| CDSmith |
07-19-2005 08:37 AM |
G'morning Tala & everyone. What a damn gorgeous day out there..... sunny, not too hot (yet), breezy, perfect. If you were going to design a day, this one would be it.
ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
1553 Fifteen-year-old Lady Jane Grey was deposed as queen of England after claiming the crown for nine days. Mary, the daughter of King Henry VIII, was proclaimed queen.
1848 A pioneer women's rights convention convened in Seneca Falls, N.Y.
1870 The Franco-Prussian war began.
1943 Allied air forces raided Rome during World War II.
1969 Apollo 11 and its astronauts, Neil Armstrong, Edwin ''Buzz'' Aldrin and Michael Collins, went into orbit around the moon.
1975 The Apollo and Soyuz space capsules separated after being linked in orbit for two days.
1979 The Nicaraguan capital of Managua fell to Sandinista guerrillas, two days after President Anastasio Somoza fled the country.
1980 The Moscow Summer Olympics began, minus dozens of nations that were boycotting the games because of the Soviet military intervention in Afghanistan.
1984 Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York won the Democratic nomination for vice president at the party's convention in San Francisco.
1985 Christa McAuliffe of New Hampshire was chosen to be the first schoolteacher to ride aboard the space shuttle. (She died in the Challenger explosion in 1986.)
1986 Caroline Kennedy, daughter of President John F. Kennedy, married Edwin A. Schlossberg in Centerville, Mass.
1990 Baseball's all-time hits leader Pete Rose was sentenced in Cincinnati to five months in prison for tax evasion.
1989 A United Air Lines DC-10 crashed while making an emergency landing at Sioux City, Iowa, killing 112 people; 184 survived.
1993 President Bill Clinton announced a compromise allowing homosexuals to serve in the military, but only if they refrained from homosexual activity.
Anthony Edwards turns 43 years old today.
68 George Hamilton IV
Brian May of Queen is 58 today
32 Hockey player Peter Forsberg
That's all folks, have a great day. :D
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