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08-19-2009, 10:39 AM #231
Thanks for the info
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08-19-2009, 10:48 AM #232
No problem my friend. Thanks for tuning in!
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08-20-2009, 08:51 AM #233
August 20, 1911 - First Around-The-World Telegram Sent
On this day in 1911, a dispatcher in the New York Times office sends the first telegram around the world via commercial service. Exactly 66 years later, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) sends a different kind of message--a phonograph record containing information about Earth for extraterrestrial beings--shooting into space aboard the unmanned spacecraft Voyager II. The Times decided to send its 1911 telegram in order to determine how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world by telegraph cable. The message, reading simply "This message sent around the world," left the dispatch room on the 17th floor of the Times building in New York at 7 p.m. on August 20. After it traveled more than 28,000 miles, being relayed by 16 different operators, through San Francisco, the Philippines, Hong Kong, Saigon, Singapore, Bombay, Malta, Lisbon and the Azores--among other locations--the reply was received by the same operator 16.5 minutes later.
Other significant events...
August 20, 1794 - Battle of Fallen Timbers
August 20, 1858 - Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
August 20, 1866 - President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
August 20, 1914 - German forces occupied Brussels, Belgium, during World War I.
August 20, 1918 - Britain opened an offensive on the Western front during World War I.
August 20, 1953 - The Soviet Union publicly acknowledged it had tested a hydrogen bomb.
August 20, 1964 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a nearly $1 billion anti-poverty measure.
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08-20-2009, 10:50 AM #234
Thanks for the info....
That was quick, 16.5 minutes when they tried it for the fisrt time??? That is awesome.
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08-20-2009, 11:32 AM #235
I know, pretty cutting edge for it's time!
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08-21-2009, 09:23 AM #236
I need my dosis
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08-21-2009, 10:04 AM #237
Coming right up, Angel!
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08-21-2009, 10:23 AM #238
August 21, 1858 - Lincoln/Douglas Debates Begin
On this day in history, a series of seven debates which would inevitably determine the outcome of the presidential election of 1860, began in Illinois. The two competitors in the debates were Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln, and Democratic candidate Stephen A. Douglas. The debates themselves were for an Illinois seat in the United States Senate, but the potential outcome would help Abraham Lincoln seal the bid for the presidential election of 1860. The main issue covered by all seven debates was slavery. The results of the debates favored the Democratic Stephen A. Douglas, but the widespread media coverage greatly raised Lincoln's profile, making him the strongest candidate in the presidential election of 1860, where he bested Douglas and several other candidates.
Other significant events...
August 21, 1770 - James Cook formally claims eastern Australia for Great Britain, naming it New South Wales.
August 21, 1831 - Nat Turner leads black slaves and free blacks in a rebellion.
August 21, 1911 - The Mona Lisa is stolen by a Louvre employee.
August 21, 1940 - Exiled Russian Communist revolutionary Leon Trotsky died in Mexico City from wounds inflicted by an assassin.
August 21, 1959 - President Eisenhower signed an executive order proclaiming Hawaii the 50th state of the union.
August 21, 1991 - A hard-line coup against Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev collapsed in the face of a popular uprising led by Russian federation President Boris N. Yeltsin.
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08-21-2009, 10:26 AM #239
Thanks.....I needed something new for my knowledge database
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08-21-2009, 10:29 AM #240
No problem my friend!
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Originally Posted by angel0430 
