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send news tips to the editor; ttievoice.fsu@gmail.com 1 www.issuu.com/fsuvoice 1 Febmary 22, 2012 Elizabeth II of Great Britain. 1887-The first gathering at Gobber’s Knob in Pimxsatawney, PA to wait for the ground- 1953- The first 3-D movie, Bwana Devil, hog’s shadow weather preditction. opened in New York. The Voice, For students, By Students By Jennifer Lucas yoice Editor-In-Chief 46 B.C.- Roman Empire Julius Caesar de clared first leap day. 1564- Michelangelo Buonarotti, Italian painter, sculptor and architect; best know for painting the ceiling of the 16th Chapel, died. 1582- Pope Gregory XIII [13] issued a pa pal bull introducing the Gregorian calendar reform. 1635- Boston Latin School, the oldest pub lic school in the United States was founded. 1669- French King Louis XIV [14th] limits freedom of religion 1692- Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba were the first accused of witchcraft in Salem, Mass. 1733- Led by philanthropist James Eward Oglehorpe, the first English colonists arrived in Georgia, as the site of Savannah. 1789- George Washington and John Adams are elected President and Vice President of the United States. 1790- The Supreme Court of the United States convened for the first time, in New York City. 1792- President George Washington signed the Post Office Act, establishing a permanent Post Office Department. 1805- Lewis and Clark’s Shoshone guide Sacajawea gave birth to son, Jean Baptiste. 1809- The Supreme Court ruled the power of the federal government is greater than that of any individual state. 1817- Baltimore became first U.S. city to be lit by gas. 1836- First revolving barrel multishot fire arm was patented by Samuel Colt. 1849- The steamship California landed in San Francisco, CA, bringing the first East Coaster to the Gold rush. 1862- Julia Ward Howe’s poem “Battle Hymn of the Republic” was published in the Atlantic Monthly. 1870- The 15th Amendment to the U.S. Consitution was passed, ending Black Suf frage. 1870- The National Weather Service was established under the U.S. Army Signal Corps. 1879- Frank Winfield Woolworth opened his first “Five Cent Store” in Utica, New York. 1884- The first volume of the Oxford Eng lish Dictionary (A-Ant) was published. 1896- The Tootsie Roll was introduced by Leo Hiishfield. 1898- USS Maine blew up in Havana, Cuba harbor touching off the Spanish-Amer- ican War. 1901- U.S. Steel Corporation was formed by J.R Morgan, the first billion-dollar corpo ration in the world. 1904- The lease agreement between the United States and Cuba for the area of Guan tanamo Bay was signed. 1904- Disastrous fired destroyed more than 1,500 buildings in downtown Baltimore. 1909- The national Association for the Advance of Colored People (NAACP) was founded. 1913- The New York Armory Show opened, introducing Americans to Picasso, Duchamp and Matisse. 1919- Establishment of Grand Canyon Na tional Park. 1920- Basic points of the Nazi party were unveiled by Adolf Hitler at Hofbrauhaus in Munich, Germany. 1924- Calvin Coolidge, made the first presidential radio broadcast from the White House. 1926- Carter G. Woodson founded Negro History Week, which later evolved into Black History Month. 1930- Pluto, the ninth planet in the solar system, was discovered by American astrono mer Clyde Tombaugh. 1935- RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging) was first demonstrated by Robert Watson-Watt. 1935- The popular board game Mono ploy® went on sale for the first time. 1940- Hattie McDaniel because the first black woman to win an Oscar. She won for Best Supporting Actress award for the role of Mammy, in Gone With The Wind. 1942- Glenn Miller received the first ever gold record for selling a million copies of “Chattanooga Choo Choo.” 1942- President Franklin RooseveU signed an executive order that resulted in the intern ment of thoudands of Japanese-Americans living on the West Coast. 1945- The U.S. Marines went ashore at Iwo Jima, Japan. 1952- Princess Elizabeth became Queen 1993- Bombing at World Trade Center in New York killed six people and injured more than 1,000. 1996- Chess Champion Garry Kasparov beat the IBM computer. Deep Blue, winning the six-game match. 1997- Under international pressure, three of Switzerland’s biggest banks created a fiind worth 100 million Swiss fi^cs for Holocaust victims and their families. 1997- Scottish scientists announced the successful cloning of a sheep, Dolly. 2001- NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., dies from injuries sustained at the Day tona 500. 1962-John Glenn became the first Ameri- , ^ can to orbit earth. 200i- A U.S. nuclear sub struck the Ehime Maru, a Japanese fishing boat. 1959- Rock singers. Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and Big Bopper died in a plane crash. Base for the 1987 movie La Bamba’s re counting of Richie Valens life and death. 1960- Four Black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Techni cal University began a series of sit-ins as a White-only lunch counter in Woolworth’s Department Story, Greensboro North Caro lina. 1960- Hugh Hefner opened first Playboy Club in Chicago, IL. onth in 1964- Cassius Clay (Muhammad Ali) be came World Heavyweight Boxing Champion for the first time by knocking out Sonny Lis ton in Miami Beach. 1965- Black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated. 1968- The first nationwide broadcast of Mr. Roger’s Neighborhood aired on PBS. 1972- President Richard Nixon became the first U.S. President to visit China. 1973- Members of the American Indian Movement occupied the village of Wounded Knee, SD. 1973- The first release of American prison ers of war from Vietnam war took place. 1980- The U.S. Olympic hockey team de feated the USSR Soviets hockey team 4-3 at Lake Placid, NY. 1980- President Jimmy Carter revealed his plan to reinstate selective service draft regis tration. 1983- The final episode of M*A*S*H aired. It was the most watched television pro gram in history. 1990- South African resistance leader. Nel son Mandela, was released from prison after more than 27 years. 2002- Olympics officals resolved the judg ing scandal by awarding Canadian pairs fig ure skater Jamie Sale and David Pelletier a gold medal while allowing the Russians Elena Berezhnaya and Anton Sikarulidze, to keep their medal. 2003- A fire in a nightclub in Warwick, RI, killed 100 and injured over 150. 2003- The country of Yugoslvia disap peared and was replaced be the two loose federations of Serbia and Montenegro. 2003- Fred Rogers, of the popular kids show Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on PBS, died. 2004- Janet Jackson’s famous “wardrobe malfunction” occurred at Super Bowl XXX- VIII. 2004- The Massachusetts Supreme Court declared that gays had the right to marry. 2008- Kosovo declared independence from Serbia. 2010- The 2012 Winter Olympics opened in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada after Republic of Georgia, luger Nodar Kumaritsh- ville’s death during a training run crash. Sources: infoplease.com/daylnhistory/ & historyorb. com/day
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