Today In Time
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Today In Time
by observer Sat Mar 03, 2012 8:17 am
1875 - Montreal Quebec - First recorded hockey game using roughly modern rules.
1917 - Moscow Russia - Nicholas II abdicates; last Russian Tsar.
1921 - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announce their team's discovery of insulin.
1923 - the first issue of the weekly periodical TIME appeared on newsstands. It was the United States’ first modern news magazine (circulation of 3,700). The worldwide news weekly, founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, is printed in several languages and is among the most popular magazines in history (readership of 3.3 million).
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, officially became the national anthem of the United States. It is still ranked as the most difficult national anthem on earth to sing.
1939 - A new craze began to sweep college campuses. The much publicized fad began to take shape at the Ivy League’s Harvard University. It was perceived as being kind of ‘fishy’. The fad? Goldfish swallowing. (Gulp!)
1945 - Mystery fans remember this day when they gathered around the radio set to listen to the Mutual Broadcasting System as Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time. POW! ZING! BONK!
1970 - Queen Elizabeth II starts visit to Ottawa and Vancouver with Princess Anne.
1987 - Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.
1991 - Los Angeles California - LA Police severely beat Rodney King; captured on amateur video.
BIRTHDAYS
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 - speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, at Edinburgh Scotland; dies at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Aug 2, 1922. In 1870, Bell settled in Brantford, Ontario, where he developed the telephone from 1874-76. In 1876, he and his father made the first long-distance call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. The call was routed through Toronto, so the actual distance was 109 km. He patented his invention in 1876, and founded the Bell Telephone Company.
1890 - Norman Bethune 1890-1939 - medical doctor, at Gravenhurst Ontario; dies in 1939 in China. Bethune started medical studies at McGill, served as a stretcher bearer in a field ambulance unit of the Canadian army in France in 1915, then after a bout of tuberculosis, studied thoracic surgery and joined the surgical team at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Disillusioned with medical practice - many of his patients grew sick again when they returned to squalid living conditions - he visited the Soviet Union in 1935, and secretly joined the Communist Party. He opened a health clinic for the unemployed in Montreal, then served as a battlefield doctor in the Spanish Civil War (1936), where he innovated mobile field hospitals. He went to China in 1938 to help fight the Japanese invasion, devised a mobile medical unit that could be carried on two mules, but died of blood poisoning in 1939 due to the lack of penicillin. He is regarded as a hero in China and is called Pai-ch'iu-en - White Seeks Grace.
1911 - Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter), 1930s platinum blonde sex goddess, actress, Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady.
1933 - Princess Lee Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier), sister of U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis]
1917 - Moscow Russia - Nicholas II abdicates; last Russian Tsar.
1921 - University of Toronto doctors Frederick Banting and Charles Best officially announce their team's discovery of insulin.
1923 - the first issue of the weekly periodical TIME appeared on newsstands. It was the United States’ first modern news magazine (circulation of 3,700). The worldwide news weekly, founded by Henry Luce and Briton Hadden, is printed in several languages and is among the most popular magazines in history (readership of 3.3 million).
1931 - The Star-Spangled Banner, written by Francis Scott Key, officially became the national anthem of the United States. It is still ranked as the most difficult national anthem on earth to sing.
1939 - A new craze began to sweep college campuses. The much publicized fad began to take shape at the Ivy League’s Harvard University. It was perceived as being kind of ‘fishy’. The fad? Goldfish swallowing. (Gulp!)
1945 - Mystery fans remember this day when they gathered around the radio set to listen to the Mutual Broadcasting System as Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the first time. POW! ZING! BONK!
1970 - Queen Elizabeth II starts visit to Ottawa and Vancouver with Princess Anne.
1987 - Actor, singer, dancer, comedian, broadcaster and American entertainment icon, Danny Kaye, died in Los Angeles at the age of 74.
1991 - Los Angeles California - LA Police severely beat Rodney King; captured on amateur video.
BIRTHDAYS
1847 - Alexander Graham Bell 1847-1922 - speech therapist, audiologist, inventor, at Edinburgh Scotland; dies at Beinn Bhreagh, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia Aug 2, 1922. In 1870, Bell settled in Brantford, Ontario, where he developed the telephone from 1874-76. In 1876, he and his father made the first long-distance call between Brantford and Paris, Ontario. The call was routed through Toronto, so the actual distance was 109 km. He patented his invention in 1876, and founded the Bell Telephone Company.
1890 - Norman Bethune 1890-1939 - medical doctor, at Gravenhurst Ontario; dies in 1939 in China. Bethune started medical studies at McGill, served as a stretcher bearer in a field ambulance unit of the Canadian army in France in 1915, then after a bout of tuberculosis, studied thoracic surgery and joined the surgical team at Montreal's Royal Victoria Hospital. Disillusioned with medical practice - many of his patients grew sick again when they returned to squalid living conditions - he visited the Soviet Union in 1935, and secretly joined the Communist Party. He opened a health clinic for the unemployed in Montreal, then served as a battlefield doctor in the Spanish Civil War (1936), where he innovated mobile field hospitals. He went to China in 1938 to help fight the Japanese invasion, devised a mobile medical unit that could be carried on two mules, but died of blood poisoning in 1939 due to the lack of penicillin. He is regarded as a hero in China and is called Pai-ch'iu-en - White Seeks Grace.
1911 - Jean Harlow (Harlean Carpenter), 1930s platinum blonde sex goddess, actress, Platinum Blonde, Red Dust, Bombshell, Dinner at Eight, China Seas, Libeled Lady.
1933 - Princess Lee Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier), sister of U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis]
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Re: Today In Time
by observer Sat Mar 03, 2012 12:59 pm
1933 - Princess Lee Radziwill (Caroline Lee Bouvier), sister of U.S. First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy [Onassis]
Both sisters definitely married into wealth and influence, didn't they?
Both sisters definitely married into wealth and influence, didn't they?
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