Opinion - The Korea Times

FRIDAY, APRIL 17, 2015

Today is Friday, April 17, the 107th day of 2015. There are 258 days left in the year.1492 ― Christopher Columbus signs contract with Spain to find the Indies 1521 ― Martin Luther is excommunicated from the Roman Catholic Church  1534 ― Sir Thomas More confined in London Tower  1629 ― First commercial fishery established  1895 ― Treaty of Shimonoseki signed, ends first Sino-Japanese War (1894-95)  1912 ― first unofficial gold record (Al Jolson’s “Ragging The Baby To Sleep”)1961 ― 1,400 Cuban exiles land in Bay of Pigs attempt to overthrow Castro  1969 ― Czechoslovakia’s Communist Party chairman Alexander Dubcek deposed  1971 ― People’s Republic Bangladesh forms, under sheik Mujib ur-Rahman  1983 ― Nolan Ryan strikes out his 3,500th batter  1986 ― IBM produces first megabit-chip  

Apr 16, 2015

THURSDAY, APRIL 16, 2015

Today is Thursday, April 16, the 106th day of 2015. There are 259 days left in the year.1521 ― Martin Luther arrives at Diet of Worms 1705 ― Queen Anne of England knights Isaac Newton at Trinity College  1724 ― First Easter observed   1789 ― George Washington heads for first presidential inauguration  1917 ― Lenin returns to Russia to start Bolshevik Revolution  1939 ― Stalin requests British, French and Russian anti-Nazi pact  1947 ― Lens to provide zoom effects demonstrated (New York, N.Y.)  1947 ― Massive explosion and fire kills 500 in Texas City, Texas  1948 ― Organization for European Economic Cooperation (EEC) forms in Paris France  1962 ― Walter Cronkite begins anchoring CBS Evening News  1987 ― Michael Jordan, becomes second NBA player to score 3000 points in a season 

Apr 15, 2015

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 2015

Today is Wednesday, April 15, the 105th day of 2015. There are 260 days left in the year. 1729 _ Johann S. Bach’s ``Matthew’s Passion" premieres in Leipzig  1738 _ Bottle opener invented  1784 _ First balloon flight in Ireland  1892 _ General Electric Company forms and is incorporated in New York  1896 _ First Olympic games close at Athens, Greece  1911 _ Walter Johnson pitches a record tying four strike-outs in an inning  1912 _ Titanic sinks at 2:27 a.m. in North Atlantic as the band plays on  1945 _ FDR buried on grounds of Hyde Park home  1959 _ Fidel Castro begins U.S. goodwill tour  1969 _ North Korea shoots at U.S. airplane above Japanese sea  1989 _ 95 crushed to death at Sheffield Soccer Stadium in England  1989 _ Students in Beijing pro-democracy protests 

Apr 14, 2015

TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 2015

Today is Tuesday, April 14, the 104th day of 2015. There are 261 days left in the year.1611 ― Word “telescope” is first used (Prince Federico Cesi) 1859 ― Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” published  1865 ― President Abraham Lincoln shot in Ford’s Theatre by John Wilkes Booth  1902 ― Marie & Pierre Curie isolate the radioactive element radium  1904 ― George Bernard Shaw’s “Candida”, premieres in London  1912 ― The Titanic, launched on 31 May 1911, on route from Southampton to New York with 2200 passengers, strikes iceberg off the coast of Halifax, Nova Scotia at approximately 11:30 p.m., and sinks early the next morning (1500+ death toll)  1948 ― A flash of light is observed in the crater Plato on the Moon  1963 ― George Harrison is impressed by the unsigned group “Rolling Stones”  1964 ― Sandy Koufax throws his ninth complete game without allowing a walk  1971 ― President Richard Nixon ends blockade against People&

Apr 13, 2015

MONDAY, APRIL 13, 2015

Today is Monday, April 13, the 103rd day of 2015. There are 262 days left in the year.1204 ― Crusaders occupy Constantinople1668 ― John Dryden (36) becomes first English poet laureate1742 ― George Frederic Handel's ``Messiah" performed for first time (Dublin)1924 ― Greek plebiscite for a republic 1941 ―  Russian-Japan no-attack treaty goes into effect1943 ― Nazi's discover mass grave of Polish officers near Katyn1960 ― France becomes the fourth nuclear nation exploding an A-bomb in Sahara1961 ― U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa for apartheid 1964 ― Sidney Poitier becomes first black man to win Oscar for best actor1981 ― Washington Post's Janet Cooke wins Pulitzer Prize for ``Jimmy's World" (later admits story was a hoax and returns prize) 1992 ― Nelson Mandela announces he will seek divorce from wife Winnie

Apr 12, 2015

SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 2015

Today is Saturday, April 11, the 101st day of 2015. There are 264 days left in the year.1814 ― First abdication of France by Napoleon; he is exiled to Elba 1830 ― Robert Schumann attends piano concerto by Paganini  1865 ― Lincoln urges a spirit of generous conciliation during reconstruction  1906 ― Einstein introduces his Theory of Relativity  1914 ― George Bernard Shaw’s “Pygmalion”, premieres  1951 ― President Harry Truman fires General Douglas McArthur  1960 ― First weather satellite launched (Tiros 1)  1961 ― Bob Dylan’s first appearance at Folk City, Greenwich Village  1968 ― President Lyndon Johnson signs 1968 Civil Rights Act  1970 ― Beatles’ “Let It Be,” single goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for two weeks  1992 ― Irish Republican Army bombs London financial district, killing three 

Apr 10, 2015

FRIDAY, APRIL 10, 2015

Today is Friday, April 10, the 100th day of 2015. There are 265 days left in the year.837 ― Comet 1P/837 F1 (Halley) approaches within 0.0334 astronomical units (AUs) of Earth 1516 ― First ghetto, Jews are compelled to live in specific area of Venice  1849 ― Safety pin patented by Walter Hunt (New York, N.Y.); sold rights for $100  1864 ― Austrian Archduke Maximilian becomes emperor of Mexico  1916 ― First professional golf tournament held  1923 ― Hitler demands “hatred and more hatred” in Berlin  1925 ― F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes “The Great Gatsby”  1930 ― Synthetic rubber first produced  1971 ― U.S. table tennis team arrives in People’s Republic of China  1972 ― U.S., USSR and 70 other nations agree to ban biological weapons  1981 ― Imprisoned IRA hunger striker Bobby Sands elected to British Parliament 

Apr 9, 2015

THURSDAY, APRIL 9, 2015

Today is Thursday, April 9, the 99th day of 2015. There are 266 days left in the year. 1241 ― Battle of Liegnitz; Mongol armies defeat Poles and Germans  1667 ― First public art exhibition (Palais Royal, Paris, France)  1770 ― Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)  1833 ― First tax-supported public library (Peterborough, N.H.)  1866 ― Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto  1872 ― Samuel R Percy patents dried milk  1912 ― Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York  1914 ― First full color film shown ``The World, The Flesh & the Devil" (London)  1953 ― "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue  1963 ― Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony  1968 ― Martin Luther King, Jr. buried in Atlanta, Ga.  1979 ― Longest doubles ping-pong match of 101 hours, begins 

Apr 8, 2015

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 8, 2015

Today is Wednesday, April 8, the 98th day of 2015. There are 267 days left in the year.1766 ― First fire escape patented, wicker basket on a pulley and chain 1781 ― Premiere of Mozart's violin sonata K379  1783 ― Catharina II of Russia annexes the Krim  1879 ― Milk is sold in glass bottles for 1st time  1946 ― League of Nations assembles for last time1979 ― People's Republic of China joins IOC  1986 ― Clint Eastwood elected mayor of Carmel, Calif.1988 ― Televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, 52, was defrocked by the Assemblies of God following the disclosure of his involvement with a prostitute. (Swaggart was ordered to stay off TV for a year, but had returned after only three months.)   1992 ― After 151 years Britain's ``Punch Magazine" final issue  1994 ― Smoking banned in Pentagon and all U.S. military bases  1997 ― Microsoft Corp. releases Internet Explorer 4.0 

Apr 7, 2015

TUESDAY, APRIL 7, 2015

Today is Tuesday, April 7, the 97th day of 2015. There are 268 days left in the year.451 ― Attila’s Hun’s plunder Metz1348 ― Prague U, first university in central Europe, formed by Charles IV   1805 ― Premiere of Beethoven’s “Eroica” (conducted by himself)  1827 ― English chemist John Walker invents wooden matches  1943 ― Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet for an Axis conference in Salzburg  1949 ― Rogers & Hammerstein’s “South Pacific” opens at Majestic Theater (for 1,928 performances)  1954 ― President Dwight Eisenhower fears “domino-effect” in Indo-China  1976 ― Chinese Politburo fires Vice Premier Deng Xiaoping  1983 ― Oldest human skeleton, aged 80,000 years, discovered in Egypt  1988 ― Russia announces it will withdraw its troops from Afghanistan  1994 ― Vatican acknowledges Holocaust (Nazi’s killing Jews) for first time 

Apr 6, 2015

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