BlueBlood
07-03-2006, 08:34 AM
On This Day
This Day in History
1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Canada, a trading post along the St. Lawrence River that becomes the city of Québec.
1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army of the American colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1819: The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1863: A Confederate charge led by General George E. Pickett fails to break the Union line in the Battle of Gettysburg, sealing a Union victory and turning the tide of the Civil War.
1962: After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose.
Born on This Day
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist and writer (1860)
Leos Janácek, composer (1854)
John Copley, painter (1738)
Tom Cruise, actor, idiot (1962)
Tom Stoppard, playwright (1937)
M. F. K. Fisher, food writer (1908)
This Day in History
1608: French explorer Samuel de Champlain establishes the first permanent European settlement in Canada, a trading post along the St. Lawrence River that becomes the city of Québec.
1775: George Washington takes command of the Continental Army of the American colonies at Cambridge, Massachusetts.
1819: The first savings bank in the United States opens: the Bank for Savings in New York City.
1863: A Confederate charge led by General George E. Pickett fails to break the Union line in the Battle of Gettysburg, sealing a Union victory and turning the tide of the Civil War.
1962: After a long and brutal colonial war and a vote by Algerians for independence, French president Charles de Gaulle proclaims the independence of Algeria from France.
1971: American rock singer Jim Morrison, leader of the Doors, dies in Paris of a drug overdose.
Born on This Day
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, feminist and writer (1860)
Leos Janácek, composer (1854)
John Copley, painter (1738)
Tom Cruise, actor, idiot (1962)
Tom Stoppard, playwright (1937)
M. F. K. Fisher, food writer (1908)