In 1754 the first newspaper cartoon showed up in a U.S. newspaper. It was done by George Washington and showed America as a cut apart snake with the words "Join or Die" and appeared in the Franklin Gazette in Pennsylvania.
In 1790 The Ottawas, Chippewas, Pottawatomie's and the Hurons, ceded two million acres in Ontario.
In 1880, George Brown died in Toronto from wounds suffered from being shot by a man named Bennett who was later hanged for his Murder.in 1899
The Lawn Mower was patented. There was a big Scythe of relief after that for sure..
The modern holiday of Mother's Day was first celebrated in 1908 in the U.S. in 1908 when Anna Jarvis held a memorial for her Mother in Grafton West Virginia (Yes Virginia there is a Mother's Day). She then began to make Mother's Day a recognized Holiday. President Wilson 1st proclaimed it in 1914. I couldn't find when it was first celebrated in Canada. I guess it was just picked up as a great idea from the U.S. just as we now pick up those great Canadian celebrations such as "Black Friday" and "Super Bowl Sunday" :(.
In 1926, Richard Byrd and Floyd Bennett became the first people to fly over the North Pole. 3 years later
it was the South Poles's turn when a Byrd flew over. It was Richard again but he talked of "green Land and Bison-like animals and what looked like "primitive men". Suddenly the report went off the air & officials talked of Byrd having hallucinations due to exhaustion, or maybe he saw Shangri-La.
Shangri-la with words so you can sing along....:)
In 1946 the first Hour Long Variety Show was introduced on TV. It was "NBC's Hour Glass"
In 1962 the U.S. performed a Nuclear test at Christmas Island and on the same day they bounced a laser beam off the Moon. It was called back for "travelling" the next day. (dumb basketball joke, sorry)
The Beatles, in 1965, attended a Bob Dylan concert but asked later if he could change the song title to "like a Beatle Guy" instead of "Like a Rolling Stone"
In 1970 Hundreds of Thousands demonstrated against the Viet Nam War.
In 1977 Patty Hearst got her "get out of Jail Free Card" and TV commercials for the AMAZING PATTY stacker were taken off TV.
In 1990 a Big Barrie development in the Barrie downtown area known as the H-Block remained empty because of the High Interest rates at the time. So there was no "REPARATION H" for Barrie.
In 2011 The U.S. Texas Senate approved amended legislation allowing students to carry HANDGUNS on Campus. They had to give up something though, so they decided on BOOKS.
Lot of BIRTHDAY PEEPS TO PEEP AT TODAY
CLARENCE EUGENE "HANK" SNOW (who had been everywhere and done moved on to the U.S.) was born on this date in 1914 in Brooklyn Nova Scotia. A victim of child abuse he was booted out of the house at age 12 by his stepfather and worked as a fisherman, stevedore, packer and fish peddler, saving his money to buy a Guitar. His first radio job was with CHNS in Halifax in 1933 where he was billed as Clarence snow and his guitar and the rest as they say is HISTORY. He sold in the neighbourhood of 90 Million records which is a pretty nice neighbourhood.
Another big-time seller of records, Billy Joel is 64 today. Also celebrating is Candace Bergen who is pushing her dad's Book (Edgar Bergen) "Dummies for Dummies. Hockey's great Steve Yzerman is 48, the creator of Peter Pan, J.M Barrie was born in Scotland in 1860 (he apparently was under 5 feet tall), Bubblegummer Tommy Roe is 71 today, Skater Barbara Ann Scott was born in 1928, and 1909 saw the birthday of Canada's most famous fiddler Don Messer who's radio show went on in 1944 and switched to TV in 1959 on the CBC for 10 years then into syndication until his death in 1973.
and finally (after another battle with the computer)
I just saw another great documentary on the Titanic and how they held it together. "it was Riveting"
even tho I *know* how much time you spend on these posts and how much computer problems you have, I will so miss these trips down interesting-lane.
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