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In The News:
Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child C'mon. Tie something off people.
Bruce Willis rocks Kennedy Space Center Some 7,000 people showed up to watch Bruce Willis and his blues band perform at the Kennedy Space Center's rocket garden.
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq...
Woman wearing 'I'm A Drunk' t-shirt arrested for DUI...
Today in History:
8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. I thought that was yesterday.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1963 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1963 Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
1971 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)
1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
Happy Birthday:
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861) He invented a safety device in 1852 in Yonkers, New York that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke.
1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer
1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
1950 John Landis director (Twilight Zone)
1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
1963 - James Hetfield, American guitar player, (Metallica)
1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)
1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
Deaths on this Day:
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) dies of a morphine overdose
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
Arkansas couple welcomes 17th child C'mon. Tie something off people.
Bruce Willis rocks Kennedy Space Center Some 7,000 people showed up to watch Bruce Willis and his blues band perform at the Kennedy Space Center's rocket garden.
First Armed Robots on Patrol in Iraq...
Woman wearing 'I'm A Drunk' t-shirt arrested for DUI...
Today in History:
8 - Roman Empire general Tiberius defeats Dalmatians on the river Bathinus.
435 - Deposed Patriarch of Constantinople Nestorius, considered the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.
881 - Battle of Saucourt-en-Vimeu, where Louis III of France defeated the Vikings, an event celebrated in the poem Ludwigslied
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos de la Frontera, Spain.
1492 - The Jews of Spain are expelled by the Catholic Monarchs.
1527 - First known letter was sent from North America by John Rut while at St. John's, Newfoundland.
1678 - Robert LaSalle builds the Le Griffon, the first known ship built in America.
1783 - Mount Asama erupts in Japan, killing 35,000 people.
1852 - First Boat Race between Yale and Harvard, the first American intercollegiate athletic event. Harvard won.
1900 - Firestone Tire & Rubber Company founded.
1914 - World War I: Germany declares war against France.
1921 1st aerial cropdusting (Troy Ohio to kill caterpillars)
1923 - The deceased Warren G. Harding was succeeded by Vice President Calvin Coolidge as the 30th President of the United States.
1934 - Adolf Hitler becomes the supreme leader of Germany by joining the offices of President and Chancellor into Führer. I thought that was yesterday.
1948 - Whittaker Chambers accuses Alger Hiss of being a communist and a spy for the Soviet Union.
1958 - The nuclear submarine USS Nautilus travels beneath the Arctic ice cap.
1963 Allan Sherman releases "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda"
1963 Beatles final performance at the Cavern Club in Liverpool
1963 Great Train Robbery-$2.5 M ($3.25 M) robbed
1970 Mairiam Hargrave of Yorkshire, passes her driving test on 40th try
1971 Paul McCartney announces the formation of his group Wings
1973 Flash fire kills 51 at amusement park. (Isle of Man, UK)
1974 Guitarist Jeff Baxter quits Steely Dan & joins Doobie Brothers
1975 - A privately chartered Boeing 707 impacts the mountainside near Agadir, Morocco killing 188.
1975 Louisiana Superdome is dedicated
1977 Radio Shack issues a press release introducing the TRS-80 computer 25 existed, within weeks thousands were ordered
1981 - In the United States, Air traffic controllers affiliated with the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization walk off the job. President Ronald Reagan ultimately responds by firing those who ignore his order to return to work.
1989 Lawrence Delisle drives his 4 kids into river
2001 - The Real IRA detonate a car bomb in Ealing, London, U.K injuring seven people. (See 3 August 2001 Ealing bombing).
2004 - The pedestal of the Statue of Liberty reopens after being closed since the September 11, 2001 attacks.
2005 - President Maaouya Ould Sid'Ahmed Taya of Mauritania is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
Happy Birthday:
1811 - Elisha Graves Otis, American inventor (d. 1861) He invented a safety device in 1852 in Yonkers, New York that prevented elevators from falling if the hoisting cable broke.
1860 - W.K. Dickson, Scottish inventor (d. 1935)
1926 - Tony Bennett, American singer
1940 - Martin Sheen, American actor
1941 - Beverly Lee, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 - Martha Stewart, American media personality
1950 John Landis director (Twilight Zone)
1961 - Lee Rocker, American musician (Stray Cats)
1963 - James Hetfield, American guitar player, (Metallica)
1963 - Ed Roland, American musician (Collective Soul)
1971 - DJ Spinderella, American rapper (Salt-N-Pepa)
Deaths on this Day:
1460 - King James II of Scotland (b. 1430)
1792 - Richard Arkwright, English industrialist and inventor (b. 1732)
1916 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
1966 - Lenny Bruce, American comedian (b. 1925) dies of a morphine overdose
2006 - Arthur Lee, American psychedelic rock musician (b. 1945)
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