History Day
BEt you know who that cute little girl is! That's right on this day in 1934, Shirley Temple debuted in STAND UP AND CHEER. People raved about her song and dance routines for years. (And according to my mom....because of Shirley, little girls across America were tortured with those weird little curls!)
In other news..........
1865, safety matches were first advertised on this day. (I'm thinking people were really grateful to have them, too!)
1931, Knute Rockne, famed football coach, died in a plane crash.
1949, Willie Shoemaker won his first horse race. (of course, the horse did most of the work!)
1959, THE UNTOUCHABLES debuted on CBS
And that's it for me! A slow day history wise....until you guys show me everything I missed!
posted by Maureen Child @ 1:00 AM
4 Comments:
At 9:48 AM,
Erika said…
Loved Shirley Temple. I used to know all the words to the good ship lollipop. Not so much anymore.
Here we go . . .
1980, the Castro regime announces that all Cubans wishing to emigrate to the U.S. are free to board boats at the port of Mariel west of Havana, launching the Mariel Boatlift. The first of 125,000 Cuban refugees from Mariel reached Florida the next day.
On this day in 1999, two teenage gunmen kill 13 people in a shooting spree at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, south of Denver. At approximately 11:19 a.m., Dylan Klebold, 18, and Eric Harris, 17, dressed in trench coats, began shooting students outside the school before moving inside to continue their rampage. By 11:35 a.m., Klebold and Harris had killed 12 fellow students and a teacher and wounded another 23 people. Shortly after noon, the two teens turned their guns on themselves and committed suicide.
1931 - First woman appointed to auto board - Matilda Dodge Wilson, the widow of John Dodge, was named to the board of the Graham-Paige Motors Corporation, becoming the first woman to sit on the board of a major American auto-manufacturer.
1841 - First detective story is published. Edgar Allen Poe's story, The Murders in the Rue Morgue, first appears in Graham's Lady's and Gentleman's Magazine. The tale is generally considered to be the first detective story.
At 11:34 AM,
EllenToo said…
1812 - the 4th vice president of the US ~George Clinton~ died at age 72 becoming the first VP to die in office
1836 - Congress voted to establish the Wisconsin Territory
1945 - during WWII, allied forces took control of the German cities of Nuremberg and Stuttgart
1968 - Pierre Trudeau was sworn in as prime minister of Canada
1971 - US Supreme Court upheld the use of busing to achieve racial desegregation in schools
1972 - Apollo 16 landed on the moon
1978 - a Korean Airlines Boeing 707 crash landed in NW Russia after being fired on by a Soviet interceptor after entering Soviet airspace
2004 - a tornado tore through north central Illinois killing 8 people
At 11:55 AM,
Maureen Child said…
Erika.......
WOW!! Impressive!
And ten years since Columbine?? Hard to imagine.
At 11:56 AM,
Maureen Child said…
Ellen Too.....
VERY good ones!! How'd I miss Apollo landing on the moon???
Thank goodness I've got you guys!
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