Opinion - The Korea Times

TUESDAY, JUNE 16, 2009

Today is Tuesday, June 16, the 167th day of 2009. There are 198 days left in the year. 632 _ Origin of Persian [Yezdegird] Era 1567 _ Queen Mary of Scotland thrown into Lochleven Castle prison 1858 _ Abraham Lincoln says, ``A house divided against itself cannot stand" 1903 _ Ford Motors incorporates 1904 _ Bloomsday (date of events in James Joyce's Ulysses) 1917 _ First Congress of Soviets convene in Russia 1933 _ U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) created 1967 _ 50,000 attend Monterey International Pop Festival 1977 _ ``Beatlemania" opens on Broadway 1984 _ Edwin Moses wins his 100th consecutive 400-meter hurdles race

Jun 15, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 15, 2009

Today is Monday, June 15, the 166th day of 2009. There are 199 days left in the year. 1775 _ George Washington appointed commander-in-chief of American Army 1844 _ Goodyear patents vulcanization of rubber 1876 _ Sara Spencer (R.) is 1st woman to address a U.S. presidential convention 1877 _ Henry O. Flipper becomes first black graduate at West Point 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) & Paul McCartney (13) meet for the first time as Lennon's rock group The Quarrymen perform at a church dinner 1967 _ Gov. Reagan signs liberalized California abortion bill 1977 _ Spain's first free elections since 1936 1991 _ Philippines volcano Mt. Pinatubo erupts

Jun 14, 2009

SATURDAY, JUNE 13, 2009

Today is Saturday, June 13, the 164th day of 2009. There are 201 days left in the year. 1777 _ Marquis de Lafayette lands in U.S. 1888 _ Congress creates the Department of Labor 1900 _ China's Boxer Rebellion against foreigners and Christians 1927 _ Ticker-tape parade welcomed Charles A. Lindbergh to NYC 1940 _ Paris evacuated before the German advance 1970 _ Beatles' ``Let It Be," album goes No. 1 & stays No. 1 for four weeks 1971 _ New York Times began publishing ``The Pentagon Papers" 1980 _ U.N. Security Council calls for South Africa to free Nelson Mandela 1981 _ 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany 1987 _ Daniel Buettner, Bret Anderson, Martin Engel & Anne Knabe complete cycling journey of 15,266 miles from Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, to Argentina

Jun 12, 2009

FRIDAY, JUNE 12, 2009

Today is Friday, the 163rd day of 2009. There are 202 days left in the year. 1665 _ English rename New Amsterdam, New York, after Dutch pull out 1792 _ George Vancouver discovers site of Vancouver, B.C. 1812 _ Napoleon's invasion of Russia begins 1839 _ First baseball game played in America 1849 _ Gas mask patented by Lewis Haslett, Louisville, Ky. 1867 _ Austro-Hungarian Empire forms 1898 _ Philippine nationalists declares independence from Spain to U.S. control 1964 _ South Africa sentences Nelson Mandela to life imprisonment 1967 _ Israel wins Six-Day war 1967 _ Supreme Court unanimously ends laws against interracial marriages

Jun 11, 2009

THURSDAY, JUNE 11, 2009

Today is Thursday, June 11, the 162nd day of 2009. There are 203 days left in the year. 1184 B.C. _ Greeks finally captured Troy 1770 _ Captain Cook runs aground on Australian Great Barrier Reef 1895 _ First auto race 1936 _ Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia 1939 _ King & Queen of England taste first ``hot dogs" at FDR's party 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 1991 _ Microsoft releases MS DOS 5.0

Jun 10, 2009

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 10, 2009

Today is Wednesday, June 10, the 161st day of 2009. There are 204 days left in the year. 552 _ Origin of Armenian calendar 1866 _ Indelible pencil patented by Edson P. Clark, Northampton, Mass 1892 _ First concrete-paved street built (Bellefountaine, Ohio) 1918 _ Russian Soviet Federal Socialist Republic established 1923 _ All non-fascist parties dissolved in Italy 1925 _ USSR's official news agency TASS established 1951 _ Armistice talks to end Korean conflict began at Gaeseong 1965 _ Rolling Stones score their first No. 1, ``I Can't Get No Satisfaction" 1980 _ Ayatollah Khomeini releases Iran hostage Richard I Queen 1985 _ Coca-Cola Co announces it will resume selling old formula Coke

Jun 9, 2009

TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 2009

Today is Tuesday, June 9, the 160th day of 2009. There are 205 days left in the year. 1822 _ Charles Graham receives first patent for false teeth 1869 _ Charles Elmer Hires sells his first root beer (Philadelphia) 1883 _ First commercial electric railway line begins operation (Chicago, Ill.) 1944 _ 23 puppies (record litter) born to Lena, a foxhound, Ambler, Penn. 1946 _ 66,545 fans help Yanks break million attendance mark, the earliest 1953 _ About 100 die in Worcester, Mass., tornado 1974 _ Super group Blind Faith's (Clapton, Windwood, Baker) first concert 1977 _ Silver jubilee of Queen Elizabeth celebrated with fireworks 1989 _ ``Star Trek V" premiers 1997 _ British lease on New Territories in Hong Kong expires

Jun 8, 2009

MONDAY, JUNE 8, 2009

Today is Monday, June 8, the 159th day of 2009. There are 206 days left in the year. 452 _ Italy invaded by Attila the Hun 1786 _ First commercially-made ice cream sold (N.Y.) 1824 _ Washing machine patented by Noah Cushing of Quebec 1889 _ Cable Cars begin service in L.A. 1940 _ Discovery of element 93, neptunium, announced 1965 _ U.S. troops ordered to fight offensively in Vietnam 1967 _ Israel attacks USS Liberty in Mediterranean, killing 34 U.S. crewmen 1968 _ Rolling Stones release ``Jumpin' Jack Flash" 1979 _ The Source, first computer public information service, goes online 1986 _ Alleged Nazi Kurt Waldheim elected president of Austria

Jun 7, 2009

SATURDAY, JUNE 6, 2009

Today is Saturday, June 6, the 157th day of 2009. There are 208 days left in the year. 1844 _ Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) founded in London 1882 _ Electric iron patented by Henry W. Seely, NYC 1933 _ First drive-in theatre opens (Camden, N.J.) 1960 _ Roy Orbison releases ``Only the Lonely" 1967 _ Six-day War between Israel and Arab neighbors begin 1972 _ Explosion at world's largest coal mine kills 427 (Wankie, Rhodesia) 1980 _ Bjorn Borg beats John McEnroe for Wimbledon title 1982 _ 30,000 Israeli troops invade Lebanon to drive out PLO 1984 _ 1,200 die in Sikh ``Golden Temple" uprising India 1988 _ George Bush makes campaign promise to support reparations for WW II Japanese-American internees (promise broken, May 1989)

Jun 5, 2009

FRIDAY, JUNE 5, 2009

Today is Friday, June 5, the 156th day of 2009. There are 209 days left in the year. 1661 _ Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge 1806 _ Batavian Republic becomes the Kingdom of Holland 1855 _ Anti-foreign Anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's first convention 1876 _ Bananas become popular in U.S., at Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia 1917 _ 10 million U.S. men begin registering for draft in WW I 1940 _ First synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron, Ohio 1945 _ USA, U.K., USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany 1947 _ Sec of State George C. Marshall outlines ``The Marshall Plan" 1968 _ Sirhan Sirhan shoots Bobby Kennedy, who dies the next day 1977 _ First personal computer, the Apple II, goes on sale

Jun 4, 2009

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