Guest guest Posted September 11, 2001 Report Share Posted September 11, 2001 On this day... pick one.... 1609 Henry Hudson lands on Manhattan island 1709 English, Dutch & Austrians defeat French in Battle of Malplaquet 1773 Benjamin Franklin writes " There never was a good war or bad peace. " (!!!) 1777 Battle of Brandywine, Pa; Americans lose to British 1786 Annapolis Convention to determine interstate commerce 1789 Alexander Hamilton appointed Secretary of the Treasury 1814 Battle of Lake Champlain, NY; Americans defeat British (hmmmm) 1839 1st Canadian track & field meet held (Caer Howell Grounds) 1850 " Swedish Nightingale " Jenny Lind gives 1st US concert 1852 Olympia Columbian is 1st newspaper published north of Columbia R 1853 1st electric telegraph in use, Merchant's Exchange to Pt Lobos 1875 1st newspaper cartoon strip 1881 Triple landslides bury Elm Switz 1885 Moses Hopkins, named minister to Liberia 1886 Mayflower (US) beats Galatea (England) in 7th America's Cup 1889 Start of the Sherlock Holmes adventure " The Crooked Man " (BG) 1893 Bronx Gas & Electric Company opens on Frisby & Tremont Ave 1910 1st commercially successful electric bus line opens (Hollywood) 1912 Phila A's Eddie Collins steals 6 bases in 1 game 1918 Boston Red Sox beat Chicago Cubs, 4 games to 2 in 15th World Series 1919 US marines invade Honduras 1922 British mandate of Palestine begins 1923 After a single, Red Sox Howard Ehmke retires the next 27 Yanks 1923 The ZR-1 (biggest active dirigible) flies over NY's tallest skyscraper, the Woolworth Tower 1926 Aloha Tower dedicated in Honolulu 1926 US defeats France for their 7th straight Davis Cup championship 1926 Yanks' Bob Meusel ties record with 3 sacrifice flies 1927 Babe Ruth hits 50th of 60 homers 1928 1st TV drama-WGY's The Queens Messenger 1929 SF Mayor Rolph inaugurates new pedestrian traffic light system 1930 Stomboli volcano (Sicily) throws 2-ton basaltic rocks 2 miles 1935 US captures Davis Cup for 7th straight year 1936 A's pitcher Horace Lisenbee gives up 26 hits in a game 1936 FDR dedicates Boulder Dam, now known as Hoover Dam 1941 Charles Lindbergh, charges " the British, the Jewish & the Roosevelt administration " are trying to get the US into WW II 1941 FDR orders any Axis ship found in American waters be shot on sight 1944 FDR & Churchill meet in Canada at the 2nd Quebec Conference 1946 1st mobile long-distance car-to-car telephone conversation 1950 1st typesetting machine to dispense with metal type exhibited 1950 33 die in a train crash in Coshocton Ohio 1950 Dick Tracy TV show sparks uproar concerning violence 1951 Florence Chadwick becomes 1st woman to swim the English Channel from England to France. It takes 16 hours & 19 minutes 1952 West German Chancellor Adenauer signs a reparation pact for Jews 1954 1st Miss America TV broadcast 1956 Cincinnati Red Frank Robinson ties rookie record with his 38th HR 1959 Elroy Face's 22 game win streak ends as Dodgers beat Pirates 5-4 1959 Oriole Jerry Walker pitches 16 inn beating White Sox 1-0 1960 The 17th Olympic games close in Rome 1961 Bob Dylan's 1st NY performance 1962 Beatles cut " Love Me Do " & " PS I Love You " 1964 George Harrison forms Mornyork Ltd music publishing company 1964 Gillette's 20 year contract with MSG & ABC to televise fights for free ends as Dick Tiger defeats Don Fullmer at the Cleve Auditorium 1965 Beatles' " Help!, " album goes #1 & stays #1 for 9 weeks 1966 Johnny Miller became the 1st Yank to hit a HR on his 1st at bat 1967 US Surveyor 5 makes 1st chemical analysis of lunar material 1972 BART begins service with a 26-mi (42-km) line from Oakland to Fremont 1973 Chile's President, Salvador Allende, deposed in a military coup 1974 Cards beat Mets, 4-3, in 25 (7h4m), record 202 plate appearances, Felix Milan & John Milner come to bat 12 times each 1976 Evonne Goolagong loses her 4th straight US Open Final (Evert wins) 1977 Guillermo Vilas beats Jimmy O'Connors wins US Open 1977 TV's Rhoda gets divorced 1982 Chris Evert 6th US open title defeats Hana Mandlikava 1983 Franco Harris becomes 3rd NFL to rush 11,000 yards 1985 Intl Cometary Explorer (ISEE 3) passes Giacobini-Zinner by 7900 km 1985 Pete Rose of the Cin Reds gets career hit 4,192 off Eric Show of San Diego Padres, eclipsing Ty Cobb's record 1986 Dow Jones Industrial Avg suffered biggest 1-day decline ever, plummeting 86.61 points to 1,792.89. 237.57 million shares traded 1988 Sports Aid-jogging to feed the world 1989 Drexel formally pleads guilty to security fraud 1989 KSO-AM in Des Moines Iowa changes call letters to KGGO 1991 " La Toya: Growing Up in the Jackson Family " goes on sale 1991 14 die in a Continental Express commuter plane crash near Houston Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 11, 2001 Report Share Posted September 11, 2001 Hi Fraggle > On this day... > pick one.... A couple of interesting things in there! I take it you're OK? How about other US folk on the list? BB Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.276 / Virus Database: 145 - Release 03/09/01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 12, 2001 Report Share Posted September 12, 2001 Hi Fraggle > i'm fine Good! > but..the blame game has started..the finger pointing > our " empire " has been struck > the war drums are beating I'd noticed - I hear Hilary Clinton has been making some rather interesting speeches about making countries pay if they help terrorists in any way. I think Bush has made similar comments. I'm just wondering if it applies to those who help IRA terrorists as well......? > we need to listen...to learn... > but..we won't Some interesting stuff on UK radio this morning - the Afghanistan ambassador was interviewed - he said that they had been hearing for about 5 days that America were looking to bomb Afghanistan, and now " they've got the excuse they need to do it " , as he put it! BB Peter --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.276 / Virus Database: 145 - Release 03/09/01 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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