On
This Date In 1742
It may surprise many to learn that George Friedrich Handel's Messiah
was not originally intended as a piece of Christmas music. Messiah
received its world premiere on this day in 1742, during the Christian
season of Lent, and in the decidedly secular context of a concert
hall in Dublin, Ireland.
On
This Date In 1743
Thomas Jefferson (April 13, 1743 – July 4, 1826), the third
President of the United States (1801–1809), principal author of the
Declaration of Independence (1776), and one of the most influential
Founding Fathers for his promotion of the ideals of republicanism in
the United States, was born. Major events during his presidency
include the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the Lewis and Clark
Expedition (1804–1806).
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On
This Date In 1777
The Battle of Bound Brook, one of the battles in the New York and New
Jersey campaign during the American Revolutionary War, was fought,
and resulted in a defeat for the Continental Army, who were routed by
a four prong attack from about 4,000 troops under British command.
Around 60 casualties occurred on the American side, while only a
single British soldier was killed. On the same day, Nathanael Greene
recaptured Bound Brook, but George Washington realized the difficulty
of defending the place.
On
This Date In 1818
Although it did not become official until July 4, on April 13, 1818,
a new flag was flown over the U.S. Capitol for the first time. The
flag's thirteen stripes represented the original colonies; its twenty
stars symbolized the number of states in the Union at that time.
Samuel C. Reid designed the flag, which was sewed by his wife and her
friends, and sent it by mail to the Capitol. Congressman Peter H.
Wendover arranged for the flag to fly over the Capitol on the same
day that it was received in Washington, D.C. Since the arrangement of
the stars was not yet standardized (and was not until 1912), the
stars on Reid’s flag were arranged into one big star.
On
This Date In 1861
The Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–13, 1861) was the bombardment
and surrender of Fort Sumter, near Charleston, South Carolina, that
started the American Civil War. After a 33-hour bombardment by
Confederate cannons, Union forces under the command of Major Robert
Anderson surrendered Fort Sumter in South Carolina's Charleston
Harbor to Brig. Gen. P.G.T. Beauregard. The first engagement of the
war ended in Rebel victory, and with no one from either side killed
during the bombardment. During the 100-gun salute to the U.S.
flag—Anderson's one condition for withdrawal—a pile of cartridges
blew up from a spark, killing Private Daniel Hough instantly and
seriously injuring the rest of the gun crew, one mortally (Private
Edward Gallway); these were the first fatalities of the war. The
salute was stopped at fifty shots.
On
This Date In 1866
Robert LeRoy Parker (April 13, 1866 – November 3, 1908), better
known as Butch Cassidy, notorious American train robber, bank robber,
and leader of the Wild Bunch Gang in the American Old West, was born.
On
This Date In 1918
During the Finnish Civil War, and as part of Germany's support of
Finland and its newly declared parliamentary government, German
troops gained control of Helsingfors (Helsinki) from the Red Guard,
an army of Finnish supporters of the Russian Bolsheviks.
On
This Date In 1919
In Amritsar, India's holy city of the Sikh religion, British and
Gurkha troops massacred at least 379 unarmed demonstrators meeting at
the Jallianwala Bagh, a city park. Most of those killed were Indian
nationalists meeting to protest the British government's forced
conscription of Indian soldiers and the heavy war tax imposed against
the Indian people.
On
This Date In 1927
The 1927 Stanley Cup Final NHL championship series was contested by
the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins. It was the first solely
contested by National Hockey League teams since the demise of the
Western Hockey League. It was won by the Ottawa Senators, coached by
Dave Gill, over the Boston Bruins, coached by Art Ross. This was the
Senators' fourth win since 1920, and eleventh overall, but it marked
the end of the dynasty. The original Senators did not win another.
On
This Date In 1933
The 1933 Stanley Cup Finals was played between the New York Rangers
and the Toronto Maple Leafs, in a rematch of the 1932 Final. The
Rangers won the series 3–1 to win their second Stanley Cup. Bill
Cook would become the first player to score a Cup-winning goal in
overtime. Rookie goalie Andy Aitkenhead would post the fourth shutout
by a rookie in the finals.
On
This Date In 1940
The 1940 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the New
York Rangers and the Toronto Maple Leafs. New York would win the
series 4–2 to win their third Stanley Cup. The Rangers would not
win another for more than 50 years.
On
This Date In 1941
The Soviet–Japanese Neutrality Pact was signed between Russia and
Japan two years after the war between Russia and Japan at the
Manchurian and Mongolian borders slowed inconclusively. The treaty
called for the two nations to observe neutrality when any one of the
two signing nations was invaded by a third nation. Both nations also
pledged to respect the sovereignty of Japan's puppet state of
Manchukuo and Russia's puppet state the Mongolian People's Republic.
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On
This Date In 1944
The 1944 Stanley Cup Final was a best-of-seven series between the
Chicago Black Hawks and the Montreal Canadiens. The Canadiens would
win the series 4–0 to win their first Stanley Cup since 1931.
On
This Date In 1948
The Hadassah medical convoy massacre took place when a convoy,
escorted by Haganah militia, bringing medical and fortification
supplies and personnel to Hadassah Hospital on Mount Scopus was
ambushed by Arab forces. Claimed as retribution for the Deir Yassin
massacre, Seventy-nine Jewish residents of Mandate Palestine, mostly
doctors and nurses, were killed in the attack.
On
This Date In 1964
The 36th Academy Awards, honoring the best in film for 1963, were
held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica,
California. They were hosted by Jack Lemmon. Best Picture winner Tom
Jones
became the only film in history to garner three Best Supporting
Actress nominations. Sydney Poitier became the first African American
to win the Academy Award for Best Actor, for his role as a
construction worker who helps build a chapel in Lilies
of the Field.
On
This Date In 1970
Disaster struck 200,000 miles from Earth when oxygen tank No. 2 blew
up on Apollo 13, the third manned lunar landing mission. Astronauts
James A. Lovell, John L. Swigert, and Fred W. Haise had left Earth
two days before for the Fra Mauro highlands of the moon, but were
forced to turn their attention to simply making it home alive, which
they did on April 17.
On
This Date In 1972
The Battle of An Lộc began, a major battle of the Vietnam War that
lasted for 66 days and culminated in a decisive victory for South
Vietnam. In many ways, the struggle for An Lộc in 1972 was an
important battle of the war, as South Vietnamese forces halted the
North Vietnamese advance towards Saigon.
On
This Date In 1973
“Aladdin Sane,” an album by rock and pop star David Bowie, was
released by RCA Records. The follow-up to his breakthrough The
Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars,
it was the first album Bowie wrote and released as a bona fide pop
star.
On
This Date In 1978
“Almighty Fire,” an album by Aretha Franklin, was released by
Atlantic Records. By the time of this album's release, Aretha
Franklin was going through a recording drought, due in part to the
extreme popularity of Disco. This album has long been regarded as one
of Aretha's poorest recordings and sold only about 100,000 copies. It
peaked at #12 on the Billboard R&B Albums Chart and #83 on the
pop chart. The title single peaked at #12 on the Billboard R&B
Singles Chart and the follow-up single, “More Than A Joy,” peaked
at #63. The album has been out of print since the early 1980s and has
never been released on compact disc.
On
This Date In 1990
The Soviet government officially accepted blame for the Katyn
Massacre of World War II, when nearly 5,000 Polish military officers
were murdered and buried in mass graves in the Katyn Forest. The
admission was part of Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev's promise to be
more forthcoming and candid concerning Soviet history.
On
This Date In 1992
The Chicago Flood occurred when the damaged wall of a utility tunnel
beneath the Chicago River opened into a breach which flooded
basements and underground facilities throughout the Chicago Loop with
an estimated 250 million US gallons (950,000 m3) of water. An
estimated $1.95 billion in damages occurred, and insurance battles
over the cause of the flood lasted for years.
On
This Date In 1997
Tiger Woods, whose father is African-American and mother is Thai,
became the first person of color to win the Masters at Augusta
National Golf Club, which admitted its first black member in 1990.
On
This Date In 2004
“Is There Love in Space?,” the tenth studio album by guitarist
Joe Satriani, was released through Epic Records. On December 4, 2008,
a lawsuit was filed by Satriani accusing the band Coldplay
of plagarizing “substantial original portions” of the album's
sixth track, If
I Could Fly,
on their 2008 song, Viva
la Vida.
The case was dismissed by the California Central District Court on
September 14, 2009, with both parties allegedly agreeing to an
undisclosed settlement.
On
This Date In 2009
Harry Norbert Kalas (March 26, 1936 – April 13, 2009), American
sportscaster, best known for his Ford C. Frick Award-winning role as
lead play-by-play announcer for Major League Baseball's Philadelphia
Phillies, died of heart disease after collapsing in the Nationals
Park press box at approximately 12:30 pm, several hours before the
Washington Nationals' home opener against the Phillies. Kalas was
rushed to George Washington University Hospital where he was
pronounced dead. Kalas was also closely identified with the National
Football League, serving as a voice-over narrator for NFL Films
productions (a regular feature on Inside the NFL) and calling
football games nationally for Westwood One radio.
On
This Date In 2009
Mark Steven “The Bird” Fidrych (August 14, 1954 – April 13,
2009), a Major League Baseball pitcher with the Detroit Tigers
(1976–1980) his entire career, died at the age of 54 of suffocation
at his home in Massachusetts in an accident while working on his
10-wheel dump truck, after his clothes became tangled with a spinning
power takeoff shaft.
On
This Date In 2009
A spokeswoman for the State Attorney's Office in Orlando, Florida
announced prosecutors had filed papers seeking to have Casey Anthony
executed if she was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of
her daughter, Caylee.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/story?id=7328024#.T4hDfNWN3Go
Hat
tip to any included contributing sources, along with:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
, http://www.-history.com/this-day-in-history
, http://timelines.com/
Happy
Birthday
Stanley
Donen (1924), Sergiu Nicolaescu (1930), Lyle
Waggoner (1935), Paul Sorvino (1939), Max Mosley (1940), John Paul
Dejoria (1944), Tony Dow (1945), Al Green (1946), Amy Robinson
(1948), Ron Perlman (1950), Peabo Bryson (1951), Max Weinberg (1951),
Amy Goodman (1957), Garry Kasparov (1963), Rick Schroder (1970),
Andrew Pleavin (1968), Meghann Shaughnessy (1979), Kelli Giddish
(1980), and Nellie McKay (1982).
RIP
Guy
Fawkes (1570 – 1606), Joseph Bramah (1748 – 1814), F. W.
Woolworth (1852 – 19 19), Herbert O. Yardley (1889 – 1958),
Eudora Welty (1909 – 2001), Howard Keel (1919 – 2004), Don Adams
(1923 – 2005), Mari Blanchard (1927 – 1970), Christopher Hitchens
(1949 – 2011), and Jonathan Brandis (1976 – 2003).
Quotes
The
best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is
your own. No apologies or excuses. No one to lean on, rely on, or
blame. The gift is yours - it is an amazing journey - and you alone
are responsible for the quality of it. This is the day your life
really begins. Bob
Moawad
Keep
away from those who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people
always do that, but the really great make you believe that you too
can become great. Mark
Twain
Men
often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I
cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I
believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't
have it in the beginning. Mahatma
Gandhi
Leadership
is based on inspiration, not domination; on cooperation, not
intimidation. William
Arthur Ward
We
have not come into the world to be numbered; we have been created for
a purpose; for great things: to love and be loved. Mother
Teresa of Calcutta
The
purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be
honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that
you have lived and lived well. Ralph
Waldo Emerson
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I believe that
imagination is stronger than knowledge - myth is more potent than
history - dreams are more powerful than facts - hope always triumphs
over experience - laughter is the cure for grief - love is stronger
than death. Robert Fulghum
Thomas
Jefferson
Let
me describe to you a man, not yet forty, tall, and with a mild and
pleasing countenance…. An American, who without ever having quitted
his own country, is at once a musician, skilled in drawing, a
geometrician, an astronomer, a natural philosopher, legislator, and
statesman…. Sometimes natural philosophy, at others politics or the
arts, were the topics of our conversation, for no object had escaped
Mr. Jefferson; and it seemed as if from his youth he had placed his
mind, as he has done his house, on an elevated situation, from which
he might contemplate the universe.
Description
of a visit to Thomas Jefferson at Monticello in 1782, -
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from
Travels in North-America, in the Years 1780-81-82 by the Marquis de
Chastellux. -
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