Thursday, September 02, 2004
All's quiet in the world with me today.
Nothing much to talk about so I'll educate you today :)
On this day in:
1789 - U.S. Treasury Department is established.
1880 - First night game in baseball is played.
1897 - First issue of McCall's Magazine is published. It had previously been called Queens Magazine and Queen of Fashion.
1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gives a speech at the Minnesota State Fair in which he says, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
1945 - World War II officially ends about the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. An unconditional surrender was signed by the Japanese. American General Douglas MacArthur signed the document on behalf of the Allied forces. This is also known as V-J Day.
1945 - Just hours after the Japanese surrender in World War II, Ho Chi Minh, the Communist leader, proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh had instituted Communism in France and Communist revolutionaries in China before returning to his homeland of Vietnam. The purpose of his proclamation was to prevent the French from reclaiming their former colonial possession. Eventually, fighting and, later, war broke out between the Vietnamese nationalists and the French.
1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the desegregation of Tuskegee High School by surrounding its building with state troopers. Eight days later, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to force an end to Wallace's blockade.
1969 - North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died.
Nothing much to talk about so I'll educate you today :)
On this day in:
1789 - U.S. Treasury Department is established.
1880 - First night game in baseball is played.
1897 - First issue of McCall's Magazine is published. It had previously been called Queens Magazine and Queen of Fashion.
1901 - Vice President Theodore Roosevelt gives a speech at the Minnesota State Fair in which he says, "Speak softly and carry a big stick."
1945 - World War II officially ends about the U.S.S. Missouri in Tokyo Bay. An unconditional surrender was signed by the Japanese. American General Douglas MacArthur signed the document on behalf of the Allied forces. This is also known as V-J Day.
1945 - Just hours after the Japanese surrender in World War II, Ho Chi Minh, the Communist leader, proclaimed the independent Democratic Republic of Vietnam. Ho Chi Minh had instituted Communism in France and Communist revolutionaries in China before returning to his homeland of Vietnam. The purpose of his proclamation was to prevent the French from reclaiming their former colonial possession. Eventually, fighting and, later, war broke out between the Vietnamese nationalists and the French.
1963 - Alabama Governor George Wallace blocked the desegregation of Tuskegee High School by surrounding its building with state troopers. Eight days later, President John F. Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to force an end to Wallace's blockade.
1969 - North Vietnamese president Ho Chi Minh died.