On This Day In History
- 1776 - George Washington's retreating army crosses the Delaware River from NJ
- 1863 - President Lincoln issues Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction
- 1915 - John McCrae's poem "In Flanders Fields" appears anonymously
- 1919 - Julia Robinson is born. She is best known for her contributions to the fields of computability theory and computational complexity theory. She solved Hilbertâs 10th problem and developed the most important theorem in elementary game theory.
- 1927 - Robert S. Brookings joined with other government reformers to create the Brookings Institute. The private organization was the first of its kind devoted to independently researching policy on a broad variety of topics and concerns.
- 1941 - The U.S. declares war on Japan. Jeannette Rankin casts the sole vote against.
- 1952 - I Love Lucy features TVâs first pregnant character
- 1953 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower gives his "Atoms for Peace" speech at the United Nations in New York
- 1967 - Robert Henry Lawrence, Jr., the first African-American astronaut and U.S. Air Force major, dies in a crash of an F-104 Starfighter while training at 32
- 1978 - Golda Meir, 4th Prime Minister of Israel and the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics, dies of lymphatic cancer at 80
- 1980 - John Lennon shot and killed outside his Manhattan apartment
- 1987 - President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev sign the first treaty between the two superpowers to reduce their nuclear arsenals
- 1993 - NAFTA signed into law
- 2010 - SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft upon the return of the unmanned space capsule Dragon.
- 2016 - John Glenn, first American to orbit the earth and politician (Senator, D-Ohio), dies at 95
Quote of the Day
"It has been my observation that the happiest of people, the vibrant doers of the world, are almost always those who are using - who are putting into play, calling upon, depending upon-the greatest number of their God-given talents and capabilities."
â John Glenn
On the Punny Side
Knock knock.
Whoâs there?
Holly.
Holly who?
Holly-days are here again.
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