Today in History

This day in History September 24th

1908 Ford Model T
The first factory-built Ford Model T was completed which became affectionately known as the Tin Lizzie.

1925 France War Debts
France has made a new offer to the United States overpayment of its war debt of $4,000,000,000 stating it had not forgotten its debt to America but it can not pay the full debt without forcing economic misery on its people. The proposal from France is to pay $5,000,000 per year for 5 five years which would be a very small percentage of the debt owed.

1938 Germany and Russia Carve Up Czechoslovakia
1As Russia and Germany carve up Czechoslovakia, both have given warnings to Poland, Great Britain and France to stay out of the area and not to send troops near Czechoslovakia or it will be considered an act of war.

1941 Pearl Harbor
The Japanese consul in Hawaii is instructed to divide Pearl Harbor into five zones and calculate the number of battleships in each zone and report findings back to Japan which was then used in the planning of the Pearl Harbor attacks.
 

24th September

1842 The death of Branwell Bronte, English painter, writer and poet, brother of the famous literary Bronte sisters. It is likely that he died from tuberculosis aggravated by his drinking and opium addiction.

1967 The two 'Queens' of the Cunard Line, the Queen Mary and the Queen Elizabeth, passed each other in the Atlantic for the last time.

1971 Over 100 Russian diplomats were expelled from Britain for spying, following revelations made by a Soviet defector.

1975 The world's highest mountain, Mount Everest, was successfully scaled for the first time via its southwest face by British climbers Dougal Haston and Doug Scott.

2009 The UK's largest haul of Anglo-Saxon treasure was discovered buried in a field in Staffordshire. Terry Herbert, who found it on farmland using a metal detector, said that it was a metal detectorist's dream. Experts said that the collection of 1,500 gold and silver pieces, which may date to the 7th Century, was unparalleled in size and worth "a seven-figure sum". 🪙
 
1742
Faneuil Hall,a marketplace in Boston Mass opens to the public It was built by wealthy Boston merchant,Peter Faneuil,a gift to the city. Its still open to this day
1948
Honda Motor Company is founded in Hamamastu City,Japan
1976
newspaper heiress, Patty Hearst is sentenced to 7 yrs in prison for her part in a bank robbery.She serves 22 months,is released by Pres. Jimmy Carter
2015
Pope Francis during his 6 day tour around the U.S. becomes the 1st Pope to address U.S. Congress. In his speech he acknowledges his American heroes,Abraham Lincoln,Martin Luther King,Jr,Dorothy Day
 

1867
U. S. Congress creates the 1st black univ,Howard University in Washington D.C.
1878
British doctor,Dr Charles Drysdale writes a letter in the Times newspaper warning about the dangers of smoking
1981
Sandra Day O'Connor is sworn in as 1st woman Supreme Court Justice
2016
the world's largest radio telescope at 500m begins operating in Guizhou Province,China
 
This day in History September 26th

1962 "Beverly Hillbillies" HIT TV Show Starts

1969 "Chicago Seven" Trial Begins

1969 The Beatles release the "Abbey Road Album " in the UK

2002 The ferry Joola from Senegal capsizes off the coast of Gambia

2007 "Saffron Revolution" Burma / Union of Myanmar

2009 Roman Polanski Detained In Switzerland
 
26th September

1580 The Devonshire born seaman Francis Drake returned to Plymouth, in the Golden Hind, becoming the first British navigator to circumnavigate the earth. Drake plundered a few Spanish ships en-route to keep morale high!

1687 The city council of Amsterdam voted to support William of Orange's invasion of England, which became the Glorious Revolution. King James II of England (James VII of Scotland and James II of Ireland) was overthrown and William ascended the English throne as William III of England, jointly with his wife Mary II of England.

1953 Sugar rationing in Britain came to an end.

1984 Britain agreed to transfer full sovereignty of Hong Kong to China in 1997, ending 150 years of British rule.

2011 The wreck of SS Gairsoppa, a UK cargo ship sunk by a German U-boat in 1941, was found in the Atlantic, around 300 miles off the coast of Ireland by US exploration firm Odyssey Marine. The wreck contained 200 tonnes of silver worth about £150m making it the largest haul of precious metal ever discovered at sea.
 
1887
Emile Berliner patents the gramaphone
1960
Cuba's President,Fidel Castro gives a 4 hr,29 min speech at the United Nations
1969
The Beatles release their last album as a group'Abbey Road'
1973
Concorde makes its 1st non stop crossing from Washington,D.C..-Paris in record breaking time 3hrs, 33 min
1988
New York City's Rockefeller PLaza is declared a national landmark
1990
Motion Picture Association of America abolishes its X rating,replacing it with NC-17.These films have content inappropiate for people under 17
 
This day in History September 27th

1924 Russia Bandits Attack Trains
The Odessa to Moscow Odessa Express has again been attacked by bandits and most of the passengers's either killed or injured by the bandits, this is the 2nd attack in two weeks leaving over 100 dead. The motive is a combination of robbery and fighting against the ruling Czars.

1938 Scotland RMS Queen Elizabeth
RMS Queen Elizabeth is launched at the John Brown and Company yard in Clydebank, Scotland. She was the largest passenger liner ever built and named to honour Queen Elizabeth, a consort of King George VI of England and mother to Queen Elizabeth II.

1939 Poland Surrenders
Poland surrenders to Germany after just 26 days and 140,000 Polish troops are taken, prisoner.

1940 Germany Tripartite Pact
The Axis powers of Germany, Italy and Japan sign The Tripartite Pact with a one for all and all for one pledge.

1946 Greece Civil War
Greek and British government officials are planning on ways to bring the outright civil war in Northern Greece to an end. In a joint statement from London today they have said stern measures and whatever was needed to bring law and order would be used.
 
1540
The society of Jesus{Jesuits} is founded by Ignatius Loyola,confirmed by Pope Paul 111 in Rome
1892
book matches are patented by Diamond Match Company
1937
The 1st Santa Claus training school opens in Albion,NY{located northwest of Rochester,NY}
1962
marine biologist/writer, Rachel Carson's book'Silent Spring' is published. She writes about the dangers of pesticides in the environment in the U. S.
 
28th September

1745 At the Drury Lane Theatre, London, God Save the King, the national anthem, was sung for the first time. The score used was prepared by Thomas Augustine Arne (1710-1778) leader of the orchestra and composer of Rule Britannia.

1864 'The First International' was founded in London, when Karl Marx proposed the formation of an International Working Men's Association.

1865 Elizabeth Garrett Anderson became the first qualified woman physician in Britain.

1884 Simon Marks, a Polish immigrant, and Yorkshireman Tom Spencer opened their Penny Bazaar in Leeds, setting the foundations for the Marks and Spencer chain.
 
1850
U.S. Navy abolished flogging as punishment
1867
Toronto becomes capitol of Ontario,Canada
1955
The 1st World Series is broadcast in color on NBC-TV NY Yankees vs Dodgers
1968
Beatles single'Hey Jude" debuts at #1 stays there for 9 weeks
2015
NASA scientists announced the discovery of flowing water on Mars
 
This day in History September 29th

1923 U.S.A. Tornadoes
A Series of tornados in Iowa and Nebraska have taken the lives of 20 people with damage to property estimated in the millions, in addition, major cloud bursts caused a number of creeks to flood and becoming raging torrents destroying everything in their path.

1936 China Will Defeat Japan
Following the invasion by Japanese marines of Shanghai earlier this week China has stated they are preparing for war and will not rest until the Japanese have been forced from our country.

1946 U.S.A. Meat Shortage
As an ever-increasing number of butchers and customers face bare butchers shelves, questions are being asked if Abattoirs should be forced to release more meat to the market as it is thought many are hoarding the meat in the hope of prices increasing dramatically.

1956 Nicaragua President Samoza
The strong-arm leader in Nicaragua President Samoza was assassinated early today by gunmen who shot him down.
 
Tish said:
1923 U.S.A. Tornadoes
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Did y'all know we have the most tornadoes of any place? From Wikipedia:

"The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology

I have always found tornados fascinating. I have seen a lot of them, lots of damage, and even felt a little wind on the edge, but never really been hit. When I was a kid a large chicken farm near us got hit, feathers were scattered all over the north end of the county! My closest sighting was on a rig about 12 miles offshore in Louisiana. It was a water spout, a tornado on the water. The alarms all went off and we were supposed to put on life jackets and go to an escape pod. Of course we didn't, watching was just too mesmerizing. It looked so close you could literally reach out and touch it, but perspective was hard to get. We were close enough to feel a lot of wind and get pretty wet, but it passed us by. Or I might not be writing this...

Now in Utah tornados are very rare.
 
1907
construction begins on the Washington National Cathedral in Washington,DC,completed in 1990
1916
U. S. oil tycoon,John D. Rockefeller becomes the world's 1st billionaire
1950
Bell Labratories created telephone answering machines
1982
cyanide laced Tylenol capsules kill 7 people in Chicago,Ill
2001
The Syracuse,NY Herald Journal newspaper which began in 1839 ceases publication
 
29th September

1399 The first English monarch to abdicate, Richard II, was replaced by Bolingbroke, who ascended the throne as Henry IV.

1650 Henry Robinson opened the first marriage bureau, in England.

1793 Tennis was mentioned for the first time in an English sporting magazine.

1829 The Metropolitan Police of London, later also known as the Met. was inaugurated and was London's first regular police force, The officers became known as 'bobbies' after Robert Peel, the home secretary who founded the modern police force.

1938 England, France, Germany and Italy signed the Munich Pact, under which the Sudetenland was given to Nazi Germany. In return, Hitler promised not to make any further territorial demands in Europe. World War II began the following year.
 
Alligatorob said:
Did y'all know we have the most tornadoes of any place? From Wikipedia:

"The United States has the most tornadoes of any country, as well as the strongest and most violent tornadoes." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_climatology

I have always found tornados fascinating. I have seen a lot of them, lots of damage, and even felt a little wind on the edge, but never really been hit. When I was a kid a large chicken farm near us got hit, feathers were scattered all over the north end of the county! My closest sighting was on a rig about 12 miles offshore in Louisiana. It was a water spout, a tornado on the water. The alarms all went off and we were supposed to put on life jackets and go to an escape pod. Of course we didn't, watching was just too mesmerizing. It looked so close you could literally reach out and touch it, but perspective was hard to get. We were close enough to feel a lot of wind and get pretty wet, but it passed us by. Or I might not be writing this...

Now in Utah tornados are very rare.
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I wonder why the USA gets so many.
I find them fascinating too, although we don't get many over here. there is always a waterspout but none have come ashore.
We have dust devils too.
 
This day in History September 30th

1949 Berlin Airlift Ends After the agreement reached

1955 James Dean Dies In Car Crash

1981 Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first female U.S. Supreme Court justice in history

2009 Earthquake Sumatra
 
1841
Samuel Slocum patents the stapler
1898
New York City is founded
1946
The Nuremberg War Trials were held in Nurmeberg,Germany ,22 German Nazi leaders were found guilty of war crimes.Their punishment was either death or prison. This trial would set a precedent for trying war crimes in an international court
1997
Microsoft releases Internet Explorer 4
 
1st October

959 Edgar the Peaceable became king of all England. 'The Peaceable', was not necessarily a comment on the deeds of his life, for he was a strong leader, shown by his seizure of the Northumbrian and Mercian kingdoms from his older brother. His reign though, was a remarkably peaceable one, thanks to draconian laws that involved having one's tongue ripped out, at best, for stealing an apple.

1553 The Coronation of Queen Mary I. She was the only surviving child born of the ill-fated marriage of Henry VIII and his first wife Catherine of Aragon. As the fourth crowned monarch of the Tudor dynasty, Mary is remembered for her restoration of Roman Catholicism and she had over 280 religious dissenters burned at the stake in the Marian Persecutions.

1906 The first hot-air balloon race was staged at Whitley, Yorkshire and was won by US Army Lieutenant Frank Lahm.

1946 Germany's Deputy Fuhrer, Rudolph Hess - captured in Scotland on 10th May 1941, after mysteriously parachuting from a plane during World War II - was sentenced to life imprisonment by the the International Military Tribunal.

1957 A vaccine against the strain of influenza that had been sweeping around the world was made available to the British public.
 
1868
Louisa May Alcott's book'Little Women' was published in the U. S.
1880
composer,John Phillip Sousa becomes new director of U.S. Marine Corps Band
1888
National Geographic Magazine publishes its 1st issue
1957
The 1st appearance of'In God We Trust' appeared on U.S. paper currency
1971
Walt Disney World opens to the public in Orlando,Fla,it was designed as a 'sister' park to Disneyland which opened in Anaheim,CA in 1955. The very 1st guests at WDW were the Windsor family,they were awarded life time passes
 
moviequeen1 said:
1971
Walt Disney World opens to the public in Orlando,Fla
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Having mostly grown up not too far from Orlando in the pre-Disney era I have always disliked the idea of Disney World. I have so far managed not to ever visit, and don't think I ever will. Have always like Carl Hiaasen's take on Disney ( http://www.carlhiaasen.com/book-detail.shtml?bid=16 )
Tish said:
I wonder why the USA gets so many.
I find them fascinating too, although we don't get many over here. there is always a waterspout but none have come ashore.
We have dust devils too.
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Don't really understand why we get so many either, the standard answer is our "continental" climate, but we aren't the only continent with a climate. I think dust devils share some characteristics with tornadoes but form differently, and rarely get as powerful. Waterspouts on the other hand are tornadoes that form on the water. Not usually as powerful as many tornadoes though. They do sometimes come ashore becoming tornadoes and have done damage. Tornadoes moving offshore, into water, become waterspouts.
 

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