the property aboard. They stole from any ship that came by and disrupted the trade of many nations. There are many tales - tall and true - about pirates. The stories go back 4,000 years, but we are most familiar with those who were active between 1500-1800 - Captain Kidd, Blackbeard, Anne Bonny, and Jean Lafitte. Pirates used small, fast ships that were easy to maneuver. They had lots of weapons and cannons. There are still pirates today - especially in the South China Sea close to Vietnam. Pirates are often confused with privateers who have the blessing of their nation to seize enemy property. Famous ones were Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins, and Sir Walter Raleigh. True pirates only stole for themselves. Pirates often buried their stolen treasure in secret places and some drew up treasure maps and charts marking the spot with an X."

Holidays

Feast day of St. Cyril of Alexandria, St. Zoilus, St. Samson of Constantinople, St. George Mtasmindeli, the Martyrs of Arras, St. John of Chinon, and St. Ladislas, king of Hungary.
Djibouti: Independence Day.

Events

1829 - English scientist James Smithson died after a long illness, leaving behind a will which established the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C.; it provided for a museum, a library, and a program of research, publication, and collection in the sciences, arts, and history.
1847 - New York and Boston were linked by telegraph wires.
1871 - The yen became the new form of currency in Japan.
1893 - The New York stock market crashed.
1929 - Scientists at Bell Laboratories revealed a system for transmitting television pictures.
1950 - President Harry S. Truman ordered the Air Force and Navy into the Korean conflict following a call from the United Nations Security Council for member nations to help.
1973 - Former White House counsel John W. Dean told the Senate Watergate Committee about an "enemies list" kept by the Nixon White House.
2003 - More than 735,000 phone numbers were registered on the first day of a national do-not-call list aimed at blocking unwelcome solicitations from telemarketers.

Births

1859 - Mildred J. Hill, American composer of "Happy Birthday to You" and "Good Morning to All" (with sister, Patty Smith Hill).
1880 - Helen Keller, American author, educator, advocate for the blind.

Deaths

1844 - Mormon founder Joseph Smith and his brother, Hyrum, killed by a mob in Carthage, Illinois.
2001 - Jack Lemmon, American actor.

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On This Day: Monday June 26, 2006

This is the 177th day of the year, with 188 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Korean War

The Korean War started out being between North Korea and South Korea. After World War II, Korea was hurriedly divided for administrative purposes at the 38th parallel. Almost immediately, the Soviets began a short-lived reign of terror in northern Korea that quickly politicized the division by driving thousands of refugees south. An independent South Korea became UN policy in early 1948 and southern communists opposed this, so warfare began in parts of every Korean province below the 38th parallel. The war became international in June 1950 when North Korea, supplied and advised by the Soviets, invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal participant, joined the war on the side of the South Koreans, and the People's Republic of China came to North Korea's aid. In 1953, Joseph Stalin died, and within weeks the Politburo of the Soviet Communist Party voted that the war in Korea should be ended. After more than a million combat casualties on bo th sides, the fighting ended in July 1953 with Korea still divided into two hostile states.

Holidays

Feast day of Saints Salvius and Superius, Saints John and Paul, St. Anthelmus, bishop, St. Maxentius, and St. Vigilius of Trent.
Madagascar: Independence Day.
United Nations: Charter Day.

Events

1819 - The bicycle was patented by W.K. Clarkson, Jr. of New York City.
1870 - The first section of Atlantic City, New Jersey's Boardwalk opened to the public.
1900 - A commission that included Dr. Walter Reed began to work to eradicate yellow fever.
1917 - The first troops of the American Expeditionary Force arrived in France during World War I.
1919 - The New York Daily News was first published.
1924 - U.S. troops pulled out of the Dominican Republic, after having occupied it since 1916.
1934 - The Federal Credit Union Act was signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1945 - The charter of the United Nations was signed by 50 countries, in San Francisco.
1959 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth II officially opened the St. Lawrence Seaway.
1960 - Madagascar was proclaimed independent as the Malagasy Republic.
1963 - President John F. Kennedy gave his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech at the Berlin Wall.
1971 - The U.S. Justice Department issued a warrant for Daniel Ellsberg, accusing him of releasing the Pentagon Papers.
1974 - The Universal Product Code (bar code) was introduced on a pack of Wrigley's gum.
1976 - The CN Tower opened in Toronto, Canada -- at 1,815 feet, 5 inches high it is the world's tallest freestanding building.
1997 - U.S. mathematician Andrew Wiles was awarded the Wolfskehl Prize for solving Fermat's Last Theorem, the most notorious problem in mathematics.
2000 - Rival scientific teams completed the first rough map of the human genetic code.

Births

1819 - Abner Doubleday, American Army general, once thought to be the inventor of baseball.
1892 - Pearl S. Buck, American Nobel Prize-winning author.
1914 - Babe (Mildred) Didrikson Zaharias, Hall of Fame athlete in golf, track.

Deaths

1541 - Francisco Pizarro, governor of Peru and conqueror of the Inca civilization, assassinated by Spanish rivals.
2003 - Strom Thurmond, American politician and the longest-serving senator in United States history (1954-2003).

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On This Day: Sunday June 25, 2006

This is the 176th day of the year, with 189 days remaining in 2006.

Fact of the Day: Custer's Last Stand

The Battle of Little Bighorn, otherwise known as Custer's Last Stand, was fought at the Little Bighorn River in Montana Territory between federal troops led by Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and band of combined Indian tribes. Custer and all of his men were killed. The outcome of the battle was so upsetting to Americans that government troops flooded the area, forcing the Indians to surrender.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Adalbert, St. Febronia, St. Maximus of Turin, St. Eurosia, St. Gohard, St. Gallicanus, St. Prosper of Reggio, St. Prosper of Aquitaine, St. Moloc, St. Thea, and St. William of Vercelli.
Mozambique: Independence Day.
Slovenia: Independence Day.
Bhutan: National Day.

Events

1868 - Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, and South Carolina were readmitted to the Union.
1868 - The U.S. Congress enacted legislation setting an eight-hour day for federal government employees.
1876 - Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer and his Seventh Cavalry were killed by Sioux Indians in the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
1906 - A love triangle came to a violent end on top of New York's Madison Square Garden as architect Stanford White, the building's designer, was shot to death by Harry Thaw, the jealous husband of Evelyn Nesbit.
1942 - Major General Dwight D. Eisenhower took command of U.S. forces in Europe in World War II.
1950 - North Korea invaded South Korea, beginning the Korean War.
1951 - The first color commercial television broadcast took place, on CBS from New York.
1962 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a prayer read aloud in public schools violated the 1st Amendment's separation of church and state.
1966 - "Dark Shadows" began its popular run as a daily serial on ABC television.
1973 - White House Counsel John Dean admitted President Richard Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up.
1975 - Mozambique achieved independence from Portugal.
1990 - The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the right of an individual, whose wishes are clearly made, to refuse life-sustaining medical treatment.
1991 - The republics of Croatia and Slovenia declared independence from Yugoslavia.
1993 - Kim Campbell was sworn in as Canada's 19th prime minister, becoming the first woman to hold that office.
1997 - After lying dormant for 400 years, the Soufriere Hills volcano erupted on Montserrat.

Births

1887 - George Abbott, American playwright, director, actor, producer.
1900 - Lord Louis Mountbatten, English statesman, naval leader and last viceroy of India.
1903 - George Orwell (Eric Blair), American author.
1924 - Sidney Lumet, American film director.

Deaths

1876 - George Armstrong Custer, United States cavalry officer who died leading his troops in the Battle of Little Bighorn.
1995 - Warren Burger, United States Supreme Court chief justice 1969-86.
1997 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanographer.

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