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1878 - Edison makes electricity available for household use.
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In actually selecting what I'll pick thread-wise: both for interest(IMHO); zaniness(IMHO) and some modicum of cruciality to history(IMHO), this one sorta stuck out ...just a tad! 1929: Women are considered "Persons" under Canadian law. Women are finally declared "persons" under Canadian law. The historic legal victory is due to the persistence of five Alberta women -- Emily Murphy, Nellie McClung, Irene Parlby, Louise McKinney and Henrietta Muir Edwards. The battle started in 1916. From Murphy's very first day as a judge, lawyers had challenged her rulings because she is not a "person" under Canadian law. By 1927, the women had garnered support all across Canada. They petitioned the nation's Supreme Court. After five weeks of debate, the appeal was unanimously denied. Shocked, the women take the fight to the Privy Council of the British government; in those days it was Canada's highest court. Until then, Women had been defined in English Common law as persons in mattters of 'pain and penalty' but not in matters of 'rights and priveleges' http://www.canadian-studies.net/lccs/LJCS/Vol_17/Hughes.pdf
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ive_Statue.jpg<the 'Famous Five'http://feministphilosophers.files.wo...pg?w=300&h=145the Canadian $50 has been redesigned to show the icebreaker Amundesen ....setting off some feminist alarm:..."Private Employees President Carol Furlong. “The battle that these women fought to have women recognized under the law as people is a crucial part of our country’s history. The decision to remove a reference to these women, their struggle and their historic accomplishment from the new 50 dollar bill should be reversed.”:hmmm: Nice to know though, the population of Canada is 100% persons...Eh! |
1781 - British General Cornwallis surrenders at Yorktown at 2 pm; US Revolutionary War ends.
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All things at sea are strategic...and-
-All things on land are tactical! And so it is with Yorktown. This being a Naval forum it is well to set the record very straight. Absent from the victors' ranks was an officer who had done as much as anyone to bring about that moment, but had yet to set foot on the continent, Francois Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse. Commanding officer of the French fleet, de Grasse was on his flagship, the Ville de Paris, too sick to witness the surrender. Six weeks earlier, he had denied British Admiral Thomas Graves's fleet entrance to the Chesapeake Bay. Their battle at sea off the Virginia Capes had sealed the fate of Lord Cornwallis and forced the capitulation of the last operational British army on the mainland. De Grasse's strategic vision, "made possible the most important naval victory of the 18th century." http://www.americanrevolution.org/degrasse.html King George III was under NO illusions about the battle of the Virginia Capes: wrote (well before learning of Cornwallis's surrender) that "after the knowledge of the defeat of our fleet I nearly think the empire ruined." George Washington himself, ever master of his own image, until informed of the French Naval strategic intentiions of 1781, had been mis-focused on recapturing New York; reoriented swiftly and marching 490 miles to Yorktown and victory, put it succinctly in writing to Congress:" I wish it was in my Power to express to Congress, how much I feel myself indebted to The Count de Grasse and the Officers of the Fleet under his Command for the distinguished Aid and Support which have been afforded by them; between whom, and the Army, the most happy Concurrence of Sentiments and Views have subsisted, and from whom, every possible Cooperation has been experienced, which the most harmonious Intercourse could afford." http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...e_couleur.jpeg 9/5/1781: The real daddy of it all! The MAN, the MOMENT, the MACHINE (the French Fleet) =Yorktown! Amazingly, though he spent but two months in American waters he never set foot on American soil! The big view> http://www.ohwy.com/history%20pictur...ttle-capes.jpg"No land force can act decisively unless it is accompanied by maritime superiority"
---General George Washington :up: |
1097 - 1st Crusaders arrive in Antioch (First Crusade).
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Naval Matters-success and failure
1797: The USS Constitution, a 44-gun U.S. Navy frigate built to fight Barbary pirates off the coast of Tripoli, is launched in Boston Harbor. As seen 10/17/2014 (last Friday) before going into dry dock. She fired a 17 gun salute!http://media.salon.com/2014/10/const...eg-620x412.jpg 1805: In one of the most decisive naval battles in history, a British fleet under Admiral Lord Nelson defeats a combined French and Spanish fleet at the Battle of Trafalgar, fought off the coast of Spain. following on his previous great victory at Aboukir Bay, Nelson insured that Napoleon would remain a land animal....For the Duke of Wellington and 'general' Winter to finish off by 1815.http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_-_240404.jpg 1918: On this day in 1918, a German U-boat submarine, UB-94, commanded by KaptLt Waldemar Haumann, fires the last torpedo of WWI, as Germany ceases its policy of unrestricted submarine warfare. The final German torpedo of World War I fired in home waters was fired in the Irish Sea on October 21, sinking the British Saint Barchan, a 362 ton armed steamer, and drowning its eight crewmen. Her location is a well known dive site 4 miles off St John's Point Ireland at 30 meters depth. The UB-94 actually had a very extended career as the French submarine Trinite-Schillmans and was broken up in 1935.:salute:
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1854 - Florence Nightingale and a staff of 38 nurses were sent to the Crimean War.
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1879 - Thomas Edison perfects carbonized cotton filament light bulb.
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Let there be light! It's a big deal in Livermore CA!
:sign_yeah:^ Engendering a bit of stiff competition over incandescent braggadocio it seems!:up: Why can't someone make an incandescent light bulb that lasts? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longest-lasting_light_bulbs
It turns out, someone has. "The world's longest lasting light bulb is the Centennial Light.It is maintained by the Livermore Fire Department. The fire department claims that the bulb is at least 110 years old and has only been turned off a handful of times. The bulb has been noted by The Guinness Book of World Records, Ripley's Believe It or Not!, and General Electric as being the world's longest-lasting light bulb. http://www.centennialbulb.org/bulb-o...on-barry-s.jpg While it might seem astonishing that so many longest-lasting light bulbs have been so infrequently turned off, this is the precise reason for their longevity. Most of the wear and tear that leads to burnouts in incandescent light bulbs is caused by turning them on and off, not by burning them. Each time the bulb is turned on and off, the filament is heated and cooled. This causes the material of the filament to expand and contract, in turn causing tiny stress cracks to develop. The more the light is turned on and off, the larger these cracks grow, until eventually the filament breaks at some point, causing the light to burn out Another reason for the longevity of bulbs is the size and quality of the filament." http://www.centennialbulb.org/images/cb3s.jpg FYI: If you'd like to see it firsthand, come to: Fire Station #6 4550 East Ave. Livermore, CA:yeah:http://www.centennialbulb.org/books/guiness2013-1s.jpg |
2001 - The Provisional Irish Republican Army of Northern Ireland commences disarmament after peace talks.
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General Cornwallis solves a supply problem!
1777: Battle of Fort Mifflin begins on the Delaware River: a British Royal Navy fleet of ships, trying to open up supply lines along the Delaware River and the occupying British army in Philadelphia, is bombarded by American cannon fire and artillery from Fort Mifflin, PA. located on an island.
Six British ships were severely damaged, including the 64-gun battleship HMS Augusta and the 20-gun sloop Merlin, which both suffered direct hits before they were run aground and subsequently destroyed. More than 60 British troops aboard the Augusta were killed, while the crewmembers aboard the Merlin abandoned ship, narrowly avoiding a similar fate. Victory was short lived; within a month on Nov. 16, General Cornwallis occupied the heavily damaged abandoned fort and insured supplies to British troops in Philadelphia-while the Americans froze at Valley Forge. The siege left 250 of the 406 to 450 men garrisoned at the Fort Mifflin killed or wounded in the war's heaviest bombardment!! Survivors ferried these dead and wounded to the mainland before the final evacuation. Fort Mifflin never again saw military combat action... HMS Augusta-64 gun ship-of-the-line. Not good to lose!http://www.wrecksite.eu/img/nav/wreck.gifhttp://www.wrecksite.eu/img/nav/wreck.gif http://www.wrecksite.eu/img/wrecks/t750.jpg Ft. Mifflin today:http://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc8/2...rtmifflin4.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...pMudIsland.jpghttp://www.wrecksite.eu/img/nav/wreck.gifhttp://www.civilwaralbum.com/misc8/mifflin1.htmhttp://www.wrecksite.eu/img/nav/wreck.gif |
1857 - World's first soccer club, Sheffield F C, founded in Yorkshire, England.
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OH CANADA! & not on MY bucket-list!
1992: The Toronto Blue Jays beat the Atlanta Braves in the sixth game of the World Series to win the championship. It was the first time a Canadian team had ever won the trophy, and it was a truly international victory—the Blue Jays’ 25-man roster included several players of Puerto Rican descent, a Jamaican, three Dominicans and no actual Canadians. They would win it again the following year 1993! Sounds a bit how we won the America's Cup-international talent! EH! I admit to some bias-my mom's parents were from Brockville Canada a suburb of Toronto :up: 1901: On her birthday, a 63-year-old(my age) schoolteacher named Annie Edson Taylor becomes the first person to plunge over Niagra Falls in a barrel. Hoping to achieve fame and fortune, Taylor strapped herself into a leather harness inside an old wooden pickle barrel five feet high and three feet in diameter. Pressurized with a bike pump and corked; with cushions to break her fall, towed by a small boat into the middle of the fast-flowing Niagara River and released...:doh: Of 15 copy-cat (speaking of which, a cat was used to test the barrel-it also survived) attempts, 10 of 15 NUTS have survived although it is illegal...on either side of the falls....http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...nie_Taylor.jpg "If it was with my dying breath, I would caution anyone against attempting the feat... I would sooner walk up to the mouth of a cannon, knowing it was going to blow me to pieces than make another trip over the Fall." We'll take her word for it! Annie died in 1921 in poverty, her manager stole all the money and the barrel !
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1854 - Charge of Light Brigade (Battle of Balaclava, Crimean War), 409 die.
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How to market the OLD WEST $ucce$$fully!
What more famous day in American history relived in movies and lore: Fact rides outta town and myth becomes truth! 1881: Tombstone Arizona -The Shootout at the OK Corral!!? Wyatt Earp and Doc' Holliday take on the Clanton gang (in detail) furthering a long ongoing feud which needs no elaboration here. Just Rent TOMBSTONE the movie and visit the town someday.The town and Hollywood have never looked back.
Tom McLaury, Frank McLaury and Billy Clanton (left to right) lie dead after the gunfight at the O.K. Corral. This is the only known photo of 19 year-old Billy. Tombstone's largest funeral...to date. Three of the Earp faction were also wounded. The justice of the peace ruled 'Justifiable Homicide! http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...iesclanton.jpg1861: The telegraph having been connected on the 24th between San Francisco and 'Nebraska, The Pony Express announced its closure on October 26, 1861, The Pony Express grossed $90,000 and lost $200,000 in its 16 month lifespan. One young ex-rider never looked back to see what was gainin' on him...he didn't have to:http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...ody_ca1875.jpgHero,http://williamfcody.bbhc.org/assets/...169_b_d_lg.jpg scout and Showman the world over! |
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