OT: Today in History

[FlatIronMike]

from the NYTimes:

1666 The Great Fire of London broke out. When it was finally
extinguished three days later, nearly 400 acres in the city had been
destroyed, including some 13,000 houses and the old St. Paul's
Cathedral.

1864 Union Gen. William T. Sherman's forces occupied Atlanta during
the Civil War.

1901 Vice President Theodore Roosevelt offered the advice, "Speak
softly and carry a big stick," in a speech at the Minnesota State
Fair.

1935 A hurricane slammed into the Florida Keys, claiming 423 lives.

1945 Ho Chi Minh declared Vietnam an independent republic.

1963 Alabama Gov. George C. Wallace prevented the integration of
Tuskegee High School by encircling the building with state troopers.

1985 A U.S.-French expedition announced that it had located the
wreckage of the Titanic about 560 miles off Newfoundland.

1992 The United States and Russia agreed to build a space station.

FlatironMike
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[Ian]

XM satellite radio channel 4 (Forties music) has a daily newscast from
that decade, and this morning it was full of the signing ceremony where the
Japs formally accepted defeat on a USN ship in Tokyo harbor.
Personally, if I'd been in President Truman's shoes, I'd have told the
scientist to keep making the Bomb, and told the Air Force to keep
dropping them, till the two islands had been reduced to black wastelands.
--
Ian

[MaggieAZ_]

Don't forget

2003: Dutch VanAfoort quit smoking! Yeah, Robin!!

Maggie

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[FlatIronMike]

You got that right, Maggie! Wonder where his posting is???

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[DutchVanOOF]

Wasn't time yet Mike.

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[DutchVanOOF]

Thanks sweetie, you're up next!

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[FlatIronMike]

Gleaned from today's NYTimes...

On this date in:

1781 Los Angeles was founded by Spanish settlers.

1888 George Eastman received a patent for his roll-film camera and
registered his trademark: Kodak.

1951 In the first live coast-to-coast TV broadcast, President Harry S.
Truman addressed the nation from the Japanese peace treaty conference
in San Francisco.

1957 Ford Motor Co. began selling its ill-fated Edsel line.

1972 Swimmer Mark Spitz became the first person to win seven gold
medals at a single Olympic Games when the United States won the 400-
meter relay in Munich.

2006 "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, 44, died after a stingray's barb
pierced his chest.

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[DavidL]

Bless you, Ian.

[DavidL]

Where'd the name "Kodak" come from?

[Lynn]

can you look ahead in these Mike and see what happened on April 2? I don't
have the patience to wait
--
:) Lynn VOF+ Leaper
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[FlatIronMike]

I am not sure, David, but I think Kodak was one of the first invented
names in business. I bet you can find out more if you go to their
website.

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[FlatIronMike]

I think if you go the the NYTimes website you can find that out,
Lynn, but I am not totally sure. I get a daily digest of their
headlines in my email and I click on the Today in History link before
going on to the paper itself.

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and 35 seconds. 11436 cigarettes not smoked, saving $3,430.64. Life
saved: 5 weeks, 4 days, 17 hours, 0 minutes.

[Lynn]

So I will just have to practice patience after all. :)

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[FlatIronMike]

Lynn, check out http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/archive.html
as it has the entire "Today in History" there.

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[Lynn]

What a sweetie you are for looking this up for me. I got to check out every
date I was curious about ( like birthdays etc)

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[FlatIronMike]

It was my pleasure, Lynn. I was pretty sure that the 'Today in
History' had a look-up option for other dates and everyone of the 366
are in there. Still I would think that what actually gets printed on
a particular date might change from year to year as something
newsworthy happens or someone becomes famous whose birthday was not
recognized previously. Just a hunch.

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[Dana]

XM? I have one of those. I like the 50s and 60s channels.

[Ian]

da...@panix.com wrote:

I first joined about six years ago, when membership was well under a
million.
Yes, channels 5, 6 and 7 are my most frequented music channels, with 13
and 4 to a lesser extent.
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Ian