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ms_dior_cherie On This Day: April 8th Apr 8, 2008 6:12 AM It has been quite some time since I posted in this group. I apologize for any of you who have missed the activity. Here is what happened today, April 8th, in history. 1513 Explorer Juan Ponce de Leon claimed Florida for Spain. 1789 The U.S. House of Representatives held its first meeting. 1834 Cornelius Lawrence became the first mayor to be elected by popular vote in a city election (New York City). 1913 The Seventeenth amendment was ratified, requiring direct election of senators. 1939 Italy invaded Albania. 1946 The League of Nations assembled in Geneva for the last time. 1952 U.S. President Truman seized the steel mills to prevent a nationwide strike. 1969 The first artificial heart was implanted into a human. 1974 Hank Aaron hits his 715th homerun breaking Babe Ruth's record. 1975 Frank Robinson of the Cleveland Indians became the first black manager of a major league baseball team. 1986 Clint Eastwood was elected mayor of Carmel, California. 1998 The widow of Martin Luther King Jr. presented new evidence in an appeal for new federal investigation of the assassination of her husband. 2000 19 U.S. troops were killed when a Marine V22 Osprey crashed during a training mission in Arizona. 2000 Ed McMahon filed a $20 million lawsuit against his insurance company, two insurance adjusters, and several environmental cleanup contractors. The suit alleged breach of contract, negligence and intentional infliction of emotional distress concerning a toxic mold that had spread through McMahon's Beverly Hills home.
ms_dior_cherie On This Day: March 25th Mar 25, 2008 5:36 AM 1901 The Mercedes is introduced by Daimler at the five-day "Week of Nice" in Nice, France. 1915 The first submarine disaster in history occurs when a U.S. F-4 sinks off the Hawaiian coast. Twenty-one people are killed. 1947 John D. Rockefeller presents a check for $8.5 million to the United Nations for the purchase of land to build the U.N. center upon. 1954 RCA manufactures its first color television set and begins mass production of their product. 1966 The United States Supreme Court rules that the "poll tax," a tax that is levied on an individual as a prerequisite for voting, is unconstitutional. 1970 The Concorde makes its first supersonic flight. 1982 Wayne Gretzky becomes the first player in NHL history to score 200 points in a season. 1988 Robert Chambers Jr. pleads guilty to first-degree manslaughter in the death of 18 year-old Jennifer Levin in what came to be known as the "preppy murder case." 1989 In Paris, the Louvre reopened with I.M. Pei's new courtyard pyramid. 1990 A fire in Happy Land, an illegal New York City social club, killed 87 people. 1990 Estonia voted for independence from the Soviet Union. 1991 Iraqi President Saddam Hussein launched a major counter-offensive to recapture key towns from Kurds in northern Iraq. 1992 Soviet cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returned to Earth after spending 10 months aboard the orbiting Mir space station. 1993 President de Klerk admitted that South Africa had built six nuclear bombs, but said that they had since been dismantled. 1994 United States troops completed their withdrawal from Somalia. 1995 Boxer Mike Tyson was released from jail after serving 3 years. 1996 An 81-day standoff by the antigovernment Freemen began at a ranch near Jordan, MT. 1996 The U.S. issued a newly redesigned $100 bill for circulation. 1998 A cancer patient was the first known to die under Oregon's doctor-assisted suicide law. 1998 The FCC nets $578.6 million at auction for licenses for new wireless technology. 1998 Quinn Pletcher was found guilty on charges of extortion. He had threatened to kill Bill Gates unless he was paid $5 million. 2002 The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) dismissed complaints against Walt Disney Co.'s ABC network broadcast of a Victoria's Secret fashion show in November 2001. 2004 The U.S. Senate voted (61-38) on the Unborn Victims of Violence Act (H.R. 1997) to make it a separate crime to harm a fetus during the commission of a violent federal crime. Famous Birthdays: Actress Sarah Jessica Parker born 1965 Actor John Stockwell born 1961 Actress Bonnie Bedelia born 1946 Actor Paul Michael Glaser born 1943 Journalist Gloria Steinem born 1934
ms_dior_cherie On This Day: March 12th Mar 12, 2008 8:02 AM 1789 The United States Post Office is established. 1894 Coca-Cola was sold in bottles for the first time. 1912 The Girl Scout organization was founded. The original name was Girl Guides. 1987 "Les Miserables" opened on Broadway.
ms_dior_cherie On This Day: March 10th Mar 10, 2008 6:03 AM 1496 Christopher Columbus concluded his second visit to the Western Hemisphere when he left Hispaniola for Spain. 1785 Thomas Jefferson was appointed minister to France. He succeeded Benjamin Franklin. 1876 Alexander Graham Bell made the first successful call with the telephone. He spoke the words "Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." 1912 China becomes a republic after the Manchu Ching Dynasty is overthrown. 1945 American B-29 bombers attack Tokyo, killing an estimated 100,000 people. 1947 The Big Four met in Moscow to discuss the future of Germany. 1956 Julie Andrews, at the age of 23, made her TV debut in "High Tor" with Bing Crosby and Nancy Olson. 1965 "The Odd Couple," starring Walter Matthau and Art Carney, opens on Broadway. The play later goes on to become a hit television series. 1969 James Earl Ray pleaded guilty in Memphis, Tenn., to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Ray later repudiated the guilty plea and maintained his innocence until his death in April of 1998. 1971 The U.S. Senate approves an amendment to lower the voting age from 21 to 18. 1982 The United States bans Libyan oil imports due to their continued support of terrorism. 1998 U.S. troops in the Persian Gulf begin receiving the first vaccinations against anthrax. 2002 The Associated Press reported that the Pentagon informed the U.S. Congress in January that it was making contingency plans for the possible use of nuclear weapons against countries that threaten the U.S. with weapons of mass destruction, including Iraq and North Korea. 2003 North Korea test-fired a short-range missile. The event was one of several in a patter of unusual military maneuvers
ms_dior_cherie On This Day: February 27 Feb 27, 2008 6:03 AM Been a few days since I posted in here, my apologies on that. 1801 Washington D.C. is placed under congressional jurisdiction. 1827 The first open celebration of Mardi Gras in New Orleans begins. 1883 Oscar Hammerstein patented the first cigar-rolling machine. 1922 The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment that guaranteed women the right to vote. 1939 The U.S. Supreme Court outlawed sit-down strikes. 1947 In Baltimore, the first closed-circuit broadcast of a surgical operation takes place at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Observers in four classrooms are able to see the procedure simultaneously. 1974 "People" Magazine is issued for the first time, with an initial run of one million copies. 1991 100 hours after beginning their land attack, U.S. troops liberate Kuwait. 1997 Divorce becomes legal in Ireland. 1998 Britain's House of Lords agreed to give a monarch's first-born daughter the same claim to the throne as any first-born son. This was the end to 1,000 years of male preference. 1999 Colin Prescot and Andy Elson set a new hot-air balloon endurance record when they stayed aloft for 233 hours and 55 minutes. The two were in the process of trying to circumnavigate the Earth. 1999 Nigeria returned to civilian rule when Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo became the country's first elected president since August of 1983. 2002 In Boston, twenty people working at Logan International Airport were charged with lying to get their jobs or security badges.

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