Today in History

Born today in 1757...William Blake, English visionary poet, painter and engraver. He is perhaps best known for his poem, Jerusalem:
'And did those feet in ancient time Walk upon England's mountains green...'
 

Nov 29th
1877
U.S.inventor,Thomas Edison demostrates his hand cranked phonograph for first time.
1972
PONG,the 1st successful video game is released by Atari.The ping pong game was based on table tennis.In today's world,its regarded as the prime mover in the start of video game industry.One machine is in the Smithsonian permanent collection
 
I remember playing Pong!!

1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England and Wales.

1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics.

1963 - The Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand," which knocked the other Beatles hit ( "She Loves You" ) off the number one slot giving The Beatles the Number One and Number Two on the UK Charts
 

Nov 30th
1782
U.S.&Britian sign prelimary peace articles in Paris ending Revoluntary War
1982
Michael Jackson's album'Thriller' is released,it becomes the all time best selling album
2004
Ken Jennings's 74 game winning streak on 'Jeopardy' ends,he started on June 2nd
His winnings $2,520,700 is largest game show haul in history
 
1st December.

Today in 1135...A week after eating a 'surfeit of lampreys' (an eel-like fish) King Henry I falls ill and dies, apparently from food poisoning, aged 66. Henry is the fourth son of William the Conqueror. His death brings about a crisis of succession and leads to the period in English history known as The Anarchy.
 
1913
Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for Model T Ford
1955
Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to give up her seat to a white passenger,and to move to the back of the bus in Montgomery,Ala
1982
dentist,Barney Clark receives the world's 1st artifical heart
 
1833
The 1st co-ed college in U.S. opens,Oberlin College in Ohio
1967
Dr. Christiaan Barnard performs the 1st human heart transplant in South Africa on Louis Washkansky.He regains consciousness after the surgery,talks with his wife&reporters.He dies 18 days later
 
1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia

1984 Bhopal disaster: Union Carbide pesticide plant leak 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, kills 2,259 (official figure) - other estimates as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured

1828 Andrew Jackson elected 7th US President
 
Today in 1154...Nicholas Breakspear is elected as Pope, taking the name Adrian IV. He is the only Englishman to have occupied the papal throne.

Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, patents a horse-drawn mower.
 
1791
The British Observer,the world's oldest newspaper is published
1954
James McLamore&his partner,David Edgerton open the 1st of their many 'Burger King' franchises in Miami,Fla
 
Today in 1916... 35 women die in an explosion at the Barnbow munitions factory in Cross Gates, Leeds. The tragedy is hushed up for fear of damaging national morale...
 
1766
Christie's,world's largest auction house holds their 1st sale at Pall Mall,London,England
1854
Aaron Allen patents folding movie chair
2018
a letter Albert Einstein wrote in 1954 on concept of religion sells for $ 2.9 million at Christie's in NYC
 
today in 1952...the start of the 'Great Smog ' in London. Weather conditions cause a thick layer of smog to descend over London for four days. According to the Ministry of Health, this 'pea-souper' results in over 4,000 more deaths than usual. The smoke-like pollution is so toxic and so thick that it is even reported to have choked cows to death at Smithfield Show.
 
Dec 6th
1865
The 13th Amendment of U.S. Constitution is ratified,abolishing slavery
1884
The Washington Monument is completed,took 34 yrs to build
1990
The Tampa Bay Lighting and Ottawa Senators become 2 new National Hockey League teams
 
Died today in 1817...Vice Admiral of the Blue William Bligh, Governor of New South Wales and most famously, commander of HMS Bounty during the famous mutiny in 1789. Bligh and several loyal seamen were set adrift in an open boat by Fletcher Christian and the rest of the mutinous crew. Bligh safely guided the boat over 4,000 miles to Timor, a remarkable feat of navigation.
 
1909
Chemist/inventor,Leo Bakeland patents 1st thermo-setting plastic,Bakelite which starts the plastic industry
1963
CBS invents the 1st 'instant replay' machine which is used during the annual Army-Navy football game
1972
The crew of Apollo 17 space craft on their way to the moon,take the famous'Blue Marble' photo which shows the entire Earth
 
Dec 8th
1915
Canadian poet,John McCrae's famous war memorial poem'In Flanders Field' is published annoymously in Punch magazine
1941
Pres. FDR delivers'Day of Infamy" speech to U.S. Congress the day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor
 
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Born today in 1815....Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace, English mathematician and daughter of the flamboyant poet Lord Byron. After meeting Charles Babbage in 1833, she began to work with him in the development of his mechanical general-purpose computer, the 'analytical engine'. She was one of the first to recognize the potential of computers and has been called the first computer programmer. The programming language Ada is named after her.
 
1901
The 1st Nobel Peace Prizes were awarded to Jean Henri Dunant,founder of Red Cross and peace activist Frederic Passy
1936
Edward VIII gives up the British throne to marry divorcee,Wallis Simpson
2013
Mary Barra becomes the 1st woman CEO of a major automobile company,General Motors
 
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