Good morning, Sunday

MorganGrayson · 07-24-2005

On this day in history, July 24th...

1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va
1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate
1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain
1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess
1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT
1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC
1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union
1870 1st trans-US rail service begins
1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die
1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne
1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs
1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war
1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west
1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral
1959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate"
1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba
1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of the Today Show
1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship
1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone"
1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of the NY Mets
1967 Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana
1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu‚bec libre! Long live free Quebec!'
1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth
1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game
1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal
1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes
1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth
1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC
1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "the one is a born liar
the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson
1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR
1984 Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open
1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai
1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released
1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup
1990 Ms. Magazine hits the newstands again after an 8 month haitus
1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of
the solar system

Trev · 07-24-2005

A happy Sunday to you Morgan and thank you for todays history recap

07-24-2005	#1
MorganGrayson None $100 for every ImLive sign-up Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 4,321	Good morning, Sunday On this day in history, July 24th... 1651 Anthony Johnson, a free black, receives grant of 250 acres in Va 1673 Edmund Halley enters Queen's College, Oxford, as an undergraduate 1704 Great Britain takes Gibralter from Spain 1758 George Washington admitted to Virginia House of Burgess 1847 Brigham Young & his Mormon followers arrive at Salt Lake City, UT 1847 Rotary-type printing press patented by Richard March Hoe, NYC 1866 Tennessee becomes 1st Confederate state readmitted to Union 1870 1st trans-US rail service begins 1915 Excursion ship Eastland capsizes in Lake Michigan, 852 die 1923 Allied Powers & Turkey sign peace treaty, Lausanne 1925 Scopes guilty of teaching evolution in a Tn HS, fined $100 & costs 1929 Pres Hoover proclaims Kellogg-Briand Pact which renounces war 1948 Soviets blockades Berlin from the west 1950 V-2/WAC Corporal rocket launch; 1st launch from Cape Canaveral 1959 VP Nixon argued with Khrushchev, known as "Kitchen Debate" 1961 Beginning of a trend, a US commercial plane is hijacked to Cuba 1961 Edwin Newman becomes news anchor of the Today Show 1963 Sonny Liston KOs Floyd Patterson to retain heavyweight championship 1965 Bob Dylan release "Like a Rolling Stone" 1965 Casey Stengel resigns as manager of the NY Mets 1967 Beatles sign a petition in The Times to legalize marijuana 1967 Charles de Gaulle says 'Vive le Qu‚bec libre! Long live free Quebec!' 1969 Apollo 11 returns to Earth 1969 Hoyt Wilhelm pitches in a record 907th major league game 1969 Muhammad Ali is convicted for refusing induction in US Army on appeal 1974 Supreme Court unanimously rules Nixon must turn over Watergate tapes 1975 Apollo 18 returns to Earth 1978 "Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" premeirs in NYC 1978 Billy Martin resigns as Yankee manager after "the one is a born liar the other a convicted one" comment about Steinbrenner & Jackson 1979 Red Sox Carl Yastrzemski hits his 400th HR 1984 Seve Ballesteros wins the British Open 1985 Gandhi signs peace contract with Sikh leader Harchand Singh Longowai 1987 IBM-PC DOS Version 3.3 (updated) released 1988 US & Jamacia play scoreless tie, in 2nd round of 1990 world soccer cup 1990 Ms. Magazine hits the newstands again after an 8 month haitus 1991 U of Manchester scientist announce finding a planet outside of the solar system

07-24-2005	#2
Trev Cunty Want to see your own Advertising Here! Join Date: Jan 2003 Posts: 10,150	Re: Good morning, Sunday A happy Sunday to you Morgan and thank you for todays history recap __________________ Sucks to be you.