This week in #History … January 10 – 16th

#TalknerdyToMeLover’s @UlaVovk

Jan 10

1806 Dutch in Capetown surrender to British
1811 Louisiana slaves rebell in 2 parishes
1861 Florida becomes 3rd state to secede from US
1863 London’s 1st subway opens
1901 Oil discovered in Texas
1912 World’s 1st flying boat’s maiden flight, (Glenn Curtiss in New York)
1920 League of Nations established
1944 1st mobile electric power plant delivered, Philadelphia
1946 U.S. Army establishes 1st radar contact with Moon, Belmar, NJ
1951 1st jet passenger trip made
1997 1st Comet of 1997 Discovered: Comet 1997 A1

Happy birthday to Hendrik Niclaes, Niels Stensen, Carolus Linnaeus, John Acton, Heinrich Zille, Enrica Freiin von Handel-Manzetti, Frederick Gardner Cottrell, Aleksei Tolstoi, Ernest Milton, Reginald Denham, Pauline Starke, Barbara Hepworth, Bernard Lee, Georges Marchal, Johnnie Ray, Roy E Disney, Peter Barnes, David Horowitz, Rod Stewart, George Alec Effinger, William Sanderson, Pat Benatar, Janet Jones, Trini Alvarado, Shannon Kavanaugh.

Jan 11

1813 1st pineapples planted in Hawaii
1861 Alabama becomes 4th state to secede
1897 M H Cannon becomes 1st woman state senator in U.S. (Utah)
1949 Snowfall 1st recorded in Los Angeles
1963 1st discotheque opens, Whiskey-a-go-go in LA
1968 Explorer 36 (GEOS-B) launched into earth orbit (1080/1570 km)
1971 1st “Quickie” Divorce granted in UK
1975 Soyuz 17 carries 2 cosmonauts to space station Salyut 4
1989 140 nations agree to ban chemical weapons (poison gas, etc)
2010 The theory that Egypt’s pyramids were built by free workers, not slaves, is reinforced by the discovery of new tombs near the great pyramids

Happy birthday to William Curtis, Ezra Cornell, James Paget, John A. MacDonald, Joaquin Alvarez Quintero, Alice Paul, Chester Conklin, Albert Hofmann, Lionel Stander, Bernard Blier, Veda Ann Borg, Kathleen Byron, Mitchell Ryan, Rod Taylor, Ed Hall, Linda Lawson, Anne Heggtveigt, Tony Kaye, Anna Calder-Marshall, Madeline Manning, Vicki Peterson, Brett Bodine, Stanley Tucci, Tracy Caulkins, Loredana Romito, Mary J. Blige, Amanda Peet, Jamelia.

Jan 12

1755 Tsarina Elisabeth establishes 1st Russian University
1915 House of Representatives rejects proposal to give women right to vote
1950 U.S.S.R. re-introduces death penalty for treason, espionage and sabotage
1960 Syracuse National Dolph Schayes is 1st NBA’er to score 15,000 points
1970 Boeing 747 makes its maiden voyage
1987 Britain’s Prince Edward resigns from his Royal Marines training
1992 13th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 27 awards
2010 A 7.0 magnitude earthquake struck Haiti, devastating its capital city, Port-au-Prince, an estimated 150,000 were killed and buried later in mass graves

Happy birthday to Jean Baptiste van Helmont, Pierre de Fermat, Edmund Burke, John Hancock, Wilhelm M L de Wette, Swami Vivekananda, Paul Guthnick, Ferenc Molnar, Hermann Goering, Paul H Muller, Joe E. Lewis, Mississippi Fred McDowell, Mauritz Hugo, Patsy Kelly, Maharishi Mahesh Yogi, Bill Burrud, Ron Harper, Marie Dubois, Liliana Cavani, George Duke, Anthony Andrews, Kirstie Alley, Walter Mosley, Per Helmstad Gessle, Oliver Platt, Jeff Bezos, Heather Mills, Melanie Chisholm, Naya Rivera.

Jan 13

1610 Galileo Galilei discovers Callisto, 4th satellite of Jupiter
1869 Colored National Labor Union, 1st Black labor convention
1906 1st radio set advertised (Telimco for $7.50 in Scientific American) claimed to receive signals up to one mile
1908 French pilot Henry Farman is 1st European to fly roundtrip
1930 “Mickey Mouse” comic strip 1st appears
1943 Hitler declares “Total War”
1953 Marshal Josip Tito chosen president of Yugoslavia
1958 9,000 scientists of 43 nations petition United Nations for nuclear test ban
1968 Beginning of Tet-offensive in Vietnam
1983 AMA urges ban on boxing, sites Muhammad Ali’s deteriorating condition
1987 7 top New York Mafia bosses sentenced to 100 years in prison each
2009 After two years of trying to maintain order, Ethiopian military forces start pulling out of Somalia

Happy birthday to Antoinette Bourignon, Charles Perrault, Eduard von Bauernfeld, Horatio Alger, Jr., Wilhelm K. W. Wien, G. I. Gurdjieff, Johannes Elsensohn, Kay Francis, Jeff Morrow, Ted Willis, Steve Dunne, Robert Stack, Jack Watling, Gwen Verdon, Pamela M Cunnington, Sydney Brenner, Liz Anderson, Charles Nelson Reilly, Tom B Gola, Peter Sundelin, Janet Hubert-Whitten, Don Snow, Trace Adkins, Patrick Dempsey, Keith Mitchell, Orlando Bloom, William Hung.

Jan 14

1690 Clarinet invented, in Nurnberg, Germany
1794 Dr. Jessee Bennet of Edom Va, performs 1st successful Cesarean section operation on his wife
1914 Henry Ford introduces assembly line, for T-Fords
1943 Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill confer in Casablanca concerning WW II
1952 Rationing of coffee in Netherlands ends
1974 World Football League founded
1990 “Simpsons” premiered on Fox-TV
1995 10,000s South Africans attend state funeral of Joe Slovo

Happy birthday to William Whipple, Isaac da Costa, Berthe M P Morisot, Wilhelm von Polenz, Albert Schweitzer, Hugh Lofting, Hal Roach, Helen Flint, Bebe Daniels, Alfred Tarski, Ruggiero de Rudolpho Columbo, Tillie Olsen, Warren Mitchell, Harold Wolpe, Ivan Kalita, Aleksander Petrovic, Ludmila Pinayeva, Clarence Carter, Jack Jones, Faye Dunaway, T-Bone Burnett, Sergei Nemchinov, Daniel J Schneider, Tom Rhodes, Emily Watson, Jason Bateman, Jordy.

Jan 15

1777 People of New Connecticut, Vermont, declare independence from England
1797 1st top hat worn (John Etherington of London)
1861 Steam elevator patented by Elisha Otis
1886 Weekly Herald, 1st Vancouver, BC newspaper, publishes 1st issue
1907 Gold dental inlays 1st described by Wm Taggart, who invented them
1915 Japan claims economic control of China
1943 World’s largest office building, Pentagon, completed
1955 U.S.S.R. ends state of war with German Federal Republic
1965 Washtenaw Community College in Ann Arbor, Michigan forms
1975 Space Mountain opens at Disneyland
1985 Tancredo Neves becomes 1st elected president of Brazil in 21 years
2006 Stardust space mission returns dust from a comet to earth

Happy birthday to Moliere, Willem de Clerq, Ludwig Schlafli, Ella Flagg Young, Sonya Kurtovsky Kovalevsky, Wilhelm Marx, Lewis M Terman, Ernest Thesiger, Goodman Ace, Edward Teller, Lloyd Bridges, Ruth Slenczynska, John Naisbitt, Martin Luther King, Jr., Louis Woodard Jones, Margaret O’Brien, Ronnie Van Zant, Julian Sands, Bruce Schneier, Chad Lowe, Regina King, Ernie Reyes, Jr.

Jan 16

1547 Ivan IV the Terrible (17) crowns himself 1st tsar of Moscow
1759 British Museum opens in London
1870 Virginia becomes 8th state readmitted to U.S. after Civil War
1908 Pinnacles National Monument, California established
1909 British explorer Ernest Shackleton finds magnetic south pole
1936 1st photo finish camera installed at Hialeah Race track in Hialeah FL
1939 Comic strip “Superman” debuts
1942 William Knudsen becomes 1st civilian appointed a general in U.S. army
1951 World’s largest gas pipeline opens (Brownsville Tx, to 134th St, New York City)
1957 3 B-52s leave California for 1st non-stop round world flights
1967 1st black government installed in Bahamas
1973 U.S.S.R.’s Lunakhod 2 begins radio-controlled exploration of Moon
1978 Soyuz 27 returns to Earth
1989 U.S.S.R. announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars
2005 Adriana Iliescu becomes the oldest woman in the world to give birth at 66

Happy birthday to Vittorio Alfieri, Karl August Krebs, Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Andre Michelin, Wilhelm Normann, Edward Gordon Craig, Harry Carey, Sr., Lloyd Bacon, Paul Nitze, Ethel Merman, Gilbert Gadoffre, Buddy Lester, Elliot Reid, Katy Jurado, Ezra Sims, Dian Fossey, Susan Sontag, Oleg Grigoryevich Makarov, A J Foyt, Bob Bogle, Tomen G J “Tim” Beekman, Barbara Lynn, Gavin Bryars, John Carpenter, Paul Webb, Josh Evans, Kate Moss.