This Week in #History ... August 22nd - August 28th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Aug 22
565 St. Columba reported seeing monster in Loch Ness
1572 Failed assassination on Admiral De Coligny
1603 1st stones layed in Zuiderkerk, Amsterdam
1707 Sweden and Prussia sign military treaty
1762 1st female (Ann Franklin) U.S. newspaper editor, Newport RI, Mercury
1846 U.S. annexes New Mexico
1864 International Red Cross forms
1901 Cadillac Co forms
1906 1st Victor Victrola manufactured
1911 Vincenzo Perugia steals Mona Lisa from Louvre, Paris
1921 J. Edgar Hoover becomes asst director of FBI
1932 BBS begins experimental regular TV broadcasts
1942 Brazil declares war on Germany, Japan and Italy
1950 Rotterdam harbor strike end
1962 Savannah, world's 1st nuclear-powered ship, completes maiden voyage from Yorktown, Va, to Savannah, Ga
1972 International Olympic Committee exspells Rhodesia
1984 South African election for parliament boycvotted
1992 Matthews and Warne spin Australia to a famous win vs. Sri Lanka
2010 International pledges to help Pakistan recover from devastating floods currently totals $800 million

Aug 23
1328 King Philip VI of France, crowned
1617 1st one-way streets open (London)
1821 Mexico declares independence
1850 1st national women's rights convention convenes in Worcester Mass
1889 1st ship-to-shore wireless message received in U.S. (SF)
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1914 Japan declares war on Germany in World War I
1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century
1933 1st TV boxing match - Archie Sexton and Laurie Raiteri in London
1942 Battle of Stalingrad: 600 Luftwaffers bomb Stalingrad (40,000 die)
1952 Arab League security pact goes into effect
1962 1st Europe-U.S. live TV program (via Telstar)
1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
1982 Lebanese falangist leader Bechir Gemayel elected as president
1990 Armenia declares independence
2010 Heavy winds knock down the Anne Frank tree in Amsterdam, breaking off approximately one meter above the ground

Aug 24
79 Mount Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum, 15,000 die
1349 Jews of Cologne Germany set themselves on fire to avoid baptism
1608 1st English convoy lands at Surat, India
1853 1st potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, New York)
1904 Field battle at Liao-Yang-200,000 Japanese against 150,000 Russian
1911 Manuel d'Arriaga elected 1st president of Portugal
1929 Turkey and Persia signs friendship treaty
1939 Germany and U.S.S.R. sign 10-year non-aggression pact
1949 NATO, North Atlantic Treaty Organization, goes into effect
1956 1st non-stop transcontinental helicopter flight arrived Washington D.C.
1966 U.S.S.R. launches Luna 11 for orbit around Moon
1975 Papadopoulos/Pattakos/

Makarezos sentenced to death in Athens
1987 Announcement of possible Martian tornadoes
1995 Windows 95 debuts
2006 Pluto is demoted to a 'dwarf planet'
2010 The U.S. Department of Justice plans to appeal the decision to block President Obama's executive order to expand embryonic stem cell research

Aug 25
1212 Children's cruisaders under Nicolas (10) reach Genoa
1540 Explorer Hernando de Alarcon travels up Colorado River
1689 Montreal taken by Iroquois
1718 Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, found
1835 N.Y. Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel
1886 1st International polo meet, U.S. vs England
1894 Balinese troops assault Dutch army, 97 killed
1908 Allen Winter wins U.S. 1st $50,000 trotting race
1919 1st scheduled passenger service by airplane (Paris-London)
1932 Amelia Earhart completes transcontinental flight
1940 1st (British) night bombing of Germany (Berlin)
1950 President Truman orders army to seize control of RR to avert a strike
1960 AFL begins placing players names on back of their jersies
1968 Arthur Ashe becomes 1st black to win U.S. singles championship
1979 Somali adopts constitution
1988 NASA launches space vehicle S-214
1996 Laura Davies wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
2010 Acting as a private citizen, former President Jimmy Carter travels to North Korea to negotiate the release of Aijalon Gomes, a U.S. citizen

Aug 26
580 Chinese invents toilet paper
1549 Battle at Dussingdale: John Dudley beats rebels
1745 England, Prussia and Hannover sign treaty
1843 Charles Thurber patents a typewriter
1873 1st kindergarten public school opens in St. Louis
1907 Houdini escapes from chains underwater at Aquatic Park in 57 sec
1915 German troops over run Brest-Litovsk, Russia
1929 1st U.S. roller coaster built
1939 Croatia gets autonomous status
1951 Jongbloed in Paris demonstrates artificial heart
1957 U.S.S.R. announces successful test of intercontinental ballistic missile
1967 Dutch 2nd Chamber demands U.S. stop bombing North Vietnam
1978 Soyuz 31 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 East German) to Salyut 6
1985 Baltimore Oriole Eddie Murray knocks in 9 RBIs in a game vs California Angels
1995 Andrew Symonds hits 20 sixes in match for Gloucs vs. Glamorgan
2010 Threatened by floods, Pakistan directs nearly half a million people to evacuate their homes

Aug 27
1601 Olivier van Noort completes 1st Dutch exploration of new world
1665 "Ye Bare and Ye Cubb" is 1st play, performed in North America (Acomac, Va)
1783 1st hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900 m altitude
1859 1st successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn by Edwin Drake
1894 Congress passes Wilson-Gorman Tariff Act, which includes a graduated income tax later struck down by the Supreme Court
1900 Battle at Bergendal: General Buller beats Boer general Botha
1909 Jack Chesbro's final Yankee game
1918 Dr. Joseph L Johnson named minister to Liberia
1928 Kellogg-Briand Pact, where 60 nations agree to outlaw war
1939 Heinkel He-178 makes 1st manned flight with rocket/jet propulsion
1950 1st transmission of a TV program from continental Europe shown on BBC
1958 U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 3 with 2 dogs aboard
1967 Naomi Sims is 1st black model on U.S. cover (Fashion of the Times)
1975 1st night match at U.S. Tennis Open (Parun defeats Smith)
1983 Haiti adopts constitution
1992 CFL revokes BC Lions franchise
2010 After a weeklong battle with 43 people killed, Somalia's al-Shabaab rebel group called for reinforcements to take over the capital Mogadishu

Aug 28
1565 Oldest city in the U.S., St. Augustine Fla, established
1789 Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus
1830 1st locomotive in U.S., "Tom Thumb," runs from Baltimore to Ellicotts Mill
1861 Battle of Fort Hatteras, NC
1884 1st known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, South Dakota
1907 United Parcel Service begins service, in Seattle
1916 Italy declares war against Germany during WW I
1925 Meteorite falls on Ellemeet, Schouwen, Devil Island
1938 Mauthausen concentration camp opens in Austria
1944 Last German troops in Marseille surrendered and Toulon cleared
1952 German and Israeli reach accord about recovery payments
1963 Martin Luther King Jr's "I have a dream" speech at Lincoln Memorial
1973 India and Pakistan sign POW accord
1983 Joseph Kreckman sets record of 2,215 clay pigeons shot in an hour 
1994 1st Japanese gay pride parade
2010 Microsoft cofounder, Paul Allen's company Interval Licensing LLC, files a patent infringement suit against Google, Apple, eBay, Facebook and others



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This Week In #History ... April 18th - 24th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Apr 18
1834 Charles Darwin sails to Rio Santa Cruz up Patagonia
1853 1st train in Asia (Bombay to Tanna, 36 km)
1868 San Francisco Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals formed
1902 Denmark is 1st country to adopt fingerprinting to identify criminals
1909 Joan of Arc declared a saint
1924 1st crossword puzzle book published (Simon and Schuster)
1934 1st "Washateria" (laundromat) opens (Ft. Worth, Texas)
1948 International Court of Justice opens at Hague, Netherlands
1955 1st "Walk"/"Don't Walk" lighted street signals installed
1963 Dr. James Campbell performed the 1st human nerve transplant
1980 Zimbabwe (formerly Southern Rhodesia) declares independence from UK
1987 An unconscious skydiver is rescued by another diver in mid-air
2010 President of Iran Mahmoud Ahmadinejad calls for 'alien troops' to leave and suggests that the regional nations be allowed to settle things themselves

Apr 19
1770 Captain James Cook 1st sees Australia
1892 Charles Duryea takes 1st American-made auto out for a spin (Mass)
1910 Halley's comet seen by naked eye 1st time this trip (Curacao)
1919 Leslie Irvin of U.S. makes 1st parachute jump and free fall
1934 Shirley Temple appears in her 1st movie, "Stand Up and Cheer"
1948 ABC-TV network begins
1965 1st all news radio station (WINS 1010 AM in New York City) begins operating
1971 Charles Manson sentenced to life (Sharon Tate murder)
1982 Sally Ride announced as 1st woman astronaut
1994 Supreme Court outlaws excluding people from juries because of gender
2005 Pope Benedict XVI, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, becomes the 265th pope
2010 Kyrgyzstan unrest continues as over 1,000 people in Jala-Abad gather in the towns main square denouncing Otunbayeva's interim government and chanting pro-Bakiev slogans

Apr 20
1770 Captain Cook arrives in New South Wales
1841 1st detective story (Poe's "Murders in Rue Morgue") published
1879 1st mobile home (horse drawn) used in a journey from London and Cyprus
1896 1st public film showing in U.S. John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan," premieres in New York City
1910 Halley's Comet passes 29th recorded perihelion at 87.9 million km
1926 1st check sent by radio facsimile transmission across Atlantic
1940 1st electron microscope demonstrated (RCA), Philadelphia, Pa
1961 American Harold Graham makes 1st rocket belt flight
1971 U.S. Supreme Court upholds use of busing to achieve racial desegregation
1986 Vladimir Horowitz performs in his Russian homeland
1993 Uranus passes Neptune (once every 171 years)
2010 Planes return to the air in Germany, France and Italy after being grounded by ash clouds from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

Apr 21
1649 Maryland Toleration Act passed, allowing all freedom of worship
1857 Alexander Douglas patents the bustle
1878 New York installs 1st firehouse pole
1908 Frederick A. Cook claims to reach North Pole, he didn't
1913 Gideon Sundback of Sweden patents the zipper
1941 Greece surrenders to nazi-Germany
1948 1st Polaroid camera was sold in US
1952 BOAC begins 1st passenger service with jets (London-Rome route)
1967 Svetlana Alliluyeva (Josef Stalin's daughter) defects in New York City
1976 Swine Flu vaccine, for non-epidemic, enters testing
1983 1 pound coin introduced in United Kingdom
1993 Brazil votes against a monarchy
1997 Ashes of Timothy Leary and Gene Roddenberry launched into orbit
2010 Renewed tribal clashes in Sudan's South Darfur state result in 52 civilians killed and 55 others wounded

Apr 22
1500 Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovers Brazil and claims it for Portugal
1793 President Washington attends opening of Rickett's, 1st circus in U.S.
1864 U.S. mints 2 cent coin (1st appearance of "In God We Trust")
1884 Thomas Stevens starts 1st bike trip around world (2 years 9 months)
1898 1st Spanish-American War action: USS Nashville, takes enemy ship
1915 1st military use of chlorine poison gas by Germany in WW I
1930 U.S., Britain and Japan sign London Naval Treaty
1944 Hitler and Mussolini meet at Salzburg
1954 U.S.S.R. joins UNESCO
1969 1st human eye transplant performed
1982 Launch of STS-3-Lousma and Fullerton
1992 Holocaust Museum dedicated in Washington D.C.
2010 The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig that exploded off the coast of Louisiana two days ago, sinks; the wreck is leading crude oil and diesel at an alarming rate

Apr 23
1348 1st English order of knighthood founded (Order of Garter)
1661 English king Charles II crowned in London
1878 1st Dutch test drive of steam tram
1896 Vitascope system of movie projection 1st demonstrated (New York City)
1910 International Exhibition opens in Brussels
1920 Turkish Grand National Assembly 1st meets, in Ankara
1932 Shakespeare Memorial Theatre opens at Stratford-on-Avon
1945 Concentration camp Flossenburg liberated
1952 Oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Banias completed
1962 1st U.S. satellite to reach the moon launched
1972 Apollo 16 astronauts explores Moon surface
1984 AIDS-virus identified, acquired immune deficiency syndrome
1992 McDonald's opens its 1st fast-food restaurant in China
2010 A series of bomb explosions in Baghdad, near Shia mosques, kill dozens of people and wound 100 others

Apr 24
1704 "Boston News-Letter," 1st successful newspaper in U.S., forms
1833 Patent granted for 1st soda fountain
1865 Fire alarm and police telegraph system put into operation in San Francisco
1897 1st reporter, William Price (Washington Star), assigned to White House
1900 Passing of Andrew Halliday, cable car pioneer
1916 Easter rebellion of Irish against British occupation begins
1929 1st non-stop England to India flight takes-off
1944 United Negro College Fund incorporates
1953 Winston Churchill knighted by Queen Elizabeth II
1962 MIT sends TV signal by satellite for 1st time: CA to MA
1971 Soyuz 10 returns to Earth
1981 IBM-PC computer introduced
1990 West and East Germany agree to merge currency and economies on July 1st
2010 Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva rejects demands by Thai protesters to dissolve Parliament in 30 days