hahahaha- well looks like Kitch better get his Coke shield! with all the reading he is gonna do. WARNING WARNING - put down the drink and hands on the keyboard at all times!!!!
wait til you read from years back - ARES?-can you post the link to the archives? 1998-2001 -I wanted to print a book but it would be bigger than "war and peace" but way better! HAH! happy reading!
Joe Medallion - 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST (#90 of 8457)
You're all village idiots! I know where it is already. The third clue gave it away. The clue "Rosebud' has nothing to do with Citizen Cain. Think people, THINK!
Joe's 1st Post (so #90 is the Real Joe)Admire the intelligence. ;-)
President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in Springfield, Illinois, as he embarks on his journey to Washington.
On a cold, rainy morning, Lincoln boarded a two-car private train loaded with his family's belongings, which he himself had packed and bound. Mary Lincoln was in St. Louis on a shopping trip, and she joined him later in Indiana. It was a somber occasion. Lincoln was leaving his home and heading into the maw of national crisis. Since he had been elected, seven states of the lower South had seceded from the Union. Lincoln knew that his actions upon entering office would likely lead to civil war. He spoke to the crowd before departing: "Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young man to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or weather ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail...To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
A bystander reported that the president-elect's "breast heaved with emotion and he could scarcely command his feelings." Indeed, Lincoln's words were prophetic--a funeral train carried him back to Springfield just over four years later.
I think I gave a lady the willies today. Went and found a geocache hidden in a open space area popular for people with dogs near the airport runways (yes people can legally be in this area)
Joe Medallion - 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST (#90 of 8457) You're all village idiots! I know where it is already. The third clue gave it away. The clue "Rosebud' has nothing to do with Citizen Cain. Think people, THINK! (Deleted item originally posted by jane Morehouse on 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 06:56pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 06:58pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 07:00pm Jan 27, 1998 CST)
It was on this day in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule, which became the key to understanding how all organisms pass genetic information onto their offspring. James Watson was only 23 years old at the time. Crick was older, but he hadn't even finished his PhD. They were working in a lab in Cambridge, England, where they didn't even have the right equipment to examine DNA. That equipment was located at King's College in London. Watson tried to get a job there by setting his sister up with one of the King's College scientists, but it didn't work out.
1985 - A Beatles song was used for the first time in a U.S. TV commercial. Lincoln-Mercury used the song, "HELP!".
Help, I need somebody, Help, not just anybody, Help, you know I need someone, help.
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way. But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured, Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being round. Help me, get my feet back on the ground, Won't you please, please help me?
And now my life has changed in oh so many ways, My independence seems to vanish in the haze. But every now and then I feel so insecure, I know that I just need you like I've never done before.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being round. Help me, get my feet back on the ground, Won't you please, please help me.
When I was younger, so much younger than today, I never needed anybody's help in any way. But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured, Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down And I do appreciate you being round. Help me, get my feet back on the ground, Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh.
It's the birthday of novelist Jon Hassler born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1933). He was a high school English teacher for 14 years before he wrote his first novel, Staggerford (1977), whose main character is an English teacher in a small Minnesota town. His novel include The Staggerford Murders, The Staggerford Flood, The Love Hunter, Simon's Night (1979), Grand Opening (1987), North of Hope (1990), and Rookery Blues (1995).}
1805 Pine City records a high temperature of 108 degrees.
1861 Minnesota is the first state to offer troops at the outbreak of the Civil War. Governor Alexander Ramsey is in Washington, D.C., when word of the attack on Fort Sumter arrives, and he meets with Simon Cameron, the secretary of war, and offers one thousand Minnesota soldiers for the country's defense. He then telegraphs Lieutenant Governor Ignatius Donnelly, who summons volunteers from across the state. This group of men becomes the famous First Minnesota Regiment.
1870 The St. Paul Academy of Natural Sciences is formed. The group would suspend activities after the capitol fire of 1883 destroys its collection, reorganize in 1890, and hand over its new collection to the St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters in 1907. The institute would evolve into the Science Museum of Minnesota.
1886 A St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids tornado kills seventy-nine people in the counties of Stearns, Benton, and Morrison. The city of Sauk Rapids is devastated.
1894 Organizer Eugene Debs calls a strike by the workers of the Great Northern Railway. The railroad had imposed three wage cuts despite profits of over five million dollars the previous year. As the strike progresses, other railroads—following the lead of the Great Northern in other strike situations—refuse to help company president James J. Hill move his stalled trains. On May 1 Charles A. Pillsbury negotiates an agreement between the strikers and Hill, who consents to restore seventy–five percent of the wage cuts made earlier.
1901 A poker game in Granite Falls ends in violence. After playing for several hours, local dentist S. Wintner notices that his two kings have lost to two aces held by St. Paul card sharp William Lenard, the "Irish Lord," eight times in succession. Wintner produces a revolver and, when Lenard proclaims his innocence, fatally shoots him. At the trial later that year Frank Nye, for the defense, makes the creative assertion that, gambling being a felony, Dr. Wintner had the right to stop such an act, with violence if necessary. The jury, perhaps unsympathetic to a crooked gambler, finds Wintner not guilty.
1977 The Minnesota Asian American Project (MAAP), an organization that promotes civil rights, affirmative action, and legal services for the Asian community, is officially incorporated by Dennis Tachiki, Gloria Kumagai, and Daniel Matsumoto.
It was on this day in 1828 that Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
He spent 20 years working on his dictionary, which contained 70,000 words, and he did all the research and the handwriting of the book by himself. He is believed to be the last lexicographer to complete a dictionary without any assistance.
Instead of using quotations from literature to show words in context, he wrote his own sentences as examples. For the verb "to love" he wrote, "The Christian loves his Bible." For the word "inestimable" he wrote, "The privileges of American citizens, civil and religious, are inestimable." For the word "indulgence," he wrote, "How many children are ruined by indulgence!"
wow.
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head while watching a performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
1892 The Lake Traverse Reservation—600,000 acres in the Dakotas, across the western Minnesota border from Browns Valley—is opened to white settlement. In a scene reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush, a pistol is shot at noon and the stampede of prospective settlers begins.
1912 The schoolchildren of St. Paul select the city's official flower, the sweet pea, in an election sponsored by the city's women's clubs. Other choices included the coreopsis, marigold, petunia, and aster. News of their selection is overshadowed by reports of the Titanic's sinking. 1916 The first regulated trout season opens.
1944 The Farmer-Labor Party and the state Democratic Party agree to merge at their joint convention, and a slate of candidates is quickly chosen to meet the filing deadline two days later. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party is unique to Minnesota.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
On April 10, the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was designed by the Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie and built in Belfast, and was thought to be the world's fastest ship. It spanned 883 feet from stern to bow, and its hull was divided into 16 compartments that were presumed to be watertight. Because four of these compartments could be flooded without causing a critical loss of buoyancy, the Titanic was considered unsinkable. While leaving port, the ship came within a couple of feet of the steamer New York but passed safely by, causing a general sigh of relief from the passengers massed on the Titanic's decks. On its first journey across the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried some 2,200 passengers and crew.
After stopping at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, to pick up some final passengers, the massive vessel set out at full speed for New York City. However, just before midnight on April 14, the RMS Titanic failed to divert its course from an iceberg and ruptured at least five of its hull compartments. These compartments filled with water and pulled down the bow of the ship. Because the Titanic's compartments were not capped at the top, water from the ruptured compartments filled each succeeding compartment, causing the bow to sink and the stern to be raised up to an almost vertical position above the water. Then the Titanic broke in half, and, at about 2:20 a.m. on April 15, stern and bow sank to the ocean floor.
Because of a shortage of lifeboats and the lack of satisfactory emergency procedures, more than 1,500 people went down in the sinking ship or froze to death in the icy North Atlantic waters. Most of the 700 or so survivors were women and children. A number of notable American and British citizens died in the tragedy, including the noted British journalist William Thomas Stead and heirs to the Straus, Astor, and Guggenheim fortunes.
One hour and 20 minutes after Titanic went down, the Cunard liner Carpathia arrived. The survivors in the lifeboats were brought aboard, and a handful of others were pulled out of the water. It was later discovered that the Leyland liner Californian had been less than 20 miles away at the time of the accident but had failed to hear the Titanic's distress signals because its radio operator was off duty.
Announcement of details of the tragedy led to outrage on both sides of the Atlantic. In the disaster's aftermath, the first International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea was held in 1913. Rules were adopted requiring that every ship have lifeboat space for each person on board, and that lifeboat drills be held. An International Ice Patrol was established to monitor icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. It was also required that ships maintain a 24-hour radio watch.
On September 1, 1985, a joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic lying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet. The ship was explored by manned and unmanned submersibles, which shed new light on the details of its sinking.
This day in history marks the day OTS got a THX1138 joe in THX's thread. OTS-On the search - ( PFID:5c832cd2) - 10:55am Apr 15, 2005 PST (# 1146 of 1166)Â Why are they called "buildings", shouldn't they be "builts"? did I get it?
1901 \09While in Seattle on business, St. Paul rail tycoon James J. Hill learns that Edward H. Harriman, in New York, is buying up shares of the Northern Pacific Railroad, trying to wrest control of the company from Hill. Hill orders all trains to give right of way to his express train and heads east for New York, making the 1,800-mile trip from Seattle to St. Paul in 45 hours and 50 minutes, 21 hours under the average time. From there Hill continues to New York and thwarts the deal. During the buying frenzy, Northern Pacific shares rise from under $100 to a peak of $1,000 on May 9.
1917 \09The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety is formed by the legislature to "protect life and property and to aid in the prosecution of the war." Seeking to achieve one hundred percent patriotism, the commission uses its sweeping powers to harass non-English-speaking immigrants and members of the Nonpartisan League.
1927 \09The Mesaba Railway Coach Company stops providing streetcar service between the towns of Hibbing and Gilbert. Related events also occurred on December 17, 1915.
1991 \09Marge Anderson becomes chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Emphasizing traditional government, education, and cultural preservation, Anderson would be a leader in the successful nine-year battle to preserve rights granted by an 1837 treaty to hunt and fish in and around Mille Lacs. Related events also occurred on March 24, 1999.
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations. In his notes, he related the experience:
"Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."
After intentionally taking the drug again to confirm that it had caused this strange physical and mental state, Dr. Hoffman published a report announcing his discovery, and so LSD made its entry into the world as a hallucinogenic drug. Widespread use of the so-called "mind-expanding" drug did not begin until the 1960s, when counterculture figures such as Albert M. Hubbard, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey publicly expounded on the benefits of using LSD as a recreational drug. The manufacture, sale, possession, and use of LSD, known to cause negative reactions in some of those who take it, were made illegal in the United States in 1965.
1947 Texas City explodes
At 9:12 a.m. in Texas City's port on Galveston Bay, a fire aboard the French freighter Grandcamp ignites ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in the ship's hold, causing a massive blast that destroys much of the city and takes nearly 600 lives.
The port of Texas City, a small industrial city with a population of about 18,000, was teaming with chemical plants and oil refineries that provided steady, good-paying jobs for much of the town. In the industrial sector, minor accidents and chemical fires were rather commonplace, and many stood around the port casually watching the reddish orange blaze that broke out on the Grandcamp early on a Wednesday morning. Twenty-seven members of the Texas City Volunteer Fire Department were called out to douse the flames, but the ship was so hot that the water from their fire hoses was instantly vaporized.
At 12 minutes past nine, the fire caught the freighter's stores of ammonium nitrate, a compound used to make dynamite, and Texas City exploded. Wood-frame houses in the city were flattened, additional blasts were triggered at nearby chemical plants, and fires broke out across the city. The mushroom cloud from the blast rose 2,000 feet, and fragments of the Grandcamp were hurled thousands of feet into the air, landing on buildings and people. The ship's anchor, weighing 1.5 tons, was flung two miles and embedded 10 feet into the ground at the Pan American refinery. The explosion was heard as far as 150 miles away.
Devastating fires burned for days, and on April 17 the freighter High Flyer, also loaded with nitrates, exploded, further devastating the port and causing a new string of explosions at nearby plants. Fortunately, most of Texas City's population had been evacuated by then, and the city's losses were primarily material. By late in the day on April 18, emergency crews had the situation under control. Some eyewitnesses said the scene was worse than anything they had seen in Europe during World War II. The Grandcamp explosion was the most devastating industrial accident in U.S. history, with 600 people killed and more than 3,000 wounded.
1972 Apollo 16 departs for moon
From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Apollo 16, the fifth of six U.S. lunar landing missions, is successfully launched on its 238,000-mile journey to the moon. On April 20, astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke descended to the lunar surface from Apollo 16, which remained in orbit around the moon with a third astronaut, Thomas K. Mattingly, in command. Young and Duke remained on the moon for nearly three days, and spent more than 20 hours exploring the surface of Earth's only satellite. The two astronauts used the Lunar Rover vehicle to collect more than 200 pounds of rock before returning to Apollo 16 on April 23. Four days later, the three astronauts returned to Earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
Thousands of Chinese students take to the streets in Beijing to protest government policies and issue a call for greater democracy in the communist People's Republic of China (PRC). The protests grew until the Chinese government ruthlessly suppressed them in June during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
During the mid-1980s, the communist government of the PRC had been slowly edging toward a liberalization of the nation's strict state-controlled economy, in an attempt to attract more foreign investment and increase the nation's foreign trade. This action sparked a call among many Chinese citizens, including many students, for reform of the country's communist-dominated political system. By early 1989, peaceful protests against the government began in some of China's largest cities. The biggest protest was held on April 18 in the capital city of Beijing. Marching through Tiananmen Square in the center of the city, thousands of students carried banners, chanted slogans, and sang songs calling for a more democratic political atmosphere.
The government's response to the demonstrations became progressively harsher. Government officials who showed any sympathy to the protesters were purged. Several of the demonstration leaders were arrested, and a propaganda campaign was directed at the marching students, declaring that they sought to "create chaos under the heavens." On June 3, 1989, with the protests growing larger every day and foreign journalists capturing the dramatic events on film, the Chinese army was directed to crush the movement. An unknown number of Chinese protesters were killed (estimates range into the thousands) during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
In the United States, the protests attracted widespread attention. Many Americans assumed that China, like the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe, had been moving toward a free market and political democracy. The brutal government repression of the protests shocked the American public. The U.S. government temporarily suspended arms sales to China and imposed a few economic sanctions, but the actions were largely symbolic. Growing U.S. trade and investment in China and the fear that a severe U.S. reaction to the massacre might result in a diplomatic rupture limited the official U.S. response.
 On this day in 1897, the first annual Boston Marathon -- the first of its type in the United States -- was run. John J. McDermott of New York City won.Â
[Edited 2 times. Most recently by on Apr 19, 2005 at 03:28pm.]
the other day I heard you talking abou the shed...i thought you really had people over at your house...so yep ....
messed with my head.....
Centris,
I'm hiding in here.
hahahaha-
well looks like Kitch better get his Coke shield! with all the reading he is gonna do.
WARNING WARNING - put down the drink and hands on the keyboard at all times!!!!
wait til you read from years back - ARES?-can you post the link to the archives? 1998-2001 -I wanted to print a book but it would be bigger than "war and peace" but way better! HAH!
happy reading!
This day in history, THX got a 323 PalinaJOE!
the archive
Joe Medallion - 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST (#90 of 8457)
You're all village idiots! I know where it is already. The third clue gave it away. The clue "Rosebud' has nothing to do with Citizen Cain. Think people, THINK!
Joe's 1st Post (so #90 is the Real Joe)Admire the intelligence. ;-)
oh no!!! here I go.... this isn't going 2b pretty.
New tagline
President-elect Abraham Lincoln leaves home in Springfield, Illinois, as he embarks on his journey to Washington.
On a cold, rainy morning, Lincoln boarded a two-car private train loaded with his family's belongings, which he himself had packed and bound. Mary Lincoln was in St. Louis on a shopping trip, and she joined him later in Indiana. It was a somber occasion. Lincoln was leaving his home and heading into the maw of national crisis. Since he had been elected, seven states of the lower South had seceded from the Union. Lincoln knew that his actions upon entering office would likely lead to civil war. He spoke to the crowd before departing: "Here I have lived a quarter of a century, and have passed from a young man to an old man. Here my children have been born, and one is buried. I now leave, not knowing when, or weather ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail...To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
A bystander reported that the president-elect's "breast heaved with emotion and he could scarcely command his feelings." Indeed, Lincoln's words were prophetic--a funeral train carried him back to Springfield just over four years later.
thats crazy! wasnt 98 at Cherokee? and Greg Sax picked it on post 22!
post 3 was Ian
post 8 was Wright Winger
was Huntress the same as Artemis? or is that someone else?
nah. back then she was queen kal.
1945 United States conducts first test of the atomic bomb
I think I just set off a bomb as well.
DOH! stinky man!
JOE HISTORY!
On Sept. 9, 1776, the second Continental Congress made the name United States official, replacing United Colonies.
http://members.cox.net/classicweb/Heroes/heroes.htm
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(thanks to Ian for the link)
[Edited by on Sep 11, 2004 at 11:50am.]
I still get the willys when I see a plain flying to low.
I think I gave a lady the willies today. Went and found a geocache hidden in a open space area popular for people with dogs near the airport runways (yes people can legally be in this area)
This day to go down in ESD and DIGGER DAWG history...
a baby!!!!!
Joe Medallion - 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST (#90 of 8457) You're all village idiots! I know where it is already. The third clue gave it away. The clue "Rosebud' has nothing to do with Citizen Cain. Think people, THINK! (Deleted item originally posted by jane Morehouse on 06:54pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 06:56pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 06:58pm Jan 27, 1998 CST) (Deleted item originally posted by Joe Medallion on 07:00pm Jan 27, 1998 CST)
Clue Master 2/11/04 10:53am
 * so the first joe was really a JANE?? wow! ..just think of all the JANES!!!
[Edited by on Jan 17, 2005 at 11:13am.]
That's a weird find Kitch. I keep forgetting that a real Joe is 90. I need to remember that.
Jane here. You called?
Hey Jane, where's Dick?
Well, that's more original than "Where's Tarzan". :)
[Edited by on Jan 17, 2005 at 02:24pm.]
See Dick and Jane run.
[Edited by on Jan 21, 2005 at 06:17am.]
the frog escaped from the frog pond!
It was on this day in 1953 that James Watson and Francis Crick discovered the structure of the DNA molecule, which became the key to understanding how all organisms pass genetic information onto their offspring. James Watson was only 23 years old at the time. Crick was older, but he hadn't even finished his PhD. They were working in a lab in Cambridge, England, where they didn't even have the right equipment to examine DNA. That equipment was located at King's College in London. Watson tried to get a job there by setting his sister up with one of the King's College scientists, but it didn't work out.
this day :(
1985 - A Beatles song was used for the first time in a U.S. TV commercial. Lincoln-Mercury used the song, "HELP!".
Help, I need somebody,
Help, not just anybody,
Help, you know I need someone, help.
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me?
And now my life has changed in oh so many ways,
My independence seems to vanish in the haze.
But every now and then I feel so insecure,
I know that I just need you like I've never done before.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me.
When I was younger, so much younger than today,
I never needed anybody's help in any way.
But now these days are gone, I'm not so self assured,
Now I find I've changed my mind and opened up the doors.
Help me if you can, I'm feeling down
And I do appreciate you being round.
Help me, get my feet back on the ground,
Won't you please, please help me, help me, help me, oh.
on this day ... :(
It's the birthday of novelist Jon Hassler born in Minneapolis, Minnesota (1933). He was a high school English teacher for 14 years before he wrote his first novel, Staggerford (1977), whose main character is an English teacher in a small Minnesota town. His novel include The Staggerford Murders, The Staggerford Flood, The Love Hunter, Simon's Night (1979), Grand Opening (1987), North of Hope (1990), and Rookery Blues (1995).}
1805 Pine City records a high temperature of 108 degrees.
1861 Minnesota is the first state to offer troops at the outbreak of the Civil War. Governor Alexander Ramsey is in Washington, D.C., when word of the attack on Fort Sumter arrives, and he meets with Simon Cameron, the secretary of war, and offers one thousand Minnesota soldiers for the country's defense. He then telegraphs Lieutenant Governor Ignatius Donnelly, who summons volunteers from across the state. This group of men becomes the famous First Minnesota Regiment.
1870 The St. Paul Academy of Natural Sciences is formed. The group would suspend activities after the capitol fire of 1883 destroys its collection, reorganize in 1890, and hand over its new collection to the St. Paul Institute of Science and Letters in 1907. The institute would evolve into the Science Museum of Minnesota.
1886 A St. Cloud and Sauk Rapids tornado kills seventy-nine people in the counties of Stearns, Benton, and Morrison. The city of Sauk Rapids is devastated.
1894 Organizer Eugene Debs calls a strike by the workers of the Great Northern Railway. The railroad had imposed three wage cuts despite profits of over five million dollars the previous year. As the strike progresses, other railroads—following the lead of the Great Northern in other strike situations—refuse to help company president James J. Hill move his stalled trains. On May 1 Charles A. Pillsbury negotiates an agreement between the strikers and Hill, who consents to restore seventy–five percent of the wage cuts made earlier.
1901 A poker game in Granite Falls ends in violence. After playing for several hours, local dentist S. Wintner notices that his two kings have lost to two aces held by St. Paul card sharp William Lenard, the "Irish Lord," eight times in succession. Wintner produces a revolver and, when Lenard proclaims his innocence, fatally shoots him. At the trial later that year Frank Nye, for the defense, makes the creative assertion that, gambling being a felony, Dr. Wintner had the right to stop such an act, with violence if necessary. The jury, perhaps unsympathetic to a crooked gambler, finds Wintner not guilty.
1977 The Minnesota Asian American Project (MAAP), an organization that promotes civil rights, affirmative action, and legal services for the Asian community, is officially incorporated by Dennis Tachiki, Gloria Kumagai, and Daniel Matsumoto.
It was on this day in 1828 that Noah Webster published his American Dictionary of the English Language.
He spent 20 years working on his dictionary, which contained 70,000 words, and he did all the research and the handwriting of the book by himself. He is believed to be the last lexicographer to complete a dictionary without any assistance.
Instead of using quotations from literature to show words in context, he wrote his own sentences as examples. For the verb "to love" he wrote, "The Christian loves his Bible." For the word "inestimable" he wrote, "The privileges of American citizens, civil and religious, are inestimable." For the word "indulgence," he wrote, "How many children are ruined by indulgence!"
wow.
It was on this day in 1865 that President Abraham Lincoln was shot in the back of the head while watching a performance of the play Our American Cousin at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C.
On April 15 in Minnesota
1892 The Lake Traverse Reservation—600,000 acres in the Dakotas, across the western Minnesota border from Browns Valley—is opened to white settlement. In a scene reminiscent of the Oklahoma land rush, a pistol is shot at noon and the stampede of prospective settlers begins.
1912 The schoolchildren of St. Paul select the city's official flower, the sweet pea, in an election sponsored by the city's women's clubs. Other choices included the coreopsis, marigold, petunia, and aster. News of their selection is overshadowed by reports of the Titanic's sinking.
1916 The first regulated trout season opens.
1944 The Farmer-Labor Party and the state Democratic Party agree to merge at their joint convention, and a slate of candidates is quickly chosen to meet the filing deadline two days later. The Democratic-Farmer-Labor (DFL) Party is unique to Minnesota.
At 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, the British ocean liner Titanic sinks into the North Atlantic Ocean about 400 miles south of Newfoundland, Canada. The massive ship, which carried 2,200 passengers and crew, had struck an iceberg two and half hours before.
On April 10, the RMS Titanic, one of the largest and most luxurious ocean liners ever built, departed Southampton, England, on its maiden voyage across the Atlantic Ocean. The Titanic was designed by the Irish shipbuilder William Pirrie and built in Belfast, and was thought to be the world's fastest ship. It spanned 883 feet from stern to bow, and its hull was divided into 16 compartments that were presumed to be watertight. Because four of these compartments could be flooded without causing a critical loss of buoyancy, the Titanic was considered unsinkable. While leaving port, the ship came within a couple of feet of the steamer New York but passed safely by, causing a general sigh of relief from the passengers massed on the Titanic's decks. On its first journey across the highly competitive Atlantic ferry route, the ship carried some 2,200 passengers and crew.
After stopping at Cherbourg, France, and Queenstown, Ireland, to pick up some final passengers, the massive vessel set out at full speed for New York City. However, just before midnight on April 14, the RMS Titanic failed to divert its course from an iceberg and ruptured at least five of its hull compartments. These compartments filled with water and pulled down the bow of the ship. Because the Titanic's compartments were not capped at the top, water from the ruptured compartments filled each succeeding compartment, causing the bow to sink and the stern to be raised up to an almost vertical position above the water. Then the Titanic broke in half, and, at about 2:20 a.m. on April 15, stern and bow sank to the ocean floor.
Because of a shortage of lifeboats and the lack of satisfactory emergency procedures, more than 1,500 people went down in the sinking ship or froze to death in the icy North Atlantic waters. Most of the 700 or so survivors were women and children. A number of notable American and British citizens died in the tragedy, including the noted British journalist William Thomas Stead and heirs to the Straus, Astor, and Guggenheim fortunes.
One hour and 20 minutes after Titanic went down, the Cunard liner Carpathia arrived. The survivors in the lifeboats were brought aboard, and a handful of others were pulled out of the water. It was later discovered that the Leyland liner Californian had been less than 20 miles away at the time of the accident but had failed to hear the Titanic's distress signals because its radio operator was off duty.
Announcement of details of the tragedy led to outrage on both sides of the Atlantic. In the disaster's aftermath, the first International Convention for Safety of Life at Sea was held in 1913. Rules were adopted requiring that every ship have lifeboat space for each person on board, and that lifeboat drills be held. An International Ice Patrol was established to monitor icebergs in the North Atlantic shipping lanes. It was also required that ships maintain a 24-hour radio watch.
On September 1, 1985, a joint U.S.-French expedition located the wreck of the Titanic lying on the ocean floor at a depth of about 13,000 feet. The ship was explored by manned and unmanned submersibles, which shed new light on the details of its sinking.
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THX 1138 "Help, Questions, Suggestions & Messages for THX 1138" 4/15/05 11:18am
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1901 \09While in Seattle on business, St. Paul rail tycoon James J. Hill learns that Edward H. Harriman, in New York, is buying up shares of the Northern Pacific Railroad, trying to wrest control of the company from Hill. Hill orders all trains to give right of way to his express train and heads east for New York, making the 1,800-mile trip from Seattle to St. Paul in 45 hours and 50 minutes, 21 hours under the average time. From there Hill continues to New York and thwarts the deal. During the buying frenzy, Northern Pacific shares rise from under $100 to a peak of $1,000 on May 9.
1917 \09The Minnesota Commission of Public Safety is formed by the legislature to "protect life and property and to aid in the prosecution of the war." Seeking to achieve one hundred percent patriotism, the commission uses its sweeping powers to harass non-English-speaking immigrants and members of the Nonpartisan League.
1927 \09The Mesaba Railway Coach Company stops providing streetcar service between the towns of Hibbing and Gilbert. Related events also occurred on December 17, 1915.
1991 \09Marge Anderson becomes chief executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe. Emphasizing traditional government, education, and cultural preservation, Anderson would be a leader in the successful nine-year battle to preserve rights granted by an 1837 treaty to hunt and fish in and around Mille Lacs. Related events also occurred on March 24, 1999.
1943 Hallucinogenic effects of LSD discovered
In Basel, Switzerland, Albert Hoffman, a Swiss chemist working at the Sandoz pharmaceutical research laboratory, accidentally consumes LSD-25, a synthetic drug he had created in 1938 as part of his research into the medicinal value of lysergic acid compounds. After taking the drug, formally known as lysergic acid diethylamide, Dr. Hoffman was disturbed by unusual sensations and hallucinations. In his notes, he related the experience:
"Last Friday, April 16, 1943, I was forced to interrupt my work in the laboratory in the middle of the afternoon and proceed home, being affected by a remarkable restlessness, combined with a slight dizziness. At home I lay down and sank into a not unpleasant, intoxicated-like condition characterized by an extremely stimulated imagination. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight to be unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors. After some two hours this condition faded away."
After intentionally taking the drug again to confirm that it had caused this strange physical and mental state, Dr. Hoffman published a report announcing his discovery, and so LSD made its entry into the world as a hallucinogenic drug. Widespread use of the so-called "mind-expanding" drug did not begin until the 1960s, when counterculture figures such as Albert M. Hubbard, Timothy Leary, and Ken Kesey publicly expounded on the benefits of using LSD as a recreational drug. The manufacture, sale, possession, and use of LSD, known to cause negative reactions in some of those who take it, were made illegal in the United States in 1965.
1947 Texas City explodes
At 9:12 a.m. in Texas City's port on Galveston Bay, a fire aboard the French freighter Grandcamp ignites ammonium nitrate and other explosive materials in the ship's hold, causing a massive blast that destroys much of the city and takes nearly 600 lives.
The port of Texas City, a small industrial city with a population of about 18,000, was teaming with chemical plants and oil refineries that provided steady, good-paying jobs for much of the town. In the industrial sector, minor accidents and chemical fires were rather commonplace, and many stood around the port casually watching the reddish orange blaze that broke out on the Grandcamp early on a Wednesday morning. Twenty-seven members of the Texas City Volunteer Fire Department were called out to douse the flames, but the ship was so hot that the water from their fire hoses was instantly vaporized.
At 12 minutes past nine, the fire caught the freighter's stores of ammonium nitrate, a compound used to make dynamite, and Texas City exploded. Wood-frame houses in the city were flattened, additional blasts were triggered at nearby chemical plants, and fires broke out across the city. The mushroom cloud from the blast rose 2,000 feet, and fragments of the Grandcamp were hurled thousands of feet into the air, landing on buildings and people. The ship's anchor, weighing 1.5 tons, was flung two miles and embedded 10 feet into the ground at the Pan American refinery. The explosion was heard as far as 150 miles away.
Devastating fires burned for days, and on April 17 the freighter High Flyer, also loaded with nitrates, exploded, further devastating the port and causing a new string of explosions at nearby plants. Fortunately, most of Texas City's population had been evacuated by then, and the city's losses were primarily material. By late in the day on April 18, emergency crews had the situation under control. Some eyewitnesses said the scene was worse than anything they had seen in Europe during World War II. The Grandcamp explosion was the most devastating industrial accident in U.S. history, with 600 people killed and more than 3,000 wounded.
1972 Apollo 16 departs for moon
From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Apollo 16, the fifth of six U.S. lunar landing missions, is successfully launched on its 238,000-mile journey to the moon. On April 20, astronauts John W. Young and Charles M. Duke descended to the lunar surface from Apollo 16, which remained in orbit around the moon with a third astronaut, Thomas K. Mattingly, in command. Young and Duke remained on the moon for nearly three days, and spent more than 20 hours exploring the surface of Earth's only satellite. The two astronauts used the Lunar Rover vehicle to collect more than 200 pounds of rock before returning to Apollo 16 on April 23. Four days later, the three astronauts returned to Earth, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.
REVERE AND DAWES RIDE:
April 18, 1775
In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.
1989 Chinese students protest against government
Thousands of Chinese students take to the streets in Beijing to protest government policies and issue a call for greater democracy in the communist People's Republic of China (PRC). The protests grew until the Chinese government ruthlessly suppressed them in June during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
During the mid-1980s, the communist government of the PRC had been slowly edging toward a liberalization of the nation's strict state-controlled economy, in an attempt to attract more foreign investment and increase the nation's foreign trade. This action sparked a call among many Chinese citizens, including many students, for reform of the country's communist-dominated political system. By early 1989, peaceful protests against the government began in some of China's largest cities. The biggest protest was held on April 18 in the capital city of Beijing. Marching through Tiananmen Square in the center of the city, thousands of students carried banners, chanted slogans, and sang songs calling for a more democratic political atmosphere.
The government's response to the demonstrations became progressively harsher. Government officials who showed any sympathy to the protesters were purged. Several of the demonstration leaders were arrested, and a propaganda campaign was directed at the marching students, declaring that they sought to "create chaos under the heavens." On June 3, 1989, with the protests growing larger every day and foreign journalists capturing the dramatic events on film, the Chinese army was directed to crush the movement. An unknown number of Chinese protesters were killed (estimates range into the thousands) during what came to be known as the Tiananmen Square Massacre.
In the United States, the protests attracted widespread attention. Many Americans assumed that China, like the Soviet Union and the communist nations of Eastern Europe, had been moving toward a free market and political democracy. The brutal government repression of the protests shocked the American public. The U.S. government temporarily suspended arms sales to China and imposed a few economic sanctions, but the actions were largely symbolic. Growing U.S. trade and investment in China and the fear that a severe U.S. reaction to the massacre might result in a diplomatic rupture limited the official U.S. response.
In 1923 on this day, Yankee Stadium opened in New York City.
In 1934 on this day, the first laundromat opened in America.
Oklahoma City Bombing
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