This Day In History

[MedicCook]

That's what this thread is all about. Remembering something from history.

[Skywalker]

I hit 2000 posts today at Cigar Asylum!!!


Today will be history tomorrow!!!

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by Skywalker

I hit 2000 posts today at Cigar Asylum!!!


Today will be history tomorrow!!!

You posted that just in time (11:58 EST). Congrats.

[icehog3]

Forgetting something, Ryan?

[MedicCook]

April 22nd

1500
Pedro Alvares Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it for Portugal.

1509
Henry VIII became king of England.

1864
Congress authorized the inscription "In God We Trust" on coins minted as U.S. currency.

1876
Eight baseball teams began the inaugural season of the National League. In the first game Boston beat Philadelphia 6-5.

1889
The land rush in Oklahoma began when it was opened to settlers.

1898
The first shot of the Spanish-American War rang out as the USS Nashville captured a Spanish merchant ship off Key West, Fla.

1914
Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles.

1915
The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.

1970
The first Earth Day was observed.

1978
The final episode of "Maude" aired.

1986
NBC aired the final episode of "Riptide."

1993
The web browser Mosaic version 1.0 is released.

1994
Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at age 81 in New York City, four days after suffering a stroke.

2000
Armed immigration agents took Elian Gonzalez from the Miami home of his relatives to reunite him with his father.

2002
Actor Robert Blake was charged with murder in the shooting death of his wife. He was later acquitted.

2002
Adult film actress Linda Lovelace died at age 53.

2004
Pro football player Pat Tillman, who'd traded in a multimillion-dollar contract to serve as an Army Ranger in Afghanistan, was killed by friendly fire; he was 27.

Birthdays
84 George Cole Actor
83 Charlotte Rae Actress ("Facts of Life")
77 Estelle Harris Actress ("Seinfeld")
73 Glen Campbell Country singer
72 Jack Nicholson Actor
66 Mel Carter R&B singer
64 Cleve Francis Country singer
63 John Waters Director
59 Peter Frampton Rock musician
58 Paul Carrack Rock singer, musician (Squeeze, Mike and the Mechanics)
55 Joseph Bottoms Actor
50 Ryan Stiles Actor ("Whose Line is It Anyway?")
48 Byron Allen TV host, comedian ("Real People")
45 Chris Makepeace Actor
43 Jeffrey Dean Morgan Actor ("Grey's Anatomy")
42 Sheryl Lee Actress
42 Sherri Shepherd Actress, talk show host ("The View")
42 Heath Wright Country musician (Ricochet)
38 Kellie Coffey Country singer
38 Eric Mabius Actor ("Ugly Betty")
38 Ingo Rademacher Actor ("General Hospital")
38 MarkMc Cigar Asylum Inmate
35 Shavo Odadjian Rock musician (System of a Down)
30 Daniel Johns Rock musician (Silverchair)
25 Michelle Ryan Actress ("Bionic Woman")
23 Amber Heard Actress
?? Buena Fortuna Cigar Asylum Inmate

53 Isabella I 4/22/1451 - 11/26/1504 Spanish Queen (1474-1504) ; sponsored Columbus's voyage to the New World
47 Henry Fielding 4/22/1707 - 10/8/1754 English novelist and playwright
54 Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 Russian leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the Soviet state
62 J. Robert Oppenheimer 4/22/1904 - 2/18/1967 American physicist; headed the Manhattan Project
83 Aaron Spelling 4/22/1923 - 6/23/2006 American film and television producer
63 Steve Fossett 4/22/1944 - 9/3/2007 American businessman, aviator, sailor, and adventurer and the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by icehog3

Forgetting something, Ryan?

[icehog3]

April 22nd

1914
Babe Ruth made his pitching debut with the Baltimore Orioles.



1915
The New York Yankees wore pinstripes and the hat-in-the-ring logo for the first time.



1994
Richard M. Nixon, the 37th president of the United States, died at age 81 in New York City, four days after suffering a stroke.

[icehog3]

April 22nd

Birthdays
84 George Cole Actor


73 Glen Campbell Country singer


72 Jack Nicholson Actor


54 Vladimir Ilich Lenin 4/22/1870 - 1/21/1924 Russian leader of the Bolshevik Revolution (1917) and first head of the Soviet state


83 Aaron Spelling 4/22/1923 - 6/23/2006 American film and television producer

[MedicCook]

Birthdays
62 J. Robert Oppenheimer 4/22/1904 - 2/18/1967 American physicist; headed the Manhattan Project

[MedicCook]

April 23rd

1616
Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.

1896
The Vitascope system for projecting movies onto a screen was demonstrated in New York City.

1954
Hank Aaron hit the first of his 755 home runs.

1969
Sirhan Sirhan was sentenced to death (later reduced to a life sentence) for the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.

1985
Coca-Cola announced that it was changing its formula and introduced New Coke.

1988
Pink Floyd's album Dark Side of the Moon leaves the charts for its first time after spending a record of 741 consecutive weeks (over 14 years) on the Billboard 200.

1989
NBC aired the pilot episode of "Baywatch."

1995
Sportscaster Howard Cosell died at age 77.

1998
James Earl Ray, convicted of assassinating Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., died.

Birthdays
81 Shirley Temple Black Diplomat, former child actress
79 Alan Oppenheimer Actor ("Murphy Brown")
70 David Birney Actor
70 Lee Majors Actor ("The Six Millon Dollar Man")
66 Tony Esposito Hockey Hall of Famer
61 Blair Brown Actress
60 Joyce DeWitt Actress ("Three's Company")
56 James Russo Actor
55 Michael Moore Director ("Fahrenheit 9/11")
54 Judy Davis Actress
52 Jan Hooks Actress ("Saturday Night Live")
49 Valerie Bertinelli Actress ("One Day at a Time")
49 Craig Sheffer Actor
48 George Lopez Actor
42 Melina Kanakaredes Actress ("CSI: NY")
41 Stan Frazier Rock musician (Sugar Ray)
41 Tim Womack Country musician (Sons of the Desert)
39 Scott Bairstow Actor
35 Barry Watson Actor
32 Kal Penn Actor ("House"), Obama White House staffer
32 John Cena Professional wrestler
30 Jaime King Actress
26 Aaron Hill Actor ("Greek")
24 Rachel Skarsten Actress
19 Matthew Underwood Actor
19 Camryn Walling Actor

52 William Shakespeare 4/23/1564 - 4/23/1616 English poet and dramatist
77 James Buchanan 4/23/1791 - 6/1/1868 15th president of the United States (1857-61)
89 Max Planck 4/23/1858 - 10/4/1947 German Nobel Prize-winning physicist (1918); originated quantum theory
82 Warren Spahn 4/23/1921 - 11/24/2003 Baseball Hall of Famer
52 Roy Orbison 4/23/1936 - 12/6/1988 Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, guitarist and a pioneer of rock and roll whose recording career spanned more than four decades

[icehog3]

April 23rd

1616
Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.


1989
NBC aired the pilot episode of "Baywatch."


1995
Sportscaster Howard Cosell died at age 77.




Birthdays

70 Lee Majors Actor ("The Six Millon Dollar Man")



48 George Lopez Actor

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by MedicCook

April 23rd

1616
Playwright William Shakespeare died in Stratford-on-Avon, England.

William Shakespeare was also born on this date in 1564.

[MedicCook]

Originally Posted by andysutherland

William Shakespeare was also born on this date in 1564.

It is in there Andy.

52 William Shakespeare 4/23/1564 - 4/23/1616 English poet and dramatist

[MedicCook]

April 24th

1184 BC
Greeks enter Troy using the Trojan Horse

1704
The first regular newspaper in the United States, the Boston, Massachusetts New-Letter, is published

1800
Library of Congress was established.

1898
Spain declared war on the U.S..

1915
Turks began deportation of Armenians that led to the massacre of between 600,000 and 1.5 million Armenians.

1916
The Easter Rebellion begins in Dublin, Ireland. Although unsuccessful, the uprising was an important symbolic event leading to the establishment of the Republic of Ireland.

1953
Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1974
Comedian Bud Abbott of Abbott & Costello died at the ge of 78.

1990
The shuttle Discovery blasted off with the Hubble Space Telescope.

2005
Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger is inaugurated as the 265th Pope of the Roman Catholic Church taking the name Pope Benedict XVI.

Birthdays
75 Shirley MacLaine Actress
69 Sue Grafton Author
69 Michael Parks Actor
67 Barbra Streisand Singer, actress
66 Richard Sterban Country singer (The Oak Ridge Boys)
64 Doug Clifford Rock musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
59 Rob Hyman Rock musician (The Hooters)
56 Eric Bogosian Actor
54 Michael O'Keefe Actor
50 Glenn Morshower Actor ("24")
46 Billy Gould Rock musician (Faith No More)
45 Djimon Hounsou Actor
45 Cedric the Entertainer Actor, comedian
42 Patty Schemel Rock musician (Hole)
42 Omar Vizquel Baseball player (Texas Rangers)
41 Aaron Comess Rock musician (Spin Doctors)
40 Melinda Clarke Actress
37 Chipper Jones Baseball player (Atlanta Braves)
35 Derek Luke Actor
32 Eric Balfour Actor ("24")
32 Carlos Beltran Baseball player (New York Mets)
30 Rebecca Lynn Howard Country singer
27 Kelly Clarkson Singer ("American Idol")
25 Tyson Ritter Rock musician (The All-American Rejects)
?? Blueface Cigar Asylum Inmate
?? rsamos Cigar Asylum Inmate

80 Robert Bailey Thomas 4/24/1766 - 5/19/1846 American publisher of "Old Farmer's Almanac"

[icehog3]

April 24th

1953
Winston Churchill was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.


1974
Comedian Bud Abbott of Abbott & Costello died at the ge of 78.


Birthdays
75 Shirley MacLaine Actress


54 Michael O'Keefe Actor




?? Blueface Cigar Asylum Inmate

[MedicCook]

April 25th

1901
New York became the first state to require license plates on cars.

1928
The first seeing eye dog was presented to Morris S. Frank.

1939
DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

1953
The Francis Crick and James Watson article describing the double helix of DNA is published in the magazine Nature.

1956
Rocky (Brockton Blockbuster) Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. He had 43 knockouts and 3 decisions to his credit.

1959
The St. Lawrence Seaway opened to shipping.

1965
New York Manager Casey Stengal got his 3,000th career victory.

1992
The final episode of "Growing Pains" aired on ABC.

1992
The final episode of "Who's the Boss?" aired on ABC.

1997
Patrick Roy (Colorado Avalanche) got his 89th career playoff win. He passed Billy Smith for the top spot. The game was also Roy's 10th playoff shutout.

2003
The Georgia legislature voted to scrap the "Confederate flag" design from its state flag.

Birthdays
79 Paul Mazursky Actor, director
77 Meadowlark Lemon Basketball player (Harlem Globetrotters)
69 Al Pacino Actor
64 Stu Cook Rock musician (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
64 Bjorn Ulvaeus Singer (ABBA)
63 Talia Shire Actress
62 Jeffrey DeMunn Actor ("The Green Mile")
60 Michael Brown Rock musician (The Left Banke)
59 Steve Ferrone Rock musician (The Heartbreakers)
55 Rob Crosby Country singer, songwriter
45 Hank Azaria Actor
44 Eric Avery Rock musician (Jane's Addiction)
44 Rory Feek Country musician
40 Gina Torres Actress
40 Renee Zellweger Actress
40 Joe Buck Sports broadcaster
39 Jason Lee Actor ("My Name is Earl")
39 Jason Wiles Actor ("Third Watch")
34 Emily Bergl Actress
33 Tim Duncan Basketball player
32 Marguerite Moreau Actress
21 Sara Paxton Actress
?? LasciviousXXX Cigar Asylum Inmate

79 Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/1917 - 6/15/1996 American jazz singer

[icehog3]

April 25th

1939
DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.



1956
Rocky (Brockton Blockbuster) Marciano retired as the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world. He had 43 knockouts and 3 decisions to his credit.


Birthdays

69 Al Pacino Actor



45 Hank Azaria Actor


?? LasciviousXXX Cigar Asylum Inmate

[MedicCook]

April 26th

1607
Colonists land at Cape Henry, Va., They would found Jamestown the next month.

1865
Union cavalry troopers corner and shoot dead John Wilkes Booth, President Lincoln's assassin, in Virginia.

1912
Hugh Bradley (Boston Red Sox) hit the first home run in Fenway Park.

1941
An organ was played at a baseball stadium for the first time in Chicago, IL.

1986
The worst nuclear power plant accident in history occurred at Chernobyl, near Kiev, U.S.S.R.

1989
Actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at age 77.

Birthdays
76 Carol Burnett Actress, comedian
71 Duane Eddy Rock musician
67 Bobby Rydell Singer
66 Gary Wright Rock singer
59 ripper Cigar Asylum Inmate
51 Giancarlo Esposito Actor
49 Roger Taylor Rock musician (Duran Duran)
48 Joan Chen Actress
48 Chris Mars Rock musician
47 Michael Damian Actor, singer
46 Jet Li Actor
45 Jimmy Stafford Rock musician (Train)
44 Kevin James Actor ("King of Queens")
42 Marianne Jean-Baptiste Actress ("Without a Trace")
42 Glenn Jacobs Professional wrestler (Kane, Isaac Yankem DDS, Fake Diesel)
41 Joe Caverlee Country musician (Yankee Grey)
39 T-Boz Singer (TLC)
38 Jay DeMarcus Country musician (Rascal Flats)
37 Michael Jeffers Country musician (Pinmonkey)
34 Nathan "Joey" Jordison Rock musician (Slipknot)
33 Jose Pasillas Rock musician (Incubus)
32 Jason Earles Actor ("Hannah Montana")
32 Tom Welling Actor ("Smallville")
29 Jordana Brewster Actress
29 Marnette Patterson Actress
29 Channing Tatum Actor
26 Jessica Lynch American P.O.W.
23 Aaron Meeks Actor

53 Ma Rainey 4/26/1886 - 12/22/1939 American singer; known as "the mother of the blues"
48 Hack Wilson 4/26/1900 - 11/23/1948 Baseball Hall of Famer

[icehog3]

April 26th

1989
Actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at age 77.



Birthdays
76 Carol Burnett Actress, comedian


44 Kevin James Actor ("King of Queens")

[Starscream]

Originally Posted by icehog3

1939
DC Comics publishes its second major superhero in Detective Comics #27; he is Batman, one of the most popular comic book superheroes of all time.

]

They liked him enough that they named the company after his title. Detective Comics = DC Comics

Originally Posted by icehog3

1989
Actress-comedian Lucille Ball died at age 77.

Rest in peace, Lucy. The greatest female comedian of all time IMHO.