Today In Time
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Today In Time
by observer Sun Mar 11, 2012 11:18 pm
In case you thought I'd forgotten - you're right!! BUT, the day isn't over so:
1302 - Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare.
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1917 - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1935 - Bank of Canada opens
1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1947 - Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.
1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for the single, (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay. Redding was killed in a plane crash in Lake Monona in Madison, WI on December 10, 1967. He recorded 11 charted hit songs between 1965 and 1969. Otis Redding was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
1978 - Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC
1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1987 - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney holds private meeting with the premiers to brief them on plans to seek a free-trade deal with the US; rejects demands for formal ratification by provinces.
1993 - Janet Reno unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the first female Attorney General in US history.
1996 - NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum
BIRTHDAYS
1903 - Lawrence Welk - bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater; died May 17, 1992
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1934 - Sam Donaldson - TV newsman: ABC White House correspondent; host: Primetime Live
1302 - Romeo and Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare.
1669 - Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1912 - 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1917 - 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1935 - Bank of Canada opens
1942 - 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1947 - Ottawa-born Barbara Ann Scott gets a ticker-tape parade down Bay Street after winning the World Figure Skating Championship; a year later she wins Olympic Gold.
1953 - American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1958 - Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1968 - Otis Redding posthumously received a gold record for the single, (Sittin’ on) The Dock of the Bay. Redding was killed in a plane crash in Lake Monona in Madison, WI on December 10, 1967. He recorded 11 charted hit songs between 1965 and 1969. Otis Redding was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989.
1978 - Bobby Hull of the Winnipeg Jets joined Gordie Howe by getting career goal number 1,000 in a game against the Quebec Nordiques.
1982 - Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC
1985 - Mikhail S Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as Soviet leader
1987 - Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1987 - Prime Minister Brian Mulroney holds private meeting with the premiers to brief them on plans to seek a free-trade deal with the US; rejects demands for formal ratification by provinces.
1993 - Janet Reno unanimously confirmed by the Senate to be the first female Attorney General in US history.
1996 - NHL Canadiens beat Dallas Stars 4-1 in the last game played in the 72-year-old Montreal Forum
BIRTHDAYS
1903 - Lawrence Welk - bandleader: Calcutta, Tonight You Belong to Me, Weary Blues, Moritat; TV: The Lawrence Welk Show; developer: senior citizen retreat near San Diego, The Lawrence Welk Theater; died May 17, 1992
1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australia, publisher (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1934 - Sam Donaldson - TV newsman: ABC White House correspondent; host: Primetime Live
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