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

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

#nowyouknow

This Week in #History ... March 28th - April 3rd

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Mar 28
1738 English parliament declares war on Spain (War of Jenkin's Ear)
1794 Louvre opens to the public (although officially opened since August)
1797 Nathaniel Briggs of New Hampshire patents a washing machine
1866 1st ambulance goes into service
1891 1st world weightlifting championship held
1922 1st microfilm device introduced
1939 Spanish Civil War ends, Madrid falls to Francisco Franco
1944 Astrid Lindgren sprains ankle and begins writing Pippi Longstocking
1957 1st National Curling Championship held
1964 9.2 earthquake shakes Prince William Sound, Alaska
1974 Rock group Raspberries breakup
1993 Type II supernova detected in M81 (NGC 3031)
2010 The BBC finds evidence of a massacre in the Democratic Republic of Congo carried out by the Lord's Resistance Army last December, in which 321 people, including children, were killed

Mar 29
1461 Battle near Towton Field, 33,000 die (War of the Roses)
1795 Beethoven (24) debuts as pianist in Vienna
1827 20,000 attend Ludwig von Beethovens burial in Vienna
1848 Niagara Falls stops flowing for 30 hours due to an ice jam
1886 Chemist John Pemberton begins to advertise for Coca-Coke
1912 Captain Robert Scott, storm-bound in a tent near South Pole, makes last entry in his diary "the end cannot be far"
1936 Nazi propaganda claims 99% of Germans voted for Nazi candidates
1943 Meat, butter and cheese rationed in U.S. during WW II
1961 After a 4 year trial Nelson Mandela is acquitted on treason charge
1971 Development of a serum hepatitis vaccine for children announced
1974 Mariner 10's, 1st fly-by of Mercury, returns photos
1987 Wrestlemania III - 93,173 watch Hulk Hogan beat Andre the Giant
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Chicago, Illinois on WCKG 105.9 FM
2010 At least 38 are killed and 60 injured when two female suicide bombers carry out two separate terrorist attacks at Moscow Metro stations Lubyana and Park Kultury

Mar 30
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain and allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr. Crawford Long
1858 Pencil with attached eraser patented by Hyman L. Lipman
1889 John T. Reid opens 1st U.S. golf course in Yonkers, New York
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1932 Amelia Earhart is 1st woman to fly solo cross the Atlantic
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, New Jersey
1970 U.S.S.R. wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1981 President Reagan shot and wounded by John W Hinckley III
1991 1st exhibition of baseball game at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yankees - Orioles)
2010 8 Indian vessels are hijacked and 120 sailors are abducted by Somali pirates and off the cost of Kismayo

Mar 31
1831 Quebec and Montreal incorporated
1880 1st town completely illuminated by electric lighting (Wabash, Indiana)
1889 300m Eiffel Tower officially opens, commemorates French Revolution
1896 Whitcomb Judson, Chicago, patents a hookless fastening, also known as the zipper
1903 Richard Pearse flies monoplane several hundred yards (New Zealand)
1918 1st daylight savings time in U.S. goes into effect
1921 Albert Einstein lectures in New York on his new theory of relativity
1933 German Republic gives power to Hitler
1948 Congress passes Marshall Aid Act to rehabilitate war-torn Europe
1959 Dalai Lama fled China and was granted political asylum in India
1967 1st time Jimi Hendrix burns his guitar (London)
1981 1st Golden Raspberry Awards: Can't Stop the Music wins
1991 Albania offers 1st multi-party election in 50 years
2010 Tear gas is fired on more than 200 Palestinians and their allies protesting outside the gates of Ofer Prison over the recent detainment of colleagues

Apr 1
1578 William Harvey of England discovers blood circulation
1748 Ruins of Pompeii found
1778 Oliver Pollock, a New Orleans businessman, creates
1826 Samuel Morey patents internal combustion engine
1889 1st dishwashing machine marketed in Chicago
1927 1st automatic record changer introduced by His Master's Voice
1929 Louie Marx introduces Yo-Yo
1934 Bonnie and Clyde kill 2 police officers
1948 Big Bang theory proposed in Physical Review by Alpher, Bethe and Gamow
1957 Trial begins in Budapest against participants of october uprising
1964 John Lennon is reunited with his father Freddie after 17 years
1971 U.S. and Canada ISIS 2 launched to study ionosphere
1983 Anti-nuke demonstrators link arms in 14-mile human chain in England
1991 Warsaw Pact officially dissolves
2010 Northern Ireland's electricity is knocked out; nearly 25,000 homes remain powerless

Apr 2
1513 Florida discovered, claimed for Spain by Ponce de Leon
1792 U.S. authorizes $10 Eagle, $5 half-Eagle and 2.50 quarter-Eagle gold coins and silver dollar, dollar, quarter, dime and half-dime
1870 Victoria Woodhull is 1st woman to be nominated for U.S. president
1902 1st motion picture theater opens in Los Angeles
1908 Mills Committee declares baseball was invented by Abner Doubleday
1917 Jeannette Rankin becomes 1st women member of U.S. House of Representatives
1935 Sir Watson-Watt patents RADAR
1954 Plans to build Disneyland 1st announced
1964 U.S.S.R. launches Zond 1 to Venus; no data returned
1978 Velcro was 1st put on the market
1987 IBM introduces PS/2 and OS/2
1992 John Gotti found guilty in death of Paul Castallanos
2007 8.1 earthquake triggers tsunami in the Solomon Islands

Apr 3
1657 English Lord Protector Cromwell refuses crown
1776 Washington receives honorary Ll.D. degree from Harvard College
1860 Pony Express began between St. Joseph Missouri and Sacramento California
1882 Wood block alarm invented, when alarm rang, it dropped 20 wood blocks
1913 British suffragette Emily Pankhurst sentenced to 3 years in jail
1926 2nd flight of a liquid-fueled rocket by Robert Goddard
1933 1st airplane flight over Mount Everest
1948 1st U.S. figure skating championships held
1956 German war criminals Hinrichsen/Ruhl/Siebens/

Viebahn freed
1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched
1977 Boston Bruin Jean Ratelle scores his 1,000th NHL point
1985 French government adopts equal electoral system
2010 Rescuers in Shanxi, China, enter a flooded mine to help over 153 workers who have been trapped for over a week



This Week In #History ... March 21 - 27

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Mar 21
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour through West-Europe
1788 Gustavus Vassa petitions Queen Charlotte, to free enslaved Africans
1871 Journalist Henry M. Stanley begins his famous expedition to Africa
1924 Mass Investors Trust becomes 1st mutual fund set up in US
1935 Persia officially renamed Iran
1943 Assassination attempt on Hitler fails
1952 Alan Freed presents Moondog Coronation Ball at old Cleveland Arena, 25,000 attend 1st rock and roll concert ever
1962 A bear becomes the 1st creature to be ejected at supersonic speeds
1969 John and Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam Hilton)
1975 Ethiopia ends monarchy after 3000 years
1984 Part of Central Park is named Strawberry Fields honoring John Lennon
2010 A suicide bomb attack in Geresh, Helmand Province, Afganistan kills ten people and injures 7

Mar 22
1457 Gutenberg's Bible became the 1st printed book
1630 1st colonial legislation prohibiting gambling enacted (Boston)
1733 Joseph Priestly invents carbonated water (seltzer)
1790 Thomas Jefferson becomes the 1st U.S. Secretary of State
1872 Illinois becomes 1st state to require sexual equality in employment
1888 English Football League established
1914 World's 1st airline, St. Petersburg - Tampa Airboat Line, begins
1922 British court sentences Mahatma Gandhi to 6 years in prison
1946 1st U.S. rocket to leave the Earth's atmosphere (50 miles up)
1960 1st patent for lasers, granted to Arthur Schawlow and Charles Townes
1972 Congress approves Equal Rights Amendment (never ratified)
1985 NASA launches Intelsat VA
2010 The Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is passed by the U.S. House of Representatives

Mar 23
1490 1st dated edition of Maimonides "Mishna Torah" published
1794 1st U.S. patent (Joseph G Pierson for a riveting machine)
1839 1st recorded use of "OK" [oll korrect] (Boston's Morning Post)
1840 Draper takes 1st successful photo of the Moon (daguerrotype)
1861 London's 1st tramcars, designed by Mr. Train of New York, begins operating
1910 1st race at Los Angeles Motordrome (1st U.S. auto speedway)
1912 Dixie Cup invented
1925 Tennessee becomes 1st state to outlaw teaching theory of evolution
1933 Enabling Act: German Reichstag grants Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
1944 Nicholas Alkemade falls 5,500 m without a parachute and lives
1960 Explorer (8) fails to reach Earth orbit
1976 International Bill of Rights goes into effect (35 nations ratifying)
1989 2 Utah scientists claim they have produced fusion at room temperature
2001 Russian Mir space station is crashed into the Pacific during a controlled re-entry

Mar 24
1603 Scottish king James VI becomes King James I of England
1828 Philadelphia and Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1882 Dr. Robert Koch discovers germ that causes tuberculosis
1898 1st automobile sold
1920 1st U.S. coast guard air station established (Morehead City, NC)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1982 U.S. submarine Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
2008 Bhutan holds it's first public election

Mar 25
31 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
1655 Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan (Saturn's largest satellite)
1807 1st railway passenger service began in England
1857 Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1896 Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece
1902 Irving W. Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1954 RCA manufactures 1st color TV set, a 12-inch screen for $1,000
1960 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama
1970 Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1986 Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
2008 160 square mile part of the Antarctic ice shelf disintegrates

Mar 26
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (British Gazette and Sunday Monitor)
1845 Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1885 Eastman Film Co. manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1910 U.S. forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers and the sick
1927 Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
1943 Elsie S. Ott becomes 1st woman awarded U.S. Air Force Medal
1969 Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1986 Geffen records signs Guns and Roses
2010 Iran calls upon Muslims around the world to act in protest in response to Israel's plans to build in East Jerusalem

Mar 27
1790 The shoelace invented
1794 U.S. Navy forms
1841 1st U.S. steam fire engine tested, New York City
1855 Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1866 Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1914 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1940 Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1945 Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese and 6,000 U.S. killed
1958 Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier and 1st Secretary of Communist Party
1969 Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190 miles above southern Mars
1983 Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Scotty Bowman and Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
2010 Thousands of 'red shirt' protesters demand fresh elections, causing Thai troops to retreat

#Mindfuck: are you a brainiac?

#TalkNerdyToMeLover's @UlaVovk

Do you like puzzles? I do, a lot... From sudoku and it's extended family to Rubik's cube and sometimes even chess (when computer is not kicking your ass on 'easy' in about 99,9 % of the time). I'm the first to reach the daily newspaper- especially for the crosswords, I do those in class (because the capital of Cambodia is far more useful that economy and I'm not even kidding).

I am TOTALLY a fangirl over this new puzzle game my brother found this morning. I've been playing it forever (which I'm ashamed of but it was early and I haven't had coffee yet), but I passed all 20 levels and so I can say with confidence that my IQ is still about average. I hope.

Alright, enough with the talking, let me present you INTERLOCKED!!!!

#enjoy