Today in History

February 5,1952

New York adopts three-colored traffic lights.

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5th February

Born today in 1788...Sir Robert Peel, twice British Prime Minister and founder of the Metropolitan Police Force.

1931 : Sir Malcolm Campbell set a new land speed record on Daytona Beach of 245 MPH with his racing machine Bluebird beating the previous record of 231 MPH by 14 MPH

1953 : After 13 years of sweet rationing since the beginning of World War II sweet rationing has ended in Great Britain and children all over the country are heading straight for the nearest sweet-shop as the first unrationed sweets went on sale today. The most popular sweets are toffee apples, bars of nougat, chocolates, lollipops and liquorice.
 
Feb 6th
1894
bottle opener was patented by William Painter
1935
board game,Monopoly goes on sale for 1st time
1971
U. S. astronaut,Alan Shepard using a six iron,hit 3 golf balls on the surface of the moon
 
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Feb 7th
1817
Baltimore,MD became the 1st U.S. city to be lit by gas lamps
1964
The Beatles arrived at JFK in NYC to begin their 1st U.S. tour
 
Feb 9th
1895
WG Morgan in Massachusetts invented the volleyball
1960
actress,Joanne Woodward receives the 1st Hollywood Walk of Fame Star
1964
The Beatles 1st appearance on the Ed Sullivan Show draws 73.7 million viewers
 
Feb 10th
1863
the fire extinguisher patented by Alanson Crane
1897
The NY Times begins using slogan'All The News Thats Fit to Print'
1933
The 1st singing telegram was introduced by Postal Telegram Company in NYC
 
13th February

1531 - The Church of England formally recognises King Henry VIII as Supreme Head of the Church of England 'as far as the law of Christ allows.'

1975 - The British Conservative Party has chosen Margaret Thatcher as its new leader.

1990 - Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years.
 
Feb 12th
1878
Frederick Thayer patents the baseball catcher's mask
1909
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People{NAACP} forms
1964
The Beatles first NYC concert happened at Carneige Hall
 
14th Feb

1799 - Captain James Cook died on a beach in Hawaii, stabbed in the neck by an islander, in a skirmish which destroyed the previously excellent and profitable relations between the Hawaiians and the British sailors.

1945 - British and US bombers pound the ancient German city of Dresden with high explosives and incendiaries.

1974 - Soviet authorities formally charge Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn with treason a day after forcing him to leave the USSR.
 
15th February. Today in 1971...'Decimal Day'. In Britain prior to 1971, there were 12 pennies to the shilling and 20 shillings to the pound. There were guineas, half crowns, threepenny bits, sixpences and florins. This old system of currency, known as pounds, shillings and pence dated back to Roman times...
 
16th February.

Today in 1923...archaeologist Howard Carter opens the sealed doorway to the sepulchral chamber of King Tutankhamen's tomb in Thebes, Egypt. Also present was Lord Carnarvon who funded the excavation.
 
Feb 18th
1879
sculptor,Frederic-Augusti Bartholdi given patent for his design of Statue of Liberty
1986
anti smoking ads debut on TV for 1st time featuring actor,Yul Brunner. He died in 1985 from lung cancer
 
13th Feb

Executed today in 1478...George Plantagenet, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III. Convicted of treason against Edward IV, he was executed in the Tower of London, allegedly by being drowned in a butt of his favourite Malmsey wine…
 
19th February

Today in 1855...bread riots break out in Liverpool. A large mob swarms along Shaw's Brow and Scotland Road, entering all the bread-shops and demanding bread, helping themselves freely to the loaves if denied. The shops in Scotland Road suffer the most. The riots are a result of freezing cold weather and frost leading to a lack of shipping in the docks, leaving many thousands of dock workers without work and without wages.
 
1878
Thomas Edison granted a patent for his gramophone
1906
Will Kellogg&Charles Bolin founded Battle Creek Toasted Corn Flake Co.Its known today as the multinational food company,Kellogg's
1960
Bil Keane's comic strip'Family Circus' debuts
 

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