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Post by johnreardon on Feb 22, 2021 9:10:26 GMT
On This Day - 22nd February
1371 King Robert II of Scotland succeeded to the throne, beginning the Stuart dynasty. Following a palace coup he lost control of the country. He died in Dundonald Castle in 1390 and lies buried at Scone Abbey.
1797 Over 1,000 French troops attempted to invade Britain and landed at Fishguard, but were soon captured by the brave ladies of the town. No other foreign force has managed to invade mainland Britain since.
1857 The birth of Sir Robert (Stephenson Smyth) Baden-Powell, English hero of the siege of Mafeking during the Boer War. His innovative approach to the situation kept morale high and his experiences led to the founding of the Boy Scouts.
1889 The birth of Lady Olave Baden-Powell, wife of Robert Baden-Powell. She was Chief Guide for Britain in 1918 and World Chief Guide in 1930. Her autobiography Window on My Heart (see ©BB picture) was first published in 1973. 22nd February is also World Thinking Day, celebrated since 1926. It is a day of international friendship, speaking out on issues that affect girls and young women, and fundraising for 10 million Girl Guides and Girl Scouts around the world.
1903 The Cunard Liner Etruria arrived in New York with a copy of the first newspaper ever published in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. It featured news reports transmitted from Britain by wireless while the ship was at sea. Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, was one of the ship's passengers.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 22, 2021 12:39:03 GMT
1720: In one of the earliest known instances of insider trading, John Law's Mississippi Company repurchases 100,000 shares of its stock from King Louis XV for 9,000 livres per share. Then Law announces to the French public that his finance company will no longer support the price of its stock with periodic buybacks, and over the next week Mississippi Company shares plummet from 9.545 livres to 7,825 livres, an 18% loss -- on their way to zero, as one of the earliest speculative bubbles begins to burst.
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Post by zontar on Feb 24, 2021 7:41:50 GMT
1975 - Led Zeppelin's best album "Physical Graffiti" was released.
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 24, 2021 9:09:36 GMT
1952 Canada wins 6th Olympic ice hockey title courtesy of a final round 3-3 tie with the US at the Oslo Winter Games; Canadian center Billy Gibson top scores with 19 points
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 24, 2021 12:28:59 GMT
1784: Meeting at the Merchant's Coffee House in downtown New York City, several prominent businessmen led by a young attorney named Alexander Hamilton found the Bank of New York "on liberal principles."
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 25, 2021 12:22:48 GMT
1862: Pres. Abraham Lincoln signs the Legal Tender Act, putting the U.S. government in the business of printing paper money. (Previously, most money had been printed privately by local banks.) The Act also authorizes the Treasury to sell 6% bonds callable in five years, maturing in 20, which are quickly nicknamed "5-20s." Philadelphia broker Jay Cooke devises what he calls the "democratic distribution" of investments, slicing the 5-20s into denominations as small as $50, advertising them heavily in local newspapers, and hiring his own army of 2,500 "traveling agents" to sell them in towns throughout the Union. He raises $361 million in less than two years -- and introduces tens of thousands of Americans to investing for the first time.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 27, 2021 19:09:25 GMT
1891: David Sarnoff, future president of Radio Corporation of America and the greatest visionary of the radio and television industries, is born in Uzlian, Russia.
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Post by zontar on Feb 27, 2021 21:08:40 GMT
Feb 27 2015--Leonard Nimoy dies.
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Post by johnreardon on Feb 28, 2021 10:51:24 GMT
1933 Hitler bans the German Communist Party 1942 Dutch East Indies: Japanese land on Java, last Allied bastion in the East Indies 1942 Battle of Sunda Strait: Japanese cruiser squadron engages Allied cruisers USS 'Houston' & HMAS 'Perth' c. 2350. 1943 8 Japanese transports with c. 7000 troops sail from Rabaul for Lae 1943 Burma: Japanese operations against Kachin guerrillas. 1944 Alamo Scouts are withdrawn from Los Negros, as Allied air strikes continue 1944 Mounted 2nd Cav Div (Colored) ships out for North Africa. 1944 Marshal of the Soviet Union Nicholai Fyodorovich Vatutin, is mortally wounded in an ambush by Ukrainian partisans, dies Apr 15th 1945 Philippines: U.S. forces land on Palawan 1976 Spain withdraws from Western Sahara 1990 65th American manned space mission, Atlantis 6, begins 2013 Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Aloisius Ratzinger) resigns at 85 (r. 2005-2013) -- first papal resignation since 1415
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Post by infant on Feb 28, 2021 11:55:26 GMT
1992- my daughter was born.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 28, 2021 16:50:02 GMT
1953: A young scientist named Francis Harry Compton Crick walks into the Eagle Pub in Cambridge, England, and announces that he and his research partner, James Dewey Watson, have "found the secret of life." Unlike most people who say that kind of thing in bars, Crick is right: He and Watson have discovered the double-helix molecular structure of DNA.
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Post by Die Bullen on Feb 28, 2021 16:50:54 GMT
1992- my daughter was born. Yay! Wish her a happy birthday from"the boys"
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 1, 2021 9:13:03 GMT
March 1st
1958 Buddy Holly played the first of 25 dates on his only UK tour at the Trocadero, Elephant & Castle, London. Also on the bill was Gary Miller, The Tanner Sisters, Des O'Connor, The Montanas, Ronnie Keene & His Orchestra.
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Post by zontar on Mar 1, 2021 9:25:57 GMT
Wow--yeah--it's March
1810 - Composer Frederic Chopin was born. 1968 - Johnny Cash and June Carter were married.
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 1, 2021 9:34:16 GMT
Wow--yeah--it's March 1810 - Composer Frederic Chopin was born. 1968 - Johnny Cash and June Carter were married. Yes it's March, but which year? ?
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Post by zontar on Mar 1, 2021 9:35:28 GMT
Wow--yeah--it's March 1810 - Composer Frederic Chopin was born. 1968 - Johnny Cash and June Carter were married. Yes it's March, but which year? ? kind of feels like that
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 1, 2021 12:43:19 GMT
1935: The first U.S. savings bond (Series A) is issued after Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau observes that the U.S. lacks a government-sponsored savings plan like those of France and Great Britain.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 3, 2021 12:29:02 GMT
1901: J.P. Morgan announces that he is organizing the largest corporation the world has yet seen by merging his Federal Steel conglomerate with Andrew Carnegie's Carnegie Co. The company is initially capitalized at $1.4 billion -- the first billion-dollar company ever -- four times the budget of the U.S. government and 7% of the gross national product. In a popular joke of the day, a schoolboy is asked about the history of the world. "God created the world in 4004 B.C.," he answers, "and it was reorganized by J.P. Morgan in 1901."
1882: In Lugo, Italy, outside of Bologna, Carlo Pietro Giovanni Guglielmo Tebaldo Ponzi is born. In 1903 he emigrates to Boston, renaming himself Charles Ponzi, and creates a financial phenomenon -- promising to double investors' money every three months by speculating in foreign postage stamps to benefit from fluctuations in currency rates. Bostonians lose over $10 million on the scheme, and Ponzi's name becomes synonymous with any con game that pays new investors out of the money that belongs to the old ones.
1847: Alexander Graham Bell, father of the telephone, is born in Edinburgh, Scotland, to Alexander Melville Bell, a professor of speech and elocution, and Eliza Symonds Bell, a painter of miniature portraits.
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 3, 2021 12:59:50 GMT
1966 - Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles. Among the first wave of American bands to become popular in the wake of the British invasion, the group combined rock, folk, and country music into a sound all its own. Its million-selling song 'For What It's Worth' became a political anthem for the turbulent late 1960s.
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Post by Sgt Rock on Mar 3, 2021 23:17:11 GMT
1966 - Neil Young, Stephen Stills and Richie Furay formed Buffalo Springfield in Los Angeles. Among the first wave of American bands to become popular in the wake of the British invasion, the group combined rock, folk, and country music into a sound all its own. Its million-selling song 'For What It's Worth' became a political anthem for the turbulent late 1960s. the Buffalo Springfield was/is one of my favorite music groups. to me they were a "super" group. just look at all of the groups/musicians that were in the group. POCO, CSN, & later CSN & Y, and Jim Messina joined Kenny Loggins to form Loggins and Messina.
here's another on by the Buffalo Springfield :
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 4, 2021 8:51:06 GMT
On March 4, 1952, actor and future President Ronald Reagan marries his second wife, actress Nancy Davis. The couple wed in Los Angeles at the Little Brown Church in the Valley.
Nancy Davis, whose real name is Anne Frances Robbins, met her husband in 1951. (MGM Studios signed her to a contract and billed her as Nancy Davis for her first screen role in the film Shadow on the Wall). The two met in 1951, while Reagan was serving as president of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) and Nancy was embroiled in an effort to remove her name from the notorious McCarthy-era Hollywood blacklist of possible communist sympathizers. The list actually referred to another actress of the same name, but it was preventing Davis from finding work, so the future first lady contacted Reagan to see if he, as SAG president, could help clear up the confusion. The two fell in love and were married a year later. Their first child, Patricia, was born 7 months after the wedding.
In 1957, the couple appeared together in Hellcats of the Navy, but after their son Ron was born the following year, Nancy left acting to become a full-time wife and mother. Meanwhile, her husband’s political career took off and he became governor of California in 1967, a position he held until 1975. In 1980, he became president, serving for two terms. For her part, Nancy embraced the role of governor’s wife and later, first lady.
Thought of as America’s first couple, the Reagans appeared to embody traditional American values. Their appeal reflected America’s love affair with movies and the actors in them. Americans ate up images of Ronald and Nancy’s public expressions of sincere devotion and they were often photographed together on their ranch in California or dancing in each other’s arms at state functions.
Nancy placed her husband at the center of her life. "My life really began when I married my husband,” she once reminisced. Speaking of Reagan, she said, "I could be the wife I wanted to be…A woman’s real happiness and real fulfillment come from within the home with her husband and children.” She nursed him while he recovered from a serious gunshot wound inflicted by a would-be assassin in 1981 and he stood by her when she underwent a mastectomy for breast cancer in 1987.
Shortly after leaving office, Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease and the ever-devoted, stalwart Nancy took care of him until his death in 2004 at the age of 93. Nancy died in 2016 at the age of 94.
I liked Ronnie.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 4, 2021 12:47:26 GMT
1933: With the nation's banking system in shambles, Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt orders a nationwide bank holiday. On his first day in office, Roosevelt issues an executive decree under the Emergency War Powers Act. Banks must close to prevent a "run" on their deposits by frightened customers and to give government authorities a chance to reform their finances; the stock exchanges, the commodities exchanges, and the money markets are also closed. The stock exchanges are reopened on March 15, but 3,460 (out of some 18,000 total) banks stay closed for good.
1472: The world's oldest continually operating bank, the Monte della Pieta (now known as the Monte dei Paschi di Siena), is founded in Siena, Italy to lend money to "poor or wretched or needy persons" at 7.5% annual interest. Today the Monte dei Paschi, still headquartered in the same building, is one of the largest banks in Italy.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 4, 2021 12:47:45 GMT
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 5, 2021 12:40:10 GMT
1933: Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt signals that the nation's economic survival is at stake when he invokes the war powers conferred upon the presidency to take emergency action. FDR orders the nation's banks to close for the next four days to forestall panic and to prevent the hoarding of gold. The extended "bank holiday" stops the run on the banks and begins to restore public confidence.
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 6, 2021 9:03:08 GMT
March 6, 1899
The German company Bayer patents aspirin on March 6, 1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used sparingly due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the stomach.
In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffmann found a way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffmann’s work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun, whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.) After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl, “spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix “in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the number-one drug worldwide.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 6, 2021 13:52:25 GMT
1959: At a press conference in New York City, Texas Instruments executives demonstrate a new device invented by one of the company's top engineers, Jack S. Kilby. They call their little new gadget the "integrated circuit." Today we know it as the microchip, the tiny cell that powers the Digital Age.
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Post by zontar on Mar 6, 2021 23:34:54 GMT
1853 - Giuseppe Verdi's "La Traviata" opera debuted in Venice. (this is the only opera I have seen in person--however I was not at this performance-it was well over a century later. 1893 - Walter Furry Lewis is born 1944 - Mary Wells is born
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Post by johnreardon on Mar 7, 2021 9:33:19 GMT
Born Today In Music March 7th
1944 - Townes Van Zandt Townes Van Zandt singer-songwriter. His music has been covered by such notable and varied musicians as Bob Dylan, Lyle Lovett, Steve Earle, Cowboy Junkies, Andrew Bird, Alison Krauss, and Gillian Welch. Willie Nelson and Merle Haggard covered his song 'Pancho and Lefty', scoring a No.1 hit on the Billboard country music charts. He died on January 1, 1997.
1945 - Arthur Lee Arthur Lee guitarist, songwriter with US group Love who had the 1966 US No.33 single '7 And 7 Is', and the 1968 UK No.24 album 'Forever Changes'. Lee died on 3rd Aug 2006 in Memphis at the age of 61 following a battle with acute myeloid leukaemia.
1945 - Chris White Chris White, bassist with The Zombies who had four US hits, 'She's Not There', 'Tell Her No', 'She's Coming Home', and 'Time of the Season'.
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Post by zontar on Mar 7, 2021 10:34:19 GMT
I was just listening to 7 and & is.
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Post by Die Bullen on Mar 7, 2021 14:14:38 GMT
1932: Thousands of Ford Motor Co. workers stage a "Hunger March" to the immense River Rouge factory complex, protesting Henry Ford's decision to cut the company's minimum wage from $7 per day to $4 per day. Firemen and police open fire on the marchers with water, tear gas and guns; four of the protesters are killed, 20 are wounded.
1930: President Herbert Hoover states firmly: "All the evidence indicates that the worst effects of the Crash upon unemployment will have passed during the next sixty days." He's wrong, but only by a few years.
1878: The Toronto Stock Exchange is incorporated; fewer than a dozen stocks are traded, and a seat on the exchange costs $250.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell receives U.S. Patent No. 174,465 for his "Improvement in Telegraphy." Bell makes his breakthrough sound about as exciting as getting your shoes polished: "My present invention consists in the employment of a vibratory or undulatory current of electricity in contradistinction to a merely intermittent or pulsatory current, and of a method of, and apparatus for, producing electrical undulations upon the line-wire." But the telephone changes human life forever.
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