This Week In #History ... May 23- May 29th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

May 23
1430 Joan of Arc is captured at Compiegne and sold to the British
1618 2nd Defenestration of Prague; beginning of 30 Years War
1785 Benjamin Franklin announces his invention of bifocals
1873 Postal cards sold in San Francisco for 1st time
1903 1st direct primary election law in U.S. adopted, by Wisconsin
1915 Italy declares war on Austria-Hungary and Germany during WW I
1923 1st flight of Sabena: Brussel-Lympne, Great Britain
1934 Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon (polymeer 66)
1943 Thomas Mann begins writing his novel Dr. Faustus
1953 Schools 1st use Cliff's Notes
1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7
1977 Moluccan extremists hold 105 schoolchildren and 50 others hostage on a hijacked train in Netherlands, children released May 27, siege ends June 11
1986 U.S. and West Europeans veto heavier sanctions against South Africa
1994 Star Trek The Next Generation, finale airs this week in syndication
2009 Under investigation for bribery during his Presidency, former President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, commits suicide

May 24
1626 Peter Minuet buys Manhattan from Indians for trinkets, valued at $24
1738 Methodist Church forms
1862 Beardslee field telegraph used for 1st time
1899 1st auto repair shop opens (Boston)
1909 Bristol University granted Royal Charter
1921 British Legion forms
1930 1st woman to fly from England to Australia solo, lands (Amy Johnson)
1940 Hitler affirms General von Rundstedts "Stopbevel"
1951 Racial segregation in Washington D.C. restaurants ruled illegal
1959 1st house with built-in bomb shelter exhibited in Pleasant Hills, Pennsylvania
1968 President De Gaulle proposes referendum and students set fire to Paris bourse
1980 Iran rejects a call to World Court to release U.S. hostages
1989 French war criminal Paul Touvier arrested in monastery in Nice
1997 STS-84 (Atlantis 19), lands
2010 After South Korea's ROKS Cheonan ship is sunk by North Korea, South Korea cuts off trade with North Korea and announces North Korean ships will no longer be allowed to use South Korean waters

May 25
1241 1st attack on Jewish community of Frankfort-on-the-Main Germany
1721 John Copson becomes America's 1st insurance agent
1825 American Unitarian Association founded
1900 Eyre M. Shaw, 78, becomes oldest gold medalist in Olympics (yachting)
1914 British House of Commons passes Irish Home Rule
1927 Henry Ford stops producing Model T car (begins Model A)
1937 1st airmail letter to circle globe returns to New York
1948 San Francisco receives its 1st telecast
1959 Supreme Court rules that Louisiana prohibiting black-white boxing is unconstitutional
1965 Muhammad Ali KOs Sonny Liston in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1973 Argentine Peronist Hector Campora installed as president
1983 1st National Missing Children's Day is proclaimed
1992 Jay Leno becomes permanent host of "Tonight Show"
2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure
2002 China Airlines flight 611 crashes near Taiwan, killing 225, crash probably due to structural failure

May 26
1596 England, France and Netherlands signs Drievoudig Covenant against Spain
1805 Napoleon is crowned king of Italy
1864 Territory of Montana formed
1900 British troops under Ian Hamilton attack the Vaal in South Africa
1911 1st Indianapolis 500 auto race is run
1922 Lenin suffers a stroke
1930 Supreme Court rules buying liquor does not violate the Constitution
1941 German occupiers begin youth labor
1948 South Africa elects a nationalist government with apartheid policy
1958 Ceylon emergency crisis proclaimed
1969 Apollo 10 astronauts returned to Earth
1977 Movie "Star Wars" debuts
1989 Danish parliament allows legal marriage among homosexuals
1998 Date for Paula Jones sex harassment trial vs. President Clinton
2006 The May 2006 Java earthquake kills over 5,700 people and leaves 200,000 homeless.

May 27
1703 St. Petersburg (Leningrad) founded by Peter the Great
1796 James S. McLean patents his piano
1854 Marine Telegraph from Ft. Point to San Francisco completed
1900 Lord Roberts' army fights the Vaal in South Africa
1919 Charles Strite patents pop-up toaster
1921 After 84 years of British control, Afghanistan achieves sovereignty
1931 1st full scale wind tunnel for testing airplanes, Langley Field, Virginia
1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt declares state of emergency due to Germany's sinking of Robin Moor
1951 Chinese Communists force Dalai Lama to surrender his army to Beijing
1961 1st black light is sold
1970 British expedition climbs south face of Annapurna I
1980 South Korean police ends people's uprising; 2,000 killed
1988 Senate ratified a treaty eliminating medium-range nuclear missiles
1997 1st all female (20 British women) team reaches North Pole
2009  In Venezuela hundreds of opponents of President Hugo Chavez marched in support of press freedom, two years after his government refused to renew the concession of an opposition-aligned television station.

May 28
1539 Hernando de Soto lands in Florida
1674 German Parliament declares war on France
1731 All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated
1742 1st indoor swimming pool opens (Goodman's Fields, London)
1863 1st black regiment (54 Mass) leaves Boston to fight in Civil War
1901 Laws against phosphor matches enacted (inhibition white phosphorous)
1915 John B. Gruelle patents Raggedy Ann doll
1923 Attorney General says it is legal for women to wear trousers anywhere
1937 Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco opens to vehicular traffic
1948 Iraq captures Ge'ulim settlement
1959 Monkeys Able and Baker zoom 300 mi (500 km) into space on Jupiter missile, became 1st animals retrieved from a space mission
1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars
1982 Pope John Paul II is 1st pope to visit Great Britain
1990 Longest wheelie (David Robilliard with 5h12m33s (Channel Islands))
1997 Linda Finch completes Amelia Earhart attempted around-the-world flight
2008 The first meeting of the Constituent Assembly of Nepal formally declares Nepal a republic, ending the 240-year reign of the Shah dynasty.

May 29
1167 Lombard League defeat Frederick Barbarossa at Battle of Legnano
1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire
1692 Royal Hospital Founders Day 1st celebrated
1790 Rhode Is becomes last of original 13 colonies ratifying Constitution
1900 Trademark "Escalator" registered by Otis Elevator Co
1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1919 Einstein's light-bending prediction confirmed by Arthur Eddington
1928 Fritz von Opel reaches 200 kph in experimental rocket car
1940 In WW II, Germans capture Ostend and Ypres in Belgium and Lille in France
1951 1st North Pole flight in single engine plane - C F Blair
1959 Charles de Gaulle forms French government
1969 Britain's Trans-Arctic expedition makes 1st crossing of Arctic Sea ice
1979 Radio's 1st rock network "Source" premieres
1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains
1997 Span scientists announce new human species in 780,000 year old fossil
2009 Russian and American officials formally dedicated a high-tech plant in southern Siberia, built with the help of $1 billion from the US and designed to destroy about 2 million chemical weapons shells.

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This Week In #History ... May 9th - 15th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

May 9
1502 Columbus left Spain on his 4th and final trip to New World
1754 1st newspaper cartoon in America-divided snake "Join or Die"
1896 1st horseless carriage show in London (featured 10 models)
1899 Lawn mower patented
1901 Australia opens its 1st parliament in Melbourne
1914 President Wilson proclaims Mother's Day
1926 Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett make 1st flight over North Pole
1932 Piccadilly Circus, 1st lit by electricity
1949 Prince Rainier III becomes leader of Monaco
1960 U.S. is 1st country to use the birth control pill legally
1970 100,000s demonstrate against Vietnam War
1978 Corpse of kidnapped ex-premier of Italia Aldo Moro found
1992 Final episode of "Golden Girls" airs on NBC-TV
2001 Police tear gas unruly soccer fans, ensuing panic kills over 100 in Ghana
2010 Somali pirates seize a German-owned tanker, MS Marida Marguerite, off the coast of Somalia

May 10
1497 Italian navigator Amerigo Vespucci leaves for 1st voyage to New World
1503 Columbus discovers Cayman Islands
1752 Benjamin Franklins 1st tests the lightning rod
1823 1st steamboat to navigate the Mississippi River arrives at Ft. Snelling
1872 Victoria Woodhull becomes 1st woman nominated for U.S. president
1906 Russia's Duma (Parliament) meets for 1st time
1915 Zeppelin drops hundred of bombs on Southend-on-Sea
1924 J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of FBI
1933 Nazis stage public book burnings in Germany
1945 Russian troops occupied Prague
1960 USS Nautilus completes 1st circumnavigation of globe under water
1969 Apollo 10 transmit 1st color pictures of Earth from space
1979 Vivekananda (Sri Lanka) completes nonstop cycle ride of 187 hours, 28 minutes, around Vihara Maha Devi Park, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1990 Howard Stern holds a mock funeral for rival John DeBella
1996 "Twister" premieres
2010 Solicitor General Elena Kagan is the youngest Justice and third woman nominated for the Supreme Court of the United States

May 11
330 Constantinople (Byzantium) becomes capital of Roman Empire
1749 British parliament accept Consolidation Act: fleet reorganization
1751 1st U.S. hospital founded (Pennsylvania Hospital)
1893 Henri Desgrange establishes 1st bicycle-world record (35.325 km)
1904 Andrew Carnegie donates $1.5M to build a peace palace
1916 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented
1926 Airship Norge leaves Spitsbergen for 1st air crossing of Arctic Ocean
1940 New York World's Fair reopens
1949 1st Polaroid camera sold $89.95 in New York City
1965 West Indies becomes 1st holders of the Frank Worrell Cricket Trophy
1978 Margaret A. Brewer is 1st female general in the U.S. Marine Corps
1987 1st heart-lung transplant take place (Baltimore)
1998 India resumes underground nuclear tests after more than a 20 year gap
2010 The Gulf of Mexico oil spill threatens sensitive marshes and wildlife along the Gulf Coast; Admiral Thad Allan is appointed to lead the Federal response to the spill

May 12
1551 San Marcos University in Lima Peru, opens
1777 1st ice cream advertisement (Philip Lenzi-NY Gazette)
1792 Toilet that flushes itself at regular intervals is patented
1888 Crouching start 1st used by Charles Sherrill of Yale
1908 Wireless Radio Broadcasting is patented by Nathan B. Stubblefield
1921 National Hospital Day 1st observed
1932 Goofy, aka Dippy Dawg, 1st appears in 'Mickey's Revue' by Walt Disney
1942 1,500 Jews gassed in Auschwitz
1951 1st H Bomb test, on Enewetak Atoll
1963 Race riot in Birmingham, Alabama
1977 1st quadrophonic concert (Pink Floyd in London)
1986 Bicycle is pedaled 65 mph
1997 Susie Maroney, 22, of Australia, is 1st to swim from Cuba to Florida
2008 8.0 Earthquake in southwest China kills more than 69,000
2010 After new allegations of torture, the International Committee of the Red Cross reports a second U.S. secret prison exists at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan

May 13
1637 Cardinal Richelieu of France creates the table knife
1830 Republic of Ecuador is founded, with Juan Jose Flores as president
1884 Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) forms
1905 James J Jeffries retires as boxing champ
1916 Native American Day is 1st observed
1926 German government of Luther falls
1940 Churchill says "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"
1950 Diner's Club issues its 1st credit cards
1960 1st launch of Delta satellite launching vehicle; it failed
1968 1,000,000 French demonstrate against De Gaulle and Pompidou
1982 Soyuz T-5 is launched-Berezovoi and Lebedev for 211 days in space
1991 Apple releases Macintosh System 7.0
2005 Star Trek: Enterprise broadcasts it's final show in the U.S.
2010 Pope Benedict XVI celebrates open-air Mass at Fatima, Portugal with over 500,000 pilgrims attending from 35 nations including Vietnam, China and India

May 14
1796 1st smallpox inoculation administered, by Edward Jenner
1842 1st edition of London Illustrated News
1878 Vaseline is 1st sold (registered trademark for petroleum jelly)
1904 1st Olympics in U.S. are held (St. Louis)
1913 French Hals museum opens in Harleem Netherlands
1932 "We Want Beer!" parade in New York
1942 U.S. Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) forms
1955 Warsaw Pact is signed by the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania
1964 Underground America Day is 1st observed
1973 Skylab launched, 1st Space Station
1986 Institute for War documents publishes Anne Franks complete diary
1995 Dalai Lama proclaims 6-year-old Gedhun Choekyi Nyima 11th reincarnation of Panchen Lama, Tibet's 2nd most sr spiritual leader
2010 Tanzania, Uganda, Ethiopia and Rwanda sign an agreement seeking more water from the Nile; Kenya issues support while Egypt and Sudan remain opposed

May 15
1602 Cape Cod discovered by English navigator Bartholomew Gosnold
1672 1st copyright law enacted by Massachusetts
1800 King George III survives a 2nd assassination attempt
1869 National Woman Suffrage Association forms
1902 Lyman Gilmore is 1st person to fly a powered craft
1911 Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Indiana University, incorporates
1918 1st regular airmail service (between New York and Washington) inaugurated
1928 Mickey Mouse made his 1st appearance
1940 1st nylon stockings sold in U.S.
1957 1st British H-bomb explosion (over Christmas Island)
1965 Canadian Football Players Association organizes
1972 George Wallace shot and left paralyzed by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland (Assassination attempt)
1980 1st trans-U.S. balloon crossing
1989 Soviet President Gorbachev in Beijing for 1st Sino-Soviet summit in 30 yrs
1997 STS-84 (Atlantis 19), launches, 6th Shuttle-Mir Mission
2010 Over 150 members of the Justice and Equality Movement are killed by Sudanese forces in their effort to gain control of a rebel held area in Darfur

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This Week In #History ... May 2nd - 8th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

May 2
1780 William Herschel discovers 1st binary star, Xi Ursae Majoris
1885 "Good Housekeeping" magazine is 1st published
1887 Hannibal W. Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film
1902 1st science fiction film released, A Trip To The Moon
1919 1st U.S. air passenger service starts
1933 In Germany, Adolf Hitler bans trade unions
1945 Russia takes Berlin; General Weidling surrenders
1952 1st scheduled jet airliner passenger service began with a BOAC Comet
1975 Apple records closes down
1982 Falklands War: Argentine cruiser General Belgrano sunk by British submarine Conqueror, killing more than 350 men
1990 South Africa and African National Congress open talks to end apartheid
1997 Mercury Mail announces its 1 millionth internet subscriber
2010 The European Union and International Monetary Fund present Greece with 120 billion Euro bailout package to help rid them of their sovereign debt

May 3
1494 Jamaica discovered by Columbus; he names it "St. Iago"
1715 Edmund Halley observes total eclipse phenomenon "Baily's Beads"
1765 1st U.S. medical college opens in Philadelphia
1830 1st regular steam train passenger service starts
1886 M A Maclean elected 1st mayor of Vancouver, BC
1919 America's 1st passenger flight (New York - Atlantic City)
1929 Prussia bans anti-fascists
1937 Margaret Mitchell wins Pulitzer Prize for 'Gone With the Wind'
1952 1st landing by an airplane at geographic North Pole
1965 1st use of satellite TV, Today Show on Early Bird Satellite
1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the 1st woman prime minister of Great Britain
1994 U.S. space probe Clementine launched
2010 United and Continental air lines announce that the two American companies will merge, creating the world's largest airline

May 4
1715 French manufacturer debuts 1st folding umbrella (Paris)
1780 American Academy of Arts and Science founded
1878 Phonograph shown for 1st time at Grand Opera House
1910 Tel Aviv founded
1919 1st legal Sunday baseball game in New York City (Phillies beat Giants 4-3)
1927 1st balloon flight over 40,000 feet (Scott Field, Ill)
1942 Battle of Coral Sea begun (1st sea battle fought solely in air)
1957 Anne Frank Foundation forms in Amsterdam
1959 1st Grammy Awards: Perry Como and Ella Fitzgerald win
1967 Lunar Orbiter 4 launched by U.S.; begins orbiting Moon May 7
1976 Kiss performs their 1st concert
1990 Latvia's parliament votes 138-0 (1 abstention) for Independence
2010 An auction at Christie's in New York sets a record for the most expensive work of art sold at auction when it sells Pablo Picasso's 'Nude, Green Leaves and Bust' for $106 million

May 5
1646 King Charles I surrenders at Scotland
1762 Russia and Prussia sign peace treaty
1809 Mary Kies is 1st woman issued a U.S. patent (weaving straw)
1847 American Medical Association organized (Philadelphia)
1900 "The Billboard" began weekly publication
1922 Construction begins on Yankee Stadium
1936 Edward Ravenscroft patents screw-on bottle cap with a pour lip
1944 Gandhi freed from prison
1956 World championships of judo are 1st held, in Tokyo
1961 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in space (aboard Freedom 7)
1979 Voyager 1 passes Jupiter
1997 "Married With Children" final episode on Fox TV
2000 Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

May 6
1833 John Deere makes 1st steel plow
1851 Linus Yale patents Yale-lock
1889 Universal Exposition opens in Paris, Eiffel Tower completed
1921 American Soccer League forms
1941 Joseph Stalin became premier of Russia
1950 Liz Taylor's 1st marriage to Conrad Hilton, Jr.
1957 Last broadcast of "I Love Lucy" on CBS-TV
1968 Battle between students and troops in Paris, 1000 injured
1979 Fred Markham set a bicycle speed record of 818 kph over 200 m
1991 Space Shuttle STS-39 (Discovery 12) lands
2010 Ash from the Iceland volcano causes new flight restrictions at airports including Shannon Airport and Ireland West Airport Knock

May 7
1663 Theatre Royal in Drury Lane London opens
1789 1st inaugurational ball (for George Washington in New York City)
1888 George Eastman patents "Kodak box camera"
1904 Flexible Flyer trademark registered
1914 U.S. Congress establishes mother's day
1928 England lowers age of women voters from 30 to 21
1940 Winston Churchill becomes Prime Minister of Britain
1951 International Olympic committee allows Russia to participate in 1952 Olympics
1958 Howard Johnson sets aircraft altitude record in F-104, 27,810 m
1975 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 53 launched to study X-rays
1982 IBM releases PC-DOS version 1.1
1992 Jockey Angel Cordero retires after winning over 7,000 horse races
2010 Abdul Tejan-Cole, head of Sierra Leone's anti-Corruption Commission, resigns

May 8
1834 Charles Darwin's expedition returns to the Beagle
1847 Robert Thompson patents rubber tire
1861 Richmond, Virginia, is named the capital of the Confederacy
1879 George Selden files for 1st patent for a gasoline-driven automobile
1902 Mount Pelee erupts, wipes out St. Pierre, Martinique, kills 30,000
1919 1st transatlantic flight take-off by a Navy seaplane
1929 Jan Mayen island, 500 km NNE of Iceland, incorporated into Norway
1942 German summer offensive opens in Crimea
1951 Dacron men's suits introduced
1962 London trolley buses go out of service
1969 Pope Paul VI publishes constitution Sacra Ritum Congregation
1980 World Health Organization announced smallpox had been eradicated
1989 U.S. space shuttle STS-30 lands
2010 Bolivian president Evo Morales Ayma and United National Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon discuss climate change

This Week In #History ... April 25th - May 1st

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Apr 25
1684 Patent granted for thimble
1792 Guillotine 1st used, executes highwayman Nicolas J Pelletier
1859 Ground broken for Suez Canal
1901 New York becomes 1st state requiring auto license plates ($1 fee)
1928 Buddy, a German Shepherd, becomes 1st guide dog for the blind
1945 U.S. and Soviet forces meet at Torgau, Germany on Elbe River
1954 Bell labs announces 1st solar battery
1957 1st experimental sodium nuclear reactor operated
1961 Robert Noyce patents integrated circuit
1971 About 200,000 anti-Vietnam War protesters march on Washington
1979 Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt goes into effect
1985 West German Parliament ruled it illegal to deny the holocaust
1993 Russia elect Boris Yeltsin leader
2010 At least 80 schoolgirls attending different Kunduz schools are poisoned this week; an inquiry is launched and the Taliban, opposed to female education, deny any involvement

Apr 26
1514 Copernicus makes his 1st observations of Saturn
1607 1st British to establish an American colony land at Cape Henry, Va
1721 Smallpox vaccination 1st administrated
1887 Huntsville Electric Co forms to sell electricity
1928 Madame Tussaud's waxwork exhibition opens in London
1941 A tradition begins, 1st organ at a baseball stadium for the Chicago Cubs
1954 Nationwide test of Salk anti-polio vaccine begins
1967 San Marco 2 Launch (1st Equatorial Launch)
1975 Mario Soares' Socialist Party wins 1st free election in Portugal
1986 Worst nuclear disaster, 4th reactor at Chernobyl U.S.S.R. explodes, 31 die
1991 Soccer star Diego Maradona, suspended for using cocaine, arrested in Argentina for possession and distribution of illegal narcotics
2010 Timothy Torlot, British ambassador to Yemen, survives an attempted suicide bombing

Apr 27
1565 1st Spanish settlement in Philippines, Cebu City, forms
1662 Netherlands and France sign military covenant
1805 U.S. Marines attack shores of Tripoli
1861 West Virginia secedes from Virginia after Virginia secedes from U.S.
1897 Grant's Tomb (famed of song and legend) dedicated
1910 Belgian parliament rejects socialist motion for general voting rights
1923 Mussolini government italian place in South Tirol/Alto Adige
1940 Himmler orders establishment of Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1945 Italian partisans capture Mussolini prisoner
1960 1st atomic powered electric-drive submarine launched, the Tullibee
1972 Apollo 16 returns to Earth
1982 Trial of John W. Hinckley, Jr. attempted assassin of Reagan, begins
1994 President Nixon buried in Nixon Library in California
2010 The U.S. Senate investigates Goldman Sachs, finding that they made billions of dollars at the expense of clients during the housing market collapse

Apr 28
1770 Captain James Cook in Endeavor lands at Botany Bay in Australia
1855 1st veterinary college in U.S. incorporated in Boston
1914 W. H. Carrier patents air conditioner
1932 Yellow fever vaccine for humans announced
1937 1st commercial flight across Pacific, Pan Am
1952 WW II Pacific peace treaty takes effect
1964 Japan joins OECO
1983 NASA launches Geos-F
1989 Argentina, hit by rocketing inflation, runs out of money
1994 1st multi-racial election in South Africa ends [3 days]
2001 Dennis Tito becomes the first space tourist by paying $20 million to fly on a Soyuz mission to the International Space Station.

Apr 29
1553 Flemish woman introduces practice of starching linen into England
1781 French fleet stopped Britain from seizing the Cape of Good Hope
1813 Rubber is patented
1886 1st public Dutch electricity opens
1901 Anti semitic riot in Budapest
1913 Swedish engineer Gideon Sundback of Hoboken patents all-purpose zipper
1930 Telephone connection England-Australia goes into service
1945 U.S. liberates 31,601 in Nazi concentration camp in Dachau Germany
1965 Malta is 18th member of Council of Europe
1977 British Aerospace forms
1985 17th space shuttle mission (51-B)-Challenger 7 launched
1991 Cyclone strikes Bangladesh, 139,000 die/10 million homeless
2010 Economic losses mount and class action lawsuits are filed as the U.S. Coast Guard plans a controlled burn to remove spilled oil from the Deepwater Horizon disaster

Apr 30
1598 1st theater performance in America (Spanish comedy-Rio Grande)
1772 John Clais patents 1st scale
1789 George Washington inaugurated as 1st president of the United States
1808 1st practical typewriter finished by Italian Pellegrini Turri
1889 1st U.S. national holiday, on centennial of Washington's inauguration
1904 Ice cream cone makes its debut
1921 American Professional Football Association reorganizes in Akron
1935 World Congress for Women's Rights concludes in Istanbul
1942 1st submarine built on Great Lakes launched, (Peto), Manitowoc, WI
1952 Mr. Potato Head is 1st toy advertised on television
1955 Element 101, Mendelevium, announced
1974 President Nixon hands over partial transcripts of Watergate tape recordings
1980 Beatrix [Wilhelmina Armgard}, crowned queen of Netherlands
1990 U.S. 66th manned space mission STS-31 (Discovery 10) returns from space
2010 The Deepwater Horizon oil spill reaches the Louisiana Coast; weather is projected to impede cleanup efforts

May 1
1751 1st American cricket match is played
1840 1st adhesive postage stamps ("Penny Blacks" from England) issued
1844 Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message
1889 1st International Workers Day, according to 2nd International
1909 Netherlands begins unity with Belgium
1925 Cyprus becomes a British Crown Colony
1935 Canada's 1st silver dollar is circulated
1944 Messerschmitt Me 262 Sturmvogel, 1st jet bomber, makes 1st flight
1947 Radar for commercial and private planes 1st demonstrated
1957 Larry King's 1st radio broadcast
1967 Elvis Presley and Priscilla Beaulieu wed
1978 Naomi Uemura became 1st to reach North Pole overland alone
1991 Angola's civil war ends
2010 A car bomb is discovered and deactivated in New York City's Times Square

This Week In #History ... April 11th - 17th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

11 Apr
1713 Peace of Utrecht; France cedes Maritime provinces to Britain - English, Prussian, Savoois, Portuguese and French peace treaty
1814 1st abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba
1895 Anaheim completes it's new electric light system
1906 Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity
1929 Loetafoon celluloid film system demonstrated in Amsterdam
1943 Frank Piasecki, Vertol founder, flies his 1st (single-rotor) craft
1950 Prince Rainier III becomes ruler of Monaco
1957 Ryan X-13 Vertijet becomes 1st jet to take-off and land vertically
1960 1st weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)
1970 Apollo 13 launched to Moon; unable to land, returns in 6 days
1980 Equal Employment Opportunity Commission regulates sexual harassment
1992 Euro-Disney opens near Paris
2010 Tens of thousands of Poles line the streets to witness the procession of President Kaczynski, en route to the Presidential Palace, Warsaw, where he will lie in state

12 Apr
1606 England adopts Union Jack as its flag
1858 1st U.S. billiards championship (Michael J Phelan wins in Detroit)
1877 Catcher's mask 1st used in a baseball game
1905 French Dufaux brothers test helicopter
1911 1st non-stop London-Paris flight (Pierre Prier in 3h56m)
1928 Assassination attempt on king Victor Emmanuel II of Italy
1938 1st U.S. law requiring medical tests for marriage licenses
1945 Harry Truman sworn in as 33rd president
1955 Salk polio vaccine safe and effective; 4 billion dimes marched
1961 Yuri Gagarin becomes 1st person to orbit Earth in Vostok 1
1985 U.S. Olympic Committee endorses a boycott of Moscow games
1992 Trump Shuttle becomes U.S. Air Shuttle
2010 Hungary's parliamentary election results in 28 regional seats for the left-wing Hungarian Socialist Party, and 26 regional seats for the far-right Movement for a Better Hungary

13 Apr
1796 1st elephant arrives in U.S. from India
1860 1st Pony Express reaches Sacramento, California
1869 Steam power brake patented (George Westinghouse)
1902 J C Penney opens his 1st store in Kemmerer, Wyoming
1912 Royal Flying Corps forms (later RAF)
1928 1st trans atlantic flight Europe-U.S. (Fitzmaurice von Hunefeld-Kohl)
1933 1st flight over Mount Everest by Lord Clydesdale
1957 Due to lack of funds, Saturday mail delivery in U.S. is temporarily halted
1960 Transit 1B, 1st navigational satellite, placed in Earth orbit
1970 Apollo 13 announces "Houston, we've got a problem!" as Beech-built oxygen tank explodes en route to Moon
1979 Longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours
1986 Spanish Grand Prix decided by 0.014 of a second
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
2010 President of the People's Republic of China, Hu Jintao, meets with President Barack Obama to discuss Iran's nuclear program during the Nuclear Security Summit

14 Apr
1828 1st edition of Noah Webster's dictionary published
1863 William Bullock patents continuous-roll printing press
1865 President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford's Theater by John Wilkes Booth
1894 Thomas Edison presents "peep show" device
1902 Marie and Pierre Curie isolated the radioactive element radium
1931 Spain becomes republic with overthrow of King Alfonso XIII
1944 1st Jews transported from Athens arrive at Auschwitz
1956 Ampex Corp demonstrates 1st commercial videotape recorder
1958 Sputnik 2 (with dog Laika) burns up in atmosphere
1967 In the Vietnam War, U.S. planes bombed Haiphong for 1st time
1981 1st Space Shuttle-Columbia 1-returns to Earth
1989 1,100,000,000th Chinese born
2010 Ash from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano drifts towards Europe, causing air traffic to close over Northern Norway

15 Apr
1738 Bottle opener invented
1784 1st balloon flight in Ireland
1877 1st telephone installed: Boston-Somerville, Massachusetts
1896 1st Olympic games close at Athens, Greece
1910 Taft is 1st President to throw out a 1st ball at a baseball game
1921 Black Friday - Labour Party strike of mine workers fails
1923 Insulin becomes generally available for diabetics
1941 1st helicopter flight of 1 hour duration, Stratford, Connecticut
1952 Franklin National Bank issues 1st bank credit card
1955 Ray Kroc starts McDonald's chain of fast food restaurants in Illinois
1970 Libyan leader Gadaffi launches "Green Revolution"
1981 Janet Cooke says her Pulitzer award 8-year-old heroin addict story is a lie, Washington Post relinquishes Pulitzer Prize on fabricated story
1991 Magic Johnson sets NBA record for career assists with 9,898
2010 Roza Otunbayeva says Kyrgyzstan's ousted President Kurmanbek Bakiyev must stand trial over riots; gunfire disrupts a rally in support of the former President in the city of Osh

16 Apr
1789 George Washington heads for 1st presidential inauguration
1861 U.S. president Lincoln outlaws business with confederate states
1866 Karakozov attempts to assassinate Tsar Alexander II of Russia
1912 Harriet Quimby becomes 1st woman pilot to cross English Channel
1924 1st radio-transmission of wireless: Matthaus Passion
1940 1st televised baseball game, WGN-TV, (White Sox vs Cubs exhibition)
1948 Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris
1964 Geraldine Mock of U.S. is 1st woman to fly solo round the world
1972 Apollo 16 launched; 5th manned lunar landing (Decartes Highlands)
1986 To dispel rumors he's dead, Moammar Gadhafi appears on TV
2010 Planes across the United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland and Russia are grounded as a result of the volcanic ash coming from Iceland's Eyjafjallajokull volcano

17 Apr
1524 Giovanni Verrazano, a florentine navigator, discovers New York Bay
1629 1st commercial fishery established
1704 1st successful U.S. newspaper; published in Boston by John Campbell
1861 Virginia is 8th state to secede
1875 "Snooker" (variation of pool) invented by Sir Neville Chamberlain
1912 1st unofficial gold record (Al Jolson's "Ragging The Baby To Sleep")
1920 American Professional Football Association forms (NFL)
1937 Cartoon characters Daffy Duck, Elmer Fudd and Petunia Pig, debut
1956 Premium Savings Bonds introduced in Great Britain
1964 Ford Mustang formally introduced ($2368 base)
1969 Sirhan Sirhan is convicted of assassinating Sen Robert F Kennedy
1986 IBM produces 1st megabit-chip
2010 Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, calls for the US to be expelled from the international nuclear system because religion prohibits the use of nuclear weapons

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