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Good Morning Boomers! - On This Day November 20

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On This Day: November 20

Today is Thursday, November 20, 2008. This is the 325th day of the year, with 41 days remaining in 2008.

Fact of the Day: Hubble

An awe-inspiring image was sent back to earth on this day in 1995. In its exploration of our universe, the Hubble Space Telescope sighted and photographed the birth of a star. The image of the Eagle Nebula's towering mass expanding and taking shape forever reminds us of the power and majestic life of the universe.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Edmund the Martyr, St. Maxentia of Beauvais, St. Nerses of Sahgerd, St. Bernward, St. Felix of Valois, and St. Dasius.

Mexico: Revolution Anniversary (by Francisco Madero, 1910).

United Nations: Universal Children's Day.

Events

269 - Diocletian was proclaimed emperor of Numerian in Asia Minor.

1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights, approving 10 of the 12 amendments.

1818 - Simón Bolívar, declared Venezuela independent of Spain.

1820 - The whaler Essex, from Nantucket, Massachusetts, was attacked and sunk by a sperm whale near the western coast of South America. It was the first American vessel sunk by a whale.

1866 - Howard University, the first university for African-American students, was founded in Washington, D.C. as the Howard Theological Seminary.

1914 - Bulgaria proclaimed its neutrality in World War I.

1945 - The Nuremberg Trials began for 24 top Nazis accused of war crimes and atrocities.

1947 - Britain's future queen, Princess Elizabeth II, married Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, in a ceremony broadcast worldwide from Westminster Abbey.

1967 - The U.S. census reported the population at 200 million.

1969 - The Nixon administration announced a halt to residential use of the pesticide DDT.

1974 - The United States filed an antitrust suit to break up AT&T.

1980 - In China, Jiang Qing, Mao Zedong's widow, went on trial on charges of treason and government subversion.

2000 - Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori resigned, ending a 10-year reign.

Births

1858 - Selma Lagerlof, Swedish author, first woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

1889 - Edwin Powell Hubble, American astronomer.

1908 - Sir Alistair Cooke, English journalist and TV host.

1914 - Emilio Pucci (Marchese Di Barsento), fashion designer.

1923 - Nadine Gordimer, Nobel Prize-winning South African novelist.

1925 - Robert F. Kennedy, American senator, attorney general, and presidential candidate.

1954 - Bo Derek, American film actress and model.

Deaths

1910 - Leo Tolstoy, Russian novelist.

1973 - Allan Sherman, American musician, parodist, satirist, and television producer.

1975 - General Francisco Franco, Spain's dictator, after nearly four decades of rule.

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Good Morning Boomers! - On This Day November 19

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On This Day: November 19

Today is Wednesday, November 19, 2008. This is the 324th day of the year, with 42 days remaining in 2008.

Fact of the Day: biceps

Biceps are muscles that have two heads -- the large flexor muscle of the front of the upper arm and the large flexor muscle of the back of the upper leg. The first is called the biceps brachii and the second is the biceps femoris, both parts of the human muscular system. The action of the biceps brachii flexes the arm at the elbow and shoulder and supinates the forearm -- turns the palm forward or upward. To raise your hand, the biceps in the front of your upper arm contracts and pulls up the bones of your forearm. The biceps femoris is one of the hamstring muscles at the back of the thigh. This muscle extends the thigh, rotates it outward, and flexes the leg at the knee. The term biceps is from Latin bis, "two," and caput, "head".

Holidays

Feast day of St. Ermenburga, St. Barlaam of Antioch, and St. Nerses I.

Monaco: National Day.

Burma: Tazaungdaing.

Belize: Garifuna Day.

Puerto Rico: Discovery Day.

Events

1493 - Christopher Columbus discovered Puerto Rico on his second voyage to the New World.

1620 - The Mayflower arrived off the coast of Cape Cod. Peregrine White was born aboard the Mayflower.

1794 - United States and Britain signed the Jay Treaty.

1861 - Julia Ward Howe wrote "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" while visiting Union troops near Washington.

1863 - President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address and dedicated a Civil War battlefield cemetery in Pennsylvania.

1874 - The Women's Christian Temperance Union was organized in Cleveland, Ohio.

1919 - Utah's Mukuntuweap National Monument, later called Zion National Monument, was established as a national park.

1939 - The first presidential library, that of Franklin D. Roosevelt, had its cornerstone laid at Hyde Park, New York.

1942 - The Soviet Union Red Army launched Operation Uranus, the great counter-offensive that turned the tide of the Battle of Stalingrad.

1949 - Monaco held a coronation for its new ruler, Prince Rainier III, the 30th monarch of Monaco.

1954 - The first automatic toll collection machine went into effect at the Union Toll Plaza on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway.

1969 - Ford Motor Company announced it was halting production of the unpopular Edsel.

1969 - Pele scored his 1000th soccer goal in his 909th first-class match.

1969 - U.S. astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr. and Alan Bean became the third and fourth humans to walk on the surface of the Moon after their landing module, Intrepid, touched down as part of the Apollo 12 mission.

1976 - Patty Hearst was released from prison on $1.5 million bail.

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.

1985 - At a summit in Geneva, President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time.

1990 - The pop duo Milli Vanilli was stripped of its Grammy Award because other singers sung the songs on their "Girl You Know It's True" album.

1993 - The U.S. Senate voted in favor of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA).

1996 - A fire broke out in the Channel Tunnel, injuring 34 people and interrupting rail service.

1998 - Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr presented evidence against President Bill Clinton while testifying before the House Judiciary Committee.

Births

1600 - Charles I, King of England and Scotland.

1752 - George Rogers Clark, American soldier and frontiersman.

1797 - Sojourner Truth, American abolitionist and women's rights advocate.

1805 - Ferdinand de Lesseps, French engineer.

1831 - James Garfield, 20th President of the United States of America, who became the second U.S. president (after Abraham Lincoln) to be assassinated.

1905 - Tommy Dorsey, American bandleader and musician.

1917 - Indira Gandhi (Nehru), Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84).

1921 - Roy Campanella, one of the first black major league baseball players.

1933 - Larry King, American TV, radio host, columnist.

1938 - Ted Turner, American cable TV mogul.

1997 - The first septuplets delivered alive were born in Des Moines, Iowa, to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey.

Deaths

1883 - William Siemens, English electrical engineer and metallurgist, born in Lenthe, Germany.

1988 - Christina Onassis, shipping heiress and daughter of Aristotle Onassis.

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Good Morning Boomers! - On This Day November 18

Boomer Social Networking — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 05:52:23 GMT

On This Day: November 18

Today is Tuesday, November 18, 2008. This is the 323rd day of the year, with 43 days remaining in 2008.

Fact of the Day: time zones

Until 1883, every locality in America set its own time preference. Standard Time was adopted in the United States and Canada on this day, and the resulting time zone system made life a lot simpler for everyone who would eventually travel from coast to coast, by telephone or airplane.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Odo of Cluny, St. Romanus of Antioch, and St. Mawes or Maudez.

Haiti: Army Day.

Latvia: Independence Day.

Morocco: Independence Day.

Oman: National Holiday.

Events

1477 - William Caxton set "Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers," the first book to be printed in England. Caxton went on to print almost 100 books in England, including the "Canterbury Tales."

1626 - St. Peter's Cathedral in Rome was consecrated.

1820 - U.S. Navy Captain Nathaniel Palmer was the first American to sight the continent of Antarctica.

1883 - The United States and Canada adopted the 4-zone Standard Time system.

1928 - The first animated talking picture, "Steamboat Willie," starring Mickey Mouse, was screened in the U.S.. This is also considered Mickey Mouse's birthday.

1936 - Germany and Italy recognized the Spanish government of Francisco Franco.

1963 - The push-button telephone debuted. Touch-tone service was available as an option in two Pennsylvania cities.

1976 - Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy.

1978 - California Congressman Leo Ryan and four other people were killed in Jonestown, Guyana, by members of the Peoples Temple. They had gone there to investigate the religious sect of Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor. The next night there was mass murder and suicide by 912 cult members.

1987 - The Iran-Contra committee of Congress said in their final report that President Ronald Reagan bore "ultimate responsibility" for wrongdoing of his aides.

1991 - The Shi'ite Muslim faction Islamic Jihad freed Church of England envoy Terry Waite and U.S. university professor Thomas Sutherland.

2004 - Britain outlawed fox hunting with hounds in England and Wales.

2004 - Bill Clinton's presidential library opened in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Births

1789 - Louis Daguerre, French theater scene painter, physicist, inventor of daguerreotype photography.

1836 - Sir William Gilbert, British comic opera libretto writer of Gilbert & Sullivan.

1870 - Dorothea Dix, pseudonym for Elizabeth Gilman, American advice columnist.

1901 - George Gallup, American pollster.

1923 - Alan Shepard, first American astronaut in space.

Deaths

1886 - Chester Alan Arthur, 21st President of the United States of America.

1922 - Marcel Proust, French novelist.

1969 - Joseph P. Kennedy, American businessman, financier and diplomat. He was the father of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Edward M. Kennedy.

1994 - Cab Calloway, American band leader, singer, and actor.

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Good Morning Boomers! - On This Day November 17

Boomer Social Networking — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 06:36:26 GMT

On This Day: November 17

Today is Monday, November 17, 2008. This is the 322nd day of the year, with 44 days remaining in 2008.

Fact of the Day: Bible

The Bible, meaning "books" (Greek) is the sacred book of Judaism and Christianity. The Bible has two parts: the Old Testament, a record of the Jewish people and prophets before Jesus' birth, and the New Testament, the story of Jesus and his disciples. The Old Testament was originally written in Hebrew (with some Aramaic) and has 39 books. It contains histories, hymns, laws, legends, myths, poetry, and stories. The second half was first written in Greek and has 27 books. The New Testament was written in the century following the death of Jesus. The Bible is the bestseller of all time and has been translated into about 2,100 languages. The latest versions are the New American Bible, Today's English Version, and the Revised Standard Version. No other book has influenced all of history and every culture.

Events

1534 - The Act of Supremacy, which declared King Henry VIII as head of the Church of England, was passed by Parliament.

1558 - Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of Queen Mary I at 42, thus beginning the Elizabethan Age.

1800 - The U.S. Congress convened for the first time in Washington, D.C., in the partially completed Capitol building. It was the second session of the Sixth Congress.

1839 - Italy's Giuseppe Verdi debuted his first opera, "Oberto."

1869 - The Suez Canal, which had taken 10 years to build, opened to navigation. It stretched 101 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.

1913 - The first ship sailed through the Panama Canal.

1922 - The last sultan of Turkey was deposed by Kemal Atatürk.

1922 - Siberia voted for union with the USSR.

1931 - Charles Lindbergh inaugurated Pan Am service from Cuba to South America in the Sikorsky flying boat American Clipper.

1962 - Washington's Dulles International Airport was dedicated by President John F. Kennedy.

1969 - US-Soviet talks on strategic arms limitation (SALT) opened in Helsinki.

1970 - The Soviet Union landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the Moon, the Lunokhod I.

1979 - Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini ordered the release of 13 female and minority hostages being held at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran during the Iran hostage crisis.

2001 - The Taliban confirmed the death of Osama bin Laden's military chief Mohammed Atef after an airstrike three days prior.

2003 - Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California.

2004 - In a surprise move, Kmart acquired Sears for $11 billion.

Births

1790 - August Mobius, German astronomer, mathematician, teacher, and author.

1901 - Lee Strasberg, Austrian-born American director and teacher of method acting at the Actor's Studio.

1925 - Rock Hudson (Roy Scherer Fitzgerald), American actor.

1937 - Peter Cook, English satirist, writer and comedian.

1938 - Gordon Lightfoot, American singer-songwriter.

1942 - Martin Scorsese, American film director.

Deaths

1917 - Auguste Rodin, French sculptor.

2002 - Abba Eban, Israeli statesman and foreign minister of Israel from 1966-1974.

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On This Day November 16

Boomer Social Networking — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 07:01:52 GMT

On This Day: November 16

Today is Sunday, November 16, 2008. This is the 321st day of the year, with 45 days remaining in 2008.

Fact of the Day: Betelgeuse

Betelgeuse is a reddish star in the constellation Orion -- on the eastern shoulder of the hunter -- and one of the brightest stars in space. It is a cool red supergiant and it changes in brightness and size. Its name is derived from the Arabic word bat al-shauzâ, which means "the giant's shoulder." The star is approximately 310 light-years from Earth. Betelgeuse is one of the largest stars known and its diameter varies between 430 and 625 times the diameter of the Sun. Betelgeuse was the first star to have its diameter measured by an interferometer.

Holidays

Feast day of St. Margaret of Scotland, St. Agnes of Assisi, St. Gertrude of Helfta, St. Afan, St. Edmund of Abingdon, St. Mechtildis of Helfta, St. Nikon Metanoeite, and St. Eucherius of Lyons.

Oklahoma: Admission Day.

United Nations International Day for Tolerance.

Events

1532 - The Incan empire fell to Spain.

1676 - The first U.S. prison was established, on Nantucket island.

1776 - British troops captured Fort Washington during the American Revolution.

1821 - Trader William Becknell reached Santa Fe, New Mexico, via the route that will become known as the Santa Fe Trail.

1824 - Australian explorer Hamilton Hume discovered the Murray River, the longest river in Australia.

1864 - Union General William Sherman and his troops began their March to the Sea during the Civil War.

1889 - The Oahu Railway and Land Company began operating in Hawaii.

1907 - Oklahoma became the 46th state of the Union.

1920 - The Russian Civil War ended; the Bolsheviks were victorious.

1920 - Metered mail was born in Stamford, Connecticut with the first Pitney-Bowes postage meter.

1933 - The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic relations.

1959 - Rodgers and Hammerstein's "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.

1969 - Lieutenant William Calley, Jr., faced a court martial for directing his platoon in the massacre of at least 400 unarmed peasants in the Vietnamese village of My Lai.

1973 - Skylab 3, carrying three astronauts, launched from Cape Canaveral for an 84-day mission.

1973 - The Alaska Pipeline was signed into law.

1982 - An agreement was announced, ending a 57-day strike by the National Football League players.

1988 - Benazir Bhutto, daughter of former leader Zulfikar Bhutto, was elected prime minister and first female head of state of Pakistan.

1992 - The Roman Catholic Church issued a new universal catechism, addressing modern-day issues.

1993 - Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum was closed by the Russian authorities.

2004 - President George W. Bush picked National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice to be his new secretary of state, succeeding Colin Powell.

Births

42 B.C.E. - Tiberius, Roman emperor.

1873 - W.C. Handy, American composer, called the "Father of the Blues."

1889 - George S. Kaufman, American playwright.

1896 - Fibber McGee (Jim Jordan), American actor.

1907 - Burgess Meredith, American actor.

Deaths

1272 - Henry III, King of England.

1960 - Clark Gable, American film actor.

1981 - William Holden, American film actor (found dead on this date after a head injury).

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