The governments of Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, sign a security treaty known as the ANZUS Treaty.
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by Antony » Fri 03 Sep, 2004 2:13 am
September 2nd, 1969
The Internet is 35 years old today
(From Lorraine, thanks.)
The Internet is 35 years old today
(From Lorraine, thanks.)
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by Lorraine » Fri 03 Sep, 2004 11:18 am
I thought it was NASA that connected two computers together.
Anyway, perhaps they later worked for NASA or became Astronauts.
Thanks Antony, sorry it was late and I didn't have a chance to do a search.
I worked doing R & D with Friden tape talk machines in 1960.
Programming the tapes for girls working on the flexowriter, the tapes that came out of the flexowriter were later put on the Main Frame Computer and printed out.
That's a long time ago.
-Lorraine
Anyway, perhaps they later worked for NASA or became Astronauts.
Thanks Antony, sorry it was late and I didn't have a chance to do a search.
I worked doing R & D with Friden tape talk machines in 1960.
Programming the tapes for girls working on the flexowriter, the tapes that came out of the flexowriter were later put on the Main Frame Computer and printed out.
That's a long time ago.
-Lorraine
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6 Sept
by Antony » Sun 05 Sep, 2004 10:48 pm
6 Sept 1901 U.S. President William McKinley was shot and mortally wounded by anarchist Leon Czolgosz (1901)
A Republican congressman from Ohio, William McKinley beat out William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1896. In 1898 McKinley called for war against Spain, over the sinking of the battleship Maine. The war was over in four months, with the U.S. gaining control of Guam, Puerto Rico and The Philippines. McKinley was easily re-elected, this time with a new vice president, Theodore Roosevelt. Six months after his second inauguration, McKinley was shot twice in the chest by assassin Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died eight days later and Roosevelt became president.
William McKinley: 29 Jan 1843 - 14 Sept 1901
6 Sept 1966 South African P.M. Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed by a page (1966)
When South Africa became (1961) a republic, he severed its connections with the Commonwealth of Nations. An attempt was made (1960) on his life; its failure was interpreted by Verwoerd as God's approval of his work. A second assassination attempt succeeded in Sept., 1966.
Source: GuruNet, Who2
A Republican congressman from Ohio, William McKinley beat out William Jennings Bryan in the presidential election of 1896. In 1898 McKinley called for war against Spain, over the sinking of the battleship Maine. The war was over in four months, with the U.S. gaining control of Guam, Puerto Rico and The Philippines. McKinley was easily re-elected, this time with a new vice president, Theodore Roosevelt. Six months after his second inauguration, McKinley was shot twice in the chest by assassin Leon Czolgosz at the Pan-American Exposition in Buffalo, New York. McKinley died eight days later and Roosevelt became president.
William McKinley: 29 Jan 1843 - 14 Sept 1901
6 Sept 1966 South African P.M. Hendrik Verwoerd was stabbed by a page (1966)
When South Africa became (1961) a republic, he severed its connections with the Commonwealth of Nations. An attempt was made (1960) on his life; its failure was interpreted by Verwoerd as God's approval of his work. A second assassination attempt succeeded in Sept., 1966.
Source: GuruNet, Who2
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8th Sept
by Antony » Wed 08 Sep, 2004 3:37 am
8th Sept
Michelangel's David turns 500 years old today.
David is a large marble statue made by Michelangelo of the biblical king David. Michelangelo portrays him as a youth just about to do battle with the giant Goliath. 8th Sept 1504
David is more than 4 metres tall, was built from a single piece of poor quality marble other sculptors had rejected.
In 1527, he lost the lower half of his left arm in a riot. In 1810, the statue was covered with a protective wax and in 1843 an attempt to remove the wax with hydrochloric acid also stripped away some of the original patina.
In 1991, a crazed Italian artist smashed one of his toes with a hammer.
Source: GuruNet, Yahoo News
Michelangel's David turns 500 years old today.
David is a large marble statue made by Michelangelo of the biblical king David. Michelangelo portrays him as a youth just about to do battle with the giant Goliath. 8th Sept 1504
David is more than 4 metres tall, was built from a single piece of poor quality marble other sculptors had rejected.
In 1527, he lost the lower half of his left arm in a riot. In 1810, the statue was covered with a protective wax and in 1843 an attempt to remove the wax with hydrochloric acid also stripped away some of the original patina.
In 1991, a crazed Italian artist smashed one of his toes with a hammer.
Source: GuruNet, Yahoo News
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28th Sept
by Antony » Mon 27 Sep, 2004 10:06 pm
28th September 1820 - tomato publicly proved safe when a man ate a bushel of them in Salem, MA.
I am not sure about that the store was about tomatoes or the witchcraft. One (1) bushel is 35.24 litres.
Same day, different year,
28th September 1867 Toronto, Ontario became the capital of Canada.
(Source: GuruNet)
I am not sure about that the store was about tomatoes or the witchcraft. One (1) bushel is 35.24 litres.
Same day, different year,
28th September 1867 Toronto, Ontario became the capital of Canada.
(Source: GuruNet)
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Re: 28th Sept
by Antony » Wed 29 Sep, 2004 2:29 am
Antony wrote:Same day, different year,
28th September 1867 Toronto, Ontario became the capital of Canada.
(Source: GuruNet)
The sentence I took from GuruNet was:
"Toronto, Ontario -- became the capital of Canada (1867)"
I guess people composing the "Today in History" section of GuruNet made a mistake.
Further research (via GuruNet again),
"[Ontario's] capital and largest city is Toronto."
and the capital of Canada is Ottawa.
Thanks Lorraine for pointing out.
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Re:September 29th Montreal Expos play their last game in MTL
by Lorraine » Thu 30 Sep, 2004 11:36 pm
September 29th, 2004 was the last day for the Montreal Expos Baseball team in Montreal. They are moving to Washington, D.C.
Over 31,000 attended the last game on Wednesday night.
They have been in Montreal since April 1969 or 35 yrs. and would have won the pennant in 1994, if there hadn't been a baseball strike.
Montreal had the Expos before Toronto got the Blue Jays.
Over 31,000 attended the last game on Wednesday night.
They have been in Montreal since April 1969 or 35 yrs. and would have won the pennant in 1994, if there hadn't been a baseball strike.
Montreal had the Expos before Toronto got the Blue Jays.
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Oct 10th 2004
by Antony » Mon 11 Oct, 2004 3:30 am
10th Oct 2004 Christopher Reeve silver screen's Superman and advocate of stem cell research dies at 52.
Before a horseback riding accident paralyzed him from the neck down, Christopher Reeve was best known for his portrayal of Superman in the 1978 film directed by Richard Donner. The film was Reeve's second appearance on the big screen, after a role in Gray Lady Down, earlier that year. He made three sequels to Superman, and, in an interview he once said that when he asked Sean Connery how to avoid being typecast, Connery answered, "First you have to be good enough that they ask you to play it again and again."
He became an advocate for spinal cord research after the 1995 accident that left him paralysed from the neck down, fell into a coma on Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home and died yesterday, publicist Wesley Combs said.
Christopher Reeve
September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004 (heart failure)
(Source: GuruNet, News.com.au)
Related thread: [sdt=1704]Curse of Superman[/sdt]
Before a horseback riding accident paralyzed him from the neck down, Christopher Reeve was best known for his portrayal of Superman in the 1978 film directed by Richard Donner. The film was Reeve's second appearance on the big screen, after a role in Gray Lady Down, earlier that year. He made three sequels to Superman, and, in an interview he once said that when he asked Sean Connery how to avoid being typecast, Connery answered, "First you have to be good enough that they ask you to play it again and again."
He became an advocate for spinal cord research after the 1995 accident that left him paralysed from the neck down, fell into a coma on Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home and died yesterday, publicist Wesley Combs said.
Christopher Reeve
September 25, 1952 - October 10, 2004 (heart failure)
(Source: GuruNet, News.com.au)
Related thread: [sdt=1704]Curse of Superman[/sdt]
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October 25th
by Antony » Mon 25 Oct, 2004 8:37 am
25th Oct 1881 - Pablo Picasso was born.
Pablo Ruiz y Picasso showed artistic ability at an early age, and when he began to study art seriously in Barcelona and Madrid, he was already a skilled painter. In the early 1900s he visited and eventually settled in Paris, where he was part of a vibrant artistic community that included Gertrude Stein. Although greatly influenced by other artists in Europe and beyond, Picasso was inventive and prolific, and early in his career earned a worldwide reputation as an innovator. His enormous body of work spans so many years that art experts generally separate his career into distinct phases, such as the Blue Period, the Rose Period and his most famous contribution to modern art, Cubism. Picasso, unlike so many before him, was an international celebrity as well as an important contributor to the world of art.
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Pablo Ruiz y Picasso showed artistic ability at an early age, and when he began to study art seriously in Barcelona and Madrid, he was already a skilled painter. In the early 1900s he visited and eventually settled in Paris, where he was part of a vibrant artistic community that included Gertrude Stein. Although greatly influenced by other artists in Europe and beyond, Picasso was inventive and prolific, and early in his career earned a worldwide reputation as an innovator. His enormous body of work spans so many years that art experts generally separate his career into distinct phases, such as the Blue Period, the Rose Period and his most famous contribution to modern art, Cubism. Picasso, unlike so many before him, was an international celebrity as well as an important contributor to the world of art.
(Source: Who2)
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November 1
by Antony » Sun 31 Oct, 2004 10:34 pm
1 Nov 1512 Michelangelo's paintings on the ceiling of the sistine Chapel were shown to the public for the first time.
Michelangelo had to work on his back to paint the ceiliing of the Sistine Chapel, and the project took four years to complete.
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Michelangelo had to work on his back to paint the ceiliing of the Sistine Chapel, and the project took four years to complete.
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by Antony » Wed 03 Nov, 2004 7:03 am
3 Nov 1839 - Optium War, between China and Britain broke out
From The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Opium Wars, 1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars between China and Western countries. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China's restrictions on foreign trade, responded by sending gunboats to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China, unable to withstand modern arms, was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue (1843). These provided that the ports of Guangzhou, Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be open to British trade and residence; in addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Within a few years other Western powers signed similar treaties with China and received commercial and residential privileges, and the Western domination of China's treaty ports began. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British and French troops took Guangzhou and Tianjin and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties of Tianjin (1858), to which France, Russia, and the United States were also party. China agreed to open 11 more ports, permit foreign legations in Beijing, sanction Christian missionary activity, and legalize the import of opium. China's subsequent attempt to block the entry of diplomats into Beijing as well as Britain's determination to enforce the new treaty terms led to a renewal of the war in 1859. This time the British and French occupied Beijing and burned the imperial summer palace (Yuan ming yuan). The Beijing conventions of 1860, by which China was forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin and make additional concessions, concluded the hostilities.
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From The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Opium Wars, 1839–42 and 1856–60, two wars between China and Western countries. The first was between Great Britain and China. Early in the 19th cent., British merchants began smuggling opium into China in order to balance their purchases of tea for export to Britain. In 1839, China enforced its prohibitions on the importation of opium by destroying at Guangzhou (Canton) a large quantity of opium confiscated from British merchants. Great Britain, which had been looking to end China's restrictions on foreign trade, responded by sending gunboats to attack several Chinese coastal cities. China, unable to withstand modern arms, was defeated and forced to sign the Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and the British Supplementary Treaty of the Bogue (1843). These provided that the ports of Guangzhou, Jinmen, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Shanghai should be open to British trade and residence; in addition Hong Kong was ceded to the British. Within a few years other Western powers signed similar treaties with China and received commercial and residential privileges, and the Western domination of China's treaty ports began. In 1856 a second war broke out following an allegedly illegal Chinese search of a British-registered ship, the Arrow, in Guangzhou. British and French troops took Guangzhou and Tianjin and compelled the Chinese to accept the treaties of Tianjin (1858), to which France, Russia, and the United States were also party. China agreed to open 11 more ports, permit foreign legations in Beijing, sanction Christian missionary activity, and legalize the import of opium. China's subsequent attempt to block the entry of diplomats into Beijing as well as Britain's determination to enforce the new treaty terms led to a renewal of the war in 1859. This time the British and French occupied Beijing and burned the imperial summer palace (Yuan ming yuan). The Beijing conventions of 1860, by which China was forced to reaffirm the terms of the Treaty of Tianjin and make additional concessions, concluded the hostilities.
(Source: GuruNet, Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia)
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Japan on alert after sub scare
by keith » Wed 10 Nov, 2004 12:28 am
November 9, 2004
Japanese are on the watch for an unidentified submarine. They say it can be dangerous having an unknown submarine in the Japanese waters, for fear of attack
"The submarine that left watter surrounding Japan, shortly after it was spotted and a reconnaissance aircraft and destroyer were monitoring its movements," tells Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda
Thanks to www.cnn.com
Japanese are on the watch for an unidentified submarine. They say it can be dangerous having an unknown submarine in the Japanese waters, for fear of attack
"The submarine that left watter surrounding Japan, shortly after it was spotted and a reconnaissance aircraft and destroyer were monitoring its movements," tells Chief Cabinet Secretary Hiroyuki Hosoda
Thanks to www.cnn.com
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by Antony » Thu 18 Nov, 2004 8:36 pm
19th November 1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania.
(source: GuruNet, The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition)
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate—we can not consecrate—we can not hallow—this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us—that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion—that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain—that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.
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9th March 1994 - The Notorious B.I.G. gunned down
by Antony » Wed 09 Mar, 2005 7:52 pm
9th March 1994 Christopher "The Notorious B.I.G." Wallace gunned down.
Christopher Wallace, best known as "The Notorious B.I.G." A popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid 1990s. On 9th March, 1997, he was shot and killed in Los Angeles. Neither murder has ever been solved and at present no-one has ever been charged in connection to them.
Christopher Wallance
21st May 1972 - 9th March 1997
At the end of 1997, Puff Daddy released his debut album "No Way Out" with the single "I'll Be Missing You", a tribute and a massively successful single dedicated to "The Notorious B.I.G.". The song featured Puff Daddy, Wallace's widow Faith Evans and R&B group 112.
(Sean Combs, best known as Puff Daddy, then P. Diddy.)
(Source: GuruNet, Who2, Wikipedia)
Christopher Wallace, best known as "The Notorious B.I.G." A popular Brooklyn-born rapper of the mid 1990s. On 9th March, 1997, he was shot and killed in Los Angeles. Neither murder has ever been solved and at present no-one has ever been charged in connection to them.
Christopher Wallance
21st May 1972 - 9th March 1997
At the end of 1997, Puff Daddy released his debut album "No Way Out" with the single "I'll Be Missing You", a tribute and a massively successful single dedicated to "The Notorious B.I.G.". The song featured Puff Daddy, Wallace's widow Faith Evans and R&B group 112.
(Sean Combs, best known as Puff Daddy, then P. Diddy.)
(Source: GuruNet, Who2, Wikipedia)
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