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In The News:
MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Parkbut on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond. I went there and dug for diamonds. I wouldn't have known a diamond unless it was attached to a gold ring.
Court orders goat thief to say sorry
"Cremated son" turns up alive Uhhhh. Say that again?
Today in History:
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1861 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1879 Canada's First Official Thanksgiving Day
1893 Composer Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg, Russia.
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation." Gotcha!!!
1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1952 1st hydrogen bomb exploded (by US at Eniwetok Atoll)
1975 1st appearance of the Sex Pistols
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
Happy Birthday:
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902) as in... Dow Jones...
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1946 - Sally Field, American actress
1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
Deaths on this Day:
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
MURFREESBORO, Ark. - Chad Johnson has found about 80 diamonds at Crater of Diamonds State Parkbut on Monday he nearly threw away his largest find yet. A cube-shaped rock plucked out of his sifters turned out to be a 4.38-carat, tea-colored diamond. I went there and dug for diamonds. I wouldn't have known a diamond unless it was attached to a gold ring.
Court orders goat thief to say sorry
"Cremated son" turns up alive Uhhhh. Say that again?
Today in History:
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in Texas.
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1860, former Illinois congressman Abraham Lincoln defeated three other candidates for the U.S. presidency.
1861 - American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1861 James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in Ontario, Canada.
1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1879 Canada's First Official Thanksgiving Day
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1935 - Before the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers, Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation." Gotcha!!!
1935 - First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1941 - World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule. He states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a wild exaggeration) and that Soviet victory was near.
1944 - Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility, subsequently used in the Fat Man Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1952 1st hydrogen bomb exploded (by US at Eniwetok Atoll)
1975 1st appearance of the Sex Pistols
1977 - The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 - "Irangate" scandal: The American press reveals that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran.
Happy Birthday:
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d.1902) as in... Dow Jones...
1893 - Edsel Ford, president of Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country singer
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1946 - Sally Field, American actress
1948 - Glenn Frey, American singer (Eagles)
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1955 - Maria Shriver, American journalist
1970 - Ethan Hawke, American actor
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
Deaths on this Day:
1893 - Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
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