today in history

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1806 Lewis & Clark find skeleton of 105' blue whale in Oregon

1838 1st telegraph message sent using dots & dashes (NJ)

1889 Dr Herman Hollerith receives 1st US patent for a tabulating machine - the first computer

1935 Rock 'n' roll singer Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Miss

1954 Elvis Presley pays $4 to a Memphis studio & records his 1st two songs, "Casual Love" & "I'll Never Stand in Your Way"

1956 Elvis Presley's "Don't Be Cruel/Hound Dog," single goes to #1 & stays #1 for a record 11 weeks (for a single)

1965 Beatles' "Rubber Soul," album goes #1 & stays #1 for 6 weeks

1965 - The TV dance show "Hullabaloo" debuted on NBC.


1966 - The final episode of "Shindig!" was broadcast on ABC-TV. The show featured the Kinks and the Who.

1993 NBC offers "Tonight Show" to David Letterman

Today in History

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1608 Fire destroys Jamestown, Virginia

1610 Galileo discovers 1st 3 Jupiter satellites, Io, Europa & Ganymede

1862 Battle of Manassas Junction, VA

1894 Motion picture experiment of comedian Fred Ott filmed sneezing

1911 1st airplane bombing experiments with explosives, SF

1914 1st steamboat passes through Panama Canal

1924 - George Gershwin completed "Rhapsody in Blue" at the age of 26.

1942 WW II siege of Bataan starts

1949 1st photo of genes taken at U of S Calif by Pease & Baker

1950 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Gene Autry topped the charts and stayed there for a week

1955 Marian Anderson becomes 1st black singer to perform at Met (NYC)

1970 Farmers sue Max Yasgur for $35,000 in damages caused by "Woodstock"

1992 AT&T releases video-telephone ($1,499)

1999 President Bill Clinton's impeachment trial began in the Senate. (He was later acquited on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice.)

a long time ago on this day

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1836 Davy Crockett arrives in Texas, just in time for the Alamo

1914 Ford Motor Co wages jump from $2.40/9-hr day to $5.00/8-hr day

1919 National Socialist Party (Nazi) forms as German Farmers Party

1925 Nellie Taylor Ross became governor of Wyoming, 1st woman gov in USA

1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge

1956 Elvis Presley records "Heartbreak Hotel"

1959 Buddy Holly releases his last record "It Doesn't Matter"

1998 Sonny Bono, the pop singer-turned-politician, was killed when he struck a tree while skiing in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., at age 62.

2004 After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admitted that he'd bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds.

today in history

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1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1823 - Stephen F. Austin received a grant from the Mexican government and began colonization in the region of the Brazos River in Texas.


 
1888 1st wax drinking straw patented, by Marvin C Stone in Washington DC

1920 NY Yankees purchase Babe Ruth from Red Sox for $125,000

1947 1st opening session of Congress to be televised

1947 William Dawson becomes 1st black to head congressional committee

1959 Alaska admitted as 49th US state

1964 Jack Paar Show, shows a clip of the Beatles singing "She Loves You"

1973 George Steinbrenner III buys Yankees from CBS for $12 million

1977 Apple Computers incorporated

1987 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inducts 1st female artist Aretha Franklin

2000 - Charles M. Schulz's final original daily comic strip appeared in newspapers.


 

Today in History

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1800 Free black community of Phila petitions Congress to abolish slave

1811 US Sen Thomas Pickering is 1st senator censured (revealed confidential documents communicated by the president of the US)

1890 Alice Sanger becomes 1st female White House staffer

1890 Record 19'2" alligator shot in Louisiana by E A McIlhenny

1960 Senator John F Kennedy, announces his candidacy for president

1965 The New York Jets signed University of Alabama quarterback Joe Namath for a reported $400,000.

1968 - Newark, NJ, police confiscated a shipment of John Lennon and Yoko Ono's album "Two Virgins". The album featured a nude cover.

2008 Oil prices soared to $100 a barrel for the first time.

back in time

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1776 Gen George Washington hoists Continental Union Flag

1808 Congress prohibits importation of slaves

1818 Official reopening of the White House after the British burned it in 1812

1847 Michigan is 1st state to abolish capital punishment

1861 Pres Lincoln declares slavery in Confederate states unlawful

1908 1st time, ball signifying new year dropped at Times Square

1956 Elvis Presley records Heartbreak Hotel for RCA in Nashville

1962 Beatles' Decca audition is unsuccessful

1971 Cigarette advertisements banned on TV

1975 Haldeman, Ehrlichman, Mitchell & Mardian convicted of Watergate crime

1985 VH-1 made its broadcasting debut

1996 After 27 years, Betty Rubble debuts as a Flintstone vitamin