History Fun Facts: October 12, 2007
posted by on October 12 at 10:13 AM
In honor of this momentous occasion, I decided to take a look at significant events and personages who can also claim this day as their own. But man, who knew today was so chock-a-block full of historical events and celebrity birthdays? Certainly not me. Here’s just a tip of the proverbial iceberg:
This Day In History:
1492 – Columbus arrives in Bahamas (Columbus Day first celebrated this
day in 1792)
1609 – Children’s rhyme “Three Blind Mice” first published in London
1692 – Massachusetts colony discontinues witch trials
1775 – U.S. Navy established
1879 – British Troops capture Kabul Afghanistan
1892 – Pledge of Allegiance first recited in U.S. public schools
1915 – 1 millionth Ford “Model-T” rolls off assembly line
1918 – Boston Children’s Hospital begins first use of “iron lung”
1960 – Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev pounds shoe at U.N. General Assembly
1964 – Voskhod 1 launched; first 3 man space crew
1971 – “Jesus Christ Superstar” opens at Mark Hellinger Theatre, New York
1973 – Juan Peron elected president of Argentina; Nixon nominates Gerald R. Ford to replace Spiro T. Agnew as Vice President
1978 – Sid Vicious charged in murder of girlfriend Nancy Spungen
1992 – “Howard Stern Radio Show” premieres on Albany, NY station WQBK
2000 – USS Cole bombed in Port of Aden, Yemen, killing 17 sailors
2004 – Seattle Storm take WNBA crown in 2-1 series victory over Connecticut Sun
2007 – Slog inmates take over asylum; mayhem ensues.
(Timeline courtesy of BrainyHistory.com).
Today’s Birthdays:
Luciano Pavarotti, opera tenor,1935
Hugh Jackman, hunky Aussie,1968
Kirk Cameron, banana smoker, 1970
Marion Jones, steroid abuser, 1975
Bode Miller, ski bum, 1977
(Thanks to Celebrity Link.)
So, waddayasay? If you can’t find something in all of that to celebrate, you’re just not trying very hard.
Elenchos be nice.
You missed a couple.
Queen Elizabeth II became the first British monarch to visit China. (1986)
Birthdays:
King Edward VI
Kenneth Griffith
Mmmmm, Hugh Jackman. The man who helped me justify my wierd junior high crush on Wolverine. You've got to love someone who can move from musical theater to superhero that effortlessly.
Syphilis, genocide, and bad hygiene are introduced to the Americas.
I’ve always wondered what the murderous-slave-owning orthodox Catholic Cristobal Colon would think of his name being changed to Cristopher?
Howard Stern! Yay
Ummm, Luciano's dead now. Should we still celebrate his birthday anyways?
No. Let's continue to celebrate his death.
Hugh Jackman. Yum.
I respectfully request that no one else slogs the term "chock-a-block" for the rest of the day.
I respectfully second Carollani, who just made me spit tea all over my keyboard. One "chock-a-block" a decade, please.
Baba-Booey! Baba-Booey!
lol. "Chock-a-block" duly removed from all my future entries.
2003 : A bomb explodes outside of a nightclub in Bali, killing 202 young people, Indonesians as well as foreign tourists
Jackman's only hot as a bad boy. Goody-two-shoe roles ala Kate and Leopold are a waste of his time.
50th Anniversary of Medical Genetics at the UW too.
I have only a normal-sized Ackman, so I look on the Aussie with unbridled awe.
I have better reasons to celebrate in the near future: my birthday is on October 16. I'll spend it like I've spent the last few: going to work, working, going to class, listening to a lecture, getting a meal, going home and going to bed. ¡QUE UNA VIVA FABULOSA!
I guess the (gulp) 44th anniversary of my Bar Mitzvah didn't make the daily-items-of-note cut.
Dude, your birthday is PCC Member Appreciation Day!
That means you can buy a birthday carrot cake at 5 percent off!
#4, Seme: while disease and slavery from the visiting Spaniards likely wiped out entire indigenous peoples of the Caribbean, syphilis and tobacco were gifts the explorers brought back TO Europe.
First Seattle post office opened on October 12, 1852
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=384
Kirkland incorporated on October 12, 1905
http://www.historylink.org/essays/output.cfm?file_id=7508
It's also the 45th anniversary of the Columbus Day Storm
Hey! Sorry I didn't say something nice about this post earlier! Great work! I really enjoyed this list of cool facts.
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