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Originally Posted by Tala
See, there are those who don't like this morning cheer....and some who email me nasty things if I don't post it.  |
Did you post it yesterday? I didn't see it if you did, but I wouldn't email you nasty complainings :D
GOOD MORNING DAMMIT!
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1606 England adopted the original version of the Union Jack as its flag.
1861 The Civil War began as Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina.
1877 The catcher for Harvard's baseball team, James Tyng, wore a modified fencing mask behind the plate. It is believed to be the first time a catcher's mask was used during a game.
On April 12, 1945, Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd president of the United States, died of a cerebral hemorrhage in Warm Springs, Ga., at age 63. Vice President Harry S Truman became president.
1955 The Salk vaccine against polio was declared safe and effective.
1961 Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man to fly in space, orbiting the Earth once before making a safe landing.
1981 The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla., on its first test flight.
1983 Harold Washington was elected Chicago's first black mayor.
1985 Sen. Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
1989 Radical activist Abbie Hoffman was found dead in his home at age 52.
1989 Former middleweight boxing champion Sugar Ray Robinson died at age 67.
1992 Euro Disneyland, a $4 billion theme park, opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.
1999 U.S. District Judge Susan Webber Wright found President Bill Clinton in contempt of court for giving ''intentionally false'' testimony in a lawsuit filed by Paula Jones about his relationship with former White House intern Monica Lewinsky.
2001 Cincinnati Mayor Charles Luken declared a state of emergency amid the worst outbreak of racial violence in the city since 1968.
2002 Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez resigned under pressure from the country's divided military. (He was returned to office two days later).
2003 Rescued POW Jessica Lynch returned to the United States after treatment at a U.S. military hospital in Germany.
2004 Barry Bonds hit his 660th home run to tie Willie Mays for third on baseball's career list.