This Week In #History … February 7- 13th

#TalkNerdyToMeLover’s @UlaVovk

Feb 7

1915 1st wireless message sent from a moving train to a station received
1928 1st solo England to Australia flight takes off (Bert Hinkler)
1935 Monopoly invented by Charles Darrow, symbol Rich Uncle Pennybags
1949 Joe DiMaggio becomes 1st $100,000/year baseball player (New York Yankees)
1959 Castro proclaims new Cuban constitution
1969 Diane Crump becomes 1st woman jockey at a major U.S. racetrack (Hialeah)
1971 Swiss men accept female suffrage
1985 “New York, New York” became the official anthem of New York City
1991 Jean-Bertrand Aristide sworn in as Haiti’s 1st elected president

Happy birthday to John Deere, Charles Dickens, William Higgins, Dmitri I Mendelejev, James Augustus Henry Murray, Bernard Maybeck, Laura Ingalls Wilder, Alfred Adler, Godfrey Harold Hardy, Paul de Backer, Sinclair Lewis, Ethelda Blebtrey, Arthur Berry, Alfred M Worden, Hector Babenco, Miguel Ferrer, Sammy Lee, James Spader, David Bryan, Jason Gedrick, Chris Rock, Billy Baumhoff, Ashton Kutcher, Tina Majorino.

Feb 8

1918 “Stars and Stripes,” weekly U.S. Armed Forces newspaper, 1st published
1920 Swiss men vote against women’s suffrage (a day less than 51 years later they accept it – look up ;))
1922 Radio arrives at the White House
1924 1st coast-to-coast radio hookup: General John Joseph Carty speech in Chicago
1926 Walt Disney Studios forms
1928 Scottish inventor J. Blaird demonstrates color-TV
1936 1st ski jumping tournament, Red Wing, Minnesota
1943 Red Army recaptures Kursk
1969 Meteorite weighing over 1 ton falls in Chihuahua, Mexico
1984 1st time 8 people in space
1998 1st female ice hockey game in Olympic history Finland beats Sweden 6-0

Happy birthday to Lonnie Johnson, Orville Caldwell, Janina Spychajowa-Kurkowska, Truman Bradley, Henry Roth, Myron McCormick, Henri Knap, Elizabeth Bishop, Betty Field, Lana Turner, Audrey Meadows, Raimondo d’Inzeo, Jack Lemmon, James Dean, Jack Larson, Nick Nolte, Ray Sharpe, “Fito” Adolpho De La Parra, Brooke Adams, John Grisham, Ethan Phillips, Vince Neil [Wharton], Gary Coleman, Seth Green, Tommy Michaels.

Feb 9

1891 1st shipment of asparagus arrives in San Francisco from Sacramento
1909 1st federal legislation prohibiting narcotics (opium)
1916 Britain’s military service act enforced (conscription)
1926 Teaching theory of evolution forbidden in Atlanta, Georgia schools
1941 British troops conquer El Agheila
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt orders minimal 48 hour work week in war industry
1953 “Adventures of Superman” TV series premieres in syndication
1963 1st flight of Boeing 727 jet
1971 Probably 1st gay theme TV episode – All in the Family
1986 Halley’s Comet reaches 30th perihelion (closest approach to Sun)
1992 Fastest yodeler-22 tones/15 falsetto in 1 sec by Thomas School of Germany
1998 Failed assassination attempt on Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze

Happy birthday to John Eustace Theodore Brancker, Heather Angel, Jacques Monod, Leo van der Kar, Ernest Tubb, Norman E. Shumway, Kathryn Grayson, Norman Adams, Charles Williams, Janet Suzman, Sheila James Kuehl, Joe Pesci, Mia Farrow, Andrew N Meltzoff, Charles Shaughnessy, Gordon Strachan, Rachel Bolan, Sharon Case, Zhang Ziyi.

Feb 10

1879 1st electric arc light used in the California Theater
1906 Britain’s 1st modern and largest battleship “HMS Dreadnought” launched
1917 Johanna Westerdijk installed as Netherlands 1st female professor
1925 1st waterless gas storage tank put into service, Michigan City
1933 Hitler proclaims end of Marxism
1935 1st U.S. streamlined electric RR engine begins service
1947 WW II peace treaties signed
1961 Niagara Falls hydroelectric project begins producing power
1967 25th Amendment (Presidential Disability and Succession) in effect
1974 Iran/Iraqi border fight breaks out
1982 28 skiers perform backflips while holding hands, Bromont, Quebec
1990 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900 – Tokyo Dome)
2009 A large amount of space debris is created when a Russan and American satellite collide over Siberia

Happy birthday to Douglas Spencer, Philippa Bevans, Neva Patterson, Jim Whittacker, Robert Wagner, Richard Schickel, Yuriy Poyarkov, Roberta Flack, Dave Parnas, Mark Spitz, Roxanne Pulitzer, Lusia Mae Harris, Cliff Burton, Sam Graddy, Laura Dern.

Feb 11

1854 Major streets lit by coal gas for 1st time
1878 1st weekly Weather report published in UK
1916 Emma Goldman arrested for lecturing on birth control
1929 Vatican City, world’s smallest country, made an enclave of Rome
1942 “Archie” comic book debuts
1945 1st gas turbine propeller-driven airplane flight tested, Downey, California
1963 Beatles tape 10 tracks for their 1st album
1969 Diana Crump becomes 1st U.S. woman jockey to ride against men, Hialelah
1975 Margaret Thatcher defeats Edward Heath for Conservative leadership
1984 10th space shuttle mission (41-B)-Challenger 4-returns to Earth
1990 Nelson Mandela, a political prisoner for 27 years, freed in South Africa
1997 STS-82 (Discovery 22) launches
2010 A European Union summit discusses the possibility of bailing out Greece’s economy

Happy birthday to Joseph L Mankiewicz, Mervyn Levy, Bernice Levin Neugarten, Sidney Sheldon, Billy Halop, Leslie Nielsen, Pamela Sharples, Virginia E Johnson, Kim Stanley, Alevtina Koltschina, Dennis Skinner, Tina Louise, Patrick Holmes Sellors, Jane [Hyatt] Yolen, Otis Clay, Derek Shulman, Johanna E “Joke” Beerens, Kathleen Beller, Jennifer Aniston, Brice Beckham, Mike Shinoda, Kelly Rowland, Michael Jackson, Jr..

Feb 12

1957 Researchers announce Borazan (harder than diamonds) has been developed
1964 Beatles 1st New York City concert at Carnegie Hall
1979 Kosmos 1076, 1st Soviet oceanographic satellite, launched
1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church
1998 Intel unveils its 1st graphics chip i740
2010 Houthi fighters and the Yemeni government declare a ceasefire in northern Yemen

Happy birthday to Gene McDaniels, John D Hancock, Naomi Uemura, Maud Adams, Cliff De Young, Ray Kurzweil, Paul Way, Chynna Phillips, Darren Aronofsky, Andrew Cassesse, Sarah Lancaster, Christina Ricci.

Feb 13

1895 Moving picture projector patented
1924 King Tut’s tomb opened
1935 1st U.S. surgical operation for relief of angina pectoris, Cleveland
1943 Women’s Marine Corps created
1948 Wright Flyer, 1st plane to fly, returns to U.S. from England
1955 Israel acquires 4 of 7 Dead Sea scrolls
1959 Barbie doll goes on sale
1980 Apollo Computer Inc. incorporated
1990 U.S., England, France and England give Germany OK to reunify
2010 Georgian luger Nodar Kumaritashvili dies in a fatal crash during a training run for the 2010 Vancouver Olympics, hours before the opening ceremonies

Happy birthday to James Griffith, Zao-Wou-Ki, Chuck Yeager, Kim Novak, Susan Oliver, Oliver Reed, Carol Lynley, Stockard Channing, Peter Tork, Roy Dyke, David Naughton, David Puilum Choi, Sharon Wyatt, Matt Salinger, Stephen Manley, Robbie Williams, Mena Suvari.