BlueBlood
06-27-2006, 07:46 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1787: In Lausanne, Switzerland, Edward Gibbon completes the sixth and final volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the great works of history in the English language.
1844: American religious leader Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, imprisoned in Illinois for treason and conspiracy, are taken from jail and killed by a mob.
1857: The Scientific American warns that whale oil, used for lighting, may soon run out due to overhunting.
1950: After the UN Security Council votes to repel the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, President Harry Truman orders U.S. forces into battle for South Korea.
Born on This Day
Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist (1846)
Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880)
Ross Perot, businessman and politician (1930)
Lafcadio Hearn, writer (1850)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (1872)
Isabelle Adjani, actor (1955)
This Day in History
1787: In Lausanne, Switzerland, Edward Gibbon completes the sixth and final volume of his Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, one of the great works of history in the English language.
1844: American religious leader Joseph Smith and his brother Hyrum, imprisoned in Illinois for treason and conspiracy, are taken from jail and killed by a mob.
1857: The Scientific American warns that whale oil, used for lighting, may soon run out due to overhunting.
1950: After the UN Security Council votes to repel the invasion of South Korea by North Korea, President Harry Truman orders U.S. forces into battle for South Korea.
Born on This Day
Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish nationalist (1846)
Helen Keller, author and lecturer (1880)
Ross Perot, businessman and politician (1930)
Lafcadio Hearn, writer (1850)
Paul Laurence Dunbar, poet (1872)
Isabelle Adjani, actor (1955)