| CDSmith |
04-25-2005 10:29 AM |
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1792 Highwayman Nicolas Jacques Pelletier became the first person under French law to be executed by guillotine.
1859 Ground was broken for the Suez Canal.
1874 Radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi was born in Bologna, Italy.
1898 The United States declared war on Spain.
1901 New York became the first state to require automobile license plates.
1915 Allied soldiers invaded the Gallipoli Peninsula in an unsuccessful attempt to take the Ottoman Turkish Empire out of World War I.
On April 25, 1945, during World War II, United States and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, in central Europe, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany.
Also in 1945 Delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations.
1959 The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.
1983 Soviet leader Yuri V. Andropov invited Samantha Smith to visit his country after receiving a letter in which the Maine schoolgirl expressed fears about nuclear war.
1983 The Pioneer 10 spacecraft crossed Pluto's orbit.
1990 Violeta Barrios de Chamorro was inaugurated as president of Nicaragua, ending 11 years of leftist Sandinista rule.
1990 The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the space shuttle Discovery.
1992 Islamic forces in Afghanistan took control of most of the capital of Kabul following the collapse of the Communist government.
1998 Whitewater prosecutors questioned first lady Hillary Rodham Clinton on videotape about her work as a private lawyer for a failed savings and loan.
2002 Lisa ''Left Eye'' Lopes, a member of the Grammy-winning trio TLC, died in a car crash in Honduras at age 30.
2003 Georgia lawmakers voted to scrap the Dixie cross from the state's flag.
Good morning Tala, sleep well. ha ha :D
Me I'm slogging down coffee and eating roast turkey samwiches and cranking out new pages and updates. Cold wet and miserable outside today here, good day to stay in and work, tunes on, coffee hot.
Life is good.
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