On This Day in History

On Sept. 18, 1867: John Alexander Macdonald 1815-1891 wins first Dominion election, defeating George Brown with 51.1% of the popular vote; gets 108 seats to Liberal 72; balloting took place from Aug 9 to Sept 18.

 

On September 19th in 1881, the 20th president of the United States, James A. Garfield, died of wounds inflicted by an assassin.

 

On September 20th in 1973, Billie Jean King defeated Bobby Riggs in straight sets 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 in a $100,000 winner-take-all tennis match

 

On September 21st. in 1938, a hurricane struck parts of New York and New England, causing widespread damage and claiming more than 600 lives.

 

On Sept. 21, 1942, the B29 made is debut flight.

http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/the-superfortress-takes-flight

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Also my oldest son was born in 1981.

 

Also on Sept. 21, 1992:

Ottawa Ontario - The new Ottawa Senators hockey team play their first home exhibition game in the Civic Centre; lose 4-3 in overtime to the Washington Capitals. Ottawa is finally back in the NHL after 58 years; the old Stanley Cup winning Senators moved to St. Louis in 1934.

 

Georgia has executed Troy Davis. Despite witnesses recanting their statements, despite witnesses saying they had been encouraged or pressurised by the police to make false statements Amnesty was unable to help him get an appeal. Rather a big thing, to take a mans life, there should have been no doubt. On this day in history, how many will remember just another dead man?

If you would have fruits to keep long, then let them not be over-ripe on the tree, and gather them about the first or last quarters of the moon.
(Lakes Almanac 1628)

 

(we also hung a monkey as a french spy during the napoleonic wars - but I dont know the date - hence brackets)

 

Also on September 23rd in 1952, Republican vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Nixon went on television to deliver what came to be known as the “Checkers” speech as he denied allegations of improper campaign financing.

 

On September 24th, in 1996, the United States and the world’s other major nuclear powers signed a treaty to end all testing and development of nuclear weapons.

 

On Sept 25, 1956:

FIRST DIRECT DIALING TO EUROPE
Clarenville, Newfoundland - Canadian Overseas Telephone Company (COTC), the British Post Office and American Telephone & Telegraph open the first direct dial transatlantic calling service with an exchange of greetings between London, Ottawa and New York. The new $42 million cable from Oban, Scotland, jointly owned by the three firms, consists of two lines laid 30 km apart on the ocean floor.

 

Sept. 25, 1952

I was born.