Well Happy Holiday or non-Holiday to all my followers and random surfers!!
Hope you guys are having a stellar weekend so far, and a stellar Sunday to close it out!
I thought I would mention a few items, beyond the obvious, that occurred on this day that I found interesting:
1775 – British begin siege of Boston
1792 – France declares war on Austria, Prussia & Sardinia
1799 – Napoleon issues a decree calling for establishing Jerusalem for Jews
1828 – René Caillié is first non-Muslim to enter Timbouctou.
1841 – 1st detective story (Edgar Allen Poe’s “Murders in Rue Morgue”) published
1862 – The first pasteurization test completed by Louis Pasteur and Claude Bernard.
1888 – 246 reported killed by hail in Moradabad, India
1894 – 136,000 mine workers strike in Ohio for pay increase
1896 – 1st public film showing in US John Philip Sousa’s “El Capitan” premieres in NYC
1902 – Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium chloride
1918 – Manfred von Richthofen, aka The Red Baron, shoots down his 79th and 80th victims marking his final victories before his death the following day.
1920 – Tornadoes kill 219 in Alabama & Mississippi
1941 – 100 German bombers attack Athens
1944 – Dutch Communist Party resistance fighter John Postma sentence to death
1945 – Soviet troops enter Berlin
1963 – All Africa Conferences of Churches opens in Kampala Uganda
1964 – 86% of Black students boycott Cleveland schools
1965 – People’s Republic China offers North Vietnam military aid
1967 – US Surveyor 3 lands on Moon
1968 – English politician Enoch Powell makes his controversial Rivers of Blood speech
1986 – Michael Jordan sets NBA playoff record with 63 points in a game
1987 – US deports Karl Linnas to USSR, charged with Nazi war crimes
1988 – US accuses Renamo of killing 100,000 Mozambiquians
1998 – German terrorist group Red Army Faction announces their dissolution after 28 years
1999 – Columbine High School massacre: Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold kill 13 people and injure 24 others before committing suicide at Columbine High School located in Jefferson County, Colorado
2004 – In Iraq, 12 mortars are fired on Abu Ghraib Prison by insurgents, killing 22 detainees and wounding 92
2007 – Johnson Space Center Shooting: A man with a handgun barricades himself in NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas before killing a male hostage and himself
2008 – Danica Patrick wins the Indy Japan 300 becoming the first female driver in history to win an Indy car race
2010 – Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explosion kills 11 and causes rig to sink, initiating a massive oil discharge in the Gulf of Mexico
2013 – 193 people are killed and 11,826 are injured after a magnitude 7.0 earthquake strikes Lushan County, China
These statistics courtesy of History Orb.