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Daily Run Down: 03/31/2013: Historical Edition

Ivan I of Russia

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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 1146, Bernard of Clairvaux preaches the need for a second Crusade.
  • In 1340, Ivan I of Russia dies.
  • In 1499, Pope Pius IV is born.
  • In 1732, Austrian Composer Joseph Haydn is born.
  • In 1855, Alfred E. Hunt, American Entrepreneur, is born.
  • In 1866, The Spanish Navy bombards Valparaiso, Chile.
  • In 1889, The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
  • In 1899, Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
  • In 1906, The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (NCAA) is founded.
  • In 1909, Construction of the RMS Titanic begins.
  • In 1913, American Financier J.P. Morgan dies.
  • In 1918, Daylight Saving Time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
  • In 1929, Fashion Designer Liz Claiborne is born.
  • In 1951, Remington Rand delivers a UNIVAC I to the Census Bureau.
  • In 1970, Explorer I re-enters the Earth’s Atmosphere.
  • In 1980, American Athlete Jesse Owens dies.
  • In 1986, Six Metropolitan county councils in England are abolished.
  • In 1992, The USS Missouri is decomissioned.
  • In 2012, Educator Dale R. Corson dies.
 

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There are 19 stories this week.

Daily Run Down: 01/13/2013: Historical Edition

Charles The Fat
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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 888, Odo, Count of France becomes king of the Franks.
  • In 888, Holy Roman Emperor Charles the Fat dies.
  • In 1328, Edward III of England marries Hainault.
  • In 1434, King Henry II of Castile is born.
  • In 1547, Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, is sentenced to death.
  • In 1749, Friedrich Muller, painter and dramatist, is born.
  • In 1830, The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
  • In 1840, The Steamboat Lexington burns and sinks off of Long Island.
  • In 1842, Dr. William Brydon becomes famous for being the sole survivor out of 16,500 men.
  • In 1893, The Independent Labour Party, of the United Kingdom, meets for the first time.
  • In 1910, The First Public Radio Broadcast occurs.
  • In 1915, The Earthquake in Avenzzano, Italy strikes killing 29,800.
  • In 1929, Western Lawman Wyatt Earp dies.
  • In 1942 Henry Ford patents the plastic Automobile.
  • In 1964, Pope John Paul II is appointed archbishop of Krakow, Poland.
  • In 1966, Actor Patrick Dempsey was born.
  • In 1968, Johnny Cash performs Live at Folsom State Prison.
 

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There are 17 stories this week.

Daily Run Down 11/05/2012

Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Big News

General News

International

Politics

Health

Science/Space

Financial

Historical

Gaming

Gadgets

Law

Patents

Technology

Internet

Mobile

Software/Apps

Developer

London/Britain

Odd

Funny

Chicagoland

Total Number of stories: 142

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Daily Run Down 02/26/2012: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 364, Valentinain I is proclaimed Roman Emperor.
  • In 420, Saint Porphyry, Palestine Bishop dies.
  • In 1584, Albert VI of Bavaria is born.
  • In 1802, French Writer Victor Hugo is born.
  • In 1802, Esek Hopkins, American Revolutionary War Admiral dies.
  • In 1815, Napoleon Bonaparte escapes from Elb.
  • In 1846, Buffalo Bill Cody is born.
  • In 1852, John Harvey Kellogg, founder of Kellogg, is born.
  • In 1903, American Inventor Richard Jordan Gatling, creator of the Gatling Gun, dies.
  • In 1908, American Cartoonist Tex Avery is born.
  • In 1909, Kinemacolor is first shown in Public at the Palace Theatre in London.
  • In 1914, American Actor Robert Alda, father of Alan Alda, is born.
  • In 1916, Actor Jackie Gleason is born.
  • In 1919, President Woodrow Wilson signs an act making the Grand Canyon a National Park.
  • In 1929, President Calvin Coolidge signs an executive order establishing the Grand Teton National Park.
  • In 1932, American Country musician Johnny Cash is born.
  • In 1935, Adolf Hitler orders the Luftwaffe to be re-formed.
  • In 1958, American Astronaut Susan J. Helms was born.
  • In 1966, The Launch of AS-201 occurs, it’s the first flight of the Saturn IB Rocket.
  • In 1971, The United Nations proclaims the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
  • In 1993, The first World Trade Center bombing occurs.
  • In 2009, American Basketball Player, and Chicago Bulls Announcer Johnny “Red’ Kerr dies.
  • In 2011, James A. McClure, American Politician, dies.

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Daily Run Down 02/14/2012

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Daily Run Down 01/15/2012: Historical Edition.

Here is this week’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 1493, Christopher Columbus sets sail from Hispaniola to Span.
  • In 1559, Queen Elizabeth I is crowned at Westminster Abbey in London.
  • In 1716, Philip Livingston, American founding father, is born.
  • In 1759, The British Museum opens.
  • In 1863, Wilhelm Marx, Chancellor of Germany, is born.
  • In 1884, University of Notre Dame receives its Charter from the state on Indiana.
  • In 1889, The Pemberton Medicine Company, later renamed Coca-Cola, incorporates in Atlanta, Georgia.
  • In 1896, Matthew Brady, US Photographer, dies.
  • In 1902, King Saud of Saudi Arabia is born.
  • In 1908, Edward Teller, Hungarian-born physicist is born.
  • In 1910, The Buffalo Bill Dam in Wyoming finishes construction.
  • In 1919, Maurice Herzog, French Mountaineer, is born.
  • In 1929, Civil Rights activist Martin Luther King, Jr. is born.
  • In 1943, The Pentagon is dedicated in Arlington, Virginia.
  • In 1967, The First Super Bowl is played.
  • In 1970, Moammar Gadhafi is proclaimed premier of Libya.
  • In 1970, American Aircraft designer William T. Piper dies.
  • In 1990, AT&T’s Long distance network suffers a cascade switch failure.
  • In 2001, Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, goes online.
  • In 2007, James Hiller, inventor of the Electron Microscope, dies.
  • In 2008, Actor Brad Renfro dies.

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Daily Run Down 11/13/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 1160, Louis VII of France marries Adele of Champagne.
  • In 1312, King Edward III of England is born.
  • In 1814, American General Joseph Hooker is born.
  • In 1841, James Braid first sees animal magnetism.
  • In 1850, Writer Robert Louis Stevenson is born.
  • In 1856, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis is born.
  • In 1864, The Constitution of Greece is adopted.
  • In 1887, Bloody Sunday clashes occur in London.
  • In 1927, The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic.
  • In 1929, Princess Viktoria of Prussia dies.
  • In 1956, The US Supreme Court rules that the Alabama laws requiring segregation on buses is illegal.
  • In 1982, The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated.
  • In 2001, President George W. Bush signs an executive order allowing Military Tribunals.

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Daily Run Down 10/23/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

  • In 425, Valentinian III becomes Roman Emperor at the age of 6.
  • In 1641, The Irish Rebellion of 1641 begins.
  • In 1707, The first Parliament of Great Britain meets.
  • In 1715, Tsar Peter II of Russia is born.
  • In 1762, American Inventory Samuel Morey is born.
  • In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln suspends the writ of habeas corpus.
  • In 1875, American Chemist Giblert N. Lewis is born.
  • In 1911, The first use of aircraft in wartime occurs.
  • In 1929, The first transcontinental air service begins between New York City and Los Angelas.
  • In 1939, Author Zane Grey dies.
  • In 1942, Author Michael Crichton is born.
  • In 1959, Musical Parodist, “Weird Al” yankovic was born.
  • In 1960, Computer Science Professor, Randy Pausch, is born.
  • In 1973, President Richard Nixon agrees to turn over subpoenaed audio tapes of his Oval Office conversations.
  • In 2001, Apple announces the iPod.

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Daily Run Down 07/31/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Daily Run Down: Historical Edition.

  • In 781, The First recorded eruption occurs.
  • In 1009, Pietro Martino begins his rein as Pope Sergius IV.
  • In 1396, Philip III of England is born.
  • In 1396, William Courtenay, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies.
  • In 1492, The Jewish are expelled from Spain.
  • In 1498, Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to discover Trinidad.
  • In 1527, Maximilian II, The Holy Roman Emperor is born.
  • In 1588, The Spanish Armada is spotted off of the Coast of England.
  • In 1653, Thomas Dudley, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, dies.
  • In 1704, Gabriel Cramer, Swiss Mathematician, is born.
  • In 1790, the first United States Patent is granted.
  • In 1803, Swiss-American Inventor John Ericsson is born.
  • In 1856, Christchurch, New Zealand is founded.
  • In 1875, Andrew Johnson, 17th President of the United States, dies.
  • In 1911, American Entertainer George Liberace is born.
  • In 1921, World War II Veteran, Author, and Subject of Band of Brothers, Donald Malarkey was born.
  • In 1921, Civil Right Activist Whitney Young is born.
  • In 1929, Author Lynne Reid Banks was born.
  • In 1931, New York City experiments with Television broadcasts using the station ID of W2AXO.
  • In 1941, Adolph Hitler orders a timeline for the ‘Final Solution’.
  • In 1953, Robert Taft, Senator and Presidential hopeful, dies.
  • In 1958, Entrepreneur Mark Cuban was born.
  • In 1961, The First Baseball All-Star game ended in a Tie.
  • In 1965, Author J.K. Rowling was born.
  • In 1971, The Apollo 15 Astronauts become the first to ride in the Lunar Rover.
  • In 2006, Fidel Castro hands temporary power over to Raul Castro.

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Daily Run Down 06/12/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down

  • In 816, Pope Leo III dies.
  • In 1381, The Peasants’ Revolt arrives at Blackheath.
  • In 1429, Joan of Arc leads the French Army in the Battle of Jargeau.
  • In 1665, England installs a municipal government in New Amsterdam.
  • In 1771, Patrick Gass, sergeant during the Lewis and Clark Expedition, is born.
  • In 1776, The Virginia Declaration of Rights is adopted.
  • In 1806, Engineer John Augustus Roebling, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge, is born.
  • In 1860, The State Bank of the Russian Empire is established.
  • In 1864, THe Confederates gain a victory in the Battle of Cold Harbor.
  • In 1898, The Philippines declare independence.
  • In 1922, King George V receives six Irish regimental flags.
  • In 1924, Former President George H.W. Bush was born
  • In 1929, Famed diarist Anne Frank is born.
  • In 1939, The National Baseball Hall of Fame opens in Cooperstown, New York.
  • In 1940, 13,000 British and French troops surrender to the Germans at Sant-Valery-en-Caux.
  • In 1942, Anne Frank receives her infamous diary for her 13th birthday.
  • In 1967, The US Supreme Court rules that all U.S. State laws that prohibit interracial marriage were unconstitutional.
  • In 1968, Bassist of the group Blues Traveler, Bobby Sheehan, is born.
  • In 1987, US President Ronald Reagan challenges Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the Berlin Wall.
  • In 1991, Russia elects Boris Yeltsin president.
  • In 1994, Nicole Brown Simpson, wife of O.J. Simpson, is murdered.
  • In 1994, Ron Goldman, friend of Nicole Brown Simpson, is murdered.
  • In 1997, Queen Elizabeth II re-opens The Globe Theater in London.
  • In 2003, Actor Gregory Peck dies.
  • In 2007, Don Herbert, famously known as Mr. Wizard, dies.

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