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1964: An American T39 Sabreliner was shot down in Erfurt (former East Germany) during a training flight. This was way before I was born but I understand it lead to further tensions between the competing superpowers in the Cold War.

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The Compromise of 1877 which put Rutherford B Hayes into office as 19th President of the United States.
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October 31, 1935 - Orson Welles' famous "War Of The Worlds" broadcast airs for the first time, causing a mass panic throughout the United States.

Alcoholics Anonymous was founded in New York City by William G. Wilson and Dr. Robert Smith. (I expect some pot shots on that one)

Best Film........Mutiny on the Bounty.

Italy invades Ethiopia.

Nazi Germany revokes citizenship of all Jews.

 

Neato thread........

 

1912 - Titanic went down!! Over 1500 dead!

 

The Korean War breaks out...

Puerto Rican nationals in favor of independence attack Blair House (where President Truman is staying during White House renovations) and open fire on the U.S. House..

The New York Yankees sweep the Philadelphia Phillies (known as the Whiz Kids) in four straight games in the World Series.

 

Jan 7, Battle of Manassas Junction, VA.

Jan 10, Battle of Big Sandy River, KY (Middle Creek).

Jan 10, Samuel Colt (47), inventor (6 shot revolver), died.

Feb 1, "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" was first published in "Atlantic Monthly" as an anonymous poem. The lyric was the work of Julia Ward Howe and was based on chapter 63 of the Old Testament’s Book of Isaiah. "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" soon became the most popular Union marching song of the Civil War and is still being sung and to the tune of a song titled, "John Brown’s Body". Julia Ward Howe (b.1819-1908) was an influential social reformer and wife of fellow reformer and educator Samuel Gridley Howe. She was prominent in the anti-slavery movement, woman‘s suffrage, prison reform and the international peace movements. Julia Ward Howe was the first woman elected to the American Academy of Fine Arts and Letters in 1908. Ralph Waldo Emerson, said: "I honor the author of 'The Battle Hymn' ... she was born in the city of New York. I could well wish she were a native of Massachusetts. We have no such poetess in New England."

Feb 6, Ulysses S. Grant began a military campaign in Mississippi. The Battle of Fort Henry, Tenn., began the Mississippi Valley campaign.

Feb 13, Four-day Battle of Fort Donelson, Tenn., began. General Grant said, "What determined my attack on Donelson was as much the knowledge I had gained of its commanders in Mexico as anything else."

Feb 16, During the Civil War, some 14,000 Confederate soldiers surrendered at Fort Donelson, Tenn. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant’s victory earned him the nickname "Unconditional Surrender Grant." Nathan Bedford Forrest escaped.


Much more here.....http://www.timelines.ws/1862_1863.HTML

 

1841- William Henry Harrison, the ninth President of the United States, serves his entire term. It lasted just one month due to his death from pneumonia.


1865- Slavery is abolished in the United States! Yay!
Also, on a bit of a worse note, this is the year Lincoln was murdered.

 

March 03, 1837: US president Andrew Jackson & Congress recognizes Republic of Texas

March 04, 1837: Martin Van Buren inaugurated as 8th president

March 24, 1837: Canada gives blacks the right to vote

May 31, 1837: Astor Hotel opens in NYC, it later becomes the Waldorf-Astoria

June 17, 1837: Charles Goodyear obtains his 1st rubber patent

June 20, 1837: Queen Victoria at 18 ascends British throne following death of uncle King William IV. Ruled for 63 years ending in 1901

July 27, 1837: US Mint opens in Charlotte, NC

December 25, 1837: Battle of Okeechobee-US forces defeat Seminole Indians

 

1906: Nature strikes back at us:

January: Ecuador-Colombia earthquake with 8.8 on the Richter scale

March: San Francisco earthquake on the San Andreas Fault (est. magnitude of 7.8)



August: 8.2 earthquake in Chile - 20000 dead

September: Hong Kong Typhoon/Tsunami - 10000 casualties

... also interesting for us coin aficionados: Susan B Anthony died that year.

 

1797:

15 January – London haberdasher John Heterington wears the first top hat in public and attracts a large crowd of onlookers. He is later fined £50 for causing public nuisance.

22 February – The last invasion of Britain begins: French forces under the command of American Colonel William Tate land near Fishguard in Wales.

March 4 – John Adams is sworn in as the 2nd President of the United States of America

GDJMSP is Born...couldn't resist....

 

Doug goes back way before before the parting of the Nile by Moses, Joe........he'll get us both in the morning.

 

The great fire of Portland, Maine occurred on July 4, 1866—the firstIndependence Day after the end of theAmerican Civil War. Five years before theGreat Chicago Fire, this was the greatest fire yet seen in an American city.
(Wikipedia)

 

My name is Amos, im an Alcoholic.

 

When did you start drinking? We want to know the year... and post a coin. Cheers!

 

There's the first shot........

 

I was born.

 

From various sources, contact me if you really need to know where. Also, I only posted what interested myself during this crazy year, I left out many things:

• "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" closes at Beaumont NYC after 40 perfs
  
• January 6 – In Detroit, Michigan, Nancy Kerrigan is clubbed on the right leg by an assailant, under orders from figure skating rival Tonya Harding's ex-husband.
• January 14 – U.S. President Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords, which stop the preprogrammed aiming ofnuclear missiles toward each country's targets, and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in Ukraine.
• January 17 – The 1994 Northridge earthquake, magnitude 6.7, hits the San Fernando Valley of Los Angeles at 4:31 a.m., killing 72 and leaving 26,029 homeless.
• January 25 – U.S. President Bill Clinton delivers his first State of the Union address, calling for health care reform, a ban on assault weapons, and welfare reform.
• January 30 – Super Bowl XXVIII: The Dallas Cowboys hand the Buffalo Bills their fourth consecutive Super Bowl loss, 30–13. ~ Suckers! Im a Dolphins fan living in Buffalo
• Mary Ellen Withrow begins her term of office as Treasurer of the United States, serving under President Bill Clinton.
• April 8 – Kurt Cobain, songwriter and frontman for the band Nirvana, is found dead at his Lake Washington home. He is believed to have committed suicide three days before he was found.
• May 10 – Illinois executes serial killer John Wayne Gacy by lethal injection for the murder of 33 young men and boys.
• May 19 – Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, former First Lady of the United States, dies of cancer at the age of 64
• June 12 – Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman are murdered outside the Simpson home in Los Angeles, California. O.J. Simpson is later acquitted of the killings, but is held liable in a civil suit.
• June 15 – The classic film, The Lion King is released in theatres, making $422,783,777 in the United States ($951,583,777 worldwide). It is the highest-grossing film of the year.
• June 17 - NFL star O.J. Simpson and his friend Al Cowlings flee from police in his white Ford Bronco. The low-speed chase ends at Simpson's Brentwood, Los Angeles, California mansion, where he surrenders.
• August 12 – Woodstock '94 begins in Saugerties, New York. It is the 25-year anniversary of Woodstock in 1969.
• September 13 – President Bill Clinton signs the Federal Assault Weapons Ban, which bans the manufacture of new firearms with certain features for a period of 10 years.
• November 5 – Former U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease. ~ I bet you forgot.
• November 8 – Republican Revolution: Georgia Representative Newt Gingrich leads the United States Republican Party in taking control of both theHouse of Representatives and the Senate in midterm congressional elections, the first time in 40 years the Republicans secure control of both houses of Congress. George W. Bush is elected Governor of Texas. ~ Hind sight is 20/20
• November 16 – A Federal judge issues a temporary restraining order, prohibiting California from implementing Proposition 187, which would have denied most public services to illegal aliens. ~ bummer
• November 28 – At the Columbia Correctional Institution, serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer and murderer Jesse Anderson are attacked by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver. Dahmer dies on the way to the hospital and Anderson dies two days later.
  
• November 30 -The National Football League announces that the Jacksonville Jaguars will become the league's 30th franchise.
• 30th also Rapper Tupac Shakur is shot five times and robbed after entering the lobby of Quad Recording Studios in Manhattan.
• A planned exchange rate correction of the Mexican Peso to the US Dollar, becomes a massive financial meltdown in Mexico, unleashing the 'Tequila Effect' on globalfinancial markets. This prompts a US$ 50 billion 'bailout' by the Clinton Administration.
• December 27 – After experiencing a hacker attack by Kevin Mitnick, computer security expert Tsutomu Shimomura started to receive prank calls that popularized the trope "My kung fu is stronger than yours" ~ or in my case, my date is better then yours.
  

 

I'll drink to that. :>)

 

Jan 20, In the US Dwight D. Eisenhower was inaugurated as president. He succeeded Harry S. Truman. TV coverage sent the event to 21 million sets.

Jan 17, GM introduced the first American sports car, the two-seater Corvette at the annual NYC Motorama Show at the Waldorf-Astoria. It was not made available for sale to the public until June 30th.
(http://tinyurl.com/fdjur)(http://auto.howstuffworks.com/1953-corvette.htm)