On This Day
Being the first of March (already!) I thought I'd post up a few bits of trivia. Most of this will be sourced from Wikipedia.
* March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 305 days remaining.
*1565 - The city of Rio de Janerio is founded.
*1692 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
*1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
*1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
*1847 - The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death penalty.
*1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
*1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
*1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
*1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
*1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
*1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
*1943 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
*1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
*1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on Television
*1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
*1954 - Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
*1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
*1961 - Uganda becomes self-governing as its first elections held.
*1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
*1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
*1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
*1983 - Swatch introduces their first timepieces.
*1994 - Seattle grunge band Nirvana play their last show in Munich, Germany.
*2002 - The Peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro
*2006 - The first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu virus in Switzerland, a dead swan on Lake Geneva, near the city of Geneva
*2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article
* March 1 is the 60th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 305 days remaining.
*1565 - The city of Rio de Janerio is founded.
*1692 - The Salem witch trials begin in Salem Village, Massachusetts.
*1803 - Ohio is admitted as the 17th U.S. state.
*1815 - Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
*1847 - The state of Michigan formally abolishes the death penalty.
*1872 - Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
*1873 - E. Remington and Sons in Ilion, New York start production of the first practical typewriter.
*1896 - Henri Becquerel discovers radioactivity.
*1936 - Hoover Dam is completed.
*1941 - World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact thus joining the Axis powers.
*1941 - W47NV (now known as WSM-FM) begins operations in Nashville, Tennessee becoming the first FM radio station in the U.S.
*1943 - World War II: Battle of Bismarck Sea begins.
*1949 - Indonesia seizes Yogyakarta from the Dutch.
*1949 - Ripley's Believe It Or Not! debuts on Television
*1953 - Joseph Stalin collapses, having suffered a stroke. He dies four days later.
*1954 - Nuclear testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
*1961 - President of the United States John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps.
*1961 - Uganda becomes self-governing as its first elections held.
*1966 - Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
*1975 - Colour television transmissions begin in Australia.
*1978 - Charlie Chaplin's coffin is stolen from a Swiss cemetery.
*1983 - Swatch introduces their first timepieces.
*1994 - Seattle grunge band Nirvana play their last show in Munich, Germany.
*2002 - The Peseta is discontinued as official currency of Spain and is replaced with the euro
*2006 - The first confirmed case of H5N1 bird flu virus in Switzerland, a dead swan on Lake Geneva, near the city of Geneva
*2006 - English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article
posted by Di Sawell at Thursday, March 01, 2007
1 Comments:
Hi Guys, Doing this on Roland's computer, mine is still fried and not fixed properly...I will never go off and leave it turned on again. We have to reload all the programs and get the internet, network and norton all reconnected and is a real pain. Also I have lost all the files of the Publisher cards I had done. Lucky I burned the pix of the family on the DVD when I did. Tks for the lovely update pix so goregus..Luvyas all Marg
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