Opinion - The Korea Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 18, 2013

Today is Tuesday, June 18, the 169th day of 2013. There are 196 days left in the year.1178 ― Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno; 5 Canterbury monks report explosion on the moon (only such observation known) 1583 ― Richard Martin of London takes out 1st life insurance policy, on William Gibbons1815 ― Battle of Waterloo; Napoleon defeated by Wellington 1928 ― Amelia Earhart is first woman (passenger) to cross Atlantic by air 1940 ― Winston Churchill urges perseverance so that future generations would remember that "this was their finest hour”1942 ― Eric Nessler of France stays aloft in a glider for 38 hours and 21 minutes1948 ― U.N. Commission on Human Rights adopts International Declaration of Human Rights1953 ― Egypt proclaimed a republic, General Neguib becomes president1980 ― Mrs. Shakuntala Devi mentally multiplies 2 13-digit numbers in 28 seconds 1986 ― Fifty-two people die in plane/helicopter collision over Grand Canyon  

Jun 17, 2013

MONDAY, JUNE 17, 2013

Today is Monday, June 17, the 168th day of 2013. There are 197 days left in the year.1837 ― Charles Goodyear obtains his first rubber patent 1885 ― Statue of Liberty arrived in NYC aboard French ship “Isere”1947 ― First round-the-world civil air service leaves NYC 1950 ― First kidney transplant (Chicago) 1953 ― Riots in East Germany for reunification 1963 ― Supreme Court rules against Bible reading/prayer in public schools 1967 ― China becomes world’s fourth thermonuclear (H-bomb) power 1972 ― Five arrested for burglarizing Democratic Party HQ at Watergate 1982 ― U.S. President Reagan first U.N. Gen Assembly address (“evil empire” speech) 1982 ― President Galtieri resigns after leading Argentina to defeat in Falkland War

Jun 16, 2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 15, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 15, the 166th day of 2013. There are 199 days left in the year.  763 B.C. ― Assyrians record total solar eclipse event on clay tablet 1215 ― King John signs Magna Carta at Runnymede, England 1381 ― Wat Tyler, leader of English Peasants’ Revolt, beheaded in London 1590 ― Pope Leo X threatens to ex-communicate Martin Luther 1785 ― Two French balloonists die in world's first fatal aviation accident 1869 ― Celluloid patented by John Wesley Hyatt, Albany, N.Y. 1896 ― Tsunami strikes Shinto festival on beach at Sanriku, Japan; 27,000 are killed, 9,000 injured, with 13,000 houses destroyed 1924 ― Native Americans are proclaimed U.S. citizens 1956 ― John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for first time as  Lennon’s rock group, The Quarrymen, perform at a church dinner 1986 ― Pravda announces high-level Chernobyl staff fired for stupidity 

Jun 14, 2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 14, 2013

Today is Friday, June 14, the 165th day of 2013. There are 200 days left in the year. 1775 ― U.S. Army founded 1834 ― Sandpaper patented by Isaac Fischer Jr., Springfield, Vt. 1847 ― Bunson invents a gas burner; lab teachers celebrate worldwide 1881 ― Player piano patented by John McTammany, Jr., Cambridge, Mass. 1940 ― German forces occupied Paris during WW II 1944 ― First B-29 raid against mainland Japan 1975 ― Janis Ian releases “At 17" 1982 ― Argentina surrenders to Britain on Falkland Islands, ends 74-day conflict 1989 ― Nolan Ryan becomes second pitcher to defeat all 26 teams 1989 ― Rocker Carol King gets a star in Hollywood's walk of fame 

Jun 13, 2013

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 2013

Today is Thursday, June 13, the 164th day of 2013. There are 201 days left in the year. 1373 ― Anglo-Portuguese Treaty of Alliance (world's oldest) signed 1611 ― John Fabricius dedicates earliest sunspot publication 1777 ― Marquis de Lafayette lands in U.S. 1927 ― Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A. Lindbergh to NYC 1940 ― Paris evacuated before the German advance 1948 ― Babe Ruth's final farewell at Yankee Stadium, he dies Aug. 16 1967 ― Thurgood Marshall nominated as first black Supreme Court justice 1970 ― Beatles' “Let It Be,” album goes No. 1 and stays No. 1 for four weeks 1971 ― N.Y. Times began publishing “The Pentagon Papers” 1980 ― U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela

Jun 12, 2013

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 2013

Today is Wednesday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2013. There are 202 days left in the year.1665 ― English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out 1839 ― First baseball game played in America 1849 ― Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky. 1923 ― Harry Houdini frees himself from a straitjacket while suspended  upside down, 40 feet (12 m) above the ground in NYC 1964 ― South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment 1965 ― Rolling Stones release “Satisfaction” 1967 ― Israel wins Six-Day War 1967 ― Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages 1982 ― 750,000 anti-nuclear demonstrators, rally in Central Park, NYC 1989 ― Ben Johnson, Canadian Olympian, admits using steroids 

Jun 11, 2013

TUESDAY, JUNE 11, 2013

Today is Tuesday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2013. There are 203 days left in the year. 1184 B.C. ― Greeks finally captures Troy 1895 ― First auto race 1939 ― King & Queen of England taste first “hot dogs” at FDR’s party1947 ― WW II sugar rationing finally ends 1963 ― JFK says segregation is morally wrong and that it is “time to act” 1969 ― David Bowie releases “Space Oddity” 1982 ― Movie “ET The Extra-Terrestrial" released (highest grossing film) 1987 ― Margaret Thatcher is first British P.M. in 160 years to win third consecutive term 1989 ― Youngest male French Open champ and first U.S. champ since 1955; Michael Chang, 17, beats Stefan Edberg of Sweden 1991 ― Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0 

Jun 10, 2013

MONDAY, JUNE 10, 2013

Today is Monday, June 10, the 161st day of 2013. There are 204 days left in the year.1752 ― Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning ― what a shock! 1846 ― Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire 1854 ― Georg F.B. Reiman proposes that space is curved 1865 ― Wagner's “Tristan und Isolde” first performance Munchen, Germany 1946 ― Italian Republic established 1966 ― Janis Joplin’s first live concert (Avalon Ballroom in S.F.) 1967 ― Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq and Egypt end “Six-Day War” with U.N. help 1977 ― Apple Computer ships its first Apple II 1985 ― Coca Cola announces they’d bring back their 99-year-old formula 1988 ― Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London) 

Jun 9, 2013

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 2013

Today is Saturday, June 8, the 159th day of 2013. There are 206 days left in the year.452 ― Italy invaded by Attila the Hun 570 ― Religion of Islam (submission) founded in Mecca 1786 ― First commercially-made ice cream sold (NYC) 1815 ― Thirty-nine German states unite under the Act of Confederation 1824 ― Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec 1889 ― Cable cars begin service in L.A. 1937 ― World's largest flower blooms in N.Y. Botanical Garden, 12-inch calla lily 1953 ― Cluster of six tornadoes touches down in Flint, Mich., killing 113 1968 ― Rolling Stones release “Jumpin' Jack Flash” 1986 ― Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected president of Austria

Jun 7, 2013

FRIDAY, JUNE 7, 2013

Today is Friday, June 7, the 158th day of 2013. There are 207 days left in the year.1614 ― Second Parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation 1654 ― Louis XIV crowned king of France 1864 ― Abe Lincoln re-nominated for president by Republican Party 1924 ― George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775 inches from Everest's summit 1929 ― Vatican City becomes a sovereign state 1930 ― N.Y. Times agrees to capitalize the n in “Negro" 1963 ― First Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) and release first single, “Come on" 1972 ― German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel 1983 ― Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out 1989 ― Wayne Gretzky wins his ninth NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years           

Jun 6, 2013

Today in History