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Saturday, April 30, 2022
Saturday Night in the Blogosphere
How journalism is in search of its iPod solution - The Journal
Ogden Newspapers Half Marathon To Return To Wheeling - The Intelligencer
Vice considers selling studio business
By William Turvill
Vice Media is considering selling its studio business, according to The Information.
The digital media giant has reportedly hired bankers from PJT and Liontree to sound out buyers.
The Information reports that Vice is coming under pressure to repay investor debts.
Source: The Information
Deal size: Unknown
Country: US
Status: Report
Today in Labor History April 30, 2022
Everettville mine disaster
50,000 workers in Chicago were on strike, with 30,000 more joining in the next day. The strike brought most of Chicago’s manufacturing to a standstill. On May 3rd, Chicago cops killed four unionists. A mass meeting and demonstration was called for the 4th, in Haymarket Square, where a cop would be killed by an assailant who would never be identified. Ultimately, eight anarchists (many not even in attendance) would be tried for murder and sentenced to death. This event, known as the Haymarket Tragedy or the Haymarket Affair, would go on to be the inspiration for International Workers’ Day, celebrated on May 1st in every country in the world except the U.S. – 1886
The Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, miner’s strike continued, with 1,200 workers getting arrested and placed into specially erected bullpens until the strikes were broken. – 1889
An explosion at the Everettville mine in Everettville, West Virginia killed 109 miners, many of whom lie in unmarked graves to this day. – 1927
The TWU (Transport Workers Union) won $9.5 million in pensions for former Fifth Avenue Coach employees after a long court battle. – 1965
The Obama administration’s National Labor Relations Board implemented new rules to speed up unionization elections. The new rules were largely seen as a counter to employer manipulation of the law to prevent workers from unionizing. – 2012
Important Events From This day in History April 30th
1952 England Diary of Anne Frank
1952: The diary of Anne Frank, a Jewish victim of the Holocaust is to be published in English titled "The Diary of a Young Girl". Her diary, later entitled "The Diary of Anne Frank", becomes one of the most popular books in the world and is included in most schools as recommended reading. The diary provides a disturbing account of a teenager living in hiding with seven others in fear of their lives in occupied Holland, Anne Frank died of typhus just before her 16th birthday in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945. Find More What happened in 1952 Webmaster's note: I read this very moving journal after my daughter read it in high school a few years ago and was amazed at how well it was written under terrible circumstances.
1789 USA George Washington Inaugurated
1789: George Washington Inaugurated as the First President of the United States at Federal Hall in New York City (New York City was the first capital of the United States) New York State.
1921 England Treaty of Versailles
1921: The discussions over Germany sticking to the Treaty of Versailles and steps to enforce reparations by Germany for the World War are causing rifts between England , France and Italy with the British prime minister Lloyd George calling an emergency meeting of the cabinet . The French and Italians want immediate occupation of the Ruer region of Germany while Britain wishes to pursue more diplomatic means.
1932 USA Tuberculosis
1932: The continued growth in TB / Tuberculosis is becoming more widespread and with more variations and the worst affected are infants and young children. It is often transmitted through milk from diseased cows. It can be diagnosed by a chest X-ray and is highly contagious. Side note - this was the most important reason the milk we now buy is pasteurized / homogenized.
1939 USA New York World's Fair
1939: 200,000 people attended New York World’s Fair, officially opening. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave the opening day address, which was not only broadcast over the various radio networks but also was televised. New York World's Fair allowed visitors to look at "The world of tomorrow." The General Motors exhibit was titled Futurama. Philo T. Farnsworth premiered some of the first televisions at the fair. AT&T presented its first Picture Phone at the World's Fair. Salvador Dali created a pavilion that was called “Dream of Venus” The IBM Pavilion featured electric typewriters, and a fantastic machine called the electric calculator that used punched cards to enter the information for the computer to calculate the results.
1939 USA First Regular Television Service
1939: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appeared on television for the opening of the New York World's Fair. His appearance started the first regular television service in America.
1940 Norway German Conquest
1940: Germany has stated that the conquest of Norway is now complete and has captured most British servicemen who are now in Prison Camps.
1940 USA Jimmy Dorsey
1940: Jimmy Dorsey and his band recorded the song "Contrasts." Along with his brother Tommy, the Dorsey Brothers eventually became an unmatched rival during the big band and swing era.
1943 Spain "The Man Who Never Was"
1943: "The Man Who Never Was" is pushed into the sea off the coast of Spain where the tide would bring the body ashore into German Hands. This was known as operation "Mincemeat." The operation was a British deception plan to convince the German High Command that allied forces would be invading the Balkans and Sardinia instead of the island of Sicily, by planting invasion plans on a corpse the Germans would find. The full deception is very complicated but great detail can be found on Wikipedia by searching for "The Man Who Never Was." The operation was a complete success which makes it even more interesting reading.
1945 Germany Hitler Commits Suicide
1945: German dictator Adolf Hitler and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide one day after they were married, just before the Russian troops entered his Berlin bunker at the end of World War II.
1948 England First Land Rover
1948: The Land Rover (Land Rover Series I) is shown for the first time at the Amsterdam Car Show, many of the original components were from Rover saloon cars including the 1.6 engine from the Rover P3 60 saloon. The car featured four-wheel drive.
1951 Iran Nationalize Oil Fields
1951: The Iranian government has voted to nationalize the countries oil fields which will be taken over from Anglo Iranian Co immediately and transferred to Government Ownership to ensure the wealth created from the nations reserves is used for the Iranian People.
1973 USA Watergate
1973: As part of the investigation of the Watergate bugging scandal 4 of President Nixon's closest aides resigned including Attorney General Richard G. Kleindienst, H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and John W. Dean II.
1975 South Vietnam Surrenders
1975: South Vietnam unconditional surrender to North Vietnam and the war in Vietnam is over with the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army and Government now in control.
1978 Bottled Water
1978: A debate is happening in the Soft Drink Industry and if the sales of bottled water by Perrier and others will ever make an impact on sales of more traditional sugary soft drinks in America.
1980 UK Terrorist Group Takes Iran Embassy Hostages
1980: Six terrorists take control of the Iranian Embassy in Prince's Gate, South Kensington in central London. The terrorists calling themselves the "Democratic Revolutionary Movement for the Liberation of Arabistan" take 26 hostages including the Metropolitan Police constable " PC Trevor Lock" on official protection duty at the main entrance. Their demands included the release of 91 political prisoners held in Iran as well as an aircraft to take them and the hostages out of the UK. The Iran embassy siege ends when SAS storms embassy on May 5th.
1984 Chad Civil War
1984: The Libya Prime minister has offered to withdraw Libyan troops from Chad if France will also withdraw from the former French African Colony, The French are supporting the current regime while the Libyans are supporting the rebel army.
1993 Germany Monica Seles Stabbed
1993: A man leans over a three-feet-high barrier at the quarter final tennis match in Hamburg and stabs Monica Seles from behind in the back. She is expected to be out of tennis for the next month while she recovers.
1999 England Nail Bomb
1999: A third Nail bomb attack in London at the Admiral Duncan pub, in Soho, leaves two dead and at least 30 injured.
2007 U.S. and E.U. Sign for Single Market
2007: The United States and European Union have committed themselves to a new transatlantic economic partnership at a summit in Washington. The pact will attempt to boost trade and investment by harmonizing regulatory standards, and laying down the basis for a US-EU single market. The two sides have also signed an Open Skies deal, which is designed to reduce fares and boost traffic on transatlantic flights.
2007 Afghanistan Coalition forces report heavy fighting in Herat
2007: U.S.-led forces and Afghan troops have killed scores of Taleban fighters in the western province of Herat. The report says that eighty-seven fighters have been killed in the fourteen-hour battle that took place on Sunday, April 29th. Forty-nine had been killed two days earlier, and one U.S. soldier has died. There is no word from the Taleban on the deaths, but it is likely to be their worst loss in 2007.
2008 US State Department’s Report on Terrorism
2008: The State Department has said that al-Qaeda is still the greatest terrorist threat to the U.S. and its allies. The Department's annual Country Reports on Terrorism also named Iran as the biggest state sponsor of terrorism. It says that there were 14,499 attacks in 2007, down from 14,570 in 2006. Attacks in Iraq were also down, from 6,628 to 6,212, although in Afghanistan these numbers rose from 969 in 2006 to 1,127 in 2007. Despite the overall attacks being slightly down, the number of terror-related deaths has risen by 8% to 22,000 in 2007. The report explained that "the ability of [Iraqi] attackers to penetrate large concentrations of people and then detonate their explosives may account for the increase in lethality of bombings in 2007." It summed up by saying that al-Qaeda had continued to lose ground, both structurally and in the court of world public opinion. Al-Qaeda is said to have reconstituted some of its pre-9-11 operational capabilities through the exploitation of Pakistan’s Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), as well as the replacement of captured or killed operational lieutenants.
2009 United States Chrysler Files for Bankruptcy
2009: The U.S. car maker Chrysler has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, and has formed an alliance with Fiat. Chapter 11 protects firms from their creditors, and allows them to rearrange their finances while still trading. The move came after talks had broken down with Chrysler's lenders. Chrysler said most of its plants would be shut until the transaction was complete, and that staff would still be paid.
2010 Belgium Starts to Ban Burqa
2010: Belgium's lower house of parliament has voted for a law that will ban women from wearing the full Islamic face veil in public. The law will ban any clothing that obscures the identity of the wearer in public places like parks and on the street. No one voted against the bill, although the law now goes to the Senate, where it may face challenges over its wording.
2010 First Oil Reaches Louisiana Coast From Deepwater Horizon
2010: First Oil Reaches the washes ashore at Venice, Louisiana on the Louisiana Coast From Deepwater Horizon drilling disaster.
2011 Yemeni President Fails to Sign Deal
2011: The President of Yemen, Ali Abdullah Saleh, failed to sign a deal that would create a transitional government and force him to step down after saying he would agree to it earlier in the month. Saleh refused to sign in his position as president but said he would sign as head of the ruling party because he feared he would not be allowed to preside over the thirty day transitional period. The opposition had earlier agreed to the deal.
2012 India Over 100 People Dead After Ferry Sinking
2012: At least 103 people were killed after a ferry capsized during a storm in India. The ferry was reportedly carrying around three hundred passengers while on the Brahmaputra river in the Assam state. The ferry reportedly capsized and broke into two pieces during the storm and several passengers were swept away by the river current.
2014 Brunei Announces Introduction of Islamic Penal Code
2014: The ruler of Brunei, Sultan Hassnal Bolkiah, announced that starting on May 1st, the country would slowly introduce the Islamic penal code over the next three years. The Sharia punishments would include the severing of limbs and death by stoning for various offences, The country was already under a fairly restrictive Islamic law system compared to neighboring countries and the introduction of the new penal code caused some concern for the United Nations.
Friday, April 29, 2022
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This is for historical purposes. The printing press will not always be around and it is my goal to preserve the craft.
Los Angeles County Covid-19
April 29, 2022
New Cases: 2,550 (2,872,203 to date)
New Deaths: 4 (31,959 to date)
Current Hospitalizations: 253
Today’s Positivity Rate: 1.8%
Los Angeles County Covid-19 Trends April 1st - 29th
NEW CASES DEATHS HOSPITALIZATIONS
1ST 1,167 16 287
2ND 1,135 12 290
3RD 734 8 288
4TH 530 8 287
5TH 798 12 297
6TH 789 17 292
7TH 1,088 15 273
8TH 1,263 16 275
9TH 1,225 21 267
10TH 908 10 262
11TH 742 7 265
12TH 795 13 270
13TH 973 11 256
14TH 1,214 12 239
15TH 1,355 13 228
16TH 1,510 9 241
17TH 1,012 6 213
18TH 829 6 221
19TH 857 12 226
20TH 1,146 15 230
21ST 2,123 13 224
22ND 2,056 12 219
23RD 2,028 10 209
24TH 1,593 4 218
25TH 1,069 2 230
26TH 1,583 4 232
27TH 1,686 10 235
28TH 2,335 8 249
29TH 2,550 4 253
Friday Afternoon in the Blogosphere
Why Prison Journalism Matters - Jacobin Magazine
Look No Further for Your Afternoon Newspaper - Wall Street Journal
Eastern WA council bans newspapers from City Hall - The Seattle Times
Death of radio journalist in Kyiv shelling brings toll to eight - Press Gazette
Nonprofit news outlets are playing a growing role in statehouse coverage - Pew Research Center
Labor backs 'crisis response' for regional newspapers facing 80 per cent jump in newsprint costs - Bega District News
Do you know the difference between a BROADSHEET and a TABLOID?
Do you know the difference between a BROADSHEET and a TABLOID? A MIDDLE-MARKET TABLOID and a RED TOP? Watch this video to learn about British newspapers and how this industry works in the UK.
Today in Labor History April 29th, 2022
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Coxey’s Army
Jacob Coxey led a group of 500 unemployed workers from the Midwest to Washington, D.C. His Army of the Poor was immediately arrested for trespassing on Capitol grounds. – 1894
The Return of Coxey’s Army (By Eddie Starr)
When they busted all the unions,
You can’t make no living wage.
And this working poor arrangement,
Gonna turn to public rage.
And then get ready . . .
We’re gonna bring back Coxey’s Army
And take his message to the street.
You can’t make no living wage.
And this working poor arrangement,
Gonna turn to public rage.
And then get ready . . .
We’re gonna bring back Coxey’s Army
And take his message to the street.
Failing to achieve their demand that only union men be employed at the Bunker Hill Company at Wardner, Idaho, members of the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) dynamited the $250,000 mill, completely destroying it. President McKinley responded by sending in black soldiers from Brownsville, Texas, with orders to round up the miners and imprison them in specially built “bullpens”. From 1899 to 1901, the U.S. Army occupied the Coeur d’Alene mining region in Idaho. – 1899
The special representative to the National War Labor Board issued a report, Retroactive Date for Women’s Pay Adjustments, setting forth provisions respecting wage rates for women working in war industries who were asking for equal pay. A directive issued by the board in September 1942 stated that “rates for women shall be set in accordance with the principle of equal pay for comparable quantity and quality of work on comparable operations.” – 1943
Refusing to accept a 9-cent wage increase, the United Packinghouse Workers of America initiated a nationwide strike against meatpacking companies Swift, Armour, Cudahy, Wilson, Morrell, and others. Packinghouse workers shut down 140 plants around the country. – 1948
G/O Media buys Quartz
By Charlotte Tobitt
The owner of satire news site The Onion, feminist site Jezebel and pop culture site AV Club has bought business news brand Quartz.
G/O Media chief executive Jim Spanfeller said Quartz was an attractive brand because its high-quality global business journalism has a good prospect of attracting both subscribers and valuable advertisers, according to the New York Times. Spanefeller was also reported as saying no Quartz employees would be laid off because of the deal.
Quartz co-founder and chief executive Zach Seward will stay with the company as general manager and editor-in-chief of Quartz. Quartz’s current editor Katherine Bell is stepping down but will remain in an advisory role.
Seward and Bell bought Quartz from its former Japanese owner Uzabase in a management buyout in November 2020. It was not expected to break even this year, according to the NYT.
Quartz ditched its paywall earlier this month less than three years after it put up a metered paywall on its site. It will keep some paid products, such as its Quartz Africa offering.
Source: New York Times
Deal size: Undisclosed
Country: US
Status: Official
Important Events From This day in History April 29th
1992 Rioting in Los Angeles
1992: Rioting has broken out in Los Angeles following the decision by a jury to acquit four white police officers accused of beating black motorist Rodney King. The case centered on a video, taped by an amateur cameraman which caught the scene on film as the four police officers beat, kicked and clubbed unemployed laborer Rodney King while other officers looked on. The officers did face a second trial a year later, on federal charges of violating Rodney King's civil rights, 2 were found guilty and faced prison sentences of two years. The violence continued for 4 days in which 55 people were killed caused by revenge attacks against whites and Asians by the black rioters. Find More What happened in 1992
1958 Britain My Fair Lady
1958: The Broadway musical "My Fair Lady" opens for its first night in London, with Rex Harrison as Professor Higgins, and Julie Andrews playing Eliza Doolittle. Tickets for the show cost just over £1, the first month is sold out before opening night.
1922 USA Lower Louisiana Floods
1922: Starvation threatens victims of the overflow of flood waters in lower Louisiana with nearly 3,500 square miles underwater and fifty thousand people affected many losing their homes and all possessions.
1934 USA John Dillinger
1934: John Dillinger is still on the run from a nationwide hunt after escaping from a band of policemen with orders to catch him dead or alive 1 week ago in North woods Wisconsin, after escaping a dragnet was put up in surrounding countryside but again he escaped and is still Americas Public Enemy Number 1 and still running wild and free.
1934 Europe Growth of Fascism
1934: With fascist dictators in power across Europe now parading their might and power including Hitler in Germany and Italy's Mussolini democracy is challenged more in this decade than any other.
1941 Greece Conquest of the Balkans
1941: Hitler and Germany completed the conquest of the Balkans in 1941 when they swept across Southern Greece taking many thousands of prisoners including British, Australian and new Zealand.
1945 Germany Dachau Concentration Camp
1945: Dachau concentration camp was liberated today when troops of the U.S. Seventh Army cleared the enemy guards from the camp where gruesome torture rooms and gas chambers were located.
1956 Britain Plane Crash
1956: A transport plane loaded with servicemen and their wives and children crashed today at Stanstead Airport while taking off to go to war torn Cyprus.
1963 Saipan Typhoon Olive
1963: Typhoon Olive with 110 MPH Winds destroyed 95% of the homes on the Island of Saipan and all electric power and telephones were down , there were no reported deaths but most of the population of the Island are now homeless.
1970 US Troops Invade Cambodia
1970: Following 12 months of bombing by US during Operation Menu, On This Day the South Vietnamese troops invade Cambodia and US troops follow 2 days later. The operation to invade Cambodia lasted until the end of June when US and South Vietnam's troops pull back out.
1974 USA President Nixon Watergate
1974: President Nixon announced in a nationally broadcast address he will hand over 1200 pages of White House Transcripts that will tell it all about Watergate and will prove his innocence.
1986 England Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson
1986: The Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, is laid to rest alongside her husband, the abdicated King Edward VIII, at Frogmore in Windsor. Members of the Royal family including the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh and the Prince and Princess of Wales, Princess Anne, and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, as well as The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher attended the ceremony.
1991 Bangladesh Cyclone
1991: A cyclone hits Bangladesh with winds in excess of 150 MPH and a 20 foot storm surge and kills more than 135,000 people in flat low lying Bangladesh.
1993 England Buckingham Palace
1993: Buckingham Palace will open its doors to the public in order to raise money to repair the fire-damaged Windsor Castle. The palace will only be open in August and September when the Queen is at her Scottish residence, Balmoral. The cost of entrance will be £8 for an adult.
2004 USA National World War II Memorial
2004: The National World War II Memorial between the Lincoln Memorial and the Washington Monument a monument to the 16 million U.S. men and women who served during World War II opened to the public in Washington D.C.
2007 Turkish Protest In Support of Secularism
2007: Hundreds of thousands of Turks have rallied in Istanbul in support of the country's secularism, amid rows on one of their presidential candidate's Islamic roots. The protesters are concerned that the ruling party's candidate, Abdullah Gul, is too loyal to Islam. Gul, himself, has said he would not quit, despite growing criticism from his opponents and from the army.
2007 Iran Bans Western Hairstyles
2007: Iranian police have been warning barbers not to give men Western hairstyles, or to use make-up on them. This is part of a fierce crackdown on what is known as bad hijab, or un-Islamic clothing. Iranian television has said that the crackdown on un-Islamic clothing has started its next phase, in which mobile police units will patrol Tehran in search of those who do not observe Islamic dress sense. Tehran's public prosecutor has suggested that women who violate dress rules should be exiled from the capital, and forced to live in remote areas of the country.
2009 First US Swine Flu Death
2009: A Mexican child has died of swine flu in Texas. He was twenty-three months old. The child is one of the 91 cases of swine flu that have been reported in the U.S. The World Health Organization has said that the virus was still spreading. Spain has said that it has confirmed its first case in a person who has not traveled to Mexico. The Mexican boy had arrived in the Texan border city of Brownsville on April 4th, and had developed flu symptoms within a few days.
2010 US Gulf Oil Spill
2010: The U.S. government has designated the Gulf of Mexico oil spill as an "incident of national significance". The Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano has told reporters that this will allow resources to be ordered in from other areas of the country. Some five thousand barrels of oil a day are leaking into the water from the explosion that took place on a B.P.-operated rig. The Coast Guard has said that the oil is expected to start washing ashore on April 30th. Louisiana's coastline is the most threatened.
2010 US Navy Lifts Ban on Female Submarine Crew
2010: Women can now serve on U.S. submarines. The Defense Department had announced that the ban would be lifted in February, and the deadline for Congressional objections was passed at midnight on April 28th. Training women for their new duties and the creation of appropriate quarters will mean that it will be more than a year before women can take up their posts. The cramped conditions had previously precluded women, despite their being able to serve alongside men on surface ships. About 15% of Navy personnel are women.
2011 UK Celebrates Royal Wedding
2011: Well-wishers around the world celebrated the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton in the United Kingdom. The wedding took place at Westminster Abbey with nearly two thousand guests in attendance. The newly appointed Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were greeted by half a million supporters as they shared a kiss on the balcony of Buckingham Palace.
2013 NBA Player Comes Out
2013: American basketball player, Jason Collins, came out as gay, becoming the first active player in a major sport to do so in the United States. Collins came out in a Sports Illustrated article and was greeted with an outpouring of support from other players, President Obama and others.
2014 Kenyan President Signs Polygamy Law
2014: The president of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta, signed a controversial bill into law that would legalized polygamy in the African country. The law would also ban marriage for those under the age of eighteen, have it a requirement for all marriages to be registered, allow women to be entitled to half of the property that was acquired during a marriage, and not recognize the customary needed approval of a first wife in cases of polygamy.
Thursday, April 28, 2022
Thursday Morning in the Blogosphere
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Here are the 30 women selected for Poynter’s first Leadership Academy - Poynter
Musk’s Twitter purchase leaves global media increasingly in the pockets of a few billionaires - Fortune
How NOLA.com and The Advocate increased engagement and subscriptions - What's New in Publishing
Changes in print D&C are the latest in a long line of adaptations for an evolving business - Democrat & Chronicle
Today in Labor History April 28th, 2022
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181-192 (sources differ) workers died in a coal mine collapse disaster at Eccles, West Virginia. The mine was owned by the Guggenheim family. – 1914
A bomb plot was discovered in which over 30 dynamite bombs were to be sent people “on the anarchists’ enemies list,” including U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer, who had been rounding up, imprisoning and deporting anarchists and union activists. Other targets included J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis. – 1919
119 died in a Benwood, West Virginia coal mine disaster. – 1924
The United Wallpaper Craftsmen & Workers of North America merged with the Pulp, Sulfite & Paper Mill Workers union. – 1958
The American Federation of Hosiery Workers merged with the Textile Workers Union of America. – 1965
Congress approved the creation of OSHA, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (only to watch idly as it was gutted by Reagan, and again by his successors). The AFL-CIO declared April 28 “Workers Memorial Day” to honor the hundreds of thousands of working people killed and injured on the job every year. – 1970.
The first “Take Our Daughters to Work Day” took place on this day, promoted by the Ms. Foundation. Its purpose was to boost the self-esteem of girls with invitations to a parent’s workplace. – 1993
Important Events From This day in History April 28th
1947 Peru Kon-Tiki Expedition
1947: A Norwegian expedition including 5 Norwegians and a Swede headed by Thor Heyerdahl set out on the raft The Kon-Tiki from Peru in South America to cross the 4000 miles of Pacific Ocean to prove that the Polynesian Islands were settled in a similar way thousands of years ago, the raft is equipped with a square sail and paddles. Find More What happened in 1947
2008 New Zealand Colossal Squid
2008: A rarely found Colossal Squid 34 feet long, and weighing 1/2 ton squid is being dissected to help understand a little more about rare animal that lives largely in the cold Antarctic waters. The squid is believed to grow up to 50 ft long a similar length to the sperm whale they are believed to tussle with in the depths of the ocean.
1940 USA Glenn Miller Pennsylvania 6-5000
1940: "Pennsylvania 6-5000," by Glenn Miller and his orchestra, was recorded. The song's title refers to the oldest existing New York City phone number at the time belonging to the Hotel Pennsylvania. Many prominent acts played at this venue, including the Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington and the Glenn Miller Orchestra as well.
1789 Tahiti Mutiny On The Bounty
1789: Fletcher Christian leads a mutiny against the commanding officer William Bligh aboard the British Royal Navy ship HMS Bounty. Mutineers set Captain Bligh and 18 crew loyal to the captain afloat in a 23-foot open boat. Captain Bligh and his fellow loyal crew made it after a 47-day voyage to Timor in the Dutch East Indies and returned to England and reported the mutiny. The Mutineers eventually settled in Pitcairn Island and Tahiti.
1926 Europe 5,000,000 Unemployed
1926: Unemployment in Europe is at an all time high with over 5,000,000 receiving doles from their governments with over 1 million in Britain and 2 million in Germany, causes are from many things including antiquated equipment, high taxes, and high production costs.
1935 USA 1,200,000 Face Starvation in Illinois
1935: Over 1,200,000 people face starvation in Illinois if the US Federal Government stops providing new deal funding, the reason is that the state must provide $3,000,000 of the $12,000,000 required each month to feed and house the unemployed indigents or the federal government withdraws it's funding and the state does not have the money and is not providing that funding.
1945 Italy Mussolini
1945: Italian partisans executed deposed dictator Benito Mussolini and his mistress, Clara Petacci. Mussolini, who ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943.
1955 Vietnam Nigo Dinh Diem
1955: The American backed premier Nigo Dinh Diem in Vietnam is fighting for survival against rebel forces , the backing of the US is only in expression of support and is not providing military support in any way.
1965 Dominican Republic US Citizens Evacuated
1965: U.S. Marines evacuated American citizens in the Dominican Republic due to the current civil war.
1967 USA Muhammad Ali
1967: Heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali appears for his scheduled induction into the U.S. Armed Forces in Houston, he refused three times to step forward at the call of his name. He is then warned by an officer that failing to answer to his name was a felony punishable by five years in prison and a fine of $10,000. He still refused to budge when his name was called. On the same day, the New York State Athletic Commission suspended his boxing license and stripped him of his title. In 1964 he had failed the U.S. Armed Forces qualifying test because his writing and spelling skills were sub par. However, in early 1966, the tests were revised and Ali was reclassified as 1A. When notified of this status, he declared that he would refuse to serve in the United States Army.
1969 USA All Guns Banned From US Colleges
1969: Following a number of protests and armed students involving guns and weapons in colleges and universities across the US new laws are being sought to ban all guns from college compasses.
1969 France Charles de Gaulle Resigns
1969: The French President, Charles de Gaulle, resigns from President of France after 11 years, following his defeat in a referendum on governmental reforms.
1975 Vietnam Last US Citizens Evacuated
1975: US Involvement in Vietnam is now complete as helicopters and marines bring out the last US Citizens and parents of thousands of South Vietnamese children are begging the US to save the children as US Marines are using pistol and rifle butts to smash the fingers of Vietnamese trying to climb over the walls and enter the US Embassy compound.
1986 Soviet Union Chernobyl
1986: Two days after monitoring stations in Sweden, Finland and Norway began reporting sudden high discharges of radioactivity in the atmosphere. The Soviet Union via the official news agency, Tass, said there has been an accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Ukraine.
1994 USA Aldrich Ames
1994: A CIA double agent Aldrich Ames is jailed for life after admitted selling secrets to the Soviet Union and then Russia.
1995 South Korea Gas Explosion
1995: A gas explosion beneath a busy city street in Taegu, South Korea, kills more than 100 people many of them children on their way to school.
1996 Australia Gunman Kills 32
1996: A gunman has shot and killed 32 people in the tourist town of Port Arthur, Tasmania. The gunman is now holding three people hostage in a local guest-house. The gunman "Martin Bryant" did kill the three hostages during the siege and is captured by police the next day and is found guilty of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment with no possibility of parole.
2004 USA Abu Ghraib Prisoner Abuse Scandal
2004: The first photos of the Abu Ghraib prisoner abuse scandal were shown on CBS' "60 Minutes II." . The US army has all ready instituted and was already acting on these photographs prior to the 60 Minutes Showing and those involved are all in Iraq, awaiting court martial. The abuses were committed by some personnel of the 372nd Military Police Company of the United States together with additional American governmental agencies.
2006 Wiretapping Lawsuit Against AT&T
2006: The Bush administration has said that it will be trying to halt the lawsuit that is accusing AT&T of illegally helping the National Security Agency spy on Americans citizens. In an 8-page document that was filed with a federal court in a northern district of California, the U.S. Justice Department said that it would intervene in the lawsuit. The Electronic Frontier Foundation, a digital rights group based in San Francisco, had filed a class action lawsuit against the federal government in January. The suit claims AT&T's alleged cooperation violates the Constitution's free speech and privacy rights and contravenes the federal wiretapping law, which prohibits electronic surveillance "except as authorized."
2008 Supreme Court Approves Indiana’s Photo ID Voting
2008: The Supreme Court has issued a decision to uphold an Indiana law that requires citizens to provide photo identification when voting. It is hoped that this will guard against fraud. Critics of the law argue that it discriminates against poor voters, ethnic minorities and the elderly, who are less likely to carry ID, but the Court ruled that the law did not constitute a burden on voters. Other states have similar rules, and the court's ruling could prompt even more states to adopt the law.
2010 Cape Wind Offshore Wind Farm Approved
2010: The Cape Wind Project an offshore wind farm covering covers 24 square miles and including 130 horizontal-axis wind turbines is approved by United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar the wind farm will be on Horseshoe Shoal in Nantucket Sound off Cape Cod in the U.S. state of Massachusetts. The Wind farm is predicted to generate 454 megawatts (enough power for 420,000 homes).
2011 Police Join Protests in Burkina Faso
2011: Police officers in Burkina Faso join protesters over the high cost of living by shooting their guns in the air. Protesters had been gathering in the capital Ouagadougou throughout the previous few weeks, uniting in anger over high food prices and unpaid housing allowances to soldiers.
2012 Chinese Dissident Under US Protection
2012: Blind Chinese dissident Chen Guangcheng was under the protection of the US after escaping house arrest and going to the US embassy according to a ChinaAid, a US-based rights group. Reports out of the country stated that his nephew and brother who had helped him escape were detained by police.
2013 Italy New Government Sworn In
2013: A two-month long political stalemate ended with the swearing-in of Italy's "Grand Coalition" government. Enrico Letta of the Democratic Party became the new Prime Minister and the coalition included members of Berlusconi's People of Freedom party. Outside of the ceremony two police officers were shot by a suspect who admitted to targeting politicians.
2014 Taiwan Anti-Nuclear Protesters Clash With Police
2014: Thousands of protesters clashed with police as they were protesting the construction of a fourth nuclear power plant in Taiwan. The protesters refused the leave the site and were hit with water cannons by police who were trying to get them to disperse.