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Good morning everyone!  It is April the 12th, and here are some things that happened today in history.

 

April 12
1799 - Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine-- a “machine for making combs.”

1833 - Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safein New York City. The safes are widely used to protect everything from priceless art to sensitive computer software. Some safes can burn at 1,700 degrees Fahrenheit for an hour and the contents will still be as cool as a cucumber. Other units can sustain heat up to 400-500 degrees for about the same time without damaging the valuable contents within.

1847 - Yung Wing, one of several Chinese students to arrive in America this day, went on to become the first student from China to graduate from YaleUniversity [1854].

1877 - James Alexander Tyng, while playing a baseball game in Lynn, MA, became the first ballplayer to wear a catcher’s mask.

1892 - Voters in Lockport, NY became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.

1905 - The Hippodrome opened in New York City with the gala musical revue, A Yankee Circus on Mars. Realize please, that this extraordinary event was done without the help of even one hippo...

1932 - The thrill-comedy, Joe Palooka, which would also be a popular comic strip, made its debut on CBS radio.

1939 - One of the classic theme songs of the Big Band era was recorded for Decca. Woody Herman’s orchestra recorded Woodchopper’s Ball.

1955 - The polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was termed “safe, effective and potent” by the University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center.

1963 - Bob Dylan appeared in his first solo concertat Town Hall in New York City.

1964 - Arnold Palmer won his fourth Masterstitle and became the first golfer to make career earnings of $506,496.84. We haven’t a clue where the 84 cents came from.

1964 - Philadelphia singer Chubby Checker married former Miss World, the Dutch-born beauty Catharina Lodders.

1967 - Jim Brown made his TV acting debut in Cops and Robbers on the NBC show I Spy, starring Bill Cosby and Robert Culp. I Spy aired from 1965 through 1968. The primary characters, Cosby and Culp, were secret agents posing as a top-notch tennis star and his trainer-companion. I Spywas the first television series to co-star a black actor.

1969 - Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip Peanuts made the cover of Saturday Review.

1984 - Challenger astronauts made the first satellite repair in orbitby returning a healthy Solar Max satellite to space. The orbiting sun watcher had been circling the Earth for three years with all circuits dead before repairs were made.

1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns, as the circus said, but goats with horns which had been surgically implanted. The circus was ordered to quit advertising the fake unicorns as anything else but goats. We assure you that no animals are harmed in the production of Those Were the Daysand we use only first-rate, genuine unicorns.

1985 - Senator Joseph ‘Jake’ Garn became the first space politicianas he lifted off this day from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

1987 - Larry Mize, 28, hit a miracle shot -- a 140-foot chip -- to win the Masters golf title in Augusta, GA. Mize defeated Greg Norman and Severiano Ballesteros in a playoff.

 

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1096 - Peter the Hermit gathered his army in Cologne.

1204 - The Fourth Crusade sacked Constantinople.

1606 - England adopted the original Union Jack as its flag.

1770 - The British Parliament repealed the Townsend Acts.

1782 - The British navy won its only naval engagement against the colonists in the American Revolution at the Battle of Saints, off Dominica.

1799 - Phineas Pratt patented the comb cutting machine.

1811 - The first colonists arrived at Cape Disappointment, Washington.

1833 - Charles Gaylor patented the fireproof safe.

1861 - Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America's Civil War.

1864 - Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest captured Fort Pillow, in Tennessee and slaughters the black Union troops there.

1877 - A catcher's mask was used in a baseball game for the first time by James Alexander Tyng.

1892 - Voters in Lockport, New York, became the first in the U.S. to use voting machines.

1905 - The Hippodrome opened in New York City.

1911 - Pierre Prier completed the first non-stop London-Paris flight in three hours and 56 minutes.

1916 - American cavalrymen and Mexican bandit troops clashed at Parrel, Mexico.

1927 - The British Cabinet came out in favor of women voting rights.

1934 - F. Scott Fitzgerald novel "Tender Is the Night" was first published.

1938 - The first U.S. law requiring a medical test for a marriage license was enacted in New York.

1944 - The U.S. Twentieth Air Force was activated to begin the strategic bombing of Japan.

1945 - In New York, the organization of the first eye bank, the Eye Bank for Sight Restoration, was announced.

1945 - U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S Truman became president.

1955 - The University of Michigan Polio Vaccine Evaluation Center announced that the polio vaccine of Dr. Jonas Salk was "safe, effective and potent."

1961 - Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth.

1963 - Police used dogs and cattle prods on peaceful civil rights demonstrators in Birmingham, AL.

1966 - Emmett Ashford became the first African-American major league umpire.

1967 - Jim Brown made his TV acting debut on the NBC show "I Spy."

1969 - Lucy and Snoopy of the comic strip "Peanuts" made the cover of "Saturday Review."

1981 - The space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight.

1982 - The British Navy began enforcing a blockade around the Falkland Islands.

1982 - Three CBS employees were shot to death in a New York City parking lot.

1983 - Harold Washington was elected the first black mayor of Chicago.

1984 - Astronauts aboard the space shuttle Challenger made the first satellite repair in orbit by returning the Solar Max satellite to space.

1984 - Israeli troops stormed a bus that had been hijacked the previous evening by four Arab terrorists. All the passengers were rescued and 2 of the hijackers were killed.

1985 - U.S. Senator Jake Garn of Utah became the first senator to fly in space as the shuttle Discovery lifted off from Cape Canaveral, FL.

1985 - In Spain, an explosion in a restaurant near a U.S. base killed 17 people.

1985 - Federal inspectors declared that four animals of the Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus were not unicorns. They were goats with horns that had been surgically implanted.

1987 - Texaco filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy after it failed to settle a legal dispute with Pennzoil Co.

1988 - Harvard University won a patent for a genetically altered mouse. It was the first patent for a life form.

1988 - The Chinese government named a new array of younger leaders to ensure economic reform.

1989 - In the U.S.S.R, ration cards were issued for the first time since World War II. The ration was prompted by a sugar shortage.

1992 - Disneyland Paris opened in Marne-La-Vallee, France.

1993 - NATO began enforcing a no-fly zone over Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2000 - More than 1,500 anti-drug agents raided four cities in Colombia and arrested 46 members of the "most powerful" heroin ring.

2000 - Robert Cleaves, 71, was convicted of second degree murder and was sentenced to 16 years in prison. Cleaves had repeatedly run over Arnold Guerreiro on September 30, 1998 with his car after the two had an argument.

2000 - Israel's High Court ordered the release of eight Lebanese detainees that had been held for years without a trial.

2002 - A first edition version of Beatrix Potter's "Peter Rabbit" sold for $64,780 at Sotheby's. A signed first edition of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Hobbit" sold for $66,630. A copy of "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone," signed by J.K. Rowling sold for $16,660. A 250-piece collection of rare works by Charles Dickens sold for $512,650.

2002 - It was announced that the South African version of "Sesame Street" would be introducing a character that was HIV-positive.

2002 - JCPenney Chairman Allen Questrom rang the opening bell to start the business day at the New York Stock Exchange as part of the company's centennial celebrations. James Cash (J.C.) Penney opened his first retail store on April 14, 1902.

 

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April 12, 1779 - Spain and France sign the Treaty of Aranjuez. France agreed to aid in the capture of Gibraltar, the Floridas, and the island of Minorca. In return, the Spanish agreed to join in France’s war against Great Britain. Based on the terms of the treaty, Spain joined the American War of Independence against Britain.

April 12, 1983 - Begin the Beguine (film) won the 1982 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film, and was the first Spanish film to do so.

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Irene Muni wrote:

April 12, 1779 - Spain and France sign the
Treaty of Aranjuez
. France agreed to aid in the capture of Gibraltar, the Floridas, and the island of Minorca. In return, the Spanish agreed to join in France’s war against Great Britain. Based on the terms of the treaty, Spain joined the American War of Independence against Britain.

April 12, 1983 - 
(film) won the 1982 Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Foreign Language Film, and was the first Spanish film to do so.

Oh that is good stuff Irene!  Thank you for sharing!

 

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4-12-2013 Linden Labs is accidentally listed for sale in the marketplace for $L1. Nobody notices.

4-12-2019 Ralston "Tent Pole" Nutwallow, inventor of Viagra, dies in a freak accident lasting more than four hours.

4-12-2059 SL Viewer V49 is released , earning a rave review. Within three days, the viewer is in use by 50% of residents. The lone holdout, DoeEyedVixen2055 Resident, refuses to download the new release for fear it will mess up V48, which is the first viewer she's ever used that doesn't freeze when she types the letter "P".

4-12-2064 PromiscuousPeppermintPatty Resident attempts to purchase a dollarbie black velvet painting of a Parrot playing Poker with a Pomeranian, a Poodle and a Pekinese,  accidentally becoming owner of Linden Labs. When questioned about her good fortune, Patty waxes nostalgic about the days before Vixen finally installed V49.

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Madelaine McMasters wrote:

4-12-2013 Linden Labs is accidentally listed for sale in the marketplace for $L1. Nobody notices.

4-12-2019 Ralston "Tent Pole" Nutwallow, inventor of Viagra, dies in a freak accident lasting more than four hours.

4-12-2059 SL Viewer V49 is released , earning a rave review. Within three days, the viewer is in use by 50% of residents. The lone holdout, DoeEyedVixen2055 Resident, refuses to download the new release for fear it will mess up V48, which is the first viewer she's ever used that doesn't freeze when she types the letter "P".

4-12-2064 PromiscuousPeppermintPatty Resident attempts to purchase a dollarbie black velvet painting of a Parrot playing Poker with a Pomeranian, a Poodle and a Pekinese,  accidentally becoming owner of Linden Labs. When questioned about her good fortune, Patty waxes nostalgic about the days before Vixen finally installed V49.

 

OMG Maddy!  Almost spit coffee again!  Sigh!  HEHEHE!

 

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emmettcullen93 wrote:

dont forget!

4-12-2149   second life is now challenged by a new internet based virtual world that not even using computers is needed. the name is unknown to humans as a alien life form has had this technology and used it for over 400 years.

LOL Emmett!  HEHE!

 

 

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Good morning all!  It April the 13th!  Here is todays history lesson.

1598   The Edict of Nantes grants political rights to French Huguenots.
1775   Lord North extends the New England Restraining Act to South Carolina, Virginia, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. The act forbids trade with any country other than Britain and Ireland.
1861   After 34 hours of bombardment, Union-held Fort Sumter surrenders to Confederates.
1865   Union forces under Gen. Sherman begin their devastating march through Georgia.
1902   J.C. Penny opens his first store in Kemmerer, Wyoming.
1919   British forces kill hundreds of Indian nationalists in the Amritsar Massacre.
1933   The first flight over Mount Everest is completed by Lord Clydesdale.
1941   German troops capture Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
1943   Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicates the Jefferson Memorial.
1945   Vienna falls to Soviet troops.
1960   The first navigational satellite is launched into Earth's orbit.
1961   The U.N. General Assembly condemns South Africa because of apartheid.
1964   Sidney Poitier becomes the first black to win an Oscar for best actor.
1970   An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, preventing a planned moon landing and jeopardizing the lives of the three-man crew.
1976   The U.S. Federal Reserve begins issuing $2 bicentennial notes.
1979   The world's longest doubles ping-pong match ends after 101 hours.

Born on April 13

1721   John Hanson, first U.S. President under the Articles of Confederation.
1732   Frederick Lord North, British prime minister (1770-82).
1743   Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States (1801-09)
1852   Frank W. Woolworth, American retailer.
1866   Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American outlaw and leader of the Wild Bunch.
1899   Alfred Butts, inventor of the board game Scrabble.
1906   Samuel Beckett, playwright, Nobel Prize winner (Waiting for Godot).
1909   Eudora Welty, Southern writer (Delta Wedding, The Optimist's Daughter).
1922   John Gerard Braine, British novelist (Room at the Top).
1939  

Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, Nobel laureate.

 

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Irene Muni wrote:

April 13, 1742
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First performance of
The Messiah,
by Handel,
in Dublin.

YAY!  I have always loved that around the holidays.  A tradition if you will!  Thanks Irene!

 

Peace!

I always wake up with that oratorio on Easter Sunday :)

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Irene Muni wrote:

Hippie Bowman wrote:

Irene Muni wrote:

April 13, 1742
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First performance of
The Messiah,
by Handel,
in Dublin.

YAY!  I have always loved that around the holidays.  A tradition if you will!  Thanks Irene!

 

Peace!

I always
wake up with
that oratorio
on Easter Sunday
:)

I just love it Irene!

 

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