Today, 3 years ago I started this Blog! Woot to that!
It is also the 219th day of the year (or 220th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 146 days remaining until the end of the year. It's also considered to be halfway through its summer (Or halfway through the winter if you live south of the equator). Also, Last year at this time I had made 101 posts which means at my current rate of posts I should have over 200 posts by next year's birthday. :)
What else happened today in History:
2008: Georgia launches a military offensive against South Ossetia to counter the alleged Russian invasion, starting the South Ossetia War.
2007: Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants breaks baseball great Hank Aaron's record by hitting his 756th home run.
1990: Desert Shield begins. U.S. deploys troops to Saudi Arabia.
1976: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.
1976: Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars.
1974: Philippe Petit walks tightrope strung between twin towers.
1970: 1st computer chess tournament.
1970: WDHN TV channel 18 in Dothan, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting.
1965: The infamous first party between Ken Kesey's Merry Pranksters and motorcycle gang the Hells Angels takes place at Kesey's estate in La Honda, California introducing psychedelics to the gang world and forever linking the hippie movement to the Hell's Angels.
1964: Prometheus, a bristlecone pine and the world's oldest tree, is cut down.
1964: Congress passes the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution giving US President Lyndon B. Johnson broad war powers to deal with North Vietnamese attacks on American forces.
1963: Jacqueline Kennedy becomes 1st lady to give birth since Mrs. Cleveland.
1961: Cosmonaut Gherman Titov circles Earth for a full day in Vostok 2.
1959: The Lincoln Memorial design on the U.S. penny goes into circulation. It replaces the "sheaves of wheat" design and is still in use
1959: Explorer 6 transmits 1st TV photo of Earth from space.
1957: U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site.
1956: Boston Red Sox fine Ted Williams $5,000 for spitting at Boston fans.
1955: KSTF TV channel 10 in Scottsbluff-Gering, NB (CBS/NBC) begins.
1954: Charles Mahoney becomes 1st U.S. black to serve as a full UN delegate.
1944: IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I).
1942: 1st American offensive in Pacific in WWII, Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands.
1940: Largest amount paid for a stamp ($45,000 for 1 cent 1856 British Guiana).
1930: The last lynching in the Northern United States occurs in Marion, Indiana. Two men, Thomas Shipp and Abram Smith, are killed.
1927: The Peace Bridge between Fort Erie, Ontario and Buffalo, New York is dedicated.
1909: U.S. issues 1st Lincoln penny.
1820: 1st potatoes planted in Hawaii
1794: George Washington invokes the Militia Law of 1792 to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion in western Pennsylvania.
1791: United States troops destroy the Miami town of Kenapacomaqua near the site of present-day Logansport, Indiana in the Northwest Indian War.
1789: Congress creates Department of War and Lighthouse Service.
1782: George Washington orders the creation of the Badge of Military Merit to honor soldiers wounded in battle. It is later renamed to the more poetic Purple Heart.
1679: The brigantine Le Griffon, commissioned by René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, is towed to the south-eastern end of the Niagara River, to become the first ship to sail the upper Great Lakes of North America.
1606: The first documented performance of Macbeth, at the Great Hall at Hampton Court.
1498: Columbus arrives in Caribbean.
936: Coronation of King Otto I of Germany.
Who was born today:
1987: Hollis Leroy Crapo, my friend.
1975: Charlize Theron, Actress.
1960: David Duchovny, Actor.
1958: Bruce Dickinson, Singer for Iron Maiden.
1955: Greg Nickels, Former Mayor of Seattle.
1955: Wayne Knight, Actor. (Newman!)
1942: B. J. Thomas, Singer.
1942: Garrison Keillor, American writer & radio host [Prairie Home Companion]
1928: Amazing [James] Randi, Skeptic Magician.
1927: Carl Switzer, Actor [Alfalfa].
1926: Stan Freberg, Satirist/Ad Executive/Cartoon Voice.
1886: Louis Hazeltine, Inventor of the neutrodyne circuit which makes radio possible.
1779: Carl Ritter, cofounder of modern science of geography.
1751: Wilhelmina of Prussia, Princess of Orange.
At the other of the spectrum, Who died today:
2009: Mike Seeger, American folk musician, Age: 76.
1997: Vincent Gulliver, Britain's oldest man, Age: 109.
1957: Oliver Hardy, comedian of Laurel and Hardy fame. Age: 65.
1917: Squadron Commander E.H. Dunning, first pilot to land his aircraft on a moving ship. Age: 25.
1033: Frederick II, duke of Upper Lorraine.
For a Birthday present to all you out there: Here is a funny interview Warren "The Ape" Demontague did on G4's Attack of the Show.
As always: Stay Jazzy.
- Brian
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