Saturday, February 26
February 26
Things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school:
1076: Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Netherlands, is murdered
1361: Wenceslas of Bohemia Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400) is born.
1531: Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, kills 20,000
1564: Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), is baptized
1616: Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo. World is still flat.
1797: Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1802: Victor Hugo France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) is born.
1813: Robert R Livingston US diplomat (signer of the Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
1845: Alexander III St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) is born.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba to begin his second conquest of France.
1846: William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody of Davenport IA, who later killed 4000 buffaloes, is born.
1848: The Communist Manifesto, written by Friedrich Engels and a 29-year-old Karl Marx, is published in Brussels.
1852: John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry, is born.
1861: Ferdinand I Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), is born.
1866: Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical), is born.
1869: Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic" premieres
1870: Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in North Carolina, is lynched.
1876: Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2"), is born.
1887: Grover Cleveland Alexander Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs), is born.
1891: 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
1891: Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo
1893: William Frawley of Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons) is born
1903: Richard J Gatling US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1908: Tex Avery cartoon director (What's up, Doc?) is born.
1912: Coal strike begins, Derbyshire, England. Becomes a general, nationwide strike on March 1.
1916: Jackie Gleason of Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) is born.
1916: Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1919: Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1920: Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney) is born.
1921: Russia: The revolutionary Kronstadt sailors sent delegates to Petrograd find out about strikes occurring there. The delegation visited a number of factories and returned two days later, beginning protests against the Bolshevik counter-revolution.
1926: French anarchist Georges Butaud (1868-1926) dies in Ermont. Sensitive to the problems of food consumption, he became an advocate of vegetarianism.
1928: Antoine "Fats" Domino New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill,) is born.
1929: President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1930: 1st red & green traffic lights installed in Manhattan, NYC.
1930: West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
1931: Robert D Novak, Joliet IL, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak) is born.
1932: Johnny Cash of Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue) is born.
1933: Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
1935: New York Yankees release Babe Ruth; he signs with Boston Braves
1936: Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1943: Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country) is born.
1945: Mitch Ryder rocker (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress) is born.
1950: Jonathan Cain, Chicago IL, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys) is born.
1952: British government announces possession of H-bomb.
1954: Michael Bolton, New Haven CT, vocalist, is born.
1954: First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA
1954: Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
1954: Four crewmen aboard a C-119 die when their plane crashes after observing the time-honored Air Force tradition of buzzing the Huntington, Tennessee courthouse.
1955: Singer LaVern Baker appeals to Congress to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 so recording artists can be protected against "note-for-note copying" of all presently recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers. The long-standing problem had been exacerbated by white "rock and roll" artists ripping off previously recorded black music.
1956: Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1957: Connie Carpenter-Phinney of Madison WI, 79k cyclist (Olympics-gold-1984) is born.
1959: Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1962: Creator of the Edge of Nowhere born between 2 and 3 a.m. in Santa Rosa, California.
1962: US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1962: Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York
1965: Jimmy Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from beating by Alabama police.
1966: Four thousand picket outside New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Pres. Lyndon Johnson receives the National Freedom Award. As Johnson begins his speech in defense of his Vietnam policies, James Peck of the War Resisters League jumps to his feet and shouts, "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam!" On the streets, meanwhile, activist A.J. Muste presents the crowd's own "Freedom Award" to Julian Bond, who has been denied his seat in the Georgia legislature for refusing to disavow his war opposition and his support of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
1968: J T Snow Long Beach CA, infielder (New York Yankees, California Angels) is born. 1970: U.S. Army supposedly discontinues surveillance of civilian anti-war demonstrations and maintenance of files on protestors.
1970: Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1971: Erykah Badu singer is born.
1972: West Virginia coalslag heap, which had doubled as a dam, suddenly collapses, flooding the 17-mile ling Buffalo Creek Valley. 118 die, 14 mining camps leveled, and 5,000 people are left homeless.
1973: Marshall Faulk NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts) is born.
1974: Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford, and their Nazi war efforts revealed in Senate report.
1976: Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never solved but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota. The FBI initially claimed Aquash died of exposure, and buried her before family or friends could view the body; when exhumed, she was found to have an FBI-issue bullet in her head.
1977: 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1978: The Edge of Nowhere gets its drivers license.
1979: Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1983: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1983: The Edge of Nowere is now legal to drink. Celebrates by dancing to Thriller at The Graduate in Chico, Califonia.
1984: Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
1986: Former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, ousted by a popular revolution the previous day, flees the Philippines with U.S. assistance.
1987: Tower Commission starts probe of Iran-Contra affair
1990: Czech leader Vaclav Havel announces departure of all Soviet troops.
1991: U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi conscripts on the Basra road from Kuwait.
1991: President George Bush I admits supporting Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- an illegal act.
1993: Bomb blast rips though seven floors of New York City's World Trade Center, killing six, injuring 1,000. By the following day, over 40 groups will claim responsibility.
1997: David Doyle actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67
1997: Thirty-six arrested at a state capitol encampment protesting welfare cutbacks, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1998: An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed entry to either confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor (Wash.) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons were pretty damn high. 1998: Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial.
2005: Edge of Nowhere celebrates the birth of its human container by posting long, self indulgent tribute to its birth date, self-referentially noting said post features the worst attributes of ego-blogging.
1076: Godfried III with the Hump, duke of Netherlands, is murdered
1361: Wenceslas of Bohemia Holy Roman Catholic German emperor (1378-1400) is born.
1531: Earthquake in Lisbon, Portugal, kills 20,000
1564: Christopher Marlowe, dramatist (Dr Faustus), is baptized
1616: Spanish Inquisition delivers injunction to Galileo. World is still flat.
1797: Bank of England issues 1st £1-note
1802: Victor Hugo France, author (Hunchback of Notre Dame, Les Miserables) is born.
1813: Robert R Livingston US diplomat (signer of the Declaration of Independence), dies at 66
1845: Alexander III St Petersburg, Russian tsar (1881-94) is born.
1815: Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elba to begin his second conquest of France.
1846: William F "Buffalo Bill" Cody of Davenport IA, who later killed 4000 buffaloes, is born.
1848: The Communist Manifesto, written by Friedrich Engels and a 29-year-old Karl Marx, is published in Brussels.
1852: John Harvey Kellogg surgeon, inspired flaked cereal industry, is born.
1861: Ferdinand I Vienna, 1st tsar of modern Bulgaria (1908-18), is born.
1866: Herbert Henry Dow pioneer in US chemical industry (Dow Chemical), is born.
1869: Franz Schubert's "4th Tragic" premieres
1870: Wyatt Outlaw, black leader of Union League in North Carolina, is lynched.
1876: Pauline Musters shortest known adult (58.9 cm, 1' 11.2"), is born.
1887: Grover Cleveland Alexander Hall of Fame baseball pitcher (Phillies, Cubs), is born.
1891: 1st buffalo purchased for Golden Gate Park, San Francisco
1891: Henrik Ibsens "Hedda Gabler" premieres in Oslo
1893: William Frawley of Iowa, actor (Fred Mertz-I Love Lucy, Bub-My 3 Sons) is born
1903: Richard J Gatling US inventor (Gatling Gun), dies at 84
1908: Tex Avery cartoon director (What's up, Doc?) is born.
1912: Coal strike begins, Derbyshire, England. Becomes a general, nationwide strike on March 1.
1916: Jackie Gleason of Brooklyn NY, comedian (Ralph Kramden-Honeymooners) is born.
1916: Mutual signs Charlie Chaplin to a film contract
1919: Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona
1920: Tony Randall [Leonard Rosenberg], Tulsa OK, actor (Felix-Odd Couple, Love Sidney) is born.
1921: Russia: The revolutionary Kronstadt sailors sent delegates to Petrograd find out about strikes occurring there. The delegation visited a number of factories and returned two days later, beginning protests against the Bolshevik counter-revolution.
1926: French anarchist Georges Butaud (1868-1926) dies in Ermont. Sensitive to the problems of food consumption, he became an advocate of vegetarianism.
1928: Antoine "Fats" Domino New Orleans LA, rhythm & blues pianist/singer (Blueberry Hill,) is born.
1929: President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
1930: 1st red & green traffic lights installed in Manhattan, NYC.
1930: West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England
1931: Robert D Novak, Joliet IL, news reporter (CNN-Evans & Novak) is born.
1932: Johnny Cash of Kingsland AR, country singer (I Walk The Line, Folsom Prison Blues, Boy Named Sue) is born.
1933: Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
1935: New York Yankees release Babe Ruth; he signs with Boston Braves
1936: Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
1943: Bob "The Bear" Hite California, singer (Canned Heat-Going Up the Country) is born.
1945: Mitch Ryder rocker (Mitch Ryder & the Detroit Wheels-Devil With the Blue Dress) is born.
1950: Jonathan Cain, Chicago IL, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Journey, Bad English, Babys) is born.
1952: British government announces possession of H-bomb.
1954: Michael Bolton, New Haven CT, vocalist, is born.
1954: First typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy MA
1954: Michigan Representative Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records
1954: Four crewmen aboard a C-119 die when their plane crashes after observing the time-honored Air Force tradition of buzzing the Huntington, Tennessee courthouse.
1955: Singer LaVern Baker appeals to Congress to revise the Copyright Act of 1909 so recording artists can be protected against "note-for-note copying" of all presently recorded R&B tunes and arrangements by white artists and arrangers. The long-standing problem had been exacerbated by white "rock and roll" artists ripping off previously recorded black music.
1956: Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
1957: Connie Carpenter-Phinney of Madison WI, 79k cyclist (Olympics-gold-1984) is born.
1959: Lou Costello actor (Abbott & Costello), dies at 52
1962: Creator of the Edge of Nowhere born between 2 and 3 a.m. in Santa Rosa, California.
1962: US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
1962: Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Philadelphia Warriors scores 67 points vs New York
1965: Jimmy Lee Jackson, civil rights activist, dies from beating by Alabama police.
1966: Four thousand picket outside New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel as Pres. Lyndon Johnson receives the National Freedom Award. As Johnson begins his speech in defense of his Vietnam policies, James Peck of the War Resisters League jumps to his feet and shouts, "Mr. President, peace in Vietnam!" On the streets, meanwhile, activist A.J. Muste presents the crowd's own "Freedom Award" to Julian Bond, who has been denied his seat in the Georgia legislature for refusing to disavow his war opposition and his support of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee.
1968: J T Snow Long Beach CA, infielder (New York Yankees, California Angels) is born. 1970: U.S. Army supposedly discontinues surveillance of civilian anti-war demonstrations and maintenance of files on protestors.
1970: Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album
1971: Erykah Badu singer is born.
1972: West Virginia coalslag heap, which had doubled as a dam, suddenly collapses, flooding the 17-mile ling Buffalo Creek Valley. 118 die, 14 mining camps leveled, and 5,000 people are left homeless.
1973: Marshall Faulk NFL running back (Indianapolis Colts) is born.
1974: Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford, and their Nazi war efforts revealed in Senate report.
1976: Body of American Indian Movement activist Anna Mae Aquash, in a murder never solved but widely attributed to the FBI, is found in rural South Dakota. The FBI initially claimed Aquash died of exposure, and buried her before family or friends could view the body; when exhumed, she was found to have an FBI-issue bullet in her head.
1977: 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
1978: The Edge of Nowhere gets its drivers license.
1979: Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
1983: Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks
1983: The Edge of Nowere is now legal to drink. Celebrates by dancing to Thriller at The Graduate in Chico, Califonia.
1984: Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
1986: Former dictator Ferdinand Marcos, ousted by a popular revolution the previous day, flees the Philippines with U.S. assistance.
1987: Tower Commission starts probe of Iran-Contra affair
1990: Czech leader Vaclav Havel announces departure of all Soviet troops.
1991: U.S. air forces, in the infamous "turkey shoot," drop fuel-air bombs and massacre thousands of retreating Iraqi conscripts on the Basra road from Kuwait.
1991: President George Bush I admits supporting Khmer Rouge in Cambodia -- an illegal act.
1993: Bomb blast rips though seven floors of New York City's World Trade Center, killing six, injuring 1,000. By the following day, over 40 groups will claim responsibility.
1997: David Doyle actor (Charlie's Angels), dies at 67
1997: Thirty-six arrested at a state capitol encampment protesting welfare cutbacks, St. Paul, Minnesota. 1998: An international weapons inspection team, including Canadian MP Libby Davies, is not allowed entry to either confirm or deny the presence of weapons of mass destruction at the Bangor (Wash.) nuclear submarine base. Aerial photos the same day, however, suggest the odds of such heinous weapons were pretty damn high. 1998: Oprah Winfrey beats Texas cattlemen in beef trial.
2005: Edge of Nowhere celebrates the birth of its human container by posting long, self indulgent tribute to its birth date, self-referentially noting said post features the worst attributes of ego-blogging.
