Category: Elder Folk
It is Oct. 13, 1987. I am sitting in a hospital waiting room, and it is 8:00 PM. My mom is dying in a room across the hall, and the minutes pass so quickly. I am ushered to her room along with other siblings and our spouses follow closely behind.
It has been 20 years since that fateful day. I thought it would be interesting to post on what happened in history, so, I decided to put a few facts on the board.
Oct. 13, 1792: White House corner stone is laid in the newly designated capital
1775: Continental navy established
1977: Palisteainans hijack German airliner
1997: thrust breaks the sound barrier
1972: Jet crashes in poor weather
1974: Ed Sullivan dies
There's more, but I thought these were interesting.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
October, 14, 2007
1947: Yeager breaks the sound barrier
1066: The battle of Hastings
1912: Theodore Roosevelt shot in Milwaukee
1964: King wins Nobel peace prize
1780: Patriots sting loyalists at Shallow Ford North Carolina
1857: Birth of an inventor
1899: Miscalculated prophecy
1863: Battle of Bristoe station
1962: The Cuban missle crisis begins
1913: Coal miners die in Wales
1977: Bing Crosby dies
1890: Dwight D. Eisenhower is born
1964: Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
(Hope this is not boring). I just think stuff like this is interesting, especially stuff that happened in the 1950's and onward.
THIS DAY IN HISTORY
I thought some of these were interesting:
October, 15, 2007
1989: Gretzky breaks scoring record
1991: Thomas confirmed to the Supreme Court
1780: British retreat from Middleburgh
1964: The longest skid marks on record
1966: The worst driver in American history (didn't understand that one. Why was he the worst driver? lol.
1863: C.s.s Hunley sinks during tests
1990: Mikhail Gorbachev wins Nobel peace prize
1948: Murderous husband is executed (wow)
1954: Hurricane Hazel hits the Carolinas and Ontario
1918: Flu stops movie releases
1940: THE GREAT DICTATOR opens (never saw that movie, or is that what they're talking about)?
1951: I LOVE LUCY debuts
1965: First draft card burned (wow, I wasn't very old, but I remember that war)
By the way, if anyone else would like to add facts, please feel free to do so. I think this is neat because the younger folks can see what happened before they were born. Talk to yawl later.
I like this topic. I love history.
Wednesday, October 17th
The 290th day of 2007.
There are 75 days left in the year.
Today's Highlights in History
On Oct. 17, 1931, mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison. He was released in 1939. (
On Oct. 17, 1918, Rita Hayworth, the legendary Hollywood beauty, was born. Following her death on May 14, 1987, her obituary appeared in The Times. (
On this date in:
1777
British forces under Gen. John Burgoyne surrendered to American troops in Saratoga, N.Y., in a turning point of the Revolutionary War.
1915
Playwright Arthur Miller was born in New York City.
1919
The Radio Corporation of America was created.
1931
Mobster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and sentenced to 11 years in prison.
1933
Physicist Albert Einstein arrived in the United States as a refugee from Nazi Germany.
1945
Col. Juan Peron staged a coup, becoming absolute ruler of Argentina.
1957
French author Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature.
1973
Arab oil-producing nations announced they would cut back oil exports to Western nations and Japan; the result was a total embargo that lasted until March
1974.
1978
President Jimmy Carter signed a bill restoring U.S. citizenship to Confederate President Jefferson Davis.
1979
Mother Teresa of India was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her work on behalf of the destitute in Calcutta.
1987
First lady Nancy Reagan underwent a modified radical mastectomy at Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.
1989
An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter scale struck northern California, killing 67 people and causing $7 billion worth of damage.
1997
The remains of revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara were laid to rest in his adopted Cuba, 30 years after his execution in Bolivia.
2001
The House of Representatives announced plans to close for an anthrax sweep after 31 people at the Capitol tested positive for exposure; New York Gov. George
Pataki's Manhattan office was evacuated after anthrax was detected.
2001
Israel's tourism minister, Rehavam Zeevi was shot to death in the first assassination of a serving Cabinet minister by Palestinians.
Current Birthdays
Michael McKean turns 60 years old today.
Actor Michael McKean ("This is Spinal Tap," "Laverne and Shirley") turns 60 years old today.
90 Marsha Hunt Actress
81 Julie AdamsActress
81 Beverly GarlandActress
77 Jimmy Breslin Newspaper columnist
69 Evel Knievel Motorcycle daredevil
66 Earl Thomas Conley Country singer
65 Jim Seals Singer (Seals & Crofts)
65 Gary Puckett Singer
59 Margot Kidder Actress
59 George Wendt Actor ("Cheers")
52 Sam Bottoms Actor
49 Alan Jackson Country singer
47 Rob Marshall Director ("Chicago")
45 Mike Judge Animator ("Beavis and Butthead")
44 Norm Macdonald Actor, comedian ("Saturday Night Live")
39 Ziggy Marley Reggae musician
38 Ernie Els Golfer
36 Chris Kirkpatrick Singer ('N Sync)
35 Eminem Rapper
35 Wyclef Jean Singer
35 Sharon Leal Actress ("Boston Public")
30 Sergio Andrade Rock musician
Historic Birthdays
Rita Hayworth
10/17/1918 - 5/14/1987
American film actress
54
Johann Gerhard
10/17/1582 - 8/17/1637
German theologian
75
Frederick Childe Hassam
10/17/1859 - 8/27/1935
American painter
73
Ernest Goodpasture
10/17/1886 - 9/20/1960
American pathologist
90
Jean Arthur
10/17/1900 - 6/19/1991
American actress
37
Nathanael West
10/17/1903 - 12/22/1940
American author
65
Pope John Paul I
10/17/1912 - 9/28/1978
Pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1978)
81
Jerry Siegel
10/17/1914 - 1/28/1996
American cartoonist
45
Montgomery Clift
10/17/1920 - 7/23/1966
American film actor
What I think would be interesting is if everybody would look up things that happened on their birthday. Now, wouldn't we get a history lesson then ! Thanks Bob for your input, and Brian, I love history too. Guess you figured that out. lol.
Thursday, November 08th The 312th day of 2007.
There are 53 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1889 Montana became the 41st state.
1892 Former President Grover Cleveland beat incumbent Benjamin Harrison, becoming the only president to win non-consecutive terms in the White House.
1923 Adolf Hitler launched his first attempt to seize power with a failed coup in Munich, Germany, that came to be known as the Beer-Hall Putsch.
1932 New York Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated incumbent Herbert Hoover for the presidency.
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt set up the Civil Works Administration, designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
1942 American and British forces landed in French North Africa during World War II.
1960 Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy defeated Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency.
1966 Ronald Reagan was elected governor of California.
1966 Edward W. Brooke of Massachusetts became the first black to be elected to the U.S. Senate by popular vote.
1971 The album "Led Zeppelin IV," which included the song "Stairway to Heaven," was released.
1987 A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded as crowds gathered in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, for a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead, killing 11 people.
1988 Vice President George H.W. Bush won the presidential election, defeating Massachusetts Gov. Michael Dukakis.
1994 Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives for the first time in 40 years and won a majority in the Senate in midterm elections.
1997 Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.
2000 A statewide recount of presidential election ballots began in Florida.
Vice President Al Gore telephoned Texas Gov. George W. Bush to concede the election,
but called back about an hour later to retract his concession.
2000 Waco special counsel John C. Danforth released his final report absolving the government of wrongdoing in the 1993 siege at the Branch Davidian compound
in Texas.
2004 Thousands of U.S. troops attacked strongholds of Sunni insurgents in Fallujah, Iraq.
2005 French President Jacques Chirac declared a 12-day state of emergency to halt France's worst civil unrest in nearly four decades.
2005 Gunmen assassinated a second lawyer in the Saddam Hussein trial in Baghdad.
2006 After years of defending his secretary of defense, President Bush announced Donald H. Rumsfeld's resignation following the Democrats' triumph in congressional
elections; Bush chose former CIA Director Robert Gates to succeed him.
Bob
Bob, you're so cool. I love it. Thanks.