On this day in history....

[ajrsmom]

Have you ever wondered what happened on this day in history?

Well, wonder no more! Please join me each day in filling in this thread!



Today: September 10, 2008

1813
Oliver H. Perry sent his famous message, "We have met the enemy, and they are ours,
" after defeating the British in the Battle of Lake Erie in the War of 1812.

1846
Elias Howe of Massachusetts received a patent for his sewing machine

1939
Canada declared war on Germany, entering WWII.

1963
Twenty black students entered public schools in Birmingham, Mobile, and Tuskegee,
Alabama, after President John F. Kennedy sent National Guardsman to end the standoff
with Alabama Governor George Wallace.

1988
Steffi Graf achieved tennis' first Grand Slam since Margaret Court in 1970 by winning the U.S.
Open women's final.

2002
Switzerland became the 190th member of the United Nations.

**printed from infoplease.com

[HAPPY6]

Tami, This is an interesting thread. I really like it!

[Crafty Amanda]

I found some more!

September 10, 1897
First drunk driving arrest

On this day in 1897, a 25-year-old London taxi driver named George Smith becomes the first person ever arrested for drunk driving after slamming his cab into a building. Smith later pled guilty and was fined 25 shillings.

credit www.history.com

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From the NY Times:

On Sept. 10, 1919, New York City welcomed home Gen. John J. Pershing and 25,000 soldiers who had served in the United States 1st Division during World War I. (Go to article.)

On Sept. 10, 1934, Roger Maris, the professional baseball player who held the record for home runs in a single season from 1961 to 1998, was born. Following his death on Dec. 14, 1985, his obituary appeared in The Times. (Go to obit. | Other Birthdays)

On September 10, 1864, Harper's Weekly featured a cartoon about the stock and gold markets during the Civil War. (See the cartoon and read an explanation.)

1608 John Smith was elected president of the Jamestown colony council in Virginia.

1935 Sen. Huey P. Long, the "Kingfish" of Louisiana politics, died two days after being shot in Baton Rouge.

1945 Vidkun Quisling, who had served in the government of occupied Norway, was sentenced to death for collaborating with the Nazis.

1948 American-born Mildred Gillars, the Nazi wartime radio broadcaster known as "Axis Sally," was indicted in Washington, D.C., for treason.

1955 "Gunsmoke" premiered on CBS. It ran for 20 years, longer than any other network prime-time series.

1977 Convicted murderer Hamida Djandoubi, a Tunisian immigrant, became the last person to be executed by the guillotine in France.

1989 Hungary stopped enforcing East German visa restrictions and opened its borders, beginning a flood of emigration that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall two months later.

1998 President Bill Clinton met with members of his Cabinet to apologize and ask forgiveness in the wake of the Monica Lewinsky scandal.

2000 NBC's "The West Wing" won a record nine Emmy awards, including best drama series.

2003 Swedish Foreign Minister Anna Lindh, 46, was stabbed in a Stockholm department store; she died the next day.

[ajrsmom]

SEPTEMBER 11

1789
Alexander Hamilton was appointed the first Secretary of the Treasury.

1936
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated Boulder Dam (now Hoover Dam)
in Nevada.

1962
The Beatles recorded their first single, Love Me Do.

1971
Former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev died at age 77.

1997
In Scotland, voters approved the establishment of a parliament to run their domestic
affairs, after 290 years of union with England.

2001
Two hijacked commercial jets were crashed by terrorists into the north and south towers
of the World Trade Center in New York City, causing the collapse of both towers. A short
while later, another plane was crashed into the Pentagon, and fourth into a field near
Shanksville, Pa.

[HAPPY6]

.....Doesn't seem possible 9/11 was 7 years ago. I can remember this like it happened yesterday. I hope and pray it never happens again......

[bar_bar]

oh how I remember Margaret (jrtomoto) she would love this thread and add to it.

I have to agree 9/11 7 yrs ago seems so long ago in so many ways. I remember it well.

this will be a interesting thread.

[ajrsmom]

Originally Posted by bar_bar

oh how I remember Margaret (jrtomoto) she would love this thread and add to it.

I have to agree 9/11 7 yrs ago seems so long ago in so many ways. I remember it well.

this will be a interesting thread.

Margaret was the first person that came to my mind, too.

[ajrsmom]

SEPTEMBER 12......

On this date in:
1609	English explorer Henry Hudson sailed into the river that now bears his name.
1880	Journalist and critic H.L. Mencken was born in Baltimore.
1918	U.S. forces led by Gen. John J. Pershing launched a successful attack on the German-occupied St. Mihiel salient north of Verdun, France, during World War I.
1938	In a speech in Nuremberg, Adolf Hitler demanded self-determination for the Sudeten Germans in Czechoslovakia.
1943	German paratroopers rescued former Italian dictator Benito Mussolini from the hotel where he was being held prisoner by his own government.
1944	U.S. Army troops entered Germany for the first time during World War II, near Trier.
1953	Massachusetts Sen. John F. Kennedy married Jacqueline Lee Bouvier in Newport, R.I.
1954	"Lassie" made its TV debut on CBS.
1959	"Bonanza" premiered on NBC.
1974	Emperor Haile Selassie was deposed by Ethiopia's military after ruling for 58 years.
1986	Joseph Cicippio, the acting comptroller at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped. (He was held more than five years.)
1992	Police in Peru captured the founder of the Shining Path guerrilla movement, Abimael Guzman.
2000	Dutch lawmakers gave same-sex couples the right to marry and adopt children.
2001	President George W. Bush labeled the previous day's terrorist attacks "acts of war" and asked Congress for $20 billion to rebuild and recover.
2002	President George W. Bush told skeptical world leaders at the United Nations to confront the "grave and gathering danger" of Saddam Hussein's Iraq or stand aside as the United States acted.
2002	Three former Tyco International Ltd. executives were charged with looting the conglomerate of hundreds of millions of dollars. (Former CEO L. Dennis Kozlowski and CFO Mark Swartz were later convicted; lawyer Mark Belnick was acquitted.)
2003	The U.N. Security Council ended 11 years of sanctions against Libya.
2003	Country musician Johnny Cash died at age 71.
2005	Federal Emergency Management Agency director Michael Brown resigned, three days after losing his onsite command of the Hurricane Katrina relief effort.
2006	Syrian guards foiled an attempt by suspected al-Qaida-linked militants to blow up the U.S. Embassy in Damascus.
2006	In a speech in his native Germany, Pope Benedict XVI quoted from an obscure medieval text that characterized some teachings of Islam's founder as "evil and inhuman," unleashing a torrent of rage across the Islamic world.
2007	Oil prices briefly topped a record $80 a barrel. **printed from nytimes.com

[seleach]

This will indeed be an interesting thread.

[Bilby]

I like to know what happens around the world, it's interesting