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Daily Run Down: 12/16/2012: Historical Edition

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Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 714, Frankish Noble Pippin of Herstal dies.
In 1431, Henry VI of England is crowned King of France.
In 1485, Catherine of Aragon is born.
In 1497, Vasco da Gama rounds the Cape of Good Hope.
In 1575, The Valdivia earthquake strikes.
In 1687, English scientist William Petty dies.
In 1707, The Last recorded eruption of Mount Fuji occurs.
In 1773, The Boston Tea Party occurs.
In 1775, Author Jane Austen is born.
In 1776, German physicist Johann Wilhelm Ritter is born.
In 1790, King Leopold I of Belgium is born.
In 1812, Four Earthquakes strike New Madrid, Missouri.
In 1850, The first of the Canterbury Pilgrims land in Lyttelton, New Zealand.
In 1859, German folklorist Wilhelm Grimm dies.
In 1905, Danish mathematician Piet Hein is born.
In 1907, The Great White Fleet begins circumnavigating the world.
In 1917, English author Sir Arthur C. Clarke is born.
In 1920, The Haiyuan earthquake strikes the Gansu province in China.
In 1928, American writer Philip K. Dick is born.
In 1937, Theodore Cole and Ralph Roe escape Alcatraz.
In 1938, Adolf Hitler institutes the Cross of Honor of the German Mother.
In 1945, Italian Inventor Giovanni Agnelli, founder of Fiat, dies.
In 1946, Thailand joins the United Nations.
In 1965, English Writer W. Somerset Maugham dies.
In 1972, Henry Kissinger announces that North Vietnam has left the peace negotiations.
In 1985, John Gotti assumes leadership of the Gambino Family.
In 1997, Lillian Disney, wife of Walt Disney, dies.
In 2003, President George W. Bush signs the CAN-SPAM Act.
In 2005, American Actor John Spencer dies from a heart attack.
In 2007, American Songwriter Dan Fogelberg dies.
In 2009, American Film Industry Executive Roy E. Disney dies.
In 2010, American World War II Solider and Medal of Honor Recipient Melvin E. Biddle dies.

Look for current news later and another historical Daily Run Down next week.

There are 32 stories this week.

Daily Run Down: 12/09/2012: Historical Edition

In 1425, The Catholic University of Leuven is founded.
In 1565, Pope Pius IV dies.
In 1571, Dutch Mathematician and astronomer Metius is born.
In 1608, English Poet John Milton is born.
In 1674, English Statesman Edward Hyde dies.
In 1748, French chemist Claude Louis Berthollet is born.
In 1787, English Architect John Dobson is born.
In 1793, New York City’s first daily newspaper, The American Minerva, is established.
In 1835, The Texian Army captures San Antonio.
In 1851, The YMCA is established in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
In 1875, THe Massachusetts Rifle Association is established.
In 1905, France Passes its secularity law.
In 1906, American computer scientist Grace Hopper is born.
In 1911, 84 Miners are killed near Briceville, Tennessee.
In 1916, American Actor Kirk Douglas was born.
In 1919, William Lipscomb, American Chemist, was born.
In 1922, Gabriel Narutowicz is announced first President of Poland.
In 1922, American comedian Redd Foxx is born.
In 1934, English Actress Dame Judy Dench was born.
In 1953, General Electric announces that all Communist employees will be dismissed.
In 1962, The Petrified Forest National Park is established in Arizona.
In 1966, Barbados joins the United Nations.
In 1971, United Arab of Emirates joins the United Nations.
In 1995, American aviator Douglas Corrigan dies.
In 2000, The US Supreme Court stays the Florida Recount.
In 2008, Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich (Blago / Gov. Rod), is arrested.

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There are 26 stories this week.

Daily Run Down: 10/07/2012: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 3761 BC, The Epoch reference date for the Modern Hebrew Calendar begins.
In 929, King Charles III of France dies.
In 1471, King Frederick I of Denmark is born.
In 1477, Uppsala University is inaugurated.
In 1542, Explorer Cabrillo discovers Santa Catalina Island.
In 1582, This day is skipped in Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain due to the implementation of the Gregorian Calendar.
In 1849, Poet Edgar Allen Poe dies.
In 1868, Cornell University opens.
In 1879, American Labor Activist Joe Hill is born.
In 1885, Danish Physicist Neils Bohr is born.
In 1900, German Nazi Official Heinrich Himmler is born.
In 1903, German mathematician Rudolph Lipschitz dies.
In 1916, Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University, 222-0.
In 1933, Air France begins service.
In 1949, The German Democratic Republic is formed.
In 1951, American Singer John Mellencamp was born.
In 1958, The U.S. Manned space-flight project is renamed Project Mercury.
In 1960, Nigeria joins The United Nations.
In 1982, Cats opens on Broadway.
In 1993, The Great Flood of 1993 ends.

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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 12/18/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 1290, King Magnus I of Sweden dies.
In 1496, Vlad III, The Impaler, dies.
In 1642, Abel Tasman becomes the first European to land in New Zealand.
In 1777, America celebrates its First Thanksgiving.
In 1787, New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the US Constitution.
In 1878, Joseph Stalin, Soviet Union Leader, is born.
In 1913, Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany, is born.
In 1915, US President Woodrow Wilson marries while in office.
In 1943, Rolling Stones Guitarist Keith Richards was born.
In 1946, American Film Director Steven Spielberg was born.
In 1956, Japan joins the United Nations.
In 1956, American Comedian Ron White was born.
In 1963, Actor Brad Pitt was born.
In 1964, Football Player Don Beebe was born.
In 1966, Saturn’s Moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
In 1987, Larry Wall releases the first version of Perl.
In 1997, HTML 4.0 is officially published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
In 1997, Comedian Chris Farley dies.

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Daily Run Down 06/26/2011: Historical Edition

Here is today’s Historical Daily Run Down.

In 221, Alexander Severus is adopted by Roman Emperor Elagabalus and is receives the title of Caesar.
In 363, Roman Emperor Julian is killed during a retreat from the Sassanid Empire.
In 1284, the famed Pied Piper leads 130 Children out of Hamelin, Germany.
In 1409, Antipope Alexander V is >crowned.
In 1694, Swedish Chemist and mineralogist Georg Brandt, the discoverer of cobalt, is born.
In 1723, Baku surrenders to the Russians after a siege.
In 1730, French Astronomer Charles Messier is born.
In 1810, Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventory of a hot air balloon, is born.
In 1819, US Army Major General Abner Doubleday is born.
In 1848, The June Days Uprising ends in Paris.
In 1857, The first investiture of the Victoria Cross is done in Hyde Park, London.
In 1870, Christmas is declared a federal holiday in the United States.
In 1898, Wilhelm Messerschmitt, the German Aircraft designer, is born.
In 1909, the Science Museum of London gains independence.
In 1909, Disney Animator Wolfgag Reitherman is born.
In 1915, Mobster Constantino Castellano is born.
In 1927, The Coney Island Cyclone rollercoaster is opened.
In 1934, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Federal Credit Union Act, which establishes credit unions.
In 1945, The United Nations Charter is signed in San Francisco.
In 1960, Madagascar gains independence from France.
In 1970, Film directo Paul Thomas Anderson was born.
In 1974, the first Universal Product Code (UPC) is scanned in Troy, Ohio.
In 1997, The Supreme Court overturns the Communications Decency Act, which would regulate pornographic material on the Internet.
In 2003, The Supreme Court reversed the Sodomy law in Texas, in the Lawrence v. Texas case.
In 2003, World War II US Army Staff Sergeant Denver Bull Randleman dies.
In 2003, Longest sitting US Senator Strom Thurmond dies.
In 2007, Fashion Designer Liz Claiborne dies.
In 2008, The Supreme Court revokes the District of Columbia ban on handguns, in the District of Columbia v. Heller case.

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Daily Run Down 02/27/2011

Here is todays Daily Run Down.

Current News

February 2011 is the snowiest in Chicago’s History.
Cook County Workers will be required to take 10 days off without pay.
Here is a video of Shuttle Discovery’s Last flight as viewed from the Air.
The Largest Crowds since the Vietnam War have marched in Wisconsin.
Egypt is now going to limit the length of a term.
Shuttles from Four Different Space Agencies are linked together on the International Space Station.
Hawaii’s Board has given the go ahead for a new giant telescope.
The UK Government has declared that any open source must be royalty free.

Historical News:

In 1594 Henry IV is crowned King of France.
In 1720, Samuel Parris, Reverend in Massachusetts during the Salem Witch Trials, dies.
In 1801, Washington D.C. is placed under the jurisdiction of the US Congress.
In 1844, The Dominican Republic gains independence from Haiti.
In 1900, the Britsh Labour Party is founded.
In 1933, The U.S. Supreme Court rules that sit-down strikes are illegal.
In 1951, The 22nd-Amendment, limiting a President’s number of terms, is enacted.
In 1974, People Magazine is published for the first time.
In 272, The Roman Emperor Constantine the Great is born.
In 1807, US Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is born.
In 1892, Louis Vuitton, namesake of the famous Brand, dies.
In 1902, Author John Steinbeck was born.
In 1910, Actress Joan Bennett was born.
In 1932, Actress Liz Taylor was born.
In 1934, Political Activist Ralph Nader was born.
In 1940, Carbon-14 is discovered by Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben.
In 1971, Dutch Doctors perform the first abortion.
In 1973, Bill Everett comic book writer-artist dies at the age of 55.
In 1985, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr, ambassador to the United Nations and South Vietnam, dies.
In 1991, President George H.W. Bush, annonces that Kuwait is liberated.
In 2003, Fred Rogers, also known to millions as Mr. Rogers, dies at the age of 74.
In 2008, Boyd Coddington, American Hot-rod maker, dies due to complications of a surgery.

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Daily Run Down 10/24/2010

Here is today’s Daily Run Down.

Current News

Indiana state troopers have made a $1.6 Million cocaine bust.
Broadcast Networks are blocking Google TV from accessing their shows.
Netflix has begun testing a streaming-only subscription in the US.
A Man decided to ride his lawnmower to spring his dog from a kennel.
The UN has confirmed five cases of cholera in Haiti.
A 4.4 magnitude Earthquake has created a landslide in Wyoming.
Asterik 1.8 has been released with Google Voice Support.
Two Himalayan Sherpas are missing after an avalanche.

Historical News

In 1537, Jane Seymour, the third wife of Henry VIII, dies.
In 1590, John White, the governor of the Second Roanoake Colony returns to England after a failed search for the ‘lost colonists’.
In 1861, the First transcontinental Telegraph line was laid.
In 1903, Melvin Purvis, the American FBI agent who killed Dillinger is born.
In 1911, Orville Wright stayed aloft for 9 minutes and 45 seconds.
In 1926, Harry Houdini performed his last act.
In 1929, The first day of the Stock Crash occurs and becomes Black Thursday.
In 1930, J.P. Richardson, also known as the Big Bopper, is born.
In 1945, The United Nations was formed.
In 1991, Gene Roddenbury, the American Television Producer and Star Trek producer, dies.

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