It has been a very long year this last year, full of ups and twist and turns but as I sit here today writing this whether anyone reads it or not I am grateful for all that I have and for all those people in my life that love me unconditionally and are such a large part of my life. What am I looking forward to this year I guess is the biggest question that I have to ask myself, they say that 40 is the time of mid-life crisis I had mine when I was in my twenties and thirties so I am looking forward to some sanity this year and hopes of a prosperous year for all of us. So lets see what life changing events happened this day in history? So I thought you all might enjoy this little bit of knowledge on my birthday I hope everyone has a great day
0049 BC – Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon, signaling the start of civil war.
0236 Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
1072 Palermo falls to Robert Guiscard and his brother Roger, who begin to conquer all of Sicily
1072 Robert Guiscard conquers Palermo.
1429 Order of the Golden Fleece established in Austria-Hungary & Spain
1430 Duke Philip the Good marries Isabella of Portugal
1430 Order of the Guilder forms
1514 Complutensian New Testament in Hebrew, Aramaic, Greek & Latin finished
1642 King Charles I & family flee London for Oxford
1645 Archbishop William Laud is beheaded at the Tower of London
1663 King Charles II affirms charter of Royal African Company
1731 Charles Farnese becomes duke of Parma/Piacenza
1776 “Common Sense” by Thomas Paine, published
1806 Dutch in Cape Town, South African surrender to the British
1806 Dutch settlers in Cape Town surrender to the British.
1808 Herman Daendels succeeds A Wiese as Governor-General of Netherlands Indies
1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I & Joséphine
1810 The marriage of Napoleon and Josephine is annulled.
1811 Louisiana slaves rebel in 2 parishes
1811 Norwester David Thompson 1770-1857 crosses the height of land of the Rocky Mountains on the Athabasca Pass
1815 British Government bans Americans from settling in Canada
1817 Miles Macdonnell recaptures Fort Douglas from Metis; occupies the Fort for Lord Selkirk
1839 Tea from India first arrives in UK
1840 Penny Post mail system started
1840 UK hist Uniform Penny Postage introduced nationally
1845 Poets Elizabeth Barrett & Robert Browning begin corresponding
1847 American naval forces occupy Los Angeles.
1850 Robert McClure & Richard Collinson set sail in the Enterprise and
Investigator to start search for lost Franklin expedition
1861 American Civil War: Florida secedes from the Union.
1861 Colonel Moody names Lulu Island (near Vancouver) for Lulu Sweet, an
American actress appearing in theatrical performances for the Royal
Engineers
1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1861 Fort Jackson & Fort Philip are taken over by Los Angeles state troops
1861 US forts & property seized by Mississippi
1862 Battle of Big Sandy River KY (Middle Creek)
1862 The inventor of the Revolver Samuel Colt dies.
1863 General McClernand’s Union troops surround Fort Hindman AR
1863 January-uprising begins in Poland
1863 The London Underground, the world’s oldest underground railway, opens
between London Paddington station and Farringdon station.
1863 The first underground railway opens in London
1996 This was the year “The Book Clip – Guaranteed to keep your Book Open” first appeared on the Internet. See Pictures HERE www.bookclip.com
1863 UK hist First section of the London Underground Railway opens, between Paddington and Farringdon Street
1870 John D Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil
1870 John D. Rockefeller incorporates Standard Oil.
1870 Standard Oil is incorporated by brothers John D. and William Rockefeller.
1878 US Senate proposes female suffrage
1883 Fire at uninsured Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee WI kills 71; General Tom Thumb of P T Barnum fame, escapes unhurt
1889 The Ivory Coast becomes a French protectorate
1899 Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity was founded.
1900 Lord Roberts & Lord Kitchener reach Capetown
1901 Oil discovered at Spindletop claim near Beaumont, Texas
1901 The first great Texas oil gusher is discovered at Spindletop in Beaumont, Texas.
1911 Honduras signs treaty turning over customs to US (not ratified)
1911 The first photo in US taken from an airplane, San Diego
1911 Trumper scored double cricket ton vs South Africa, goes on to get 214
1912 Caillaux government in France resigns
1912 World’s first flying boat’s maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in NY)
1914 First edition of Hague’s Post under SF van Oss, published
1916 Russian offensive in Kaukasus
1917 Navy places first production order for aerial photographic equipment.
1920 Canada becomes a founding member of the League of Nations on the day 1920 Silver reaches record $1.37 an ounce
1922 Arthur Griffith is elected President of the Irish Free State.
1923 Last US troops leave Rhineland (Germany)
1923 Lithuania seizes & annexes country of Memel
1925 France-Saarland forms
1925 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson sworn in as Texas Governor, nation’s 2nd woman governor
1927 Fritz Lang’s Metropolis premieres
1927 The film Metropolis by Fritz Lang premieres.
1928 Soviet Union orders exile of Leon Trotsky
1929 Tintin, a comic book character created by Herg, makes his debut. He 1930 Maurice Allom takes Test hat-trick England vs New Zealand Christchurch
1930 Mordovian Autonomous Region in RSFSR constituted
1932 “Mickey Mouse” & “Silly Symphony” comics syndicated
1932 “Pete the Tramp” cartoon strip by C D Russell debuts
1934 VP-10F flies first non-stop formation flight from San Francisco to Pearl Harbor, arriving 11 Jan.
1935 Actress Mary Pickford marries actor Douglas Fairbanks
1938 Eduard van Beinum becomes world’s first conductor at Concert Hall
1939 Bradman hits 186 South Africa vs Queensland before Christ catches him at short-leg
1940 First convoy carrying units of the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) sails for the Middle East
1941 Joseph Kesselring’s “Arsenic & Old Lace,” premieres in New York City NY
1941 Lend-Lease is introduced into the US Congress.
1941 Seyss-Inquart begins registration of Jews
1942 Elizabeth Monk and Suzanne Filion admitted to the Quebec Bar Quebec’s first female lawyers
1942 Japan invades North-Celebes, Dutch East Indies
1943 Russian offensive against German 6th/4th Armies near Stalingrad
1943 The first US President to visit a foreign country in wartime-FDR leaves for Casablanca, Morocco
1945 Los Angeles Railway (with 5 streetcar lines) forced to close
1946 The first General Assembly of the United Nations convenes in London.
1946 US Army establishes first radar contact with Moon, Belmar NJ
1947 British stop ships Independence & In-Gathering from landing in Israel
1947 Greek steamer “Himara” strikes a wartime mine in Saronic Gulf south of Athens with loss of 392 of 637 aboard
1949 First Jewish family show “The Goldbergs” premieres on CBS
1949 RCA introduces 45 RPM record
2000 America Online announces an agreement to buy Time Warner for $162 billion, the largest corporate merger in history.
1870 Georgia legislature reconvenes
the Treaty of Versailles, ending the First World War, takes effect
1920 League of Nations’ first meeting, Treaty of Versailles in effect
went on to be published in over 200 million comic books in 40
languages.
Apollo Project: NASA announces plans to build the C-5 rocket booster.
It became better known as the Saturn V moon rocket, which launched
every Apollo moon mission.
The Catch – Dwight Clark of the San Francisco 49ers makes a leaping
catch from Joe Montana with 58 seconds to play to defeat the Dallas
Cowboys 28-27 in the NFC Championship Game at Candlestick Park.
Time Inc. aquired Warner Communications for the tidy little sum of
$14.1 billion. Thus began Time Warner, one of the world’s largest media
and entertainment conglomerates.
A mudslide occurs in La Conchita, CA, killing 10 people, injuring many
more and closing the Highway 101, the main coastal corridor between San
Francisco and Los Angeles, for 10 days.
Elizabeth Angel 