Today In Time
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Today In Time
by observer Tue Mar 13, 2012 9:50 am
It’s Uncle Sam Day! On this day back in 1852, the New York Lantern newspaper published an Uncle Sam cartoon for the first time. The drawing was the work of Frank Henry Bellew. Through the years, the caricature changed with Uncle Sam becoming symbolic of the U.S. being just like a favorite uncle. A prime example of this symbolism were U.S. Army posters that portrayed Uncle Sam pointing and saying, “I want you!” As a result, many of us joined his ranks.
Uncle Sam always wore a nifty suit of red, white and blue, a hat with stars and stripes down the trousers of both of his long legs. The origins of how he became known as Uncle Sam are varied, but include a dock worker wondering what the words “From U.S.” meant on shipping crates. Reportedly, he was told jokingly, “Oh, this is from your Uncle Sam.”
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1884 - Standard Time adopted in US; invented by Canadian engineer Sandford Fleming.
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 - Eileen Vollick 1899-1972 gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot.
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1964 - Canada agrees to contribute to UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970. His brother Jacques Rose, Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie also sentenced. In November, Rose also gets additional life term for kidnapping Laporte; granted full parole in 1982.
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1983 - Larry King premieres Larry King Live on CNN; former radio talk show host.
1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1991 - US President George Bush meets PM Brian Mulroney; signs Air Quality Agreement, committing both countries to curb emissions, pledging to end acid rain within 10 years; 150,000 Canadian lakes damaged; 15,000 considered dead.
1992 - Pravda ceases publication due to lack of funds; founded in 1912 by Lenin as the official newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party.
BIRTHDAYS
1911 - L Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer, scientologist, founder: Church of Scientology; author: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
1939 - Neil Sedaka - songwriter, singer: Oh! Carol, The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Bad Blood, Laughter in The Rain
Uncle Sam always wore a nifty suit of red, white and blue, a hat with stars and stripes down the trousers of both of his long legs. The origins of how he became known as Uncle Sam are varied, but include a dock worker wondering what the words “From U.S.” meant on shipping crates. Reportedly, he was told jokingly, “Oh, this is from your Uncle Sam.”
1519 - Cortez lands in Mexico
1884 - Standard Time adopted in US; invented by Canadian engineer Sandford Fleming.
1925 - Tennessee makes it unlawful to teach evolution
1928 - Eileen Vollick 1899-1972 gets pilot's licence; first Canadian woman to be a licensed pilot.
1950 - General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1964 - Canada agrees to contribute to UN peacekeeping force in Cyprus.
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1971 - FLQ terrorist Paul Rose given a life sentence for the non-capital murder of Quebec Labour Minister Pierre Laporte during the October Crisis of 1970. His brother Jacques Rose, Francis Simard and Bernard Lortie also sentenced. In November, Rose also gets additional life term for kidnapping Laporte; granted full parole in 1982.
1979 - European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1983 - Larry King premieres Larry King Live on CNN; former radio talk show host.
1989 - FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1991 - US President George Bush meets PM Brian Mulroney; signs Air Quality Agreement, committing both countries to curb emissions, pledging to end acid rain within 10 years; 150,000 Canadian lakes damaged; 15,000 considered dead.
1992 - Pravda ceases publication due to lack of funds; founded in 1912 by Lenin as the official newspaper of the Soviet Communist Party.
BIRTHDAYS
1911 - L Ron Hubbard, sci-fi writer, scientologist, founder: Church of Scientology; author: Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health.
1939 - Neil Sedaka - songwriter, singer: Oh! Carol, The Diary, Stairway to Heaven, Calendar Girl, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, Happy Birthday Sweet Sixteen, Bad Blood, Laughter in The Rain
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