| CDSmith |
03-14-2005 08:19 AM |
Better late than never. slept in a bit this morning.
I'll have the usual.... 10 cups of coffeee :helpme
On this date in history:
1743 The first recorded town meeting in America was held, at Faneuil Hall in Boston.
1794 Eli Whitney received a patent for the cotton gin.
1879 Physicist Albert Einstein was born in Ulm, Germany.
1883 German political philosopher Karl Marx died in London at age 64.
1923 President Warren G. Harding became the first chief executive to file an income tax report.
1939 The Republic of Czechoslovakia was dissolved, opening the way for Nazi occupation.
1951 United Nations forces recaptured Seoul during the Korean War.
1964 A jury in Dallas found Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy was moved from a temporary grave to a permanent memorial site at Arlington National Cemetery.
1990 The Soviet Congress elected Mikhail S. Gorbachev to the country's new, powerful presidency, a day after creating the post.
1993 An independent U.N.-sponsored commission released a report blaming the bulk of atrocities committed during El Salvador's civil war on the country's military.
1994 Associate Attorney General Webster Hubbell resigned because of controversy over billings he'd charged while in private law practice.
1995 Astronaut Norman Thagard became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket as he and two cosmonauts blasted off aboard a Soyuz spacecraft, headed for the Mir space station.
1997 Surgeons at Bethesda Naval Medical Center repaired a torn knee tendon in President Bill Clinton's right leg; the injury had been caused by a stumble at the Florida home of golfer Greg Norman.
2000 Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Al Gore clinched their presidential nominations in a sweep of Southern primaries.
2002 The government charged the Arthur Andersen accounting firm with obstruction of justice, securing its first indictment in the collapse of Enron.
2004 Opposition Socialists scored a dramatic upset win in Spain's general election, unseating conservatives stung by charges they'd provoked the Madrid terror bombings by supporting the U.S.-led war in Iraq.
2004 Russian President Vladimir Putin captured more than 70 percent of the vote to win a second term in an election that European observers said fell short of democratic standards
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