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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Today is Tuesday, September 4, the 248th day of 2012. There are 118 days in the year. 476 ― Romulus Augustulus, last Roman emperor in West, is deposed 1833 ― First newsboy hired (Barney Flaherty-NY Sun) 1870 ― Third French republic proclaimed as they overthrow their king 1882 ― First district lit by electricity (N.Y.'s Pearl Street Station) 1885 ― First cafeteria opens (NYC) 1886 ― Geronimo is captured, ending last major U.S.-Indian war 1888 ― George Eastman patents first roll-film camera and registers “Kodak” 1953 ― Yanks become first team to win five consecutive championships 1965 ― Beatles' “Help!” single goes No. 1 and stays No.1 for three weeks 1972 ― U.S. swimmer Mark Spitz becomes first athlete to win seven Olympic gold medals

Sep 3, 2012

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2012

Today is Monday, September 3, the 247th day of 2012. There are 119 days left in the year. 1752 ― This day never happened nor the next 10 as England adopts Gregorian Calendar. People riot thinking the government stole 11 days of their lives 1783 ― Treaty of Paris signed (ending the U.S. Revolutionary War) 1833 ― NY Sun begins publishing (first daily newspaper) 1939 ― Britain declares war on Germany. France follows six hours later quickly joined by Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Canada 1940 ― First showing of high definition color TV 1943 ― Allies invade Italy 1945 ― Japanese forces in the Philippines surrender to Allies 1971 ― John Lennon leaves the U.K. for NYC, never to return 1971 ― Watergate team breaks into Daniel Ellsberg's doctor's office 1978 ― Pope John Paul I officially installed as 264th supreme pontiff

Sep 2, 2012

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 2012

Today is Saturday, September 1, the 245th day of 2012. There are 121 days left in the year. 69 ― Traditional date of the destruction of Jerusalem 312 B.C. ― Origin of Greek Era; start of Induction of Constantinople 1666 ― Great London Fire begins in Pudding Lane; 80 percent of London is destroyed 1918 ― Baseball season ends due to WW I 1923 ― Earthquake strikes Tokyo and Yokohama, kills 106,000 1939 ― WW II starts, Germany invades Poland, takes Danzig 1945 ― Japan surrenders ending WW II (U.S. date, 9/2 in Japan) 1948 ― Communist form North China People’s Republic 1948 ― U.N.’s World Health Organization forms 1983 ― Korean Boeing 747 strays into Siberia and is shot down by a Soviet jet

Aug 31, 2012

FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 2012

Today is Friday, August 31, the 244th day of 2012. There are 122 days left in the year. 1535 ― Pope Paul II deposed and excommunicated King Henry VIII 1887 ― Thomas A. Edison patents Kinetoscope (produces moving pictures) 1902 ― Split skirt first worn by Mrs. Adolph Landeburg (horse rider) 1907 ― England, Russia and France form the Triple Entente 1919 ― Communist Labor Party of America formed in Chicago 1955 ― First sun-powered automobile demonstrated, Chicago, Ill. 1968 ― Private Eye magazine reports a John Lennon & Yoko Ono album will have a picture of them nude on the cover 1971 ― Dave Scott becomes first person to drive a car on the Moon 1972 ― Olga Korbut, USSR, wins Olympic gold medal in gymnastics 1980 ― Poland's Solidarity labor union founded

Aug 30, 2012

THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 2012

Today is Thursday, August 30, the 243rd day of 2012. There are 123 days left in the year. 31 B.C. ― Origin of Era of Augustus 1885 ― 13,000 meteors seen in one hour near Andromeda 1905 ― Ty Cobb's first major league at bat (Detroit Tigers) 1944 ― Soviet troops enter Bucharest, Romania 1945 ― Hong Kong liberated from Japan 1963 ― Hot line communications link between Washington, D.C. and Moscow goes into operation 1968 ― First record under Apple label (Beatle's ``Hey Jude”) 1969 ― 120,000 attend Texas International Pop Festival 1979 ― First recorded occurrence; comet hits sun (energy=1 million hydrogen bombs) 1979 ― President Carter attacked by a rabbit on a canoe trip in Plains, Ga.

Aug 29, 2012

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 29, 2012

Today is Wednesday, August 29, the 242nd day of 2012. There are 124 days left in the year. 5502 B.C. ― Origin of Alexandrian Era 1854 ― Self-governing windmill patented (Daniel Halladay) 1896 ― Chop suey invented in NYC by chef of visiting Chinese ambassador 1909 ― A.H. Latham of France sets world airplane altitude record of 155 meters 1944 ― 15,000 American troops liberating Paris march down Champs Elysees 1950 ― International Olympic Committee votes admission to West Germany and Japan in 1952 1953 ― USSR explodes its first hydrogen bomb 1957 ― Congress passes Civil Rights Act of 1957 1966 ― Beatles last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco) 1990 ― Saddam Hussein declares America can't beat Iraq

Aug 28, 2012

TUESDAY, AUTUST 28, 2012

Today is Tuesday, August 28, the 241st day of 2012. There are 125 days left in the year. 1789 ― Sir William Herschel discovers Saturn's moon Enceladus 1850 ― The opera ``Lohengrin" is produced (Weimar) 1884 ― First known photograph of a tornado is made near Howard, S.D 1916 ― Italy declares war against Germany during WW I . 1957 ― Sen. Thurmond begins 24-hour filibuster against civil rights bill 1962 ― Dr. Geza DeKaplany tortures wife with acid 1963 ― 200,000 demonstrate for equal rights in Washington, D.C. 1963 ― Martin Luther King Jr.'s ``I have a dream speech" at Lincoln Memorial 1981 ― National Centers for Disease Control announces high incidence of Pneumocystis and Kaposi's sarcoma in gay men 1990 ― Iraq declares Kuwait its 19th province

Aug 27, 2012

MONDAY, AUGUST 27, 2012

Today is Monday, August 27, the 240th day of 2012. There are 126 days left in the year. 26 B.C. ― Origin of Egyptian Era 1783 ― First hydrogen balloon flight (unmanned); reaches 900-meter altitude 1789 ― French National Assembly issues ``Declaration of the Rights of Man & the Citizen" 1859 ― First successful oil well drilled, near Titusville, Penn. 1896 ― Zanzibar loses to England in a 38-minute war (9:02 -9:40 a.m.) 1912 ― Edgar Rice Burroughs' publishes Tarzan 1913 ― Lt. Peter Nestrov, of Imperial Russian Air Service, performs a loop in a monoplane at Kiev (first aerobatic maneuver in an airplane) 1975 ― Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) complete tandem bicycle ride, a record 18,020 miles around the world 1978 ― Reds Joe Morgan is first to hit 200 homeruns and have 500 stolen bases 1990 ― WWF Summer Slam; Ultimate Warrior beats Rick Rude

Aug 26, 2012

SATURDAY, AUGUST 25, 2012

Today is Saturday, August 25, the 238th day of 2012. There are 128 days left in the year. 1609 ― Galileo demonstrates his first telescope to Venetian lawmakers 1718 ― Hundreds of French colonists arrive in Louisiana; New Orleans, founded 1804 ― Alice Meynell becomes first woman jockey (England) 1835 ― NY Sun publishes Moon hoax story about John Herschel 1875 ― Matthew Webb becomes first to swim English Channel (21h 45m) 1921 ― U.S. signs peace treaty with Germany 1940 ― First parachute wedding 1944 ― Paris liberated from Nazi occupation 1990 ― U.N. security council authorizes military action against Iraq 1991 ― Carl Lewis runs 100m in 9.86 seconds

Aug 24, 2012

FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 2012

Today is Friday, August 24, the 237th day of 2012. There are 129 days left in the year. 79 ― Mt. Vesuvius erupts, buries Pompeii and Herculaneum 410 ― Rome overrun by Visigoths, symbolized fall of Western Roman Empire 1814 ― British sack Washington, D.C., White House burned 1853 ― First potato chips prepared by Chef George Crum (Saratoga Springs, N.Y.) 1891 ― Thomas Edison patents motion picture camera 1949 ― North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) established 1954 ― Communist Control Act passed, at height of McCarthyism 1968 ― France became world's fifth thermonuclear power 1981 ― Mark David Chapman is sentenced to 20 years to life for John Lennon's murder 1991 ― Gorbachev resigns as head of USSR Communist Party

Aug 23, 2012

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