| CDSmith |
12-12-2005 09:39 AM |
On This Day In History:
1745 John Jay, American statesman and the first chief justice of the Supreme Court, was born in New York City.
1787 Pennsylvania became the second state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1870 Joseph H. Rainey of South Carolina took his seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, becoming the first black congressman.
1897 ''The Katzenjammer Kids,'' the pioneering comic strip by Rudolph Dirks, made its debut in the New York Journal.
1914 The Dow Jones Industrial Average suffered its worst percentage drop in history - 24.39 percent - on the first day of trading in more than four months. (The New York Stock Exchange had shut down when World War I began in July.)
1915 Singer-actor Frank Sinatra was born in Hoboken, N.J.
1917 Father Edward Flanagan founded Boys Town outside Omaha, Neb.
1925 The first motel - the ''Motel Inn'' - opened, in San Luis Obispo, Calif.
1946 A United Nations committee voted to accept a six-block tract of Manhattan real estate offered as a gift by John D. Rockefeller Jr. to be the site of U.N. headquarters.
1947 The United Mine Workers union withdrew from the American Federation of Labor.
On Dec. 12, 1963, Kenya gained its independence from Britain.
1975 Sara Jane Moore pleaded guilty to trying to kill President Gerald R. Ford.
1997 Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, the international terrorist known as ''Carlos the Jackal,'' went on trial in Paris on charges of killing two French investigators and a Lebanese national.
1998 Florida Gov. Lawton Chiles died in Tallahassee at age 68.
1998 The House Judiciary Committee approved a fourth and final article of impeachment against President Bill Clinton and submitted the case to the full House.
1999 ''Catch-22'' author Joseph Heller died at age 76.
2000 A divided U.S. Supreme Court halted the presidential recount in Florida, effectively making Republican George W. Bush the winner.
2000 The Marine Corps grounded all eight of its high-tech V-22 Osprey tilt-rotor aircraft following a fiery crash in North Carolina that killed four Marines.
2002 A defiant North Korea said it would immediately reactivate a nuclear power plant that U.S. officials suspected was being used to develop weapons.
2003 Keiko, the killer whale made famous by the "Free Willy" movies, died in the Norwegian fjord that he'd made his home.
Birthdays....
Game show host Bob Barker (''The Price is Right'') turns 82 years old today.
65 Dionne Warwick
R&B singer
53 Cathy Rigby
Actress-Olympic gymnast
35 Jennifer Connelly
Actress
30 Mayim Bialik
Actress (''Blossom'')
28 Bridget Hall
Model
Blossom is 30? wow.... now I feel old. :D
Have a good day and a great week everyone. Now I'm out to shovel snow. (Only an inch or so, but more on the way later in the week here)
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