This Day In History

[icehog3]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

I rank Rose not being in the HOF right up there with the 61*. Both are tragedys.

And 756.....no, wait....that's a travesty.

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

I rank Rose not being in the HOF right up there with the 61*. Both are tragedys.

Originally Posted by icehog3

And 756.....no, wait....that's a travesty.

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by icehog3

And 756.....no, wait....that's a travesty.

Don't worry A-Rod will break... oh wait he is a cheater also.

Originally Posted by MedicCook

Don't worry A-Rod will break... oh wait he is a cheater also.

That he is Ryan, that he is.

[MedicCook]

April 15th

1755
Samuel Johnson published his Dictionary of the English Language.

1817
Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet opened the first free American school for the deaf in Hartford, Conn.

1850
The city of San Francisco was incorporated.

1865
Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.

1892
The General Electric Company is formed.

1912
Titanic sank off the coast of Newfoundland on its maiden voyage after it struck an iceberg.

1924
Rand McNally publishes its first road atlas.

1945
Nazi concentration camp Bergen-Belsen was liberated by Canadian and British forces.

1947
Jackie Robinson made his Brooklyn Dodger debut and scored the game-winning run. On April 15, 1997, his number, 42, was retired.

1952
The maiden flight of the B-52 Stratofortress

1955
Ray Kroc acquired McDonald's and opened his first restaurant in Des Plaines, Ill., today the official McDonald’s Corporate Museum.

1990
Actress Greta Garbo died at age 84.

2000
Cal Ripken Jr. of the Baltimore Orioles became the 24th major league player to reach 3,000 hits.

2001
Joey Ramone the lead singer for the Ramones died at age 49.

Birthdays
87 Michael Ansara Actor
76 Roy Clark Country musician
65 Dave Edmunds Rock musician
62 Lois Chiles Actress
59 Amy Wright Actress
43 Samantha Fox Singer
41 Ed O'Brien Rock musician (Radiohead)
39 Flex Alexander Actor
37 shvictor Cigar Asylum Inmate
35 Danny Pino Actor ("Cold Case")
27 Seth Rogen Actor
26 Alice Braga Actress
25 De'Mar Hamilton Rock musician (Plain White T's)
19 Emma Watson Actress ("Harry Potter" movies)

[icehog3]

April 15th

1865
Abraham Lincoln dies after being shot the previous evening by John Wilkes Booth. Andrew Johnson is then sworn in as the 17th President of the United States.

[Whee]

1955
April 15th established as "Tax Day"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Day

Just a friendly reminder...

[SmokeyJoe]

Samantha Fox...

"Naughty Girls Need Love, Too"

[MedicCook]

I still have to do my taxes.

[Whee]

Originally Posted by SmokeyJoe

Samantha Fox...

"Naughty Girls Need Love, Too"

[MedicCook]

April 16th

1912
Harriet Quimby became the first woman to fly across the English Channel.

1917
Lenin returned to Russia after 10 years in exile in Switzerland.

1943
Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.

1947
Financier Bernard Baruch coined the term “cold war” in a speech in South Carolina.

1947
Most of Texas City, Tex., destroyed when French ship Grandcamp exploded.

1962
Walter Cronkite succeeded Douglas Edwards as anchorman of "The CBS Evening News."

1972
China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.

1990
The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide.

1999
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.

2003
Michael Jordan played his last NBA game as his Washington Wizards ended their season with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers

2007
A male student, Cho Seung-Hui, killed two in a Virginia Tech dorm, then killed 30 more 2 hours later in a classroom building. His suicide brought the death toll to 33, making the shooting rampage the most deadly in U.S. history. Fifteen others were wounded.

Birthdays
82 Pope Benedict XVI
82 Peter Mark Richman Actor
74 Bobby Vinton Singer
62 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Basketball Hall of Famer
62 Gerry Rafferty Rock singer
57 Bill Belichick Football coach (New England Patriots)
56 Peter Garrett Rock singer (Midnight Oil), Australia's environment minister
55 Ellen Barkin Actress
47 Jason Scheff Rock musician (Chicago)
46 Jimmy Osmond Singer
45 David Pirner Rock singer (Soul Asylum)
44 Jon Cryer Actor ("Two and a Half Men")
44 Martin Lawrence Actor, comedian
43 Dan Rieser Rock musician
37 Peter Billingsley Actor ("A Christmas Story")
33 Lukas Haas Actor

45 Wilbur Wright 4/16/1867 - 5/30/1912 American inventor and aviation pioneer
88 Sir Charlie Chaplin 4/16/1889 - 12/25/1977 English-born American motion- picture actor and director
73 Dick "Night Train" Lane 4/16/1928 - 1/29/2002 Football Hall of Famer

[icehog3]

April 16th

1972
China sent President Nixon two giant pandas as a gift.


1999
Hockey great Wayne Gretzky announced his retirement.


2003
Michael Jordan played his last NBA game as his Washington Wizards ended their season with a loss to the Philadelphia 76ers


Birthdays

55 Ellen Barkin Actress

[MedicCook]

April 17th

1492
Christopher Columbus received a commission from Spain's King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella to seek a westward ocean passage to Asia.

1790
Benjamin Franklin, U.S. patriot, diplomat, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence, died in Philadelphia at age 84.

1937
Daffy Duck made his debut in Porky's Duck Hunt.

1951
Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.

1961
Supported by the U.S. government, 1,500 exiles made the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.

1964
Geraldine Mock became the first woman to fly solo around the world.

1964
The Ford Motor Co. unveiled the Mustang.

1969
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.

1970
The Apollo 13 astronauts safely splashed down after their near-disastrous flight.

1987
NBC aired the final episode of "Remington Steele."

1998
Linda McCartney, wife of former Beatle Paul McCartney, died at age 55.

Birthdays
58 Olivia Hussey Actress
57 Clarke Peters Actor
55 Rowdy Roddy Piper Professional wrestler
50 Sean Bean Actor
48 Boomer Esiason Football player and commentator
45 Maynard James Keenan Rock singer (Tool)
45 Lela Rochon Actress
44 William Mapother Actor ("Lost")
42 Leslie Bega Actor
42 Kimberly Elise Actress
42 Liz Phair Rock singer
37 Jennifer Garner Actress
36 Craig Anderson Country musician (Heartland)

70 Samuel Chase 4/17/1741 - 6/19/1811 American jurist and signer of the Declaration of Independence
76 J. P. Morgan 4/17/1837 - 3/31/1913 American financier; formed U. S. Steel
78 Thornton Wilder 4/17/1897 - 12/7/1975 American novelist and playwright

[icehog3]

April 17th

1951
Baseball Hall of Famer Mickey Mantle made his major league debut with the New York Yankees.


1961
Supported by the U.S. government, 1,500 exiles made the unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion in Cuba.


1969
Sirhan Sirhan was convicted for the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.


1987
NBC aired the final episode of "Remington Steele."

[icehog3]

April 17th

Birthdays
35 Victoria Beckham Original Spice Girl



76 J. P. Morgan 4/17/1837 - 3/31/1913 American financier; formed U. S. Steel

[Starscream]

Nice Spice Girl pic, Tom.

[MedicCook]

April 18th

1775
Paul Revere rode from Charlestown to Lexington to warn Massachusetts colonists of the arrival of British troops during the American Revolution.

1783
Fighting ceases in the American Revolution, eight years to the day since it began.

1881
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.

1906
The Great San Francisco Earthquake destroyed over 4 sq mi. and killed over 500 people.

1923
The first game was played in Yankee Stadium (“the House that Ruth built”). Yankees beat the Boston Red Sox 4–1.

1955
Physicist Albert Einstein died at age 76.

1956
Ed Rommel became the first umpire to wear glasses during a major league baseball game. The game was between the New York Yankees and the Washington Senators.

1968
London Bridge was sold to an American. It was rebuilt in Arizona.

1999
Wayne Gretzky (New York Rangers) played his final game in the NHL. During the game Gretzky got his 2,857th NHL point. He retired as the NHL's all-time leading scorer and holder of 61 individual records.

Birthdays
88 Barbara Hale Actress
79 Clive Revill Actor
75 James Drury Actor ("The Virginian")
72 Robert Hooks Actor
63 Hayley Mills Actress
62 Dorothy Lyman Actor, director
62 Cindy Pickett Actress
62 Walt Richmond Country musician (The Tractors)
62 James Woods Actor
56 Rick Moranis Actor
53 John James Actor
53 Eric Roberts Actor
51 Les Pattinson Rock musician (Echo and the Bunnymen)
48 Jane Leeves Actress ("Frasier")
48 Steve Lombardi Professional wrestler (aka: The Brooklyn Brawler, Doink the Clown)
46 Conan O'Brien Talk show host
44 sli38 Cigar Asylum Inmate
42 Maria Bello Actress
41 Mary Birdsong Actress ("Reno 911!")
39 Greg Eklund Rock musician
38 David Tennant Actor
35 Marvin Evatt Country musician (Carolina Rain)
33 Melissa Joan Hart Actress ("Sabrina the Teenage Witch")
33 Sean Maguire Actor
25 America Ferrera Actress ("Ugly Betty")
20 Alia Shawkat Actress ("Arrested Development')

88 Sam Crawford 4/18/1880 - 6/15/1968 Baseball Hall of Famer

[icehog3]

April 18th

1881
Billy the Kid escapes from the Lincoln County jail in Mesilla, New Mexico.



Birthdays
62 James Woods Actor


46 Conan O'Brien Talk show host


80 Clarence Seward Darrow (April 18, 1857 – March 13, 1938) was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union.

[tooomanycolors]

17 Apr 09
horrible day for baseball
Cubs win, chisox win, bosox win, yankees win
cardinals lose

[MedicCook]

April 19th

1775
The "shot heard around the world" was fired. Colonial Minute Men took on British Army regulars at Lexington and Concord, Mass., starting the American Revolution.

1882
Naturalist Charles Darwin, developer of the theory of evolution, died at age 73.

1897
The first Boston Marathon was run.

1933
The United States went off the gold standard.

1943
The Warsaw ghetto uprising began, one of the first mass rebellions against the Nazis.

1960
Baseball uniforms began displaying player's names on their backs.

1971
Charles Manson is sentenced to death for the Sharon Tate murders.

1987
The Simpsons premieres as a short cartoon on The Tracey Ullman Show

1992
English comedian, actor and singer Benny Hill died at age 68.

1993
The siege at Waco, Texas, ended when FBI moved into the Branch Davidian compound with tear gas and cult members set fire to the compound killing over 80 people.

1995
The Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Okla., was destroyed by a car bomb. 168 people, including 19 children were killed in the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history up to that time.

1999
Cal Ripken Jr. (Baltimore Orioles) was placed on the disabled list for the first time in his 19 year career. He was suffering from a back problem.

Birthdays
84 Hugh O'Brian Actor
72 Elinor Donahue Actress ("Father Knows Best")
67 Alan Price Rock musician (The Animals)
66 Jack Roush Racing entrepreneur
63 Tim Curry Actor
62 Mark "Flo" Volman Singer (The Turtles, Flo and Eddie)
57 Tony Plana Actor ("Ugly Betty")
55 Bob Rock Record producer & musician
47 Al Unser, Jr. Race car driver
46 BirdDok Cigar Asylum Inmate
44 Suge Knight Record company executive (Tha Row)
41 Ashley Judd Actress
40 Jesse James Television personality and motorcycle builder
31 James Franco Actor ("Milk," "Spider-Man")
30 Kate Hudson Actress
28 Hayden Christensen Actor
28 Catalina Sandino Moreno Actress
28 Troy Polamalu Football player
22 Courtland Mead Actor
22 Maria Sharapova Tennis player

72 Roger Sherman 4/19/1721 - 7/23/1793 American statesman and signer of the Declaration of Independence
54 Eliot Ness 4/19/1903 - 5/16/1957 American crime fighter; headed the "Untouchables" in Chicago
34 Jayne Mansfield 4/19/1933 - 6/29/1967 American motion picture actress
66 Dudley Moore 4/19/1935 - 3/27/2002 English actor, comedian and musician