May 21, 1957 – Judge Reinhold

Events from  history that occurred … on this day!

Today’s Birthdays

1974 – Fairuza Balk
1957 – Judge Reinhold
1951 – Al Franken
1926 – Robert Creeley
1898 – Armand Hammer

Today’s History

2012 Dioncounda Traore, Acting President of Mali, requires hospitalization after encountering angry demonstrators who object to the 70-year old to hold the office for a year
2012 People in East Asia, the North Pacific and the Western United States have the opportunity today to view a rare annular solar eclipse
2011 Christian radio broadcaster Harold Camping predicts May 21, 2011 at 6:00pm as the date of the Rapture for all Christians around the world
2011 The most active volcano in Iceland, Grimsvotn, erupts and triggers 50 small earthquakes
2010 A food crisis in Niger causes Nigerians to flee across the border into Nigeria
2003 Earthquake kills at least 2,266 in northern Algeria
1997 Emmy 24th Daytime Award presentation – Susan Lucci loses for 17th time
1996 Blackout in many areas of Queens, New York
1996 Ken Griffey, Jr., 26, is 8th youngest to hits 200 home runs
1996 Red Sox pitcher Roger Clemens beats Yankees for his 200th win
1995 Chris Johnson wins Star Bank LPGA Golf Classic
1994 “Best Little Whorehouse” closes at Lunt-Fontanne New York City after 16 performances
1994 120th Preakness: Pat Day aboard Tabasco Cat wins in 1:56.4
1994 Burger King spokesman Dan Cortese (26) weds Dee Dee Hemby (26)
1994 Country singer Trisha Yearwood (29) weds Robert Reynolds (32)
1994 Reds bat out of order against Dodgers in 2nd inning
1994 South Yemen secedes from Yemen
1994 Sushmita Sen, 18, of India, crowned 43rd Miss Universe
1993 Dayanara Torres, 18, of Puerto Rico, crowned 42nd Miss Universe
1993 Opposition leader Xanana Gusmao of East-Timor sentenced to life
1993 Robin Smith scores 167 in England Texaco Trophy loss vs. Australia
1993 Venezuela president Carlos Andres Perez fired
1992 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1992 New Jersey senate overrides Governor Florio’s veto and lowers sales tax to 6%
1991 Ethiopia’s Marxist president (Mengistu Haile Mariam) resigns
1990 Dow Jones avg hits a record 2,844.68
1990 Last episode of “Newhart” airs on CBS-TV
1989 35th Mazda LPGA Championship won by Nancy Lopez
1988 “Da’Butt” by EU hits #35
1988 “Fat” by Weird Al Yankovic hits #99
1988 114th Preakness: Eddie Delahoussaye aboard Risen Star wins in 1:56.2
1988 Jane Powell weds Dickie Moore
1988 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1987 Military coup in Fiji Islands under Lieutenant Colonel Sitivani Rabuka
1987 Xignals PC Board BBS begins in Alabama
1986 Atlanta Brave Rafael Ramirez hits 4 doubles in a game
1986 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1983 “Bang The Drum All Day” by Todd Rundgren hits #63
1983 109th Preakness: Donald Miller, Jr. on Deputed Testamony wins in 1:55.4
1983 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB, for mating for STS-7 mission
1983 David Bowie’s ‘Let’s “Dance’ single goes #1
1982 British troops lands on Falkland Islands
1981 Francois Mitterrand becomes president of France
1981 Kim Seelbrede, (Ohio), crowned 30th Miss USA
1981 Stanley Cup: New York Islanders beat Minnesota North Stars, 4 games to 1
1980 “Empire Strikes Back” premieres
1980 Eintracht Frankfurt wins 9th UEFA Cup at Frankfurt
1980 Ensign Jean Marie Butler is 1st woman to graduate from U.S. service acad
1979 Dan White convicted of manslaughter death of San Francisco mayor Moscone
1979 Elton John becomes 1st western rocker to perform live in U.S.S.R.
1979 National Volksraad installed in Namibia
1979 Stanley Cup: Montreal Canadiens beat New York Rangers, 4 games to 1
1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 Yamada Mumon Roshi appointed head of Zen Rinzai Sect
1977 “Fiddler on the Roof” closes at Winter Garden New York City after 167 performances
1977 103rd Preakness: Jean Cruguet aboard Seattle Slew wins in 1:54.4
1977 Albert Innaurato’s “Gemini,” premieres in New York City
1977 Fire in hotel Duc de Brabant Brussels, kills 19
1977 San Diego Padres beat Mont Expos, 11-8, in 21 innings
1975 Borussia Monchengladbach wins 4th UEFA Cup at Enschede
1975 Lowell W. Perry confirmed as chairman of Equal Opportunity Comm
1975 Trial against Baader-Meinhof-group begins in Stuttgart
1972 “Heathen!” opens and closes at Billy Rose Theater New York City for 1 performance
1972 “Lost in the Stars” closes at Imperial Theater New York City after 39 performances
1972 Kathy Cornelius wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1971 Chelsea wins 11th Europe Cup II in Athens
1971 National Guard mobilizes to quell riot in Chattanooga, Tennessee
1970 National Guard mobilizes to quell disturbances at Ohio State U
1970 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R.
1969 Robert Kennedy’s murderer Sirhan Sirhan sentenced to death
1969 Slovan Bratislava wins 9th Europe Cup II in Basel
1969 After 9,015 at bats Hank Aaron is lifted for a pinch hitter, Mike Lum, who doubled in a 15-3 victory over New York Mets
1968 Cubs Billy Williams sets outfielder record of 695 straight game
1968 Paul McCartney and Jane Asher attend an Andy Williams concert
1968 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test (underground)
1968 WEKW TV channel 52 in Keene, New Hampshire (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Nuclear-powered sub Scorpion, with 99 men, reported missing and is later found at the bottom of the ocean off Azores
1967 “Sing, Israel Sing” closes at Brooks Atkinson New York City after 14 performances
1967 Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Babe Didrikson Zaharias Golf Open
1966 “Downtown” by Mrs. Miller hits #82
1966 “Time for Singing” opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 41 performances
1966 92nd Preakness: Don Brumfield aboard Kauai King wins in 1:55.4
1966 Heavyweight Cassius Clay KOs Henry Cooper in London
1966 Louie Louie by The Kingsmen reentered the chart and hits #97
1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Henry Cooper in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1964 1st nuclear-powered lighthouse begins operations (Chesapeake Bay)
1964 Fire in Wegimond Belgium resort, kills 19
1964 U.S. begin intelligence flights above Laos
1962 3 more Cleveland home run set AL record for most home runs (26) over 8 games
1961 Governor Patterson declares martial law in Montgomery
1960 86th Preakness: Bobby Ussery aboard Bally Ache wins in 1:57.6
1959 “Gypsy” opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 702 performances
1959 Cleveland Metroparks Zoo Children’s Petting Farm opens
1958 Indonesian paratroopers reconquers Morotai Island
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Bikini Island (atmospheric tests)
1957 French government of Mollet resigns
1956 Jordan government of Said el-Mufti forms
1956 U.S. explodes 1st airborne hydrogen bomb over Bikini Atoll
1956 WITI TV channel 6 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 “House of Flowers” closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 165 performances
1955 1st transcontinental round-trip solo flight-sunrise to sunset
1955 WFRV TV channel 5 in Green Bay, Wisconsin (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Amendment to give 18-year-olds right to vote is defeated
1953 French government of Mayer resigns
1952 Brooklyn Dodgers score 15 runs in 1st inning and beat Cincinnati Reds, 19-1
1952 Dutch Queen Juliana opens Amsterdam-Rhine Canal
1950 Vietnamese troops of Ho Chi-Minh attack Cambodia
1948 New York Yankees Joe Dimaggio hits for cycle (single, double, triple, home run)
1945 Australia Services win 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord’s by 6 wickets
1945 German war criminal Heinrich Himmler captured
1945 Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart wed
1944 Hitler begins attack on English/U.S. “terror pilots”
1943 Fastest 9 inning AL baseball game (89 minutes), White Sox beat Senators
1942 Great Britain convoy PQ16 departs to Russia
1941 1st U.S. ship sunk by a U-boat (SS Robin Moore)
1941 German airforce occupies airport at Maleme Kreta
1941 Singer Johan Heesters visits Dachau concentration camp
1940 AVRO-chairman Willem Vogt fires all Jewish employees
1940 Allied counter attack at Atrecht North-France
1940 Reynaud forms French government
1938 Bradman scores 143 Australia vs. Surrey, 198 minutes, 11 fours
1934 Oskaloosa Iowa, becomes 1st U.S. city to fingerprint its citizens
1933 Mount Davidson Cross lit by Franklin D. Roosevelt via telegraph
1932 1st Curtis Cup: U.S., 5 -3
1932 1st transatlantic solo flight by a woman, Amelia Earhart, lands
1931 Belgian government of Jaspar falls
1930 Max Bishop draws 8 walks in a doubleheader
1930 New York Yankee Babe Ruth hits 3 consecutive homers
1929 Automatic electric stock quotation board installed, New York City
1929 Sergei Prokoviev’s ballet “Prodigal Son,” premieres in Paris
1927 Lindburgh lands in Paris, after 1st solo air crossing of Atlantic
1926 White Sox Earl Sheely hits a record 6th consecutive double
1925 Canadians allow to sell beer
1925 George Lloyd of Dolobran becomes British High Director of Egypt
1925 Roald Amundsun leaves Spitsbergen with 2 seaplanes to North Pole
1924 Leopold and Loeb kidnap Bobby Franks for fun
1922 “On the Road to Moscow” is 1st cartoon to receive a Pulitzer Prize
1922 Pulitzer prize awarded to Eugene O’Neill (Anna Christie)
1921 Oldest radio station west of Mississippi River licensed in Greeley Co
1918 House of Representatives passes amendment allowing women to vote
1917 Leo Pinckney, 1st American drafted during WW I
1916 Britain begins “Summer Time” (Daylight Savings Time)
1914 39th Preakness: Andy Schuttinger aboard Holiday wins in 1:53.8
1914 Greyhound Bus Co begins in Minnesota
1908 1st horror movie (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) premieres in Chicago
1908 Bill Burns has no-hitter broken up with 2 outs in 9th
1907 32nd Preakness: G Mountain aboard Don Enrique wins in 1:45.4
1906 Louis H. Perlman patents a demountable tire carrying rim for cars
1904 Federation Internationale de Football Association (Soccer) forms in Paris
1898 U.S. Assay Office in Seattle, Washington authorized
1897 Yerkes Observatory 40″ (1m) refractor used for 1st time
1892 Ruggiero Leoncavallo’s opera “Pagliacci,” premieres in Milan
1891 Boxers Peter Jackson and Jim Corbett fight to a draw in 61 rounds
1886 14th Preakness: S Fisher aboard Bard wins in 2:45
1881 American Red Cross founded by Clara Barton
1881 U.S. Nation Lawn Tennis Association forms
1879 Battle of Iquiquw
1878 4th Kentucky Derby: Jimmy Carter aboard Day Star wins in 2:37
1866 1st-class debut of G F Grace aged 15 years 159 days
1864 General David Hunter takes command of Department of West Virginia
1863 Siege on Port Hudson, Louisiana begins
1861 Richmond, Virginia is designated Confederate Capital
1856 Lawrence Kansas captured, sacked by pro-slavery forces
1846 1st steamship arrives in Hawaii
1840 New Zealand became a British colony
1832 1st Democratic National Convention (Baltimore)
1825 Prince Willem FK marries Louise AWA of Prussia
1819 1st bicycles (swift walkers) in U.S. introduced in New York City
1809 Battle at Aspern-Essling: Austrian arch duke Karl beats Napoleon
1804 Lewis and Clark Expedition begins
1793 Curacao Island Council forbids criticism on House of Orange
1683 West Indian Company sells 1/3 of Suriname
1674 General John Sobieski chosen King of Poland
1602 Martha’s Vineyard 1st sighted (Captain Bartholomew Gosnold)
1553 English Lady Jane Grey marries Guildford Dudley
1502 Portuguese Admiral Da Nova discovers St. Helena
1471 King Edwards IV enters London
1420 Treaty of Troyes-French King Charles VI gives France to English
1216 French crown prince Louis enters England
1040 King Henry III gives Utrecht the Groninger currency
996 Pope Gregory V crowns his cousin Otto III German emperor
685 Battle at Nechtansmere: Picten beat Northumbrians
143 Earliest known date in Amer-pre Mayan king Harvest-Bergvorst installed

Source: BrainyHistory

OKLAHOMA HORROR – 51 Confirmed Dead… 20 Children… At Least 230 Injured… Death Toll Expected To Rise

Oklahoma Tornado 2013 Devastates Moore, Kills Dozens

MOORE, Okla., May 20 (Reuters) – A 2-mile-wide (3-km-wide) tornado tore through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore on Monday, killing at least 51 people while destroying entire tracts of homes, piling cars atop one another, and trapping two dozen school children beneath rubble.

Twenty of the 51 confirmed deaths were children, the Oklahoma medical examiner said, and at least 45 of the 230 people injured were children, according to area hospitals. It was the deadliest U.S. tornado since one killed 161 people in Joplin, Missouri, two years ago.

President Barack Obama declared a major disaster area in Oklahoma, ordering federal aid to supplement state and local efforts.

Rescue teams raced against the setting sun and worked into the darkness in search of survivors throughout the wide swath of devastation, while the dangerous storm system threatened several southern Plains states with more twisters. Severe weather was expected through the night from the Great Lakes south to Texas.

Emergency crews searched the rubble of Plaza Towers Elementary School for two dozen missing children, Oklahoma Lieutenant Governor Todd Lamb said. The school took a direct hit from the tornado, Lamb told CNN.

The town of Moore, population about 50,000, was devastated with debris everywhere, street signs gone, lights out and houses completely obliterated.

Another elementary school and a hospital were among the buildings leveled.

“We thought we died because we were inside the cellar door…It ripped open the door and just glass and debris started slamming on us and we thought we were dead to be honest,” survivor Ricky Stover said while surveying the devastated remains of his home.

Cyndi Christopher was at work and went to pick up her son from daycare when she heard the storm warning. After taking her son home, she was forced to flee when she noticed the storm was coming their way.

“I drove as fast as I could and I outran the storm,” Christopher said.

The National Weather Service assigned the twister a preliminary ranking of EF4 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale, meaning the second most powerful category of tornado with winds up to 200 miles per hour (320 km per hour).

Witnesses said Monday’s tornado appeared more fierce than the giant twister that was among the dozens that tore up the area on May 3, 1999, killing more than 40 people and destroying thousands of homes. That tornado ranked as an EF5, meaning it had winds over 200 mph.

The 1999 event in Oklahoma ranks as the third-costliest tornado in U.S. history, having caused more than $1 billion in damage at the time, or more than $1.3 billion in today’s dollars. Only the devastating Joplin and Tuscaloosa tornadoes in 2011 were more costly.

The National Weather Service Storm Prediction Center provided the town with a warning 16 minutes before the tornado touched down at 3:01 p.m. local time (2001 GMT), which is greater than the average eight to 10 minutes of warning, said Keli Pirtle, a spokeswoman for the center in Norman, Oklahoma.

The notice was upgraded to emergency warning with “heightened language” at 2:56 p.m., or five minutes before the tornado touched down, Pirtle said.

Television media measured the tornado at more than 2 miles wide, with images showing entire neighborhoods flattened.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) imposed a temporary flight restriction that allowed only relief aircraft in the area, saying it was at the request of local police who wanted quiet to search for buried survivors.

Oklahoma activated the National Guard, and the U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency activated teams to support recovery operations and coordinate responses for multiple agencies.

SCHOOL IN TWISTER’S PATH

Briarwood Elementary School, which also stood in the storm’s path, was all but destroyed. On the first floor, sections of walls had been peeled away, affording clear views into the building, while in other areas, cars hurled by the storm winds were lodged in the walls.

Across the street, people picked through the remains of their homes.

The number of injured as reported by several hospitals rose rapidly throughout the afternoon.

Oklahoma University Medical Center alone was treating 65 patients, 45 of them children, though it was no longer expecting a further mass influx of casualties, spokesman Scott Coppenbarger said.

Moore Medical Center sustained significant damage.

“The whole city looks like a debris field,” Glenn Lewis, the mayor of Moore, told NBC.

“It looks like we have lost our hospital. I drove by there a while ago and it’s pretty much destroyed,” Lewis said.

The massive twister struck at the height of tornado season, and more were forecast. On Sunday, tornadoes killed two people and injured 39 in Oklahoma. (Additional reporting by Lindsay Morris, Carey Gillam, Nick Carey, Brendan O’Brien and Greg McCune; Writing by Daniel Trotta; Editing by Jim Loney and Lisa Shumaker)

By Alice Mannette/ Reuters

Source: Huffingtonpost

Creamy Almond Chicken

Campbell’s® Condensed Cream of Chicken Soup, heavy cream, orange marmalade, red pepper flakes, Dijon-style mustard and almonds perfectly season a creamy and delicious sauce for pan-fried chicken.

Yahoo Confirms Deal To Buy Tumblr For $1.1 Billion In Cash

Yahoo has confirmed that it has purchased Tumblr for more than $1 billion.

The internet giant said it paid around $1.1 billion in cash for the microblogging network, which boasts more than 300 million monthly unique visitors.

Some Tumblr users are said to have fled the company ahead of the widely-expected deal, with WordPress alone claiming an extra 72,000 posts imported from Tumblr.

Yahoo - which now runs its official blog on the platform – said it would run Tumblr as a “separate company” and promised “not to screw it up”.

“On many levels, Tumblr and Yahoo! couldn’t be more different, but, at the same time, they couldn’t be more complementary. Yahoo is the Internet’s original media network. Tumblr is the Internet’s fastest-growing media frenzy.”Both companies are homes for brands – established and emerging. And, fundamentally, Tumblr and Yahoo! are both all about users, design, and finding surprise and inspiration amidst the everyday.”

Tumblr has:

• 300 million monthly unique visitors
• 120,000 signups every day
• 24 billion minutes spent on site each month
• 50 billion blog posts
• 75 million posts a day

Once the deal is closed later this year, Tumblr founder David Karp will continue to run the company.

The deal will reportedly earn Karp – who attended high school for only a year – £164 million.

“The product, service and brand will continue to be defined and developed separately with the same Tumblr irreverence, wit, and commitment to empower creators,” Tumblr said.

David Karp added in a statement:

“Our team isn’t changing. Our roadmap isn’t changing. And our mission — to empower creators to make their best work and get it in front of the audience they deserve — certainly isn’t changing. But we’re elated to have the support of Yahoo! and their team who share our dream to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas. Tumblr gets better faster with more resources to draw from.”

Aaron Gwin Blazes a Downhill MTB Trail in California

You may have seen UCI Downhill champ Aaron Gwin tear up an event course, but this is another story. What happens when you take Red Bull mountain bike athlete Aaron Gwin, put him on a Specialized Demo 8 Carbon and film him on an amazing trail in Idyllwild, California?

You get this ridiculous edit, which should be all you need for motivation to blast down a white-knuckle descent of your own. Enjoy the ride…

Source:  redbull

Surfing the Heaviest Wave in the World – Teahupoo

Watch as Tahitian demi-god Raimana Van Bastolaer rode on some of the swell’s best and biggest waves, along with professional surfers Maya Gabeira, Carlos Burle and others that were brave enough to take off on what’s knows as the heaviest wave in the world.

Source: redbull

US Airways Flight Makes Emergency Landing

A US Airways flight with 34 people aboard was forced to make a belly landing at Newark International Airport on Saturday morning after experiencing landing gear trouble.

Source: WSJDigitalNetwork

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Fatal Hot Air Balloon Accident in Turkey

A mid-air collision between two hot-air balloons carrying tourists in Turkey has left one tourist dead and about two dozen injured.

Source: AssociatedPress

May 20, 1946 – Cher

Events from  history that occurred … on this day!

Today’s Birthdays

1958 – Ron Reagan
1946 – Cher
1944 – Joe Cocker
1806 – John Stuart Mill
1799 – Honore de Balzac

Today’s History

2012 Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells his cabinet that Israel’s identity is threatened by hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants from Africa
2012 International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Director General, Yukiya Amano, goes to Tehran to convince the Iran’s government to co-operate with the IAEA
2011 Burial services for Claude Choules, aged 110, the last living veteran of World War I, take place in West Australia’s port of Fremantle
2011 In a meeting with President Barack Obama, Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Israel will not fully withdraw to the pre-1967 borders as Obama requested
2010 Scientists at the Craig J. Venter Institute announce they have successfully created the world’s first artificial lifeform by transplanting a synthesized genome into an existing cell
1997 Cosmos Zenit-2 Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 Thor-2A Delta 2 Launch (Norway/USA), Successful
1997 White Sox Frank Thomas reaches base safely for 15th straight time
1995 121st Preakness: Pat Day aboard Timber Coutry wins in 1:54.4
1995 CBS News fires co-anchor Connie Chung
1995 Twins Marty Cordova ties rookie record of home runs in 5 consecutive games
1994 Bobcat Goldthwait charged with misdemeanors for fire on Tonight Show
1994 Miss India (Sushmita Sen) selected Miss Universe
1994 Sony Theaters and Cineplex (New York City) hike movie ticket prices to $8.00
1993 10m meteor comes within 150,000 km of Earth (1993KA)
1993 274th and final “Cheers” on NBC
1993 Ukraine Premier Leonid Koetsjma resigns
1992 FC Barcelona wins 373 Europe Cup 1 at London
1992 India launches its 1st satellite independently
1992 Rap singer raps 597 syllables in under 60 seconds
1991 Chicago Bull Michael Jordan, named NBA’s MVP
1991 Jeff Reardon gains his 300th career save
1991 Soviet parliament approves law allowing citizens to travel abroad
1990 “Truly Blessed” closes at Longacre Theater New York City after 33 performances
1990 Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Planters Pat Bradley Golf International
1990 Hubble Space Telescope sends 1st photograph’s from space
1989 115th Preakness: Pat Valenzuela aboard Sunday Silence wins in 1:53.8
1989 China declares martial law in Beijing
1989 Toonces The Cat takes the wheel on Saturday Night Live
1989 Walter McConnel, 57, is oldest to reach 27,000′ Mount Everest top
1988 Howard Stern fans disrupt WMMR’s and John DeBella’s “Louie Louie” parade
1988 Mike Schmidt hits his 535th home run, moving into 8th place
1987 Gotenborg wins 16th UEFA Cup at Dundee
1987 Wrestler Jerry Lawler sues WWF and Harley Race for trademark name “king”
1986 Christy Fichtner, 23, (Texas), crowned 35th Miss USA
1986 Flintstones 25th Anniversary Celebration airs on CBS-tv
1985 1150 Lebanese and Palestinian prisoners exchanged for 3 Israelis
1985 Dow Jones industrial avg closes above 1300 for 1st time
1985 FBI arrests John A Walker, Jr., convicted of spying for U.S.S.R.
1985 Indians-Brewers game at Cleveland Stadium is 1st rain-out of 1985, ends record string of 458 ML games since Opening Day without a rain-out
1985 Larry Holmes beats Carl Williams in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 U.S. began broadcasts to Cuba on Radio Marti
1984 “On Your Toes” closes at Virginia Theater New York City after 505 performances
1984 Barb Bunkowsky wins LPGA Chrysler-Plymouth Charity Golf Classic
1984 Boston’s Roger Clemens beats Twins, 5-4, for his 1st victory
1983 Larry Holmes beats Tim Witherspoon in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 Michael Dokes and Mike Weaver fight to a draw in 15 for hw boxing title
1983 Phillies Steve Carlton passes W Johnson with 2nd most strike outs
1981 Ipswich Town wins 10th UEFA Cup at Amsterdam
1980 710 families in Love Canal area (Niagara Falls New York) are evacuated
1980 Drummer Peter Criss quits Kiss
1980 Fire in nursing home in Kingston Jamaica, kills 157
1980 In a referendum, 59.5% of Quebec voters reject separatism
1979 “I Love My Wife” closes at Barrymore Theater New York City after 864 performances
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Coca-Cola Golf Classic
1978 104th Preakness: Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 1:54.4
1978 3 PFLP members kill a cop near El Al airlines in Orly Airport, Paris
1978 U.S. launches Pioneer Venus 1; produces 1st global radar map of Venus
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Sary Shagan U.S.S.R.
1974 Soyuz 14 returns to Earth
1973 “2 Gentlemen of Verona” closes at St. James Theater New York City after 613 performances
1973 25th Emmy Awards: Waltons, All in the Family and Mary Tyler Moore
1973 Donna Caponi Young wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational
1972 “Different Times” closes at ANTA Theater New York City after 24 performances
1972 “Hard Job Being God” closes at Edison Theater New York City after 6 performances
1972 5th ABA Championship: Indiana Pacers beat New York Nets, 4 games to 2
1972 98th Preakness: Eldon Nelson aboard Bee Bee Bee wins in 1:55.6
1972 Republic of Cameroon declared as constitution is ratified
1971 Pentagon reports blacks constitute 11% of U.S. soldiers in SE Asia
1970 100,000 march in New York supporting U.S. policies in Vietnam
1970 2 die in a New York City subway accident
1970 Beatles’ “Let it Be” movie premieres in UK
1969 U.S. troop capture Hill 937/Hamburger Hill Vietnam
1967 10,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam
1967 93rd Preakness: Bill Shoemaker aboard Damascus wins in 1:55.2
1967 BBC bans Beatle’s “A Day in the Life” (drug references)
1965 Pakistani Boeing 720-B crashes at Cairo Egypt, killing 121
1965 Yorkshire all out for 23 vs. Hampshire at Middlesbrough
1964 Buster Mathis defeats Joe Fraizer to qualify for U.S. Olympic team
1963 Sukarno appointed president of Indonesia
1962 Patty Berg wins LPGA Muskogee Civitan Golf Open
1961 87th Preakness: Johnny Sellers aboard Carry Back wins in 1:57.6
1961 Henzes opera “Elegy for Young Lovers,” premieres in Schwetzingen
1961 Mauritania adopts constitution
1961 White mob attacks “Freedom Riders” in Montgomery, Alabama
1960 Baseball game in Milwaukee postponed due to dense fog
1959 Ford wins battle with Chrysler to call its new car “Falcon”
1959 Japanese-Americans regain their citizenship
1959 Shah of Persia visits Netherlands
1959 Yankees sink to last place, 1st time since May 25, 1940
1958 U.S. performs nuclear test at Enwetak (atmospheric tests)
1956 Atomic fusion (thermonuclear) bomb dropped from plane-Bikini Atoll
1956 Jordan government of Samir resigns
1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church and state
1954 Chiang Kai-shek becomes president of Nationalist China
1950 76th Preakness: Eddie Arcaro aboard Hill Prince wins in 1:59.2
1948 1st use of Israeli Air Force and 1st war victory, defeating Syrian army
1948 Cleveland Indians tie AL record of 18 walks (beat Red Sox 13-4)
1946 Cubs Claude Passeau makes his 1st error since September 21, 1941, ending pitcher’s fielding record of 273 consecutive errorless chances
1945 Keith Miller scores 105 in the 1st Victory Test Cricket at Lord’s
1944 U.S. Communist Party dissolves
1943 French, British and U.S. victory parade in Tunis Tunisia
1942 U.S. Navy 1st permitted black recruits to serve
1941 Archer’s “Christian Calendar and Gregorian Reform” published
1941 Former Dutch Prime Minister Colijn says Netherlands Indies not ready for independence
1941 Germany invades Crete
1941 White Sox Taft Wright sets AL record of RBIs in 13 consecutive games
1940 General Guderians tanks reach The Channel (British expeditionary army)
1940 Igor Sikorsky unveils his helicopter invention
1940 Soccer team HZVV forms in Hoogeveen
1940 Trailing 7-1 in 9th to Pitts, Phils win 8-7
1939 “3 Little Fishies,” by Kay Kyser hits #1
1939 Pan Am begins transatlantic passenger and air mail service
1939 1st regular transatlantic airmail (New York to Marsseille France)
1932 Amelia Earhart leaves Newfoundland 1st woman fly solo across Atlantic
1932 Engelbert Dollfuss becomes chancellor of Austria
1930 1st airplane catapulted from a dirigible, Charles Nicholson, pilot
1930 University of California dedicates $1,500 to research on prevention and cure of athlete’s foot
1927 At 7:40 AM, Lindbergh takes off from New York to cross Atlantic for Paris
1927 Saudi Arabia becomes independent of Great Britain (Treaty of Jedda)
1926 Belgian government of Jaspar takes power
1926 Congress passes Air Commerce Act, licensing of pilots and planes
1926 Railway Labor Act became law
1926 Thomas Edison says Americans prefer silent movies over talkies
1923 Stanley Baldwin, becomes Prime Minister of UK
1922 “Egypt” sinks off Ushant after colliding with “Seine,” killing 90
1922 Babe Ruth and Bob Meusel, suspended on October 16, 1921, by Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis, return to the New York lineup and go hitless
1920 Policemen raid the Cubs’ bleachers and arrest 24 fans for gambling
1919 Volcano Keluit on Java, erupts killing 550
1918 1st electrically propelled warship (New Mexico)
1917 Turkish government authorizes Jews to return to Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1916 Codell, Kansas hit by tornado (also on same date in 1917 and 1918)
1916 Saturday Evening Post cover features Norman Rockwell painting
1915 Bataafsche Petroleum Me begins oil extraction of Maracaibo
1913 38th Preakness: James Butwell aboard Buskin wins in 1:53.4
1911 Edwin Boaler Alletson hits 189 in 90 minutes Notts vs. Sussex
1910 Funeral for Britain’s King Edward VII
1902 Cuba gains independence from Spain
1902 U.S. military occupation of Cuba (since Jan 1, 1899) ends
1900 2nd modern Olympic games opens in Paris (lasted 5 months)
1895 1st commercial movie performance (153 Broadway, New York City)
1892 George Sampson patents clothes dryer
1892 Triple Alliance between Germany, Italy and Austria forms
1882 Germany/Austria-Hungary/France sign Triple Alliance
1882 Henrik Ibsen’s “Ghosts” (Gengangere) premieres in Chicago
1882 St. Gotthard-railroad tunnel between Switzerland and Italy opens
1879 5th Kentucky Derby: Charlie Shauer aboard Lord Murphy wins in 2:37
1875 International Bureau of Weights and Measures forms by treaty
1874 Levi Strauss markets blue jeans with copper rivets, price $13.50 doz
1870 Second Chamber abolishes capital punishment
1868 Republican National Convention, meets in Chicago, nominates Grant
1867 British parliament rejects John Stuart Mills law on women suffrage
1867 Royal Albert Hall foundation laid by Queen Victoria
1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured
1864 Spotsylvania-campaign ends after 10,920 killed/injured person
1861 Cornerstone of University of Washington laid in Seattle
1861 Kentucky proclaims its neutrality in Civil War
1861 U.S. marshals appropriate previous year’s telegraph dispatches, to reveal prosecessionist evidence
1845 1st legislative assembly convenes in Hawaii
1830 1st railroad timetable published in newspaper (Baltimore American)
1830 D. Hyde patents fountain pen
1825 Charles X becomes King of France
1784 England and Netherlands signs peace treaty (Peace of Paris)
1775 Citizens of Mecklenburg County, North Carolina declare independence of Britain
1774 Britain gives Quebec, Labrador and territory north of Ohio
1734 1st Jockey Club forms in South Carolina
1704 Elias Neau forms school for slaves in New York
1690 England passes Act of Grace, forgiving followers of James II
1639 Dorchester Massachusetts, forms 1st school funded by local taxes
1631 German army under earl Johann Tilly conquerors Maagdenburg
1591 Spanish troops in Zutphen surrenders to Willem Louis/Mauritius
1571 Venice, Spain and Pope Pius form anti-Turkish Saint League
1570 Egidius Coppens publishes Abraham Ortelius’ “Theatrum Orbis Terrarum”
1524 Duke of Albany leaves Scotland
1521 Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded by a cannon ball
1501 Joao da Nova Castell discovers Ascension Islands
1498 Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama arrives at Calicut, India
1495 French King Charles VIII leaves Naples
1347 Rienzo calls Rome for people’s tribunal
1310 Shoes were made for both right and left feet
1303 Treaty of Paris restores Gascony to British in Hundred Years War
1293 Earthquake strikes Kamakura Japan, 30,000 killed
526 Earthquake kills 250,000 in Antioch, Syria
325 1st Christian ecumenical council opens at Nicaea, Asia Minor

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US Airways Plane Belly Lands At Newark Airport

A US Airways made an emergency landing on its belly at Newark’s Liberty Airport early on Saturday after the plane’s landing gear failed to deploy, but no one was injured, airline and government officials said.

The Piedmont Airlines De Havilland Dash 8, operating for US Airways as flight 4560, was flying from Philadelphia with 34 passengers and three crew members aboard. It landed safely at 1 am, with passengers evacuated onto the tarmac and transported to the terminal, a Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman said.

Belly landings are unusual and dangerous because of the threat of fire from the plane fuselage skidding on the hard surface.

The airport was closed for more than an hour, with the runway closed for more than eight hours following the incident, officials said.

The National Transportation Safety Board said in a Twitter post that it was investigating.

A US Airways spokesman said the plane is a Dash 8-100 with a capacity of 37 passengers. The plane was made by De Havilland of Canada, which is owned by Bombardier.

The plane left Philadelphia late on Friday night and the pilot made an emergency declaration after the left main landing gear failed to deploy, according to airline and FAA officials. The pilot circled the airport and then decided to land with no gear deployed.

(Reuters)