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on this day …The first shipload of Chinese emigrants arrived in San Francisco, CA.
1536 – The Argentine city of Buenos Aires was founded by Pedro de Mendoza of Spain.
1653 – New Amsterdam, now known as New York City, was incorporated.
1802 – The first leopard to be exhibited in the United States was shown by Othello Pollard in Boston, MA.
1848 – The Mexican War was ended with the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty turned over portions of land to the U.S., including Texas, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Arizona, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming. The U.S. gave Mexico $15,000,000 and assumed responsibility of all claims against Mexico by American citizens. Texas had already entered the U.S. on December 29, 1845.
1848 – The first shipload of Chinese emigrants arrived in San Francisco, CA.
1863 – Samuel Langhorne Clemens used a pseudonym for the first time. He is better remembered by the pseudonym which is Mark Twain.
1870 – The “Cardiff Giant” was revealed to be nothing more than carved gypsum. The discovery in Cardiff, NY, was alleged to be the petrified remains of a human.
1876 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs (known as the National League) was formed in New York. The teams included were the Chicago White Stockings, Philadelphia Athletics, Boston Red Stockings, Hartford Dark Blues, Mutual of New York, St. Louis Brown Stockings, Cincinnati Red Stockings and the Louisville Grays.
1878 – Greece declared war on Turkey.
1880 – The S.S. Strathleven arrived in London with the first successful shipment of frozen mutton from Australia.
1887 – The beginning of Groundhog Day in Punxsutawney, PA.
1892 – William Painter patented the bottle cap.
1893 – The Edison Studio in West Orange, NJ, made history when they filmed the first motion picture close-up. The studio was owned and operated by Thomas Edison.
1897 – The Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg was destroyed by fire. The new statehouse was dedicated nine years later on the same site.
1913 – Grand Central Terminal officially opened at 12:01 a.m. Even though construction was not entirely complete more than 150,000 people visited the new terminal on its opening day.
1935 – Leonard Keeler conducted the first test of the polygraph machine, in Portage, WI.
1943 – During World War II, the remainder of Nazi forces from the Battle of Stalingrad surrendered to the Soviets. Stalingrad has since been renamed Volgograd.
1945 – U.S. President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill left for a summit in Yalta with Soviet leader Josef Stalin.
1946 – The first Buck Rogers automatic pistol was made.
1946 – The Mutual Broadcasting System aired “Twenty Questions” for the first time on radio. The show moved to television 3 years later.
1949 – Golfer Ben Hogan was seriously injured in an auto accident in Van Horn, TX.
1950 – “What’s My Line” debuted on CBS television.
1962 – The 8th and 9th planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.
1967 – The American Basketball Association was formed by representatives of the NBA.
1971 – Idi Amin assumed power in Uganda after a coup that ousted President Milton Obote.
1980 – The situation known as “Abscam” began when reports surfaced that the FBI had conducted a sting operation that targeted members of the U.S. Congress. A phony Arab businessmen were used in the operation.
1989 – The final Russian armored column left Kabul, Afghanistan, after nine years of military occupation.
1990 – South African President F.W. de Klerk lifted a ban on the African National Congress and promised to free Nelson Mandela.
1998 – U.S. President Clinton introduced the first balanced budget in 30 years.
1999 – 19 people were killed at Luanda international airport when a cargo plane crashed just after takeoff.
1999 – Hugo Chávez Frías took office. He had been elected president of Venezuela in December 1998.
2004 – It was reported that a white powder had been found in an office of Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) later confirmed that the powder was the poison ricin.
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1962 – The 8th and 9th planets aligned for the first time in 400 years.
1962 8 of 9 planets align for 1st time in 400 years
The eighth planet from the sun, Neptune is about the size of Uranus and is known for supersonic strong winds. Neptune is far out and cold. The planet is more than 30 times as far from the sun as…
astrobiology.nasa.gov
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1961 ~ Misfits
The Misfits, a flawed but moving meditation on the vanishing spirit of western independence, opens in theaters on February 1, 1961.
The Misfits had all the right ingredients to become a truly great western. The director, John Huston, was one of the most talented in Hollywood. The screenwriter, Arthur Miller, was a celebrated playwright. The three stars—Marilyn Monroe, Clark Gable and Montgomery Clift—were among America’s brightest. Yet when the film opened in early 1961, the reviews were mixed, and the public largely ignored the film.
Audiences disliked the film in part because it failed to offer a clear-cut hero with whom they could identify. The Misfits tells the story of a four rootless losers trying to survive in the modern-day West. Monroe plays a frightened divorcee who falls in with an embittered rodeo rider (Clift) and an aging cowboy (Gable). These three improbable friends join a cynical cowboy to help him round up wild horses in the Nevada desert to sell for dog food.
In some of the films most memorable and stunning scenes, the four misfits are shown careening across the Nevada desert in an old pickup truck. Clift and Clark are swinging their lassoes, as if they had returned to the long-passed era of the Open Range. Yet, the jarring juxtaposition of the classic cowboy in a beat-up truck rather than on a noble steed suggests the film’s real theme: the days of the Old West were over, and misfits could no longer find freedom and sanctuary there. For Miller, the four characters belonged to a vanished age, and they stood as symbols of the many others left behind by progress. Like another similarly dark film that came out the following year, Lonely are the Brave, the heroes of The Misfits are doomed to loneliness and spiritual death. They are unable to fit into the modern mechanized world.
Source: history.com
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African American History … 1619 – 1989
and now you can read possibly get the #1619Project to find out how your School can include this into your curriculum
some say indigenous Blacks were here before 1610
~Nativergrl77
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