What is the History on your wedding day?

What happened on your wedding day?
Any-Day-In-History

I am getting married on:
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes northeast US
1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st song (Arnold Layne)
1997 Beatle Paul McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen Elizabeth II

US : Johnny Appleseed Day (anniversary of his death-1845)

Birthdays:
1934 Sam Donaldson El Paso TX, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)

My dad was born.....

This is so cool!!!!

Feb 17th- OMG - this can't be good!!!

Thought for the day :

' Matrimony is the root of all evil. '

keanu reeves was born...

1863 1st military draft by US (exemptions cost $100)
1967 Beatles' 'All You Need is Love' is released
1987 Yanks trailing by 7 score 7 in 7th on 7/7 & 5 in 8th-Beat Twins 12-7

we're putting a little 'One this day' in our programs:

1874 - Levi Strauss began marketing blue jeans with copper rivets.

1899 - Jacob German of New York City became the first driver to be arrested for speeding. The posted speed limit was 12 miles per hour.

1916 - Norman Rockwell’s first cover on 'The Saturday Evening Post' appeared.

1927 - Charles Lindbergh took off from New York to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the 'Spirit of St. Louis.' The trip took 33 1/2 hours.

1939 - The first telecast over telephone wires was sent from Madison Square Garden to the NBC-TV studios at 30 Rockefeller Center in Manhattan. The event was a bicycle race.

1985 - The Dow Jones industrial average broke the 1300 mark for the first time. The Dow closed at 1304.88.

1990 - The Hubble Space Telescope sent back its first photographs.

1993 - The final episode of 'Cheers' was aired on NBC-TV.

2005 – Melissa and Sean tied the knot!

I'm getting married on what may be my conception day - September 16th. My BD is June 16th - do the math!

Judy Garland's Birthday!

1610 First Dutch settlers arrived to colonize Manhattan Island

1692 First person hanged for witchcraft in Salem, MA

1752 Ben Franklin's kite struck by lightning

1921 Babe Ruth becomes the all-time homerun champ

1966 Janis Joplin's first live concert

1977 Apple computer ships their first Apple II

1979 Pope John Paul II visits Poland

1985 Coca-cola brings back their 99 year old formula

But the best is the Thought of the Day, this is for my dear FH!
'If you want the last word with a woman, apologize.'

Holy!! There are a lot on my day!

Too many to list!!! MY WEDDING DAY

This is so cool Sorry its long I love history!

Some of the births:
1535 Gregory XIV [Niccolò Sfondrati], Roman Catholic pope (1590-91)
1812 Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vice President (Confederacy), died in 1883
1922 Leslie Nielsen Regina Sask, actor (Forbidden Planet, Naked Gun)
1925 Dr Virginia E Johnson sexologist (Masters & Johnson)
1934 Tina Louise New York NY, actress (Ginger-Gilligan's Island, Julie-Dallas)
1936 Burt Reynolds Waycross GA, actor (Evening Shade, Striptease, Cannonball Run, Smokey and the Bandit, Dan August, Deliverance)
1942 Archie Andrews comic book character (Archie)
1962 Sheryl Crow Kennett MO, singer/songwriter (All I Wanna Do, If It Makes You Happy)
1969 Jennifer Aniston Sherman Oaks CA, actress (Rachel-Friends)
1979 Brandy [Norwood] singer (Les Miserables, Moesha)
1980 Matthew Lawrence Montgomery PA, actor (Matthew-Gimme a Break)
1997 Michael Jackson Jr son of Michael Jackson

Some deaths:
0641 Heraclius emperor of Byzantium (610-641), dies at about 65
0821 Benedict of Aniane saint, dies
1503 Elizabeth of York Consort of King Henry VII, dies on 38th birthday
1650 René Descartes philosopher 'I think therefore I am', stops thinking
1868 Léon Foucault discovers 1st physical proof of Earth's rotation, dies
1899 George Morgan 1st English motorist to die in an motor accident, dies
1963 Sylvia Plath poet/novelist (Ariel), kills herself in London at 30
1976 Lee J Cobb actor (12 Angry Men, On the Waterfront), dies at 64
1554 Lady Jane Grey deposed Queen of England, beheaded after 9 day rule at 17

On this day:
1531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of the Church in England
1752 Pennsylvania Hospital, the 1st hospital in the US, opened
1766 Stamp Act declared unconstitutional in Virginia
1768 Samuel Adams letter, circulates around American colonies, opposing Townshend Act taxes
1809 Robert Fulton patents the steamboat
1810 Napoleon marries Marie-Louise of Austria
1852 1st British public female toilet opens (Bedford Street London)
1958 Ruth Carol Taylor is 1st African-American woman hired as flight attendant
1964 Beatles 1st live appearance in US; Washington DC Coliseum

us holiday:
US : National Inventors Day

world holiday:
World : Boy Scouts Day (1910) - - - - - ( Sunday )

thought for the day:
'nobody can be as agreeable as an uninvited guest'

July 4th... as a history teacher I BETTER know what happened. Actually we ALL better know what happened

On this day...
1054 Brightest known super-nova (Crab Nebula) starts shining (23 days)
1636 City of Providence, Rhode Island form
1653 Barebones Parliment goes into session in England
1776 Declaration of Independence-US gains independence from Britain
1789 1st US tariff act
1802 US Military Academy officially opens (West Point, NY)
1817 Construction on Erie Canal begins
1827 Slavery abolished in NY
1829 Cornerstone laid for 1st US mint (Chestnut & Juniper St, Phila)
1832 'America' 1st sung publicly
1836 Wisconsin Territory formed
1845 Texas Congress votes for annexation to US
1845 Thoreau moves into his shack on Walden Pond
1862 Lewis Carroll creates Alice in Wonderland for Alice P Liddell
1863 Boise, Idaho founded (now capital of Idaho)
1863 Vicksburg, Mississippi surrenders to Union forces
1865 1st edition of 'Alice in Wonderland' is published
1866 Firecracker thrown in wood starts fire destroying « of Portland, Me
1876 1st public exhibition of electric light in SF
1884 Statue of Liberty presented to US in Paris
1886 1st scheduled transcontinental passenger train reaches Pt Moody, BC
1894 Elwood Haynes successfully tests one of 1st US autos at 6 MPH
1894 Republic of Hawaii established
1898 US flag hoisted over Wake Island (Spanish-American War)
1939 Yankees retire 1st uniform (Lou Gehrig #4), 1st Old Timers Day
1942 1st American bombing mission over enemy-occupied Europe (WW II)
1946 Philippines gains independence from US
1960 America's new 50-star flag honoring Hawaiian statehood unfurled
1960 Mickey Mantle hits career homer # 300
1962 Island Records begins
1966 LBJ signs Freedom of Information Act
1967 Freedom of Information Act goes into effect
1967 Phillies Clay Dairymple ties NL record of 6 walks in doubleheader
1969 'Give Peace a Chance' by Plastic Ono Band is released in the UK


So much. I guess a lot of it was timed for July 4th.

The premiere of MTV!!

Actors Tony Curtis and TOM CRUISE were born....
Jim Morrison of the DOORS died...
1st Sunday game at Fenway Park, Yanks beat Red Sox 13-2 (Go Yankees!)

I was born, and well, Scott Baio

I love this one!

1439- kissing is banned in England- wonder when that was reversed

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Posted by mscally

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