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  • On this day in 1865, John Wilkes Booth, an actor and Confederate sympathizer, fatally shoots President Abraham Lincoln at a play at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.  The attack came only five days after Confederate General Robert E. Lee surrendered his massive army at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, effectively ending the American Civil War.

  • Back than in April 15th, 1955 American fast-food pioneer Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, launching an enterprise that would eventually become the world's largest fast-food


  • Back than in April 15th, 1955 American fast-food pioneer Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, launching an enterprise that would eventually become the world's largest fast-food



    You beat me to that Imagin. I was saving it for tomorrow for "This day in History."

    It is a new thread I just started.  hehe

    Thanks for the post.

                                              PMM
  • OOOHHH ... i get it now, LMAO.. dang i put a wrenchie in your trenchie sad !

    Well i beat you this time, i understand the post now so.. it's a continual, and a fantastic idea Pam!!!

  • No worries Imagin. There is plenty of history out there to report for tomorrow. (and the next day , and the next day, and the next day)  smiley smiley smiley

    Im going to enjoy my new thread.  I hope others will too!!!!

                                                    PMM


  • Back than in April 15th, 1955 American fast-food pioneer Ray Kroc opened the first McDonald's franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, launching an enterprise that would eventually become the world's largest fast-food
    And that McDonald's location still exists today and has been turned into a museum , i have past it many many times!!


  • On this day April 15th, 1947, Jackie Robinson, age 28, becomes the first African-American player in Major League Baseball when he steps onto Ebbets Field in Brooklyn to compete for the Brooklyn Dodgers. Robinson broke the color barrier in a sport that had been segregated for more than 50 years. Exactly 50 years later, on April 15, 1997, Robinson's groundbreaking career was honored and his uniform number, 42, was retired from Major League Baseball by Commissioner Bud Selig in a ceremony attended by over 50,000 fans at New York City's Shea Stadium. Robinson's was the first-ever number retired by all teams in the league.

  • 4/15/20 (20 yrs ago)  "In Loving Color" made its TV debut! Aw, loved and miss this show.

    Apr 15, 1990. FOX’s sketch comedy series, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, was modeled after “Saturday Night Live.” The show featured Wayans, his brothers Damon, Marlon and Shawn and his sister Kim. Between skits, the Fly Girls would entertain the studio audience with hip-hop dance. The dance segments of the show helped launch the careers of celebrities including Rosie Perez, Carrie Ann Inaba and Jennifer Lopez, and many comedians including David Alan Grier, Jamie Foxx, Kim Coles and Jim Carrey also began their careers on the show. Some of the most popular recurring characters were Homey, the embittered clown, the flammable Fire Marshall Bill and the effeminate movie critics of “Men on Film.”


  • 4/15/20 (20 yrs ago)  "In Loving Color" made its TV debut! Aw, loved and miss this show.

    Apr 15, 1990. FOX’s sketch comedy series, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, was modeled after “Saturday Night Live.” The show featured Wayans, his brothers Damon, Marlon and Shawn and his sister Kim. Between skits, the Fly Girls would entertain the studio audience with hip-hop dance. The dance segments of the show helped launch the careers of celebrities including Rosie Perez, Carrie Ann Inaba and Jennifer Lopez, and many comedians including David Alan Grier, Jamie Foxx, Kim Coles and Jim Carrey also began their careers on the show. Some of the most popular recurring characters were Homey, the embittered clown, the flammable Fire Marshall Bill and the effeminate movie critics of “Men on Film.”



    Gosh, did I love this show. My brother and I still get together and laugh about episodes, that were so funny, we remember them all these years later.

    Thats for the post tyesmommy.

                                                        PMM
  • 1865 - Abraham Lincoln, 16th President of the United States of America, died at 7:22 a.m. Lincoln had been shot in the back of the head the previous evening while attending a performance of "Our American Cousin" at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. The assassin, John Wilkes Booth, escaped, only to be hunted down and shot to death. Lincoln was carried to a boarding house across the street from the theatre. He never regained consciousness



  • 4/15/20 (20 yrs ago)  "In Loving Color" made its TV debut! Aw, loved and miss this show.

    I still secretly wish I was a fly girl...lol

    Apr 15, 1990. FOX’s sketch comedy series, created by Keenen Ivory Wayans, was modeled after “Saturday Night Live.” The show featured Wayans, his brothers Damon, Marlon and Shawn and his sister Kim. Between skits, the Fly Girls would entertain the studio audience with hip-hop dance. The dance segments of the show helped launch the careers of celebrities including Rosie Perez, Carrie Ann Inaba and Jennifer Lopez, and many comedians including David Alan Grier, Jamie Foxx, Kim Coles and Jim Carrey also began their careers on the show. Some of the most popular recurring characters were Homey, the embittered clown, the flammable Fire Marshall Bill and the effeminate movie critics of “Men on Film.”



    Gosh, did I love this show. My brother and I still get together and laugh about episodes, that were so funny, we remember them all these years later.

    Thats for the post tyesmommy.

                                                        PMM
  • LOL.. yup remembering wishing i was a Fly Girl too!!

    "But i ain't the one to gossip so you ain't heard it from me!!"

    Men on Film... *snap in Z form* - hated it!!!


  • LOL.. yup remembering wishing i was a Fly Girl too!!

    "But i ain't the one to gossip so you ain't heard it from me!!"

    Men on Film... *snap in Z form* - hated it!!!




    LMAO....GAwd yes, I remember them all. I used to have them all saved on my DVR.  Then I changed Cable companies, and I lost them all.
  • April 16th 1943

    Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered:

    In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations.


    Also....

    On April 16, 1889, future Hollywood legend Charlie Chaplin is born Charles Spencer Chaplin in London, England.


  • Thank You Pam, i can't ever imagine being a tester for LSD... and to think that people actually do test these drugs.


    16th April 1964 : "The Rolling Stones band's debut album, "The Rolling Stones" issued in the US as "England's Newest Hit Makers" was released. The band consisted of Jagger, Jones, Richards, Wyman, and Watts.

    16th April 1972 : NASA launched the Apollo 16 spacecraft from Cape Canaveral, Florida

    16th April 2003 : Michael Jordan played his last NBA game for the Washington Wizards

  • April 17th..

    The Ford Mustang, a two-seat, mid-engine sports car, is officially unveiled by Henry Ford II at the World’s Fair in Flushing Meadows, New York, on April 17, 1964. That same day, the new car also debuted in Ford showrooms across America and almost 22,000 Mustangs were immediately snapped up by buyers. Named for a World War II fighter plane, the Mustang was the first of a type of vehicle that came to be known as a “pony car.” Ford sold more than 400,000 Mustangs within its first year of production, far exceeding sales expectations.




    April 17, 1790, American statesman, printer, scientist, and writer Benjamin Franklin dies in Philadelphia at age 84.




    John F. Kennedy waits for word on the success of a covert plan to overthrow Cuba s government on this day in 1961. Kennedy had authorized "Operation Zapata," the attempt to overthrow Cuba s communist leader, Fidel Castro, on April 15. The failed coup became what many have called the worst foreign-policy decision of Kennedy s administration.




    On this day in 1945, U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Boris T. Pash commandeers over half a ton of uranium at Strassfut, Germany, in an effort to prevent the Russians from developing an A-bomb.




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  • Wow - my Grandmother went to the New York Worlds Fair in that year with my Grandad and my Aunty who lived in New York at the time and my little American cousin who was born that year.  We have some amazing old black and white photographs somewhere of the Worlds Fair.  I will have to dig them out and see.

    blue

  • April 18 1906

    At 5:13 a.m., an earthquake estimated at close to 8.0 on the Richter scale strikes San Francisco, California, killing hundreds of people as it topples numerous buildings. The quake was caused by a slip of the San Andreas Fault over a segment about 275 miles long, and shock waves could be felt from southern Oregon down to Los Angeles.




    On this day in 2009, driver Mark Martin wins the Subway Fresh Fit 500 at the Phoenix International Speedway in Avondale, Arizona, and becomes the first 50-year-old to claim victory at a National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) Sprint Cup race since Morgan Shepherd did so at a race in Atlanta in 1993. Besides Martin and Shepherd, only two other drivers age 50 or older have won Sprint Cup events.





    On this day in 1775, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the American arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Minutemen.





    American actress Grace Kelly marries Prince Rainier of Monaco in a spectacular ceremony on this day in 1956





    On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy heats up Cold War rhetoric in a letter responding to Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev s claim that the U.S. was engaging in "armed aggression" against the communist regime in Cuba. Kennedy denied the allegations, told Kruschev he was under a "serious misapprehension" and stated that the U.S. "intends no military intervention in Cuba." However, Kennedy insisted that he would support Cubans "who wish to see a democratic system in an independent Cuba" and that the U.S. would "take no action to stifle the spirit of liberty




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  • On April 19, 1897, John J. McDermott of New York won the first Boston Marathon with a time of 2:55:10.




    April 19th, 1995
    A massive explosion at the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, kills 168 people and injures hundreds more. The bomb, contained in a Ryder truck parked outside the front of the building, went off at 9:02 a.m. as people were preparing for the workday. Among the victims of America's worst incident of domestic terrorism were 19 children who were in the daycare center on the first floor of the building.




    Aptil 19 1993
    At Mount Carmel in Waco, Texas, the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) launches a tear-gas assault on the Branch Davidian compound, ending a tense 51-day standoff between the federal government and an armed religious cult. By the end of the day, the compound was burned to the ground, and some 80 Branch Davidians, including 22 children, had perished in the inferno.




    April 19 1865
    A pall shrouds the nation's capital on the day of President Lincoln's funeral. His body lay in the East Room of the White House, where members of the Supreme Court, Congressional leaders, diplomats, and military leaders filed by. The casket was then moved to the rotunda of the Capitol, where thousands paid respect to their martyred leader.

  • On April 20, 1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day.



    On April 20, 2008, 26-year-old Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 at Twin Ring Montegi in Montegi, Japan, making her the first female winner in IndyCar racing history




    April 20 1999
    Two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. At about 11:20 a.m., Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris, dressed in long trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By the time SWAT team officers finally entered the school at about 3:00 p.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher, and had wounded another 23 people. Then, around noon, they turned their guns on themselves and committed suicide.





    April 20 1961
    Colonel Robert E. Lee resigns from the United States army two days after he was offered command of the Union army and three days after his native state, Virginia, seceded from the Union.





  • April 21 1895
    On this day in 1895, Woodville Latham and his sons, Otway and Gray, demonstrate their “Panopticon,” the first movie projector developed in the United States.





    According to tradition, on April 21, 753 B.C., Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century B.C., and the exact date of Rome's founding was set by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in the first century B.C.




    The yellow ribbon— has long been a symbol of support for absent or missing loved ones. There are some who believe that the tradition of the yellow ribbon dates back as far as the Civil War era, when a yellow ribbon in a woman’s hair indicated that she was "taken" by a man who was absent due to service in the United States Army Cavalry. But research by professional folklorists has found no evidence to support that story. The Library of Congress itself traces the cultural ubiquity of this powerful symbol to the well-known song by Tony Orlando and Dawn: "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Old Oak Tree," which topped the U.S. pop charts on this day in 1973.





    On April 21, 1967, General Motors (GM) celebrates the manufacture of its 100 millionth American-made car. At the time, GM was the world’s largest automaker

  • Apr 22, 1970:

    Earth Day, an event to increase public awareness of the world's environmental problems, is celebrated in the United States for the first time. Millions of Americans, including students from thousands of colleges and universities, participated in rallies, marches, and educational programs.




    April 22 1994
    On this day in 1994, former President Richard M. Nixon dies after suffering a stroke four days earlier. In a 1978 speech at Oxford University, Nixon admitted he had "screwed up" during his presidency but predicted that his achievements would be viewed more favorably with time. He told the young audience, "You'll be here in the year 2000?see how I am regarded then."





    On April 22, 1915, German forces shock Allied soldiers along the western front by firing more than 150 tons of lethal chlorine gas against two French colonial divisions at Ypres, Belgium. This was the first major gas attack by the Germans, and it devastated the Allied line.






  • According to tradition, the great English dramatist and poet William Shakespeare is born in Stratford-on-Avon on April 23, 1564. It is impossible to be certain the exact day on which he was born, but church records show that he was baptized on April 26, and three days was a customary amount of time to wait before baptizing a newborn. Shakespeare's date of death is conclusively known, however: it was April 23, 1616. He was 52 years old and had retired to Stratford three years before.





    On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocks out the first home run of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers




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  • Pam i love this thread, lots of great information here.. and you know what i never knew William Shakespeare died on his birthday sad


  • Pam i love this thread, lots of great information here.. and you know what i never knew William Shakespeare died on his birthday sad



    Thank you so much for reading the thread. I enjoy doing it. I have learned so much each day, and I share it with my co workers, who likely think I am nuts. laugh_out_loud


  • Pam i love this thread, lots of great information here.. and you know what i never knew William Shakespeare died on his birthday sad



    Thank you so much for reading the thread. I enjoy doing it. I have learned so much each day, and I share it with my co workers, who likely think I am nuts. laugh_out_loud


    So not true Pam.  I love reading this thread.  I'm going to give you some more thank yous.

    blue
  • Ohhhhh, thank you Blue......I wasnt sure if anyone even read this thread, but like I said, I enjoyed doing it, so I thought I might as well continue.

    Teaches people alot of interesting facts each day, which is way cool.

    Personally I love history, and enjoy watching and reading about it every day.


    Thanks for reading!!!!

                                                                    PMM

  • I too enjoy reading the daily history lesson  wink
    Keep up the good work PMM


  • April 24 1922
    Colin Ross is hanged to death for the rape and murder of 13-year-old Alma Tirtschke. Ross was one of the first criminals to be convicted based on forensic evidence. On December 30, 1921, Tirtschke was reported missing in Melbourne. The next day, a constable patrolling Gun Alley, a well-known area for prostitutes, found the young schoolgirl's body bundled up in a blanket. Strangely, despite evidence of a brutal rape, there was no trace of blood found on her body.



    On April 24, 1980, an ill-fated military operation to rescue the 52 American hostages held in Tehran ends with eight U.S. servicemen dead and no hostages rescued



    Apr 24, 1953:
    Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, the British leader who guided Great Britain and the Allies through the crisis of World War II, is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.




    On this day in 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launches the so-called Easter Rebellion, an armed uprising against British rule. Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly, Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized the Irish capital's General Post Office. Following these successes, they proclaimed the independence of Ireland, which had been under the repressive thumb of the United Kingdom for centuries, and by the next morning were in control of much of the city. Later that day, however, British authorities launched a counteroffensive, and by April 29 the uprising had been crushed. Nevertheless, the Easter Rebellion is considered a significant marker on the road to establishing an independent Irish republic.





    Apr 24, 1945:
    President Harry Truman learns the full details of the Manhattan Project, in which scientists are attempting to create the first atomic bomb, on this day in 1945. The information thrust upon Truman a momentous decision: whether or not to use the world s first weapon of mass destruction.





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  • April 25 1983
    On this day in 1983, the Soviet Union releases a letter that Russian leader Yuri Andropov wrote to Samantha Smith, an American fifth-grader from Manchester, Maine, inviting her to visit his country. Andropov's letter came in response to a note Smith had sent him in December 1982, asking if the Soviets were planning to start a nuclear war. At the time, the United States and Soviet Union were Cold War enemies.




    Apr 25, 1859:
    At Port Said, Egypt, ground is broken for the Suez Canal, an artificial waterway intended to stretch 101 miles across the isthmus of Suez and connect the Mediterranean and the Red seas. Ferdinand de Lesseps, the French diplomat who organized the colossal undertaking, delivered the pickax blow that inaugurated construction.




    On this day in 1995, the actress Ginger Rogers, best known for the 10 films she made with her dance partner Fred Astaire, dies at the age of 83.





    Apr 25, 1719:
    Daniel Defoe's fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe is published. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of shipwreck victims and of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s.





    On April 25, 1964, the Toronto Maple Leafs defeat the Detroit Red Wings, 4-0, and win the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup championship, four games to three. The victory marked the Maple Leafs’ third consecutive Stanley Cup victory.





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  • On this day in 1954, the Salk polio vaccine field trials, involving 1.8 million children, begin at the Franklin Sherman Elementary School in McLean, Virginia. Children in the United States, Canada and Finland participated in the trials, which used for the first time the now-standard double-blind method, whereby neither the patient nor attending doctor knew if the inoculation was the vaccine or a placebo. On April 12, 1955, researchers announced the vaccine was safe and effective and it quickly became a standard part of childhood immunizations in America. In the ensuing decades, polio vaccines would all but wipe out the highly contagious disease in the Western Hemisphere.



    Apr 26, 1865:
    John Wilkes Booth is killed when Union soldiers track him down to a Virginia farm 12 days after he assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.




    On this day in 1986, the world s worst nuclear accident to date occurs at the Chernobyl nuclear plant near Kiev in Ukraine. The full toll from this disaster is still being tallied, but experts believe that thousands of people died and as many as 70,000 suffered severe poisoning. In addition, a large area of land may not be livable for as much as 150 years. The 18-mile radius around Chernobyl was home to almost 150,000 people who had to be permanently relocated.







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  • That Chernobyl disaster was terrible...and still is. 

    As for the polio vaccine - I know someone who has/had Polio and it is a terrible thing. It affected her limbs and she walks with a limp.  Sadly she also has glaucoma is almost blind but she remains the most amazing person I know.  She has written a book, travelled and done things that would scare able bodied people.  She absailed down a church recently to raise money for the blind.  She is one heck of a lady.

    Thank goodness Polio is not around nowadays.

    Thanks for the post Pam.

    blue

  • This was so fascinating to read, i also knew an elderly lady that had polio as a child, she grew up poor, as a child all she could do was cope with the paralysis, as she got older it didn't get her down, a limp and also she only had strength in one arm..


    Thank You Pam.. love this thread

  • April 27 4977 B.C.
    On this day in 4977 B.C., the universe is created, according to German mathematician and astronomer Johannes Kepler, considered a founder of modern science. Kepler is best known for his theories explaining the motion of planets.




    Ulysses S. Grant, Civil War leader and 18th president of the United States, is born on this day in 1822.




    On April 27, 1956, world heavyweight champ Rocky Marciano retires from boxing at age 31, saying he wants to spend more time with his family. Marciano ended his career as the only heavyweight champion with a perfect record--49 wins in 49 professional bouts, with 43 knockouts.



    On this day in 1941, the German army enters the Greek capital, signaling the end of Greek resistance. All mainland Greece and all the Greek Aegean islands except Crete are under German occupation by May 11. In fending off the Axis invaders, the Greeks suffer the loss of 15,700 men. Greece will not be liberated until 1944, by British troops from the Mediterranean theater.



    On this day in 2009, the struggling American auto giant General Motors (GM) says it plans to discontinue production of its more than 80-year-old Pontiac brand.




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  • Apr 28, 1995:
    A gas explosion beneath a busy city street in Taegu, South Korea, kills more than 100 people on this day in 1995. Sixty children, some on their way to school, were among the victims of the blast.



    Apr 28, 1758:
    Future U.S. Senator and President James Monroe is born on this day in 1758.





    On April 28, 1967, boxing champion Muhammad Ali refuses to be inducted into the U.S. Army and is immediately stripped of his heavyweight title. Ali, a Muslim, cited religious reasons for his decision to forgo military service.





    Apr 28, 1965:
    Barbra Streisand’s breakout year as a singer came in 1963, when she released her first two albums, won her first two Grammys and began appearing live in some of the most prominent nightclubs in the country. By the following year, she was a showbiz phenomenon, earning further nominations from the Grammys and Tonys after wowing Broadway critics and audiences in her first leading role, as Fanny Brice in Funny Girl. Yet even then, in a Time magazine cover article in 1964, it was noted that "Many people still say Who when they hear her name." That probably changed once and for all on April 28, 1965, when millions of American television viewers tuned in to a solid primetime hour of the 22-year-old Streisand in her first-ever TV special, the triumphant My Name Is Barbra.





    On this day in 2004, Comcast, America’s largest cable operator, abandons its $54 billion hostile takeover bid for the Walt Disney Company in the face of faltering stock prices and Disney’s continued refusal to entertain the proposal.




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  • On April 29, 2004, the National World War II Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., to thousands of visitors, providing overdue recognition for the 16 million U.S. men and women who served in the war. The memorial is located on 7.4 acres on the former site of the Rainbow Pool at the National Mall between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial. The Capitol dome is seen to the east, and Arlington Cemetery is just across the Potomac River to the west.




    On this day in 2004, the last Oldsmobile comes off the assembly line at the Lansing Car Assembly plant in Michigan, signaling the end of the 106-year-old automotive brand, America’s oldest. Factory workers signed the last Oldsmobile, an Alero sedan, before the vehicle was moved to Lansing’s R.E. Olds Transportation Museum, where it went on display. The last 500 Aleros ever manufactured featured “Final 500” emblems and were painted dark metallic cherry red.



    Apr 29, 1992:
    An jury of 10 whites, one Hispanic, and one Filipina in the Los Angeles suburb of Simi Valley acquits four police officers who had been charged with using excessive force in arresting black motorist Rodney King a year earlier. The announcement of the verdict, which enraged the black community, prompted widespread rioting throughout much of the sprawling city. It wasn't until three days later that the arson and looting finally ended


    In Los Angeles, California, four Los Angeles police officers that had been caught beating an unarmed African-American motorist in an amateur video are acquitted of any wrongdoing in the arrest. Hours after the verdicts were announced, outrage and protest turned to violence, as rioters in south-central Los Angeles blocked freeway traffic and beat motorists, wrecked and looted numerous downtown stores and buildings, and set more than 100 fires.






    Apr 29, 1945:
    Eva Braun met Hitler while employed as an assistant to Hitler's official photographer. Of a middle-class Catholic background, Braun spent her time with Hitler out of public view, entertaining herself by skiing and swimming. She had no discernible influence on Hitler's political career but provided a certain domesticity to the life of the dictator. Loyal to the end, she refused to leave the Berlin bunker buried beneath the chancellery as the Russians closed in. The couple was married only hours before they both committed suicide.






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  • On this day in 1945, holed up in a bunker under his headquarters in Berlin, Adolf Hitler commits suicide by swallowing a cyanide capsule and shooting himself in the head. Soon after, Germany unconditionally surrendered to the Allied forces, ending Hitler's dreams of a "1,000-year" Reich.



    Apr 30, 1927:
    The Federal Industrial Instituttion for Women, the first women's federal prison, opens in Alderson, West Virginia. All women serving federal sentences of more than a year were to be brought here.



    Apr 30, 1789:
    In New York City, George Washington, the great military leader of the American  Revolution, is inaugurated as the first president of the United States.

    On this day in 1789, George Washington is sworn in as the first American president and delivers the first inaugural speech at Federal Hall in New York City. Elements of the ceremony set tradition; presidential inaugurations have deviated little in the two centuries since Washington s inauguration.


    On April 30, 1939, the New York World's Fair opens in New York City. The opening ceremony, which featured speeches by President Franklin D. Roosevelt and New York Governor Herbert Lehman, ushered in the first day of television broadcasting in New York.



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  • On this day in 1931, President Herbert Hoover officially dedicates New York City's Empire State Building, pressing a button from the White House that turns on the building's lights. Hoover's gesture, of course, was symbolic; while the president remained in Washington, D.C., someone else flicked the switches in New York.




    On this day in 1926, Ford Motor Company becomes one of the first companies in America to adopt a five-day, 40-hour week for workers in its automotive factories. The policy would be extended to Ford's office workers the following August



    On May 1, 1991, Oakland Athletics outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 939th base to break Lou Brock’s record for stolen bases in a career. Henderson stole a total of 1,406 bases in his major league career, almost 500 more than the next closest player. Henderson was also the premiere lead-off hitter of his generation





    An American U-2 spy plane is shot down while conducting espionage over the Soviet Union. The incident derailed an important summit meeting between President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev that was scheduled for later that month.





    May 1st 2003
    A record-breaking wave of tornadoes begins across the southern and midwestern United States on this day in 2003. By the time the wave is over, more than 500 tornadoes are recorded for the month, shattering the previous record by more than 100






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  • Pammy this thread is really cool!! Im gonna sticky it for ya.

    Thanks for all your hard work to put it together.

    Lips
  • Love this thread too and Congrats on your Sticky cheesy cheesy

    It's my favorite smiley

  • Love it that you made it to stickyness grin Always like to read what happened back then.

  • Love it too! It's fun to read about significant dates from not too long ago and think "what was I doing when that happened". Like I remember the Rodney King beating/L.A. riots like it was yesterday...then I feel old...LOL


  • smiley smiley So glad so many are enjoying my "This day in history" thread.  It will be here rain or shine, each day.

                                                                            PMM






    May 2nd 1933
    Although accounts of an aquatic beast living in Scotland's Loch Ness date back 1,500 years, the modern legend of the Loch Ness Monster is born when a sighting makes local news on May 2, 1933. The newspaper Inverness Courier related an account of a local couple who claimed to have seen "an enormous animal rolling and plunging on the surface." The story of the "monster" (a moniker chosen by the Courier editor) became a media phenomenon, with London newspapers sending correspondents to Scotland and a circus offering a 20,000 pound sterling reward for capture of the beast




    On this day in 1918, General Motors Corporation (GM), which will become the world's largest automotive firm, acquires Chevrolet Motor Company.




    On this day in 1997, a sandstorm sweeps across much of Egypt, causing widespread damage and killing 12 people. Most of the casualties were victims of the strong winds, which also toppled trees and buildings.




    May 2nd 1972
    After nearly five decades as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), J. Edgar Hoover dies, leaving the powerful government agency without the administrator who had been largely responsible for its existence and shape.





    On this day in 1945, approximately 1 million German soldiers lay down their arms as the terms of the German unconditional surrender, signed at Caserta on April 29, come into effect. Many Germans surrender to Japanese soldiers-Japanese Americans. Among the American tank crews that entered the northern Italian town of Biella was an all-Nisei (second-generation) infantry battalion, composed of Japanese Americans from Hawaii.

    Early that same day, Russian Marshal Georgi K. Zhukov accepts the surrender of the German capital. The Red Army takes 134,000 German soldiers prisoner.





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  • Nessie or the Loch Ness Monster is one of many famous "non existent" creatures.  

    I have been to Loch Ness and it truly is a place of beauty and tranquility but I never saw Nessie.  There are plenty of pictures of the monster on the net, all of which are fake [of course].

    Thanks as ever Pam for this great thread.

    blue





  • On this day in 1469, the Italian philosopher and writer Niccolo Machiavelli is born. A lifelong patriot and diehard proponent of a unified Italy, Machiavelli became one of the fathers of modern political theory.





    On this day in 1980, 13-year-old Cari Lightner of Fair Oaks, California, is walking along a quiet road on her way to a church carnival when a car swerves out of control, striking and killing her. Cari's tragic death compelled her mother, Candy Lightner, to found the organization Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD), which would grow into one of the country's most influential non-profit organizations.




    On May 3, 1947, Japan's postwar constitution goes into effect. The progressive constitution granted universal suffrage, stripped Emperor Hirohito of all but symbolic power, stipulated a bill of rights, abolished peerage, and outlawed Japan's right to make war. The document was largely the work of Supreme Allied Commander Douglas MacArthur and his occupation staff, who had prepared the draft in February 1946 after a Japanese attempt was deemed unacceptable.




    Soul Brother #1,"The Godfather of Soul," "Mr. Dynamite," "Sex Machine," "The Minister of the New New Super Heavy Funk." These are some of the names by which the world would eventually know James Joseph Brown, Jr., the revolutionary musical figure who was born on this day in 1933. The story Brown himself would often tell is that he appeared stillborn when he first came into the world, but that an aunt attending his birth managed to breathe life into him





    On this day in 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt welcomes approximately 4,000 women attending a women s division meeting of the Democratic National Committee to Washington D.C. He and his wife Eleanor s plans to host the event at the White House, however, had to be modified at the last minute, as they had originally expected only 100 guests.





    On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy receives an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from George Washington University, the same institution from which his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, graduated in 1951 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. (Prior to attending George Washington, Jackie studied at Vassar College and, thorough a Smith College exchange program, at the Sorbonne.) In his acceptance speech he quipped, "my wife beat me to this honor by about 8 or 9 years. It took her 2 years to get this degree and it took me 2 minutes."
    Kennedy received his undergraduate degree from Harvard in 1940.





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  • On this day in 1776, Rhode Island, the colony founded by the most radical religious dissenters from the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony, becomes the first North American colony to renounce its allegiance to King George III. Ironically, Rhode Island would be the last state to ratify the new American Constitution more than 14 years later on May 29, 1790.




    Jesse Tafero is executed in Florida after his electric chair malfunctions three times, causing flames to leap from his head. Tafero's death sparked a new debate on humane methods of execution. Several states ceased use of the electric chair and adopted lethal injection as their means of capital punishment.




    On this day in 1929, Edda van Heemstra Hepburn-Ruston--who will one day be better known to legions of film fans as Audrey Hepburn--is born near Brussels, Belgium




    Twenty-five-year-old Norman Mailer's first novel, The Naked and the Dead, is published on this day in 1948. The book is critically acclaimed and widely considered one of the best novels to come out of World War II.






    On this day in 1865, Abraham Lincoln is laid to rest in his hometown of Springfield, Illinois.





    In Kent, Ohio, 28 National Guardsmen fire their weapons at a group of antiwar demonstrators on the Kent State University campus, killing four students, wounding eight, and permanently paralyzing another.





    On May 4, 1965, San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays hits his 512th career home run to break Mel Ott’s National League record for home runs. Mays would finish his career with 660 home runs, good for third on the all-time list at the time of his retirement




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  • The thing that struck me in your post Pam was this:

    "humane methods of execution" - there is nothing humane about executing another human being.  Thank heavens we don't have capital punishment here in the uk.

    Thanks as ever for this great thread.

    blue


  • The thing that struck me in your post Pam was this:

    "humane methods of execution" - there is nothing humane about executing another human being.  Thank heavens we don't have capital punishment here in the uk.

    Thanks as ever for this great thread.

    blue



    Blue: I couldnt agree more.......
  • Some countries still today have their form capital punishment, such as firing squad and beheadings, i've learned that the longest jail sentence in some countries is 6 mos. Drugs and Murder will get you that capital, even thieves in some cases. The only thing that can ultimately save your life is family members of the victim and the criminal. Not the justice system, which in some the juctice system is the families.

    What i sometimes think about is the person doing the executions and how they live with it. It must take a certain kind of person to do it.

  • Some countries executions are horrid. I read about them sometimes, and I don't know what I would do if someone I loved had commited a crime in one of these countries and had to die that way. No matter what someone does, they are SOMEBODYS child. Im glad the punishments here arent as severe, but even the death penalty here, I could do without.

    kiss

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