On
This Date In 630 The
Battle of Hunain was fought between Muhammad and his followers
against the Bedouin tribe of Hawazin and its subsection the Thaqif in
a valley on one of the roads leading from Mecca to al-Ta'if. The
battle ended in a decisive victory for the Muslims, who captured
enormous spoils. The Battle of Hunayn is one of only two battles
mentioned in the Qur'an by name, in Sura.
On
This Date In 1302 Poet
and politician Dante Alighieri was exiled from Florence, where he
served as one of six priors governing the city. Dante's political
activities, including the banishing of several rivals, led to his own
banishment, and he wrote his masterpiece, The
Divine Comedy,
as a virtual wanderer, seeking protection for his family in town
after town.
On
This Date In 1756 Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791), prolific and
influential composer of the Classical era, was born. He composed over
600 works, many acknowledged as pinnacles of symphonic, concertante,
chamber, piano, operatic, and choral music. He is among the most
enduringly popular of classical composers.
On
This Date In 1785 The
Georgia General Assembly incorporated the University of Georgia, the
first state-funded institution of higher learning in the new
republic.
On
This Date In 1851 John
James Audubon (April 26, 1785 – January 27, 1851), French-American
ornithologist, naturalist, and painter, died of natural causes. He
was notable for his expansive studies to document all types of
American birds and for his detailed illustrations that depicted the
birds in their natural habitats. His major work, a color-plate book
entitled The
Birds of North America
(1827–1839), is considered one of the finest ornithological works
ever completed. Audubon identified 25 new species and a number of new
sub-species.
On
This Date In 1862 During
the American Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln issued General War
Order No. 1, ordering all land and sea forces to advance on February
22, 1862. This bold move sent a message to his commanders that the
president was tired of excuses and delays in seizing the offensive
against Confederate forces.
On
This Date In 1888 The
National Geographic Society was incorporated. Headquartered in
Washington, D.C. in the United States, it is one of the largest
non-profit scientific and educational institutions in the world. Its
interests include geography, archaeology and natural science, the
promotion of environmental and historical conservation, and the study
of world culture and history.
On
This Date In 1903 The
Battle of Dilam, a major battle of the Unification War between
Rashidi and Saudi rebels, was fought in the town of Dilam, south of
Riyadh, the capital of present day Saudi Arabia. After one year of
conquest of Riyadh, Ibn Saud planned to grap Rashidis away from
Riyadh by fake news. Ibn Saud has deployed 1,000 fighters in Riyadh
and left the city with another 3,500 and captured Dilam. Rashidis
followed Ibn Saud to Dilam in order to finish him and regain control
of Dilam. During the battle Rashidis lost 250 men, and totally lost
control of southern Nejd.
On
This Date In 1908 Harry
Houdini, Hungarian-born American magician and escapologist, stunt
performer, actor and film producer, introduced his own original act,
the Milk Can Escape. In this act, Houdini would be handcuffed and
sealed inside an over-sized milk can filled with water and make his
escape behind a curtain. As part of the effect, Houdini would invite
members of the audience to hold their breath along with him while he
was inside the can. Advertised with dramatic posters that proclaimed
“Failure Means A Drowning Death,” the escape proved to be a
sensation.
On
This Date In 1926 John
Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gave the first public demonstration
of a true television system in London, launching a revolution in
communication and entertainment. Baird's invention, a
pictorial-transmission machine he called a “televisor,” used
mechanical rotating disks to scan moving images into electronic
impulses. This information was then transmitted by cable to a screen
where it showed up as a low-resolution pattern of light and dark.
Baird's first television program showed the heads of two
ventriloquist dummies, which he operated in front of the camera
apparatus out of view of the audience.
On
This Date In 1927 “The
Big Four,” a work of detective fiction by author Agatha Christie,
was first published in the UK by William Collins & Sons on
January 27, 1927 and in the US by Dodd, Mead and Company later in the
same year. It features Hercule Poirot, Arthur Hastings and Chief
Inspector Japp. The UK edition retailed at seven shillings and
sixpence (7/6) and the US edition at $2.00.
On
This Date In 1939 Adolph
Hitler ordered “Plan Z”, the name given to the planned
re-equipment and expansion of the Nazi German Navy (Kriegsmarine).
The plan called for a Kriegsmarine of ten battleships, four aircraft
carriers, three battlecruisers, eight heavy cruisers, 44 light
cruisers, 68 destroyers and 249 U-boats by 1944 that was meant to
challenge the naval power of the United Kingdom.
On
This Date In 1943 During
World War II, 8th Air Force bombers, dispatched from their bases in
England, flew the first American bombing raid against the Germans,
targeting the Wilhelmshaven port. Of 64 planes participating in the
raid, 53 reached their target and managed to shoot down 22 German
planes—and lost only three planes in return.
On
This Date In 1944 During
World War II, Soviet forces permanently broke the Leningrad siege
line, ending the almost 900-day German-enforced containment of the
city, which cost hundreds of thousands of Russian lives.
On
This Date In 1945 During
World War II, the Soviet army entered Auschwitz, Birkenau, and
Monowitz and liberated around 7,000 prisoners, most of whom were ill
and dying. It is estimated that the German SS and police deported at
a minimum 1.3 million people to Auschwitz complex between 1940 and
1945. Of these, the camp authorities murdered 1.1 million.
http://www.ushmm.org/wlc/en/article.php?ModuleId=10005189
On
This Date In 1951 Forcefully
marking the continued importance of the West in the development of
nuclear weaponry, the United States government detonated the first of
a series of nuclear bombs at its new Nevada Test Site, today known as
the Nevada National Security Site. Nuclear testing at the Nevada Test
Site began with a 1-kiloton-of-TNT bomb dropped on Frenchman Flat on
January 27th. Many of the iconic images of the nuclear era come from
NTS.
On
This Date In 1965 The
Shelby GT 350, a version of a Ford Mustang sports car developed by
the American auto racer and car designer Carroll Shelby, is launched.
The Shelby GT 350, which featured a 306 horsepower V-8 engine,
remained in production through the end of the 1960s and today is a
valuable collector's item.
On
This Date In 1967 During
the Vietnam War, Specialist Four Donald W. Evans, Jr. from Company A,
2d Battalion, 12th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division, fought
and died. During a firefight on that day, in Tri Tam, in the Kontum
Province.of the Republic of Vietnam, Evans repeatedly exposed himself
to enemy fire in order to treat and evacuate wounded soldiers, even
after being seriously wounded himself. He was killed during the
battle and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions.
He was also awarded the Purple Heart. The United States Army hospital
at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs, Colorado is named in his honor as
Evans Army Community Hospital.
On
This Date In 1967 Apollo
1 is the official name that was later given to the never-flown
Apollo/Saturn 204 (AS-204) mission. Its command module (CM-012) was
destroyed by fire during a test and training exercise on January 27,
1967 at Pad 34 (Launch Complex 34, Cape Canaveral, then known as Cape
Kennedy) atop a Saturn IB rocket. The crew aboard were the astronauts
selected for the first manned Apollo program mission: Command Pilot
Virgil I. “Gus” Grissom, Senior Pilot Ed White and Pilot Roger B.
Chaffee. All three died in the fire.
On
This Date In 1970 John
Lennon wrote and recorded “Instant Karma” in a single day. It
ranks as one of the fastest-released songs in pop music history,
recorded at London's Abbey Road Studios the same day it was written,
and arriving in stores only ten days later. Lennon remarked to the
press, he “wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch, and we're
putting it out for dinner.” The record was produced by Phil
Spector, the first of many recordings by the Beatles that Spector
worked on that year.
On
This Date In 1973 The
Paris Peace Accords of 1973, intended to establish peace in Vietnam
and an end to the Vietnam Conflict, ended direct U.S. military
involvement and temporarily stopped the fighting between north and
south. The governments of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North
Vietnam), the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), and the United
States, as well as the Provisional Revolutionary Government (PRG)
that represented indigenous South Vietnamese revolutionaries signed
the Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam on
January 27, 1973.
On
This Date In 1975 A
bipartisan Senate investigation of activities by the Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) was
launched by a special congressional committee headed by Senator Frank
Church of Idaho. A precursor to the U.S. Senate Select Committee on
Intelligence, the committee investigated intelligence gathering for
illegality by the FBI and the CIA after certain activities had been
revealed by the Watergate affair.
On
This Date In 1980 The
“Canadian Caper” was the popular name given to the covert rescue
by the Government of Canada of six American diplomats who evaded
capture during the seizure of the United States embassy in Tehran,
Iran and taking of embassy personnel as hostages by the Iranians on
November 4, 1979. On January 27, 1980, the American diplomats were
smuggled out of Iran, traveling with Canadian passports, boarded a
flight for Zürich, Switzerland, at Tehran’s Mehrabad Airport. They
arrived in the friendly nation safely. The Canadian embassy was then
closed that day, with Canadian Ambassador Ken Taylor and remaining
staff returning to Canada.
On
This Date In 1984 Michael
Jackson and other members of the Jacksons filmed a Pepsi Cola
commercial, overseen by executive Phil Dusenberry, from ad agency
BBDO and Pepsi's Worldwide Creative Director, Alan Pottasch at the
Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles. In front of a full house of fans
during a simulated concert, pyrotechnics accidentally set Jackson's
hair on fire. He suffered second-degree burns to his scalp. Jackson
underwent treatment to hide the scars on his scalp, and he also had
his third rhinoplasty shortly thereafter. Jackson never recovered
from this injury. Pepsi settled out of court, and Jackson donated his
$1.5 million settlement to the Brotman Medical Center in Culver City,
California, which now has a “Michael Jackson Burn Center” in
honor of his donation
On
This Date In 1986 “Does
Humor Belong in Music?,” a live album by Frank Zappa, was released.
It features concert recordings from October–December 1984. It was
the first album by Zappa to be released on CD only (although it was
bootlegged on vinyl for listeners who did not own CD players).
On
This Date In 1991 Muhammad
Siyad Barre, the dictator of the Somali Democratic Republic since
1969, fled Mogadishu as rebels overran his palace and captured the
Somali capital.
On
This Date In 1991 Super
Bowl XXV was played at Tampa Stadium in Tampa, Florida to decide the
National Football League (NFL) champion following the 1990 regular
season. The National Football Conference (NFC) Champion New York
Giants (16-3) defeated the American Football Conference (AFC)
champion Buffalo Bills (15-4), 20–19, the smallest margin of
victory in Super Bowl history.
On
This Date In 1996 Serbian-born
tennis player Monica Seles, the former No. 1 women’s player in the
world, defeated Anke Huber of Germany to win the Australian Open.
On
This Date In 1998 Paul
E. Tsongas Arena (usually referred to as just Tsongas Arena), a
multi-use indoor sport and concert venue in Lowell, Massachusetts,
was opened and dedicated to the memory of prominent local and
national politician Paul Tsongas.
On
This Date In 2002 The
Lagos armory explosion, the accidental detonation of a large stock of
military high explosives at a storage facility in the city of Lagos,
Nigeria, took place. The fires created by the debris from this
explosion burnt down a large section of Northern Lagos, and created a
panic that spread to other areas. As people fled the flames, many
stumbled into a concealed canal and were drowned. The explosion and
its aftermath are believed to have killed at least 1,100 people and
displaced over 20,000, with many thousands injured or homeless. The
government of Nigeria launched an inquiry, which blamed the Nigerian
Army for failing to properly maintain the base, or to decommission it
when instructed to do so in 2001.
On
This Date In 2004 “Live
at the House of Blues,” a live album and video by the southern
California punk rock band The Vandals, was released by Kung Fu
Records and Kung Fu Films. It was the band's second official live
album and video, the first being 1991's Sweatin'
to the Oldies.
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On
This Date In 2009 John
Hoyer Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009), American
novelist, poet, short story writer, art critic, and literary critic,
died of lung cancer at a hospice in Danvers, Massachusetts at the age
of 76.
On
This Date In 2010 The
2010 State of the Union Address was given by United States President
Barack Obama to a joint session of Congress. It was Obama's first
State of the Union Address, though he did give a non-State of the
Union address to a joint session of Congress a month after taking
office in 2009.
On
This Date In 2010 The
iPad, a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by
Apple Inc., primarily as a platform for audio-visual media including
books, periodicals, movies, music, games, and web content, was
introduced by Apple's then-CEO Steve Jobs. Its size and weight fall
between those of contemporary smartphones and laptop computers. The
iPad runs the same operating system as the iPod Touch and iPhone—and
can run its own applications as well as iPhone applications. Without
modification, the iPad will only run programs approved by Apple and
distributed via the Apple App Store (with the exception of programs
that run inside the iPad's web browser).
On
This Date In 2010 Howard
Zinn (August 24, 1922 – January 27, 2010), American historian,
academic, author, playwright, and social activist, died while
swimming in a hotel pool of an apparent heart attack in Santa Monica,
California.
On
This Date In 2010 Jerome
David “J.D.” Salinger (January 1, 1919 – January 27, 2010), an
American author best known for his 1951 novel The
Catcher in the Rye,
as well as his reclusive nature, died of natural causes at his home
in Cornish, New Hampshire.
On
This Date In 2010 Zelda
Rubinstein (May 28, 1933 – January 27, 2010), an American actress
and human rights activist, best known as eccentric medium Tangina
Barrons in the movie Poltergeist (1982) and its sequels, Poltergeist
II: The Other Side (1986), and Poltergeist III (1988), died. On
December 29, 2009, it was reported that, after a month-long stay at
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after mild heart attack, her close
companion and her family made the decision to take Rubinstein off
life support due to both kidney and lung failure. On January 27,
2010, Rubinstein died of natural causes at Barlow Respiratory
Hospital in Los Angeles at the age of 76.
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tip to any included contributing sources, along with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
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, http://www.on-this-day.com/
Happy
Birthday
Steve Wynn (1942), Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948), Mimi Rogers (1956),
Cris Collinsworth (1959), Buster Rhymes (1962), Bridget Fonda (1964),
Tamlyn Tomita (1966), Tracy Lawrence (1968), Heather Nauert (1970),
and Alicia Molik (1981).
RIP
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart (1756 – 1791), Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph von
Schelling (1775 – 1854), Lewis Carroll (1832 – 1898), Jerome Kern
(1885 – 1945), Skitch Henderson (1918 – 2005), Charles E.
Scripps (1920 – 2007), Donna Reed (1921 – 1986), Dolores Moran
(1924 – 1982), and Troy Donahue (1936 – 2001).
Quotes
The cost of freedom
is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we
shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
America's abundance
was not created by public sacrifices to “the common good”, but by
the productive genius of free men who pursued their own personal
interests and the making of their own private fortunes. Ayn
Rand
There is nothing
wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and
energy of her citizens can not cure. Dwight
D. Eisenhower
Too many of us look
upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it
is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves. Albert
Einstein
The character
inherent in the American people has done all that has been
accomplished; and it would have done somewhat more, if the government
had not sometimes got in its way. Henry
David Thoreau
The American, by
nature, is optimistic. He is experimental, an inventor and a builder
who builds best when called upon to build greatly. John
F. Kennedy
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ScienceCasts SMD "Science Mission Directorate"
"Science@NASA News" "La Nina" "El Nino"
"solar eclipse" annular "ring of fire" "partial
eclipse" "eclipse glasses" "solar filters"
Visit http://science.nasa.gov/ for more.
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A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
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A "ring of fire" solar eclipse is coming to the USA this spring. It's the first annular eclipse visible from the contiguous United States in almost 18 years.
The
skies over northern Europe have been illuminated with an intense
display of the northern lights after a week of massive solar storms
showered the Earth with radiation. Video shot last weekend in Norway
showed the eye-catching effect of the Aurora Borealis in the skies
above Birtavarre. The lights are a familiar sight for Scandinavians,
but even experienced stargazers were stunned by the intensity of the
aurora borealis that swept across their night's sky on Tuesday, after
the biggest solar storm in more than six years. An aurora appears
when a magnetic solar wind slams into the Earth's magnetic field,
exciting electrons of oxygen and nitrogen. Even before particles from
the solar storm reached the Earth on Tuesday, a different aurora on
Monday night was dancing across the sky as far south as Ireland and
England, where people rarely get a chance to catch the stunning light
show.
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The
reopening of an Australian Museum of Natural History has been a real
thrill for visitors. Some of the delighted and rather frightened
guests however think the animatronic creatures greeting them at the
entrance were "a little too realistic".
The
Queensland Museum of Natural History in Brisbane chose to mark its
reopening after renovation with an unusual party. It invited several
animatronic dinosaurs.
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Remember to look up at the stars and not down to your
feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes
the universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem,
there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that
you don't just give up.
Professor Stephen Hawking
on his 70th birthday.
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