Spacetime for the week of 2/21/07
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
By Ed Bushnell
February 21
1972 – Nixon becomes the first U.S. President to visit China.
1988 – Jimmy Swaggart becomes the first televangelist to tell a live TV audience that he visited a prostitute.
1989 – U.S. investigators bust a Chinese drug ring and seize 820 pounds of heroin – worth a cool billion.
February 22
1349 – Jews are expelled from Zurich, Switzerland.
1775 – Jews are expelled from Warsaw, Poland.
1948 – Bomb blasts kill 50 in Jerusalem.
February 23
1910 – The first radio contest is held; it does not involve drinking water.
1993 – Gary Coleman wins a $1,280,000 lawsuit against his parents.
1995 – The Dow Jones closes above 4,000 for the first time.
February 24
1968 – The first pulsar is discovered.
1970 – Twenty-nine Swiss Army officers die in an avalanche.
1979 – Someone pays $42,500 for a pig in Texas.
February 25
1836 – Samuel Colt patents the first revolving barrel multishot firearm.
1859 – “By reason of insanity” is first successfully used to defend a guilty charge.
1982 – The final episode of “The Lawrence Welk Show” airs.
February 26
1944 – The first female Navy Captain is appointed: Sue Dauser of the nurse corps.
1972 – A slag heap across a river collapses in West Virginia, killing 125 downstream residents.
1975 – The first televised kidney operation is aired on “The Today Show.”
February 27
1827 – The first Mardi Gras celebration in New Orleans takes place.
1883 – The cigar-rolling machine is patented.
1967 – Pink Floyd releases its first single, “Arnold Layne.”
PERMALINK:
Spacetime for the week of 2/21/07 | Planet JH News Article: Space Time
|
No comments for this Article.
|
Leave a Comment
Please limit your letter to 300 words, sign it and give us the name of your town.
