History Day!! On this day in 1995, the space shuttle Atlantis docked with the Russian space station Mir, forming the largest man made satellite to orbit Earth! Pretty, huh???
And in other news....
1776, The Virginia state constitution was adopted.
1946, British authorities arrested more than 2000 Jews in Palestine in an attempt to stamp out alleged terrorism.
1967, Jayne Mansfield was killed in a car crash
1972, the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty could be construed as "cruel and unusual punishment"...(Hmmm. Wonder what they thought the murder victims experienced)
2003, one of my personal heroines, Katherine Hepburn died today.
2006, the Supreme Court ruled that President George W Bush's plan to try GitMo detainiees in military tribunals violated US and international law. (Didn't the detainees violate a bunch of laws of humanity, too?)
2007, Apple's Iphone went on sale--(my brother loves his!)
And that's what I've got.......how about you???
That's a really nifty picture. I didn't watch alot of Katherine Hepburn's movies, but I always enjoyed the interviews she gave on TV. The kind of person you would like to have a conversation with.
ReplyDeleteHey Pat! Isn't that a great picture?? Makes you wonder who took it though, doesn't it?? ET??
ReplyDeleteAh, loved Katherine Hepburn for just the reason you said. Always thought it would be fun to hang out with her!
1859 - French acrobat Charles Blondin crossed Niagara Falls on a tightrope.
ReplyDelete1934 - Adolf Hitler purges the Nazi party of its paramilitary stormtrooper wing, killing hundreds of the party's most dedicated followers.
1936 - Margaret Mitchell's novel "Gone with the Wind" is published.
1951 - NAACP began its on school segregation
1974 - Martin Luther King's mother shot in church by a black man
1994 - Tonya Harding was stripped of her 1994 national figure skating championship title and banned for life from the organizaion for an attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
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