THIS DAY IN HISTORY:
374 Haley’s comet passes close to Earth (.0884 AUS; 1 AU = 93 million miles)
1621 Pilgrims sign Peace Treaty with Wampanoag in Plymouth,
MA
1693 Cotton Mather’s 4 day old son dies and Witchcraft is
blamed
1700 English pranksters began the annual tradition of APRIL
FOOLS DAY. (some historians speculate that April Fools Day actually dates back
to 1582).
1748 Ruins of Pompei re-discovered
1778 The Dollar sign $ is created by Oliver Pollock
1789 First U.S. House of Representative selects first Speaker
of the House Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg
1826 Samuel Morrey issued first US Patent for an internal combustion
engine (called “gas” or vapour” engine)
1854 Charles Dickens starts series “Hard Times” in
the magazine “Household Words”
1857 Herman Melville (author of “Moby Dick”)
published “The Confidence Man”
1866 US Congress rejects Presidential veto giving “all”
equal rights
1871 New Constitution adopted by German Empire
1873 British Steamship Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia
1889 First Dishwashing machine marketed (in Chicago)
1891 London – Paris telephone connection opens
1905 Berlin and Paris linked by telephone
1918 Royal Air Force (RAF) founded
1924 Imperial Airways forms in Britain
1925 First transmission of Danish radio
1927 First automatic record changer introduced
1929 The Yo-Yo is introduced
1934 Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow kill two highway
patrolman (Bonnie & Clyde)
1935 First radio tube made of metal
1938 Nescafe starts its “flagship” brand in Switzerland (Personally,
I prefer Nestle’s Quick because…. “It’s so rich and thick, and chocolate,
that you can’t drink it slow, if it’s Quick” + I like the bunny)
1939 End of Spanish Civil War
1942 Mexico changes from 3 times zones to 2
1952 Big Bang theory introduce
1952 US conducts first Nuclear test at Nevada test site
1954 US Air Force Academy is founded in Colorado
1956 First “Tony” awards, “Diary of Anne Frank” and “Damn
Yankees” win
1957 World’s biggest glass oven is used
1960 First US Weather Satellite is used (hmm, then maybe
it was not a balloon at Roswell, I always knew it was really aliens after all)
1963 Premier of soap opera, General Hospital
1966 First world festival of Black art (held in Dakar, Senegal)
1967 US Dept of Transportation begins operation (This is quickly
followed by the invention of the “queue” as well as the “customer service
department”, or am I confusing this with Department of Motor Vehicles?)
1970 Pres. Nixon signs bill banning cigarette advertising on
TV and radio
1972 First Major League Baseball strike begins
1976 Steve Wosniak and Steve Jobs found Apple Compute in the
garage of Job’s parent’s house
1981 Daylight savings time is introduce in the U.S.S.R.
1982 US transfers control of Panama Canal to Panama
1986 World oil prices drop to $10.00 per barrel
1991 US minimum wage goes from $3.80 to $42.5 per hour
1997 69 year old Gordie Howe begins playing in the AHL (American
Hockey League) for the Syracuse Crunch
2001 Netherlands becomes first country to make same-sex
marriage legal
2004 Google introduces “Gmail” which is first thought to be
a joke because of the date introduced – Haha
2013 World first smelling TV is introduced in Japan (I have
no idea what this means!!)
2022 This is the 2nd day following the introduction,
and unveiling, of the Limited Edition #1 Issue of “The Incredible Hoperman-Origins”
in the World Golf Tour Forum. KABOOM!!
HOPERMAN TO THE
RESCUE - World Golf Tour (wgt.com)