Today in History

1783
Britain leaves New York City,its last military position in the United States
1884
John Meyenberg of St. Louis, MO patents evaporated milk
1947
In Hollywood,Calif 'Blacklisting' of U. S. entertainment professionals begin,due to alleged Communist ties/sympathies
1952
play' The Mousetrap' famous murder-mystery by writer Agatha Christie opens at the Ambassador Theatre in London.Its the longest continously running play in history. In 1974 after almost 9,000 shows it was moved to St Martin's Theatre where it continues to this day
1984
William Schroeder is 2nd person to receive the Jarvik-7 artifical heart. After a series of strokes he dies 620 days later,he was 54
2018 EU{European Union} leaders approve agreement for Britian to leave EU{Brexit}
 

This day in History November 26th

1922 British archaeologist Lord Carnarvon and the American archaeologist Howard Carter enter King Tut's tomb

1941 Thanksgiving Day Established

1942 "Casablanca" World Premier

1983 Brinks Mat Robbery

2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks
 
1778
British explorer, Capt James Cook is 1st European to visit Maui in Sandwich Islands{now known as Hawaii}
1896
Amos Alonso Stagg of Univ of Chicago creates American football huddle
1917
NHL{National Hockey League} forms with teams Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs
1942
movie' Casablanca' starring Humphrey Bogart,Ingrid Bergman,Paul Henried, Claude Raines,Peter Lorre is released.The movie was nominated for 8 Oscars, won 3 Best Picture,Director{Michael Curtiz} adapted screenplay {Julius&Philip Epstein,Howard Koch}
2003
Supersonic airplane Concorde made its last flight,returned to Bristol,England
 

One meme is making South Africans obsessed with Black Friday​

Parts of the article

"What accounts for the country’s outsized interest in a holiday beyond the sales? One possibility has to do with a meme that regularly makes the rounds of the nation’s social media, particularly on the accounts of the country’s black and digitally-connected youth. It claims “Black Friday” has origins in the sale of black slaves in the antebellum American South after Thanksgiving.

“It was the day after Thanksgiving when slave traders would sell slaves for a discount to assist plantation owners with more helpers for the upcoming winter,” reads one of the pictures frequently circulated as part of the meme. South Africans aren’t the only ones who have fallen for the claim—New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith and singer Toni Braxton fell for it in 2014.

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The meme isn’t true. While the origins of the term “Black Friday” are hard to pin down, fact-checking site Snopes writes that it made its first appearance in newsprint in reference to workers who called in sick the day after Thanksgiving. Another urban legend claiming that Black Friday has to do with the day in the calendar when retailers started turning a profit is also probably not true."

https://qz.com/africa/1137505/black...avery-meme-thats-driven-a-national-obsession/
 
Paco Dennis said:

One meme is making South Africans obsessed with Black Friday​

Parts of the article

"What accounts for the country’s outsized interest in a holiday beyond the sales? One possibility has to do with a meme that regularly makes the rounds of the nation’s social media, particularly on the accounts of the country’s black and digitally-connected youth. It claims “Black Friday” has origins in the sale of black slaves in the antebellum American South after Thanksgiving.

“It was the day after Thanksgiving when slave traders would sell slaves for a discount to assist plantation owners with more helpers for the upcoming winter,” reads one of the pictures frequently circulated as part of the meme. South Africans aren’t the only ones who have fallen for the claim—New York Knicks guard J.R. Smith and singer Toni Braxton fell for it in 2014.

10565285_730785173662547_3894445390845374552_n.jpg

The meme isn’t true. While the origins of the term “Black Friday” are hard to pin down, fact-checking site Snopes writes that it made its first appearance in newsprint in reference to workers who called in sick the day after Thanksgiving. Another urban legend claiming that Black Friday has to do with the day in the calendar when retailers started turning a profit is also probably not true."

https://qz.com/africa/1137505/black...avery-meme-thats-driven-a-national-obsession/
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Wow, I had no idea.
 
1895
Swedish chemist,engineer,innovator Albert Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
1924
The 1st Macy's Thanksgiving Parade was held in NYC
1967
Beatles release album'Magical Mystery Tour with hit singles,'Strawberry Fields Forever,Penny Lane,All You Need is Love,The Fool On The Hill'
2001
a hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet,"Orsis' by Hubble Space Telescope
2005
The 1st partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinore in Amens,France
 
28th November

1660 At Gresham College in Central London, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray founded what was later known as the Royal Society, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in science.

1814 The Times newspaper was, for the first time, printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. It signalled the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

1919 Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP, holding a safe Plymouth seat for the Conservative Party in a by-election caused by her husband's elevation to the peerage.

2011 British company Captive Media announced details of its urinal mounted, urine-controlled games console for men. It called it the first 'hands-free' video gaming console of its kind, with games on offer including a skiing challenge, and a multiple choice pub quiz. A noted side effect was that the toilets became markedly cleaner, as a new premium was set on accuracy. 🚽
 
1827
Panama declares independence from Spain
1919
U.S. born,Nancy Astor is elected as 1st female member of British House of Commons
1942
In Boston,Mass a fire broke out at the nightclub'Coconut Grove' which killed nearly 500 people,which became one of the deadliest nightclub fires in history. The experts believed the fire started when a bus boy lit a match while trying to replace the light bulb in an artifical tree,quickly ignited the other artificial decor
1979
Pope John Paul II makes his 1st papal visit to Turkey. A yr 1/2 later Turkish native, Mehmet Ali Agcu attempted to kill him
 
This day in History November 29th

1803 U.S.A. -- The Louisiana Purchase
Louisiana which was much larger than just Louisiana and included all of present-day Arkansas, Missouri, Iowa, Oklahoma, Kansas, Nebraska, plus part of what are now Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado and Louisiana. It was bought from France in 1803 for a total cost of 15 million dollars

1929 U.S.A. -- South Pole
American newspapers have announced that Commander Richard Byrd safely flew across the South Pole.

1935 France -- England / France Alliance
It was evident by this time that Great Britain had joined France in defence against Italy-given Italy were to attack. This determination included a warning sent by Premier Laval of France to the Italian Ambassador Vittoria Cerruti while he was in Paris. The warning stated that any unproved attack on France by Italy would be grounds for an oil embargo. This condition was placed on Italy during the same time other agreements and negotiations were being made.

1944 France -- New York Giants
The first Baseball. tour group arrived in Paris, France. They were involved in the European War Theatre. This group was made up of New York Giants Manager Mel Ott, Pittsburgh Pirates Manager Bucky Walters, and Cincinnati Pitcher Dutch Leonard. Roy Stockton, the man who was a sportswriter for the St. Louis Post Dispatch was also present.

1947 Israel -- Creation of The State Of Israel
The United Nations votes in favour of partitioning British controlled Palestine and allowing the creation of an Independent Jewish State of Israel. Arab countries all voted against the creation of Israel and 60 years later the area is still in turmoil.
 
Tish said:
This day in History November 29th

1947 Israel -- Creation of The State Of Israel
The United Nations votes in favour of partitioning British controlled Palestine and allowing the creation of an Independent Jewish State of Israel. Arab countries all voted against the creation of Israel and 60 years later the area is still in turmoil.
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The creation of the state of Israel didn't occur with the UN vote. It wasn't until Israel declared its independence the following year from Great Britain, which was still in control of what was called Palestine at the time, that an independent Jewish state came into existence. The Jews rebelled against Great Britain first until the Brits ran away and let the Jews and Arabs fight it out. The Jews came out on top after fighting five Arab nations.
 
29th November

1781 The crew of the British slave ship Zong, murdered 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance. The resulting court cases, brought by the ship-owners, sought compensation from the insurers for their lost cargo. The court established that the deliberate killing of slaves could, in some circumstances be legal. It was a landmark in the battle against the African slave trade of the eighteenth century, and inspired abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, leading to the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787.

1907 British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War.

1940 The city of Liverpool endured nearly eight hours of bombing, which left 166 people dead and 2,000 people homeless. At the time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the tragedy as "the single worst civilian incident of the war."

1962 Britain and France announced a joint agreement to design and build Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner.
 
1775
Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1910
The 1st U. S. patent for inventing the traffic light system is granted to Ernest Sirrine
1969
singer/songwriter, Neil Diamond's only appearance on 'Ed Sullivan Show'. He sings 'Sweet Caroline, "Holly,Holy'
1972
Nolan Bushnell,co-founder of Atari releases "Pong' the 1st commerically successful video game in Sunnyvale, Calif
2010
singer/songwriter,Adele releases her single' Rolling in the Deep" won 3 Grammys, Record &Song of the Year, Best Short form music video
 
30th November

1872 The first football match between England and Scotland took place, at Hamelton Crescent Glasgow. It ended in a 0-0 draw.

1874 Birth of Sir Winston Leonard Churchill, British statesman, journalist, historian and Nobel prize-winner for literature.

1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (Engine No. 4472) became the first to officially exceed 100mph.

1987 At Christie's auctioneers in London, a painting by Edgar Degas, 'The Laundry Maids', was sold for £7.48 million.

2013 The Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson, who appealed his conviction for assaulting a police officer, claiming that he did not know what a modern policeman looked like, had his case thrown out by a judge who ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £620. Gibson was also disqualified from driving for 12 months for drink-driving and was fined a total of £2,350 for the offences.
 
1835
Samuel Clemens aka'Mark Twain was born in Florida, Missouri,became a steamboat captain in 1857,got his pilot's license in 1859 In 1864 he moved to San Francisco wrote story that made him famous"The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calveras County'. In 1875 his novel'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer' was published followed by' "Life on the Mississippi' "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn', he died 1910
1966
Barbados gains independence from Great Britain
1979
Pink Floyd's album'The Wall" is released sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1982
movie' Gandhi" is released,story of Mohandas Gandhi who started as a simple lawyer who rose to become a nation's leader ,worldwide symbol of peace and understanding.It had all-star cast, Ben Kingsley{Best Actor} John Gielgud,Trevor Howard, Candice Bergen,John Mills. The movie won 8 Academy Awards inc picture,actor,director{Sir Richard Attenborough},screenplay
2004
TV show "Jeopardy' contestant, Ken Jennings loses after 74 games wins $2.5 mill,all time biggest game show haul
 
This day in History December the 1st

1934 Josef Stalin begins a purge of enemies in the Soviet Union

1942 Nationwide gasoline rationing goes into affect U.S.

1955 Rosa Parks sets off a bus boycott in Montgomery, Georgia

1958 Fire at Our Lady of Angels School grade school in Chicago leaves 100 children dead

1969 The U.S. government holds its first draft lottery since World War II
 
1st December

1581 Edmund Campion (later St. Edmund) and three other Jesuits were martyred. He was tried on a charge of treason for promoting Catholicism and was hanged in London.

1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual went on sale, with 'A Study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which first introduced the detective, Sherlock Holmes.

1942 The Beveridge Report, written by Sir William Beveridge, proposed a welfare state for Britain, offering care to all from the cradle to the grave. It revolved around a compulsory National Insurance scheme to provide all adults with free medical treatment, unemployment benefit and old age pensions.

2010 Large parts of the UK were brought to a standstill by the early freeze. Temperatures plunged again overnight to -16C (3F) in the Scottish Highland after one of the coldest starts to December in more than 20 years. Some 4,000 schools were closed, the Forth Road Bridge was closed for the first time since it opened in 1964 and Edinburgh and Gatwick airports were shut.

2014 Christopher Law, the former owner of Britain’s last surviving temperance bar was prosecuted for drink-driving.
 
1887
Sherlock Holmes 1st appears in print in"Study in Scarlet' by Arthur Conan Doyle
1929
U.S toy salesman,Edwin S. Lowe invents game 'Bingo'
1943
at end of Tehran Conf,Joseph Stalin,Winston Churchill,Pres Theodore Roosevelt agree the invasion of Normandy to take place May 1944
1953
the 1st issue of Hugh Hefner's magazine' Playboy' goes on sale with actress, Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold
1982
dentist Barney Clark receives 1st artifical heart,he dies 112 days later on 3/23/83
2019
newly developed apple'The Cosmic Crisp' which can last a year goes on sale in Washington State
 
This day in History December 2nd

1939 New York's LaGuardia Airport Opens

1956 Cuban Revolution Begins

1959 The Malpasset Dam in France collapses leaving 400 dead

1969 The Boeing 747 ( Often Known as Jumbo Jet ) Gains FAA Airworthiness Certificate

1974 Birmingham Pub Bombing By IRA

1988 School Bus Hijack Soviet Union
 
1804
Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of the french in a ceremony at Notre Dame de Paris officated by Pope Pius VII
1816
The 1st U.S. savings bank opens{Philadelphia Savings Fund Society}
1960
paleologist, Louis Leakey discovers 1.4 million yr old Homo Erectus in a cave in Olduvai Gorge,Tanzania
2001
Enron a energy trading company based in Houston,Texas files for bankruptcy in Southern District of NY.The scandal which ruined the company was a series of dubious accounting practices that resulted in energy commodities services.The accounting firm Arthur Andersen was dissolved
 
2nd December

1697 The rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral, the work of Sir Christopher Wren, was opened. The previous cathedral had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.

1929 Britain’s first 22 public telephone boxes came into service. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and installed as part of a new scheme for policing and were made available for general use in the Barnes, Kew and Richmond Districts.

1943 The first Bevin Boys, aged between 18 and 25 were directed into the mining industry. Many miners had been called up to the armed forces, resulting in a grave shortage of coal.

1966 The Mini skirt, the symbol of the Swinging Sixties, was banned from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster.

2012 Under a Freedom of Information request a draft report from Transport for London (TfL) showed that the Hammersmith Flyover, used by 90,000 vehicles a day, could have experienced a "sudden and catastrophic collapse". Salt water from repeated gritting had rotted internal steel cables yet the road remained open for several more weeks.
 
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