Day in History

[bretay]

yeah i like to see the things that happened on your birthdays..My oldest granddaughter was born on sept 4 2001..1 week before the 9/11...my daughter kept baby books about the things that happened their birthday month and listed that one...the other one is 1 week before thanksgiving.

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1893

Opening of the Brooklyn Bridge
A brilliant feat of 19th-century engineering, the Brooklyn Bridge—spanning the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan Island in New York City—opened this day in 1883, designed by civil engineer John Augustus Roebling.

Brooklyn Bridge was built (1869–83) in the face of immense difficulties. Roebling died as a result of an accident at the outset, and his son, Washington Roebling, after taking over as chief engineer, suffered a crippling attack of decompression sickness (caisson disease) during the founding of the New York pier (1872). Confined to his apartment in Columbia Heights (Brooklyn), he continued to direct operations with the help of his wife, Emily Warren Roebling, observing with field glasses and sending messages to the site with her assistance. A compressed-air blast that wrecked a pneumatic caisson slowed the work, as did a severe fire that smoldered for weeks in another caisson, a cable that parted from its anchorage on the Manhattan side and crashed into the river, and the fraud perpetrated by a steel-wire contractor that necessitated the replacement of tons of cable. At least 20 workers were killed during construction, and many more suffered decompression sickness.

[aflyingmonkey]

My Alexa has a skill that gives daily trivia when you ask it for -- I find it useful when I remember that it exists on my Alexa.   Thanks for the reminder how interesting it is. 

[pstovall]

I frequently read the "Today in History" section of our own PTC.  I was pleasantly surprised one day when Cody Linley's birthday was reported.  He was a child actor for Disney, and has been a contestant on Dancing With the Stars.  When my youngest daughter was eleven, Cody's mother was her acting coach, and invited us to go to pilot season in LA for two months. Cody was four at the time, but it was just cool seeing someone listed on that page who I actually knew personally.

[darkxtsuna]

I'm the type of person who hates to read about history yet loves to watch it on the TV when it comes up lol.

[LaTashaS28]

This is very interesting. I have never been the one to read up on history, but this is fun to know.

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1963
First woman in space
On this day in 1963, Soviet cosmonaut Valentina V. Tereshkova became the first woman to travel in space, having been launched into orbit aboard the spacecraft Vostok 6, which completed 48 orbits in 71 hours.

1983     (Coincidence?)
The first American woman to fly into outer space, Sally Ride, was launched with four other astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger.


1567 Mary, Queen of Scots, imprisoned in Lochleven Castle prison, Scotland

No Orange Clothes Day | Holiday | Checkiday.com
www.checkiday.com/bedb91bdab22e3413cf63f3bf33987e8/no-orange-clothes-day

No Orange Clothes Day commemorates the day in 1784 when the wearing of orange was banned in the Netherlands, a country often informally called Holland. Such a thing seems unconscionable today, as orange is now seen as the unofficial color of the Netherlands, and is worn and displayed everywhere.

WHY?

Orange is the color of the Dutch royal family, and its association with them goes back to William of Nassau
https://twitter.com/hashtag/NoOrangeClothesDay ( Picture Credit for Dog below)


Coming Up  June 18

1812
War of 1812 begun
On this day U.S. President James Madison signed a declaration of war against Great Britain, initiating the War of 1812, which arose chiefly from U.S. grievances over oppressive maritime practices during the Napoleonic Wars.

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June 24 Historical Events


1374 –
A sudden outbreak of St. John’s Dance causes people in the streets of Aachen, Germany, to experience hallucinations and begin to jump and twitch uncontrollably until they collapse from exhaustion.

(could this be a virus? shortlived? any comment?)

1497 -
John Cabot became the first European to set foot in North America since the Vikings.

1509
Henry VIII was crowned king of England.

1675
King Philip's War, the most devastating war between the colonists and Indians, began with Indians attacking the Swansea (Mass.) settlement.

1717 –
The Premier Grand Lodge of England, the first Masonic Grand Lodge in the world (now the United Grand Lodge of England), is founded in London, England.

1812 -
Russia invaded by Napoleon and his Grand Army
On this day in 1812, French Emperor Napoleon—who had massed his troops in Poland in the spring to intimidate Russian Tsar Alexander I—and 600,000 troops of his Grand Army launched an ill-fated invasion of Russia.


1813 –
Battle of Beaver Dams: a British and Indian combined force defeats the United States Army.

1894 –
Marie Francois Sadi Carnot is assassinated by Sante Geronimo Caserio.

1975 –
An Eastern Air Lines Boeing 727 crashes at John F. Kennedy Airport, New York. 113 people die.

[sdenimandlace1]

I like this day in history, I used it in the grand babies albums.

[Kimdud22]

I enjoy reading that section too!

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https://www.historynet.com/today-in-history

July 6

1854
The Republican Party is officially organized in Jackson, Michigan.

1885
Louis Pasteur gives the first successful anti-rabies inoculation.


1944
Lieutenant Jackie Robinson of the U.S. Army, while riding a civilian bus from Camp Hoo, Texas, refuses to give up his seat to a white man.

1982
President Ronald Reagan agrees to contribute U.S. troops to the peacekeeping unit in Beirut.

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Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty September 17 or November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881

Storming of the BastilleBilly the Kid Sacco & Vanzetti Goodall goes to Africa
A notorious Wild West outlaw is brought down
Henry McCarty, better known by his deceptively childlike nickname 'Billy the Kid,' first killed a man at 17 and has since become famous as both a folk hero and a vicious criminal. New Mexico Sheriff Pat Garrett ends the 21-year-old Kid's storied career with a shot just above the heart.

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https://www.loc.gov/item/today-in-history/july-18/

John Paul Jones

John Paul Jones, naval hero of the American Revolution, died in Paris on July 18, 1792. Born John Paul in Scotland on July 6, 1747, he apprenticed at age thirteen to a shipowner and sailed to Barbados. Owing to problems on a voyage to the West Indies (in 1773 he killed a sailor during a mutiny in Tobago, claiming self-defense), he fled to Virginia and changed his name—first to John Jones, and later to John Paul Jones.

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A Wild Hare
1940 · 8min · Animated/Family

Huntsman Elmer J. Fudd meets "that pesky wabbit" for the first time in 'A Wild Hare,' an animated short subject from Warner Bros. What's up, Doc? For Bugs Bunny, it'll be crazy popularity, decades of movie releases, an Oscar win, and a TV compilation show that runs for 40 years.


Elmer is a dimwitted hunter, "wooking for wabbits." Bugs is a clever, smooth-talking character
 
Official site
Release date: Jul 27, 1940 (United States)
Director: Tex Avery
Production company: Leon Schlesinger Studios
Music by: Carl W. Stalling · Milt Franklyn · William Lava · (more)
Screenwriter: Rich Hogan
Story by: Rich Hogan

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1603
Bartholomew Gilbert is killed in Virginia by Indians, during a search for the missing Roanoke colonists.

1866
At the age of 18, Vinnie Ream (pictured) became the youngest artist and first woman to receive a commission from the United States government for a statue—that of Abraham Lincoln currently in the U.S. Capitol rotunda.

1945   
A US Army bomber accidentally crashes into the 79th floor of the Empire State Building

1951
Walt Disney's "Alice In Wonderland" released

2001
At the World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Australian Ian Thorpe became the first swimmer to win six gold medals at a single World Championships.