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• 1889, the Eiffel Tower is dedicated in Paris in a ceremony presided over by Gustave Eiffel, the tower’s designer, and attended by French Prime Minister Pierre Tirard, a handful of other dignitaries, and 200 construction workers.
• 1991 Warsaw Pact ends. After 36 years in existence, the Warsaw Pact-the military alliance between the Soviet Union and its eastern European satellites-comes to an end. The action was yet another sign that the Soviet Union was losing control over its former allies and that the Cold War was falling apart.
Born On This Day
Al Gore 1948
Ewan MacGregor 1971
Christopher Walken 1943
Herb Alpert 1935
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flattered you keep visiting :) and that you even took 42 whole minutes to look at 8 pages.. i hope you’re not doing this at work.. because that would be improper use of company time and resources. we wouldn’t want you to get in trouble….
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• 2004. Ignorant people spend over an hour on a website reading pages, cannot figure out where links are given.
• 1981. President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by a deranged drifter named John Hinckley Jr.
• 1870. Following its ratification by the requisite three-fourths of the states, the 15th Amendment, granting African-American men the right to vote, is formally adopted into the U.S. Constitution.
• 1994 . Ellen, Ellen DeGeneres’ popular show about single thirty-somethings in Los Angeles, premieres. The show quickly became one of the country’s Top 15 most watched shows and drew even more attention when, in April 1997, the gay title character “came out”.
• 1820 Anna Sewell, author of Black Beauty, is born in Norfolk, England. The daughter of a successful children’s book writer, she helped edit her mother’s manuscripts from an early age but was not published herself until she was 57. Black Beauty, the first significant children’s story in the English language to focus on animal characters, established the precedent for countless other works.
Born on this Day
Vincent Van Gogh 1853-1890
Celine Dion 1968
Eric Clapton 1945
Warren Beatty 1937
i had no idea Warren was that old!
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I <3 the Discovery Channel*L*
In the late hours of the night and early morning hours.. I learned about the following:
• Tradewind, sunken Barque ship in Lake Erie. This shipwreck lies in 120′ of water south of Long Point, Lake Erie; as a result of damage in a collision with the Brigantine Sir Charles Napier during a heavy snow squall. Cargo was 1000 cast-iron stoves in the hold, 200 tons of railroad iron on deck, with 2 brand new Francis Metallic Lifeboats. They made it possible for all the crew to escape the rapid sinking.
• The temple of Apollo in Delphi Greece, and how the gasses escaping from a fissure under the temple caused the induced trances of the Oracle priestesses.
• Noah’s Ark stuff. I personally hate the shows that tell lots of crap about different theories and never give any kind of conclusive information.
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• 1973 Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam.
• 1806 Federal Highway. The Great National Pike, also known as the Cumberland Road, became the first highway funded by the national treasury. Built between 1806 and 1840, the Great National Pike stretched from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois.
• 1971 Filming begins on The Godfather. Shooting starts on Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather. The movie, released in 1972, won Oscars for Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Screenplay.
• 1990 Warning label on records. On this day in 1990, recording companies agree to put a warning label on music products that contain potentially offensive lyrics. Some companies had already started using labels to warn buyers of lyrics containing objectionable references to sex and violence.
Born on this Day
Elle Macpherson
Lucy Lawless
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BECAUSE OH NOZ! SOMEWHERE I LISTED HISTORY.COM AS A CREDIT FOR TODAY’S IN HISTORY, BUT OBVIOUSLY NOT LATELY BECAUSE I THOUGHT PEOPLE WERE SMARTER AND OH NOZ I DIDN’T PIMP OUT HISTORY.COM FOR TODAY’S IN HISTORY.. SO LET ME SAY AGAIN.. HEYSOMEONE!!! HISTORY.COM!!! HURRAH FOR HISTORY.COM BECAUSE HISTORY.COM IS THE BESTEST!!!
I hope your half hour plus reading through my website someone was good :)
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• 1969 Dwight D. Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and one of the most highly regarded American generals of World War II, dies in Washington, D.C., at the age of 78.
• 1979, the worst accident in the history of the U.S. nuclear power industry begins when a pressure valve in the Unit-2 reactor at Three Mile Island fails to close. Cooling water, contaminated with radiation, drained from the open valve into adjoining buildings, and the core began to dangerously overheat.
• 1941 Construction of Ford’s Willow Run Plant began. Ground was broken on a vast piece of land in Ypsilanti, Michigan, to begin a plant called Willow Run. Over the course of the next few years, Willow Run would be a source of problems for the Ford Motor Company. By the end of 1942, Willow Run had only produced 56 B-24 bombers, and the plant had been saddled with the nickname “Willit Run?” Just when it seemed that Sorensen’s project would fail, Willow Run began rolling out B-24’s at a remarkable rate. The plant produced 190 bombers in June of 1943, 365 in December. By the middle of 1944, Willow Run churned out a plane every 63 minutes. (A bit of hometownish history for me)
• 1814 The funeral of Guillotin, the inventor and namesake of the infamous execution device, takes place outside of Paris, France. Guillotin had what he felt were the purest motives for inventing the guillotine and was deeply distressed at how his reputation had become besmirched in the aftermath. Before he died he said, “How true it is that it is difficult to benefit mankind without some unpleasantness resulting for oneself.”
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Reba McEntire
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You Are a Plain Ole Cup of Joe
But don’t think plain - instead think, uncomplicated. You’re a low maintenance kind of girl… who can hang with the guys. Down to earth, easy going, and fun! Yup, that’s you: the friend everyone invites. And your dependable too. Both for a laugh and a sympathetic ear.
What Kind Of Coffee Are You?
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• 1964 Earthquake rocks Alaska. The strongest earthquake in American history, measuring 8.4 on the Richter scale, slams southern Alaska, creating a deadly tsunami. Some 125 people were killed and thousands injured.
• 1912 Japanese cherry trees planted along the Potomac River. The blossoming trees proved immediately popular with visitors to Washington’s Mall area, and in 1934 city commissioners sponsored a three-day celebration of the late March blossoming of the trees, which grew into the annual Cherry Blossom Festival.
• 1952 Singin’ in the Rain opens. Considered by many to be the greatest Hollywood musical ever made, Singin’ in the Rain premieres at New York’s Radio City Music Hall. The movie, about silent film actors at the dawn of the sound era, starred Gene Kelly, who also served as co-director and co-choreographer.
Born on this Day
Quentin Tarantino 1963
Mariah Carey 1970
Sarah Vaughan 1924 - 1990