from PE.com recently:
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From MercuryNews.com today:
Chip planned to protect water from terror attack
Coach’s deal takes sting from thorny Rose rebuff
From MercuryNews.com this morning:
Coach’s deal takes sting from thorny Rose rebuff
Our intrepid reporter was being most restrained: “Backward Clumsy Stupid” was his term. I would’ve put it this way: “BIG Crock of Sh*t”
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Poll furor: Pac-10 commish rips coaches for Bears’ drop
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Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1732 - The Royal Opera House opens at Covent Garden, London
1787 - Delaware becomes the first state to ratify the United States Constitution
1941 - The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor officially brings the United States into World War II
1949 - Chinese Civil War: The government of the Republic of China moves from Nanking to Taipei
1965 - Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras simultaneously lift mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054
1972 - Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, is launched
1982 - First US execution by lethal injection is carried out
1988 - In Armenia an earthquake 6.9 on the Richter scale killed nearly 25,000, injured 15,000 and left 400,000 persons homeless
1988 - Yasser Arafat recognizes the right of Israel to exist
Births
521 - Saint Columba, Irish Christian missionary to Scotland (d. 597)
1598 - Gian Lorenzo Bernini, artist (d. 1680)
1637 - Bernardo Pasquini, composer (d. 1710)
1761 - Marie Tussaud, museum proprietress and waxwork modeller (d. 1850)
1847 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer, best remembered for his work with Gilbert & Sullivan (d. 1912)
1863 - Pietro Mascagni, composer (d. 1945)
1863 - Richard Sears, department store founder (d. 1914)
1873 - Willa Cather, novelist (d. 1947)
1879 - Rudolf Friml, American composer (d. 1972)
1905 - Gerard Kuiper, astronomer (d. 1973)
1927 - Helen Watts, Welsh contralto
1928 - Noam Chomsky, linguist, political writer
1942 - Harry Chapin, musician (d. 1981)
1947 - Johnny Bench, Baseball Hall of Famer
2003 - Princess Catharina-Amalia of the Netherlands
Deaths
283 - St. Eutychian, Pope
1817 - William Bligh, British naval officer
1902 - Thomas Nast, cartoonist
1975 - Thornton Wilder, playwright
Holidays & observances
United States: Pearl Harbor Day (observance)
On This Day
From the BBC:
1941: Japanese planes bomb Pearl Harbor
1993: Activists lose battle over chestnut tree
1983: Tomcat halts steeplejack
2001: Taleban surrenders Kandahar
06 December 2004
And They Thought This Was a Good Idea???
From ProFindPages.com last Saturday:
Lycos Europe anti-spam Screensaver bites the dust!
05 December 2004
Who’s the Daddy?
From The Observer recently:
Fathers will know best…
Thanks to Dick Eastman’s Eastman’s Online Genealogy Newsletter for the pointer.
New light shed on mystery of Amelia Earhart’s final landing
From scotsman.com tomorrow morning:
New light shed on mystery of Amelia Earhart’s final landing
04 December 2004
Chilly?
It’s been getting cold enough lately that the puddles on the tarp on the deck have been freezing over. This morning, when Glenkerry went to the water bowl for her inaugural morning drink, she stopped and looked at it… There was a thin coating of ice on the top.
Bob further reports that the Boulder Creek Web site weather page reports a roasty toasty 26° for the low last night.
You think winter’s coming on?
03 December 2004
02 December 2004
Just to Chuckle
The girl was supposed to write a short story in as few words as possible for her college class and the instructions were that it had to discuss Religion, Sexuality, and Mystery.
She was the only one who received an A+ and this is what she wrote:
Good God, I'm pregnant; I wonder who did it.
(From Peter, on the H&C list.)
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1409 - The University of Leipzig opened.
1755 - The second Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed by fire
1823 - US President James Monroe delivers a speech to the United States Congress, announcing a new policy of forbidding European interference in the Americas and establishing American neutrality in future European conflicts (this would later be called the Monroe Doctrine)
1845 - Manifest Destiny: US President James Polk announces to Congress that the Monroe Doctrine should be strictly enforced and that the United States should aggressively expand into the West
1859 - Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16th raid on Harper’s Ferry
1867 - In a New York City theater, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States
1915 - Albert Einstein publishes the general theory of relativity
1927 - Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile
1930 - Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy
1939 - La Guardia Airport opens for business in New York City
1942 - Manhattan Project: Below the bleachers of Stagg Field at the University of Chicago, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiate the first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction (a coded message, “The Italian navigator has landed in the new world.” was then sent to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt).
1954 - Red Scare: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to condemn Joseph McCarthy for “conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute”
1982 - At the University of Utah, 61-year-old retired dentist Barney Clark, becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart (he lived for 112 days with the device)
1988 - Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state
1990 - A coalition led by Chancellor Helmut Kohl wins the first free all-German elections since 1932
1993 - Space Shuttle program: STS-61 - NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair an optical flaw in the Hubble Space Telescope
1999 - The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to a the Northern Ireland Executive
Births
1578 - Agostino Agazzari, composer and music theorist (d. 1640)
1738 - Richard Montgomery, Irish-American soldier (d. 1775)
1863 - Charles Ringling, circus leader (d. 1926)
1885 - George Richards Minot, American physician, winner of 1934 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1950)
1914 - Ray Walston, actor (d. 2001)
1923 - Maria Callas, opera singer (d. 1977)
1952 - Michael McDonald, musician
Deaths
1547 - Hernán Cortés, Spanish explorer and conqueror
1552 - Francis Xavier, Catholic missionary
1594 - Gerardus Mercator, cartographer
1774 - Johann Friedrich Agricola, composer and organist
1859 - John Brown, militant abolitionist (hanged)
1986 - Desi Arnaz, actor, musician, band leader, composer
1988 - Tata Giacobetti, Italian singer and lyricist (Quartetto Cetra)
1990 - Aaron Copland, composer
Holidays and observances
Feast day of St Bibiana
01 December 2004
Today in History
From wikipedia.org:
Events
1640 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king
1822 - Peter I is crowned as Emperor of Brazil
1824 - U.S. presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task to decide the winner (as stipulated by the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution)
1835 - Hans Christian Andersen publishes first book of fairy tales
1884 - American Old West - Near Frisco, New Mexico (now Reserve, New Mexico), deputy sheriff Elfego Baca holds off a gang of 80 Texan cowboys who want to kill him for arresting cowboy Charles McCarthy (the cowboys were terrorizing the area's Hispanos and Baca was working against them)
1885 - Although the exact date is unknown, the US Patent Office acknowledges December 1st, 1885 as the first day Dr Pepper was served
1913 - Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line, reducing chassis assembly time from 12½ hours in October to 2 hours, 40 minutes (although Ford was not the first to use an assembly line, his successful adoption of one did spark an era of mass production)
1918 - The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed
1919 - Lady Astor becomes first female member of the British Parliament to take her seat (she had been elected to that position on November 28)
1941 - World War II: Former mayor of New York City, Fiorello LaGuardia, and the director of the Office of Civilian Defense, sign an order creating the Civil Air Patrol (CAP) as the civilian auxiliary of the United States Air Force (in April 1943 the CAP was placed under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Force)
1952 - The New York Daily News carries a front page story announcing that Christine Jorgensen, a transsexual woman in Denmark became the recipient of the first successful sexual reassignment operation
1955 - American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city’s racial segregation laws (Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr. later led the successful Montgomery Bus Boycott as a result)
1959 - Cold War: Antarctic Treaty signed - 12 countries, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign a landmark treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on that continent (this was the first arms control agreement established during the Cold War)
1969 - Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II (on January 4, 1970, the New York Times ran a long article, “Statisticians Charge Draft Lottery Was Not Random”)
1973 - Papua New Guinea gains self government from Australia
1987 - NASA announces the names of four companies who were awarded contracts to help build the International Space Station: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric’s Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell
1990 - Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 meters beneath the English Channel seabed, establishing the first ground connection between the island of Great Britain and the mainland of Europe since the last ice age
1991 - Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union
Births
1083 - Anna Comnena, Byzantine historian (d. 1153)
1886 - Rex Stout, author (d. 1975)
1911 - Walter Alston, baseball manager (d. 1984)
1912 - Minoru Yamasaki, American architect (d. 1986)
1913 - Mary Martin, actor, singer (d. 1990)
1935 - Lou Rawls, singer
1939 - Lee Trevino, golfer
1945 - Bette Midler, actress
1946 - Gilbert O’Sullivan, singer
1950 - Keith Thibodeaux, drummer and actor (“Little Ricky” on I Love Lucy)
1951 - Jaco Pastorius, bassist (d. 1987)
1976 - Matthew Shepard, murder victim (d. 1998)
Deaths
1973 - David Ben-Gurion, first Prime Minister of Israel
1975 - Nellie Fox, Baseball Hall of Famer (b. 1927)
1975 - Anna E. Roosevelt, radio personality (b. 1906)
1985 - Alvin Ailey, dancer, choreographer
Holidays and observances
Ancient Latvia - Barbes Diena observed
Feast day of St Eligius
Romania - Union Day (the national holiday)
World AIDS Day
On This Day
From the BBC:
1973: Israel's founding father dies
1986: Surprise inquiry into Guinness affairs
1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe
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