++This Tweet in History: December 31, 2009++

WRLD: 1991 - United 69 years + 1 day earlier, USSR dissolves

SPRT: 1972 - Pirate star, Clemente, perishes in crash of plane carrying food, supplies, to quake victims in Nicaragua

OTHR: 1695 - Homeowners hit the bricks to avoid window tax

BDAY: Diane von Furstenburg; John Denver; Simon Wiesenthal; Henri Matisse

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WRLD: 1922 - Soviet, Socialist republics unite

SPRT: 1981 - Great One, at 20, nets 5 goals, getting to 50 in record time

TECH: 1986 - Brits announce farewell to canary in a coal mine

BDAY: Tiger Woods; Davy Jones; Michael Nesmith; Rudyard Kipling

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++This Tweet in History: December 29, 2009++

WRLD: 1890 - US war on Plains Indians ends tragically with massacre at Wounded Knee

SPRT: 1878 - Habana kicks off Cuban leagues with 21-20 victory. Umm - that's baseball, not football

OTHR: 1992 - Brazil's pres can't quit in time to avoid impeachment; ends up being cleared

BDAY: Jude Law; Ted Danson; Mary Tyler Moore; Andrew Johnson

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++This Tweet in History: December 28, 2009++

WRLD: 1879 - Train tumbles into the Tay in bridge collapse during gale-force winds; all 75 perish; train salvaged

SPRT: 1975 - Red hot Red Army puts Rangers on ice in Cold War clash

OTHR: 1612 - Galileo observes, ignores star -- whoops! It's Neptune

BDAY: Denzel Washington; Nichelle Nichols; Earl "Fatha" Hines; Woodrow Wilson

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++This Tweet in History: December 27, 2009++

WRLD: 1945 - 28 nations sign World Bank into existence

SPRT: 1932 - Rockefeller's collaboration with NBC to clean up NYC's Speakeasy Belt spawns Radio City Music Hall

OTHR: 1657 - Stuyvent flushes remonstrance in old New York

BDAY: Gerard Depardieu; Marlene Dietrich; Louis Pasteur; Johannes Kepler

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E December 26, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the weeks ending December 26, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Ypres, December 25, 1914 - Brit, German soldiers defy orders, lay down arms for Christmas: http://bit.ly/41kDNo
The Back-Story: [SFX:Silent Night; Down by the Riverside; I Don't Really Want to Fight] The First World War was marked by trench warfare: The combatants dug themselves in for protection from the other side’s machine guns and artillery, awaiting a coming offensive that would break the deadlock. The trenches were unsanitary, cold, and uncomfortable, and subject to flooding and collapse. Staring across a no-man’s land at one’s adversary, in similar straits, it was hard not to feel a sort of kinship. As Christmas approach, each side began supplying its soldiers with gifts: boxes of chocolates, tobbacco, and greeting cards. There prevailed a festive spirit, and a desire for a lull in the fighting. Across the trenches, the British heard their German counterparts singing German carols, and responded in English. Envoys stepped into no-man’s land carrying gifts, and offering to celebrate together. For that one night – and, in some places, for as long as a week, till new year’s day, there was peace on earth, and goodwill toward men.[SFX: War]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Las Vegas, December 25, 2002 - Hnida's kick smashes through NCAA's gender barrier: http://bit.ly/6XtsWh

The Back-Story: [SFX: Anything You Can Do; Route 66; I am Woman]Katie Hnida was a walk-on to the University of Colorado’s football team her freshman year, where she became the second woman to suit up for an NCAA Division 1-A game, and the first to suit up for a bowl game. In 2002, she transferred to the University of New Mexico and, again, walked on to the football team. On Christmas Day, she attempted an extra point at the Las Vegas bowl, and, although the kick was blocked, she was the first woman to play in a division 1-A game. The following year, she kicked two points after touchdown to become the first woman to score in a Division 1-A game. Following graduation, Hnida hit the lecture circuit, and played semi-pro ball for the Colorado Cobras. [SFX: Sisters Are Doing It for Themselves]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In Other News: DATELINE Washington, DC, December 1970 - The King drops in on the president to volunteer as drug czar: http://bit.ly/14RTzz

The Back-Story: [SFX: Users Are Losers; The No No Song] It was an odd juxtaposition: The convservative American president in his coat and tie, and “the King,” in gaudy jewelry, high collar,long hair, and sideburns. The meeting itself was something of an oddity, too. Elvis Presley showed up at the White House, with gifts – a Colt 45 pistol and some autographed pictures – and a six-page letter that he had hand-written on his flight to Washington, asking the president to name him a “Federal Agent at Large” in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. Nixon welcomed Presley’s support, urging him to maintain his credibility, and providing a specially prepared badge from the bureau, with Presley’s name on it.[SFX: Julie's On the Drug Squad]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

December 20: Mentalist Uri Geller
December 21: Communist dictator Joseph Stalin
December 22: Brothers Gibb Maurice and Robin
December 23: Entrepreneur Madame CJ Walker
December 24: Poet Matthew Arnold
December 25: Mathematician Sir Isaac Newton
And December 26: Mathematician and computing pioneer Charles Babbage

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WRLD: 1941 - Churchill, first Brit PM to address Congress, urges US on as "great arsenal of democracy"

SPRT: 1906 - Johnson bashes Burns for 14 rounds, becomes first Black heavyweight champ

OTHR: 1871 - Thespis, Gilbert & Sullivan's first collaboration, debuts at Gaiety

BDAY: David Sedaris; Steve Allen; Mao Zedong; Charles Babbage

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++This Tweet in History: December 25, 2009++

WRLD: 1914 - Brit, German soldiers defy orders, lay down arms for Christmas

SPRT: 2002 - Hnida's kick smashes through NCAA's gender barrier

OTHR: 1950 - Scottish students swipe Scone Stone

BDAY: Anwar Sadat; Cab Calloway; Clara Barton; Sir Isaac Newton

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++This Tweet in History: December 24, 2009++

WRLD: 1814 - US, UK shake hands and make nice in Ghent, never to fight again

SPRT: 1969 - Flood pens letter to commissioner; ultimately opens floodgates to free agency

TECH: 1906 - Fessenden transmits first radio broadcast. Maybe.

BDAY: Mary Higgins Clark; Howard Hughes; Matthew Arnold; Kit Carson

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WRLD: 1972 - Managua rocks for 2 hours, leaving 10,000 dead; 250,000 homeless

SPRT: 1972 - Franco's Immaculate Reception propels Steelers past Raiders

TECH: 1986 - Voyager's back from history's first non-stop world tour

BDAY: Carla Bruni; Susan Lucci; Harry Shearer; Madame CJ Walker

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++This Tweet in History: December 22, 2009++

WRLD: 1989 - Ceausescu deposed as dictator of Romania; executed 3 days later, Christmas day

SPRT: 1972 - Uruguyan rugby players among 14 survivors rescued after 2-month Andes crash ordeal

OTHR: 1851 - World's first freight train lumbers into Roorkee

BDAY: Maurice Gibb; Robin Gibb; Lady Bird Johnson; Connie Mack

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++This Tweet in History: December 21, 2009++

WRLD: 1988 - Libyans down jumbo jet over Lockerbie, Scotland

SPRT: 1918 - Amateur hockey, football great, WWI vet, Hobey Baker, dies in plane crash

OTHR: 1970 - The King drops in on the president to volunteer as drug czar

BDAY: Florence "Flojo" Florence Joyner; Chris Evert; Frank Zappa; Joseph Stalin

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++This Tweet in History: December 20, 2009++

WRLD: 1973 - Basque nationalists bomb Spanish PM's car, killing him, bodyguard, driver

SPRT: 1983 - Lafleur nets #500th; Shutt, #400, as Habs ice Devils

OTHR: 1917 - Lenin's decree creates Cheka, Soviets first secret police service

BDAY: Uri Geller; Peter Criss; Irene Dunne; Harvey Firestone

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E December 19, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the weeks ending December 19, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE The Netherlands, December 14, 1287 - St. Lucia's flood carves out new seascape; creates Zuiderzee, claims >50,000 lives: http://bit.ly/7Y53vF
The Back-Story: [SFX:Here Comes the Flood] The day after St. Lucia day, storms in the Northern Netherlands overwhelmed a dike, resulting in the fifth largest flood of recorded history. Between 50 and 80,000 people died in the resulting flood that rewrote the geography of the Netherlands and created the Zuiderzee, or Southern Sea from what had been a mere shallow, inland lake.[SFX: Waiting for the end of the world; A Whole New World]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Massachusetts, December 15, 1891 - Naismith's vision for hoops: thirteen rules, 9-man teams, peach baskets: : http://bit.ly/xulfQ

The Back-Story: [SFX: Come on Feel the Noise; Basketball Jones; Give me the ball] James Naismith was the physical education teacher at Springfield College, a YMCA training school. The students, confined to the indoors in the cold, New England winters, grew rowdy and short-tempered. The head of phys ed at the school, Dr. Luther Gulick, gave Naismith the task of developing a game that could be played indoors, to provide athletic distraction, wouldn’t take up too much room, and would rely on skill, not only on strength. Naismith came up with 13 rules for a sport played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets for goals. Within a few years, the YMCA introduced the sport to many nations and, shortly before he died, he was flown to Berlin to watch as the game was introduced at the Berlin Olympics.[SFX: I’ll try something new]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE Japan, December 16 1997 - Episode of kids' cartoon induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children: http://bit.ly/J5VQg

The Back-Story: [SFX: Shock Treatment; TV Party]The Pokemon series, derived from the from the Nintendo game, follows Ash Ketchum, a Pokemon master in training, and his group of friends as they travel through the world of Pokemon. In the 38th episode, broadcast only in Japan, Ash and his friends go inside a malfunctioning Poke ball to find out what’s wrong. A scene with a thunderbolt attack was animated with extremely intense strobe flashes, for about four seconds, in fullscreen. At this point, viewers experienced blurred vision, headaches, dizziness, and nausea. A few had seizures and convulsions, or lost consciousness. The number of people affected by the by the incident was unprecedented, and the Pokemon Shock episode was included in the Guinness Book of World Records for Most Photosensitive Epileptic Seizures Caused by a Television Show.[SFX: I Want to Be Sedated]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

December 13: Entertainer Dick Van Dyke
December 14: Mystic Nostradamus
December 15: Industrialist J. Paul Getty
December 16: Composer Ludwig van Beethoven
December 17: Conductor Arthur Fiedler
December 18: Actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable
And December 19: Conservatonist Richard Leakey

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WRLD: 1984 - Thatcher, Deng sign Sino-British declaration, not renewing British lease on Hong Kong

SPRT: 1986 - sentence pronounced on Mets fan for World Series leap of faith. Mets won, btw

OTHR: 2001 - Record high air pressure recorded in Mongolia

BDAY: Richard Leakey; Al Kaline; Cicely Tyson; David Susskind

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WRLD: 1888 - Wetherill and Mason search for lost cattle,find lost city instead

SPRT: 1932 - Bears maul Spartans in first NFL championship game that looks more like arena football

OTHR: 1898 - First official automotive speed record is a blazing 39 mph

BDAY: Steven Spielberg; Keith Richards; Ossie Davis; Betty Grable

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++This Tweet in History: December 17, 2009++

WRLD: 1926 - Elected government ousted, authoritarian Smetona reinstated in Lithuanian coup

SPRT: 1979 - Barrett drives faster than the speed of sound. Unofficially.

ENTR: 1969 - Tiny Tim tiptoes to late-night TV's altar with Miss Vickie

BDAY: Milla Jovovich; Eugene Levy; William Safire; Arthur Fiedler

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++This Tweet in History: December 16, 2009++

WRLD: 1689 - British Parliament passes Bill of Rights, one of British non-constitution's big 4

ENTR: 1997 - Episode of kids' cartoon induces seizures in hundreds of Japanese children

HUH?: 1826 - Long live Fredonia! About 2 weeks long

BDAY: Arthur C. Clark;Wassily Kandinsky; Jane Austen; Ludwig van Beethoven

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++This Tweet in History: December 15, 2009++

WRLD: 1961 - Tribunal pronounces final solution on Eichmann

SPRT: 1891 - Naismith's vision for hoops

OTHR: 1955 - Frederick IX starts Olsen's World Clock, 10 years after Olsen's own ticker gives out

BDAY: Dave Clark; Tim Conway; Stan Kenton; J. Paul Getty

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++This Tweet in History: December 14, 2009++

WRLD: 1287 - St. Lucia's flood carves out new seascape; creates Zuiderzee, claims >50,000 lives

SPRT: 1911 - Amundsen's team hits rock bottom first

HUH?: 1836 - Toledo War ends with almost no bloodshed

BDAY: Patty Duke; Charlie Rich; Spike Jones; Nostradamus

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++This Tweet in History: December 13, 2009++

WRLD: 1981 - Jaruzelski declares martial law in an attempt to break solidaritg

SPRT: 1983 - Pistons score 2 more than Nuggets' 184 to win NBA's highest scoring game

OTHR: 1294 - 5 months is enough for St. Celestine V, who resigns from papacy to become hermit

BDAY: Steve Buscemi; Ted Nugent; Aga Khan IV Dick Van Dyke

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E December 12, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the weeks ending December 12, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Montreal, December 6, 1989–Madman with gun massacres 14 in misogynistic spree at Ecole Polytechnique, finally offs self (good riddance): http://bit.ly/90gAQr
The Back-Story: [SFX: I'm a Loser; Raygun] Marc Lepine, perpetrator of the worst single-day massacre in Canadian history, fit the profile: an underachieving loner who had been abused as a child. In his case, he scapegoated women and feminism. Shortly before the last day of classes before Christmas break at Montreal’s Ecole Polytechnique, Lepine wrote a rambling, misogynistic suicide note, and, instead of just ridding the world of himself, went on a twenty-minute shooting spree at the Ecole, killing 14 women, wounding nine more women and four men. Quebecquois and others lined up by the tens of thousands outside the University of Montreal’s chapel in sub-zero temperatures for a memorial to the fallen, and the date is still designated as a national day of commemoration in Canada. [SFX: RESPECT; What's Going On]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Australia, December 6, 1956 – Blood in the water as on the battle field as Hungarian water polo team defeats Soviets: http://bit.ly/6hbRNg

The Back-Story: [SFX: Showdown; Smoke on the Water; Wade in the Water]Water polo powerhouses, Hungary and the Soviet Union faced off in Melbourne against the backdrop of Soviet tanks in Budapest. The Soviets had just brutally put down an uprising in the Hungarian capital, where thousands lay dead in the streets and many more faced show-trials and execution. In the pool at Melbourne, Olympic decorum soon flew out the window in a match that took the sport back to its violent roots of underwater jousting. Both teams traded punches from the start of the match, but, with a minute left to play and the Soviets trailing 4-0, Valentin Prokopov blindsided Hungarian Ervin Zador, causing hemorrhaging around his eye and blood in the water. The Hungarian ex-patriates among the spectators had to be restrained by Security from storming the pool, and the match was called, with the Hungarians declared victors. Almost half of the team defected after they won the next match and, with it, Hungary's fourth water polo gold. [SFX: Hit Me with Your Best Shot; How sweet it is]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE New York, December 8 1980 – Ex-Beatle, Lennon, shot dead by fool with a gun : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_John_Lennon

The Back-Story: [SFX: Abraham, Martin, and John] John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, returned from the recording studio at around 11:00, choosing to be dropped off at the main entrance of the Dakota, rather than the more secure courtyard, in order to oblige fans who often waited in long lines for autographs outside his home. As Lennon strode to his house, Mark David Chapman, one of the fans for whom Lennon had signed an autograph on his way to the studio, fired four hollow-point bullets into Lennon’s back. (A fifth shot sailed over Lennon’s head.) The Dakota’s doorman shook the gun from the assailant’s hand, shouting, “Do you know what you’ve done?” to which the lunatic calmly replied, “Yes, I just shot John Lennon.” Doctors at Roosevelt Hospital worked for 20 minutes attempting to revive the ex-Beatle, who was pronounced dead on arrival. Chapman is serving a life sentence in New York’s Attica State Prison, having been denied parole four times since he became eligible in the year 2000. [SFX: Imagine]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

December 6: Poet Joyce Kilmer
December 7:Baseball Legend Johnny Bench
December 8: Composer Jean Sibelius
December 9:Author John Milton
December 10: Poet Emily Dickinson
December 11: Stage and Screen Star Rita Moreno
And December 12: Painter Edvard Munch

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WRLD: 1964 – On first anniversary of Kenya’s independence, Kenyatta becomes its first president

SPRT: 1965 – Rookie Sayers ties league record for touchdowns in a game

OTHR: 1917 – With 90 borrowed bucks, Father Flanagan founds Boys Town

BDAY: Tracy Austin; Dionne Warwick; Frank Sinatra; Edvard Munch

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++This Tweet in History: December 11, 2009++

WRLD: 1994 – Yeltsin sends troops after bombing missions fail to bring about Chechnya’s submission

SPRT: 1981 – Defeat in Berbick bout bounces Ali into retirement – for real, this time

OTHR: 1969 – Soviets uncover roots of the decline of Western civilization: gratuitous nudity

BDAY: Jermaine Jackson; Teri Garr; Rita Moreno; Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

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++This Tweet in History: December 10, 2009++

WRLD: 1993 – End of an 8-century era as Wearmouth Colliery, last in a line dating from the Middle Ages, closes shop

SPRT: 1979 – Kidd on motorcycle defies death in 80 foot leap over viaduct

OTHR: Nobel’s first prizes awarded

BDAY: Kenneth Branagh; Susan Dey; Dorothy Lamour; Emily Dickinson

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++This Tweet in History: December 9, 2009++

WRLD: 1990 – Solidarity’s Walesa becomes first directly elected president of Poland

SPRT: 1987 – England’s cricket tour through Pakistan comes to abrupt end after Gatting-Rana tiff

OTHR: 1992 – Fairy tale wedding ends unhappily ever after as Charles, Di announce split

BDAY: Donny Osmond; Redd Foxx; Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.; John Milton

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++This Tweet in History: December 8, 2009++

WRLD: 1991 – Soviet Union dissolves into Commonwealth of Independent States

SPRT: 1940 – Bears skin Washington in 73-0 championship rout

ENTR: 1980 – Ex-Beatle, Lennon, shot dead by fool with a gun

BDAY: Jim Morrison; Sammy Davis, Jr.; Jean Sibelius; Mary Queen of Scots

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++This Tweet in History: December 7, 2009++

LI> WRLD: 1941 – Infamy as Japanese launch Pearl Harbor surprise

SPRT: 1925 – Freestyling future Tarzan establishes new mark in the pool

OTHR: 1930 – First TV commercial airs, illegally

BDAY: Larry Bird; Johnny Bench; Ted Knight; Louis Prima

Histortweet 2X Week in Review - W/E November 28, December 5, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, double-wide edition, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the weeks ending November 28 and December 5, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Northwest US, November 25, 1971 – DB Cooper and his $200,000 ransom money parachute over Washington state; neither to be seen again: http://bit.ly/AQaOF

The Back-Story: [SFX: Jump; Leaving on a jet plane; For the love of money]The day before Thanksgiving, in 1971, DB Coooer, whose real name may never be known, boarded a Northwest Orient flight in Portland Oregon. Once the plane was airborne, he handed a flight attendant a note, saying that he had a bomb in his briefcase, and demanding $200,000 in cash and three parachutes. His demands were relayed to the airline, which readied the money and parachutes at SeaTac Airport. On the ground, Cooper exchanged the passengers for the money and chutes. Airborne again, Cooper opened the door and leapt to his fate. Although some fragments of the money were recovered years later, what ultimately became of Cooper and his loot is not known. [SFX: Angel from the Coast; Never Catch Her]

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Europe, November 30, 1700 – Sweden’s Teenage King Charles, vastly outmanned, outflanks, outfights Russian forces at Narva: http://bit.ly/7nh1Dn

The Back-Story: [SFX: King Tut; Massacre; Let's get ready to rumble!] With Sweden, the dominant Baltic power on the move, and being led by the newly crowned 18-year-old King Charles XII, its neighbors conspired to strike back. Beset on all sides, the young king lauched a bold and largely successful invasion. In November, Russian forces arrived at Narva and laid siege to the Swedes. The outmanned Swedes assembled for battle, and, seizing the opportunity provided by shifting winds of snow, went on the offensive, arriving up to 50 yards from the Russian lines without being spotted, shattering the line and forcing the Russian surrender. [SFX: I'm Winning! We are the Champions]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Boston, November 24, 1960 – Wilt the Stilt grabs 55 boards : http://bit.ly/wVzCB
The Back-Story: [SFX: Basketball Jones;] In his day, Wilt Chamberlain was so dominant, that the NBA instituted rule changes just to even the odds against him. Even so, Chamberlain was able to reach such mind-boggling numbers as as 100 points in a game, 4029 points in a season, and single-season averages of 50 points per game and 27 rebounds per game. A dominant offensive player, he was also dominant on the boards. In his rookie season, he pulled down down 45 rebounds in a single game, which still beats Charles Barkley’s modern-era record of 35, but does not compare to Chamberlain’s own 55 in a game, one year later. [SFX:I'm Outstanding]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE New York, December 1, 1975 – Griffin is first to win a second Heisman : http://bit.ly/5bpk3
The Back-Story: [SFX: I'm Winning;] Ohio State halfback, Archie Griffin, is the only back to lead the Big Ten Conference in rushing for three straight years. His 5,589 yards with the Buckeyes were, at the time, a record, and he started in Rose Bowl games every year in his college career. In his sophomore year, he placed 5th in Heisman voting, taking home the award in his junior and senior years. Pending this year’s Heisman voting, with Florida’s Tim Tebow and Oklahoma’s Sam Bradford eligible for a second win, Griffin is the only player to have won the trophy twice. [SFX:I'm Outstanding]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go huh?: DATELINE London, November 28, 1999 – Naked guy with samurai sword pops in on mass, injuring 11: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/774618.stm
The Back-Story: [SFX:One fine day to be nude; The Streak] Worshipers at St. Andrew’s Roman Catholic Church in South London were greeted by a shocking interruption. The nude Eden Strang, believing them to be demons who had taken human form, entered with a Samurai sword and began slashing wildly. Parishioners used whatever was at hand in an attempt to stop the attack, and, ultimately, an off-duty police officer subdued Strang with a section of organ piping. Strang was confined to a psychiatric hospital. [SFX: Insane in the Membrane; Crazy; Crazy man crazy; Institutionalized]
[SFX: SOUND827]: Technology: DATELINE Silicon Valley, November 29, 1972 – Pong’s debut ushers in video game era: http://computermuseum.50megs.com/pong.htm

The Back-Story: [SFX:Play the Game; Space Age Whiz Kids] In 1972, Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney founded Atari, investing $250 each. The two hired engineer, Al Alcorn, and gave him a busy-work task which they expected nothing to come out of: Design a game with two paddles and a ball. Alcorn took the assignment seriously, and, three months later, came up with a prototype. A test version was placed in Andy Capp’s Tavern, in Sunnyvale, California, and, on the first day, got so much use that its coin box jammed. The game, with its simple instructions, “Avoid missing ball for high score,” was a smash hit and became a gaming icon. [SFX: Computer Love; Have you played Atari today?]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

November 22: French President Charles de Gaulle
November 23:US President Franklin Pierce
November 24: US President Zachary Taylor
November 25: Prohibitionist Carry Nation
November 26: Absurdist dramatist Eugene Ionesco
November 27: Martial Artist Bruce Lee
And November 28: Motown mogul Berry Gordy, Jr.

November 29: Narnia Chronicler C.S. Lewis
November 30:British Statesman, Sir Winston Churchill
December 1: Actor/Director Woody Allen
December 2: Neo-impressionist Georges Seurat
December 3: Director Jean-Luc Godard
December 4: Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco
And December 5: Mickey Mouse Creator Walt Disney


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WRLD: 1989–Madman with gun massacres 14 in misogynistic spree at Ecole Polytechnique, finally offs self (good riddance)

SPRT: 1956 – Blood in the water as on the battle field as Hungarian water polo team defeats Soviets

OTHR: 1933 – Ulysses is officially not obscene

BDAY: Steven Wright; Dave Brubeck; Ira Gershwin; Joyce Kilmer

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++This Tweet in History: December 5, 2009++

WRLD: 1977 – Egypt severs relations with Declaration of Tripoli signatories

HUH?: 1945 – Bermuda Triangle claims Flight 19

OTHR: 1766 – Christie’s journey of a thousand auctions begins with first sale

BDAY: Frankie Muniz; Little Richard; Walt Disney; Martin Van Buren

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++This Tweet in History: December 4, 2009++

WRLD: 1674 – Marquette founds mission that evolves into Second City

SPRT: 1909 – U. Toronto defeats Parkdale Canoe club for in first Grey cup

HUH?: 1952 – 4,000 Londoners die in four days of . . . smog? http

BDAY: Marisa Tomei; Jeff Bridges; Dennis Wilson; Francisco Franco

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++This Tweet in History: December 3, 2009++

WRLD: 1984 – 2,000 perish in Bhopal, worst industrial accident in history

ENTR: 1979 – A dozen trampled to death in crush at Who concert

TECH: 1967 – Barnard completes first transplant of the human heart

BDAY: Anna Chlumsky; Ozzy Osbourne; Jean-Luc Goddard; Joseph Conrad

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++This Tweet in History: December 2, 2009++

WRLD: 1971 – Emirates of the world, unite! Independent UAE is borne of 6 Trucial states

SPRT: 1975 – Griffin is first to win a second Heisman

OTHR: 1942 – Fermi and team usher in nuclear age with self-sustaining nuclear reaction

BDAY: Monica Seles; Gianni Versace; Maria Callas; Georges Seurat

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++This Tweet in History: December 1, 2009++

WRLD: 1958 – 90 students die in Chicago school’s fire, sparking reforms in fire safety

TECH: 1982 – Rough road ahead for Clark, recipient of first permanent artificial heart

OTHR: 1955 – Rosa Parks it on bus; will not be moved by Jim Crow

BDAY: Bette Midler; Richard Pryor; Woddy Allen; Lou Rawls

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++This Tweet in History: November 30, 2009++

WRLD: 1700 – Sweden’s Teenage King Charles, vastly outmanned, outflanks, outfights Russian forces at Narva

SPRT: 1872 – In first international soccer game, neither Scots, English score first

OTHR: 1954 – Alabama’s Hodges survives close encounter of the meteoric kind

BDAY: Clay Aiken; Shirley Chisholm; Winston Churchill; Jonathan Swift

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++This Tweet in History: November 29, 2009++

WRLD: 1947 – UN’s Partition Plan splits British Mandate in Palestine into Jewish, Arab states

SPRT: 1890 – Middies whip Cadets in first incarnation of Amry-Navy football game

TECH: 1972 – Pong’s debut ushers in video game era

BDAY: Chuck Mangione; Vin Scully; C.S. Lewis; Louisa May Alcott

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++This Tweet in History: November 28, 2009++

++This Tweet in History: November 28, 2009++

WRLD: 1520 – Magellan breaks on through to the other side

SPRT: 1929 – It’s not now but Nevers who scores all 40 in Cards over Bears

HUH?: 1999 – Naked guy with samurai sword pops in on mass, injuring 11

BDAY: Anna nicole Smith; Jon Steward; Randy Newman; Berry Gordy, Jr.

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++This Tweet in History: November 27, 2009++

WRLD: 1967 – de Gaulle shuts Brits out of the Market. . . again

SPRT: 1965 – That's Howe many goals for Gordie? 600

OTHR: 1895 – Nobel’s will, funds annual, eponymous prizes

BDAY: Caroline Kennedy; Jimi Hendrix; Bruce Lee; “Buffalo” Bob Smith

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++This Tweet in History: November 26, 2009++

WRLD: 1983 – Robbers, hoping for £3 million in cash from Brinks Mat wind up with £26 million in gold

SPRT: 1917 – NHL rises from NHA’s ashes as Canadian affair

OTHR: 1789 – National Day of Thanksgiving, as proclaimed by Washington

BDAY: Tina Turner; Robert Goulet; Charles Schultz; Eugene Ionesco

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++This Tweet in History: November 25, 2009++

WRLD: 1971 – DB Cooper and his $200,000 ransom money parachute over Washington state; neither to be seen again

SPRT: 1980 – It’s No Mas for Duran as taunting Sugar Ray reclaims title

OTHR: 1970 – Mishima, unable to rally troops behind call to the ways of old Japan, dies Japan’s old way

BDAY: Christina Applegate; John F. Kennedy, Jr.; Ricardo Montalban; Carry Nation

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++This Tweet in History: November 24, 2009++

WRLD: 1859 – Darwin publishes his opus on origins

SPRT: 1960 – Wilt the Stilt grabs 55 boards

ENTR: 1991 – Mercury, Queen’s Champion of the world, falls from orbit

BDAY: “Lucky” Luciano; Dale Carnegie; Scott Joplin; Zachary Taylor

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++This Tweet in History: November 23, 2009++

WRLD: 1980 – Italy’s Irpinia quake, its 90 aftershocks, claim thousands of lives

SPRT: 1976 – Mayol makes it 100 meters under the sea without breathing equipment

HUH?: 1993 – Whiteread’s the best of artists, Whiteread’s he worst of artists

BDAY: Miley Cyrus; Harpo Marx; Boris Karloff; Franklin Pierce

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++This Tweet in History: November 22, 2009++

WRLD: 1963 – Turmoil in Camelot as Kennedy is assassinated

SPRT: 1986 – Tyson, future ear-munching chump, becomes youngest heavyweight champ

OTHR: 1718 – Blackbeard dies by the sword, off Carolina coast

BDAY: Billie Jean King; Benjamin Britten; Charles de Gaulle; Abigail Adams

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E November 21, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending November 21, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Poland, November 16, 1382 – Jadwiga becomes female king of Poland. http://bit.ly/2Tflbf

The Back-Story: [SFX: Poland Whole; This is a man's world; It’s good to be king]Jadwiga of Poland was born to dynastic, royal stock. She was betrothed at age 8, for the perpetuation of the kingdom, but ended up acceding to the throne herself after the death of her father, king Louis the Great. Because the term "Queen" referred to the wife of a ruler, she was proclaimed King of Poland by the archbishop of Krakow. Before her death in childbirth, 17 years after she ascended to the throne, she endowed the University of Krakow and founded the Bishopric of Vilnius. Beatified in 1987, she was canonized in 1999 by Pope John Paul II, the former archbishop of Krakow. [SFX: When the saints go marching in]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE California, November 17, 1968 – Fantastic football finish preempted for Heidi: http://bit.ly/4yeJsW
The Back-Story: [SFX: Have you got any castles? We all love football: TV Party] There were 65 seconds left on the game clock, the Jets led the Raiders 32-29, and it was time for Heidi, a new, made-for TV movie, to air. Network execs were unable to contact their affiliates,who went ahead and switched over to the movie, as scheduled, costing fans, except on the west coast, in an earlier time zone, the opportunity to see an exciting finish, with Oakland scoring 14 points in a matter of seconds and sealing the victory. NBC scrolled the final score during the movie, but that was not enough to spare them the wrath of a disappointed viewing public. [SFX:I missed again; Are you out of your mind?]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In Other News: DATELINE South America, November 20, 1820 – 80-ton whale sinks the Essex, inspiring Moby Dick: http://www.slangon.com/blog/?p=185
The Back-Story: [SFX:the Warrior(who's the hunter);Hit me with your best shot] The Essex was hunting in a whale pod off the South American coast when a giant sperm whale from the pod rammed them, swam off to gather momentum, turned, and rammed them again, sinking their ship.[ISFX: I’m going down] The crew grabbed what provisions they could before abandoning ship to the life boats, but neither those provisions nor the vegetation thay found when they made ground on Henderson Island was enough to sustain them in the ordeal that lay ahead of them. Ultimately, eight crewmen survived, most near dead and having had to resort to cannibalism. [SFX: Reba; Sole Survivor; Down the Dolce Vita]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

November 15: Artist Georgia O’Keeffe
November 16:Actor Burgess Meredith
November 17: Pitching great Tom Seaver
November 18: Composer William Gilbert, of Gilbert and Sullivan
November 19: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
November 20: US Vice President Joe Biden
And November 21: Artist Rene Magritte

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++This Tweet in History: November 21, 2009++

WRLD: 1953 – Missing Link exposed as Piltdown Hoax

SPRT: 1783 – de Rozier, Laurent go up, up, and away in their untethered balloon

HUH?: 1980 – Texaco’s drilling error pulls the plug in Lake Peigneur; away goes the whole shebang down the drain

BDAY: Bjork; Coleman Hawkins; Rene Magritte; Voltaire

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++This Tweet in History: November 20, 2009++

WRLD: 1945 – Nuremberg war crime trials begin

SPRT: 1982 – The players tried to take the field, but the marching band refused to yield

OTHR: 1820 – 80-ton whale sinks the Essex, inspiring Moby Dick

BDAY: Bo Derek; Joe Biden; Robert F. Kennedy; Alistair Cooke

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++This Tweet in History: November 19, 2009++

WRLD: 1977 – Sadat is first Arab head of state to make official visit to Israel

SPRT: 1969 – O Milésimo! Pelé nets 1000

ENTR: 1990 – Milli Vanilli’s singing is shammy; stripped of Grammy

BDAY: Calvin Klein; Indira Gandhi; Tommy Dorsey; James Garfield

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++This Tweet in History: November 18, 2009++

WRLD: 1978 – Hundreds drink the kool-aid in Jonestown massacre

SPRT: 1982 – Deuk-Koo Kim dies from injuries suffered in bout with Mancini

OTHR: 1925 – Shaw to Nobel: No thanks. Okay, then, yes, please, but keep the money

BDAY: Alan Shepard, Jr; Imogene Coca; Eugene Ormandy; William Gilbert

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++This Tweet in History: November 17, 2009++

WRLD: 1989 – On 50th anniversary of Opletal’s death, Velvet Revolution launches in Czechoslovakia

SPRT: 1968 – Fantastic football finish pre-empted for Heidi

TECH: Engelbart catches mouse-patent

BDAY: RuPaul; Tom Seaver; Gordon Lightfoot; Rock Hudson

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++This Tweet in History: November 16, 2009++

WRLD: 1382 – Jadwiga becomes female king of Poland. http

SPRT: 1983 – Brit soccer fans erupt in hooliganism in Luxembourg. Again

HUH?: Hofman whips up LSD for Sandoz labs

BDAY: Oksana Baiul; Lisa Bonet; Dwight Gooden; Burgess Meredith

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++This Tweet in History: November 15, 2009++

WRLD: 1976 – Lévesque & Parti Québecois sweep into power on separatist platform

SPRT: 1965 – Breedlove pilots first land vehicle to crack the 600 mph barrier

OTHR: 1977 – It’s a. . . commoner! Princess Anne spawns non-royal son

BDAY: Petula Clark; Ed Asner; Judge Wapner; Georgia O’Keeffe

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E November 14, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending November 14, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Soviet Union, November 10, 1982 – Rumors of Brezhnev’s death are not exaggerated: http://bit.ly/25KB4g

The Back-Story: [SFX: Rumors; I heard a rumor; Ashes to ashes; Kalinika; ]Leonid Brezhnev had ruled the Soviet Union with an iron fist. Because of the paranoia rife among the leadership in the Communist nation, plans for a successor were not explicit. For some years, western observers thought that the appearance and demeanor of the premier, who had been absent several public events, suggested grave physical danger. When Mr. Brezhnev failed to sign a public message of congratulations to Angola on its national day, suspicions rose that he had died, a fact confirmed by an official announcement the following day.[SFX: Sheer Heart Attack; People who diedKenny’s Dead]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE West Virginia, November 14, 1970 – Plane crash devastates Marshall U. football squad: http://bit.ly/JIZxB
The Back-Story: [SFX: Gymnopedie No 1] On a rainy night, following a narrow loss to the East Carolina Pirates, small-town college, Marshall University’s, Thundering Herd football squad, along with their coaches and select fans, were on an uneventful flight, headed home. In the poor weather conditions, Flight 932 approached Huntington Airport in West Virginia and, for reasons undetermined by an investigative board, descended too early, striking trees, crashing, and burning. The victims are memorialized at the Memorial Student Center Fountain each year on the anniversary of the crash where, following the laying of a wreath, the water is turned off until the following spring.[SFX:Wallflower]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go HUH?: DATELINE Oregon, November 12, HUH?: 1970 – Hey, ho, blow the whale down. Or up. Exploding whale blows up in OHD’s face: http://www.theexplodingwhale.com/
The Back-Story: [SFX:Jonah and the whale; Blow the Man Down]A large sperm whale, which beached itself and died in Oregon, left officials with a problem: What to do with its 8 tons of rotting flesh. It was too big to bury, so officials of the Oregon Highway Division, which had jurisdiction, decided to treat it like a boulder and blow it up, with 20 tons of dynamite [SFX: Dy-no-mite!]. The hope was that the carcass would be largely disintegrated, with the remainder eaten by seagulls and crabs. Although the dynamite was positioned in an attempt to direct the blubber to the sea, large chunks flew in all direction, even destroying a car parked a quarter of a mile away. The remainder of the carcass, too big for scavengers, was buried [SFX: Good Advice]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

November 8: Author Margaret Mitchell
November 9:Astronomer Carl Sagan
November 10: Father of the Reformation Martin Luther
November 11: US General George Patton
November 12: Sculptor Auguste Rodin
November 13: Author Robert Louis Stevenson
And November 14: Charles, Prince of Wales

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++This Tweet in History: November 14, 2009++

WRLD: 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz eruption melts glacier, burying towns; 20K dead

SPRT: 1970 – Plane crash devastates Marshall U. football squad

OTHR: 1889 – Nelly Bly beats her goal by 10%, around the world in 72 days

BDAY: Prince Charles; Aaron Copland; Jawaharlal Nehru; Claude Monet

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++This Tweet in History: November 14, 2009++

WRLD: 1985 – Nevado del Ruiz eruption melts glacier, burying towns; 20K dead

SPRT: 1970 – Plane crash devastates Marshall U. football squad

OTHR: 1889 – Nelly Bly beats her goal by 10%, around the world in 72 days

BDAY: Prince Charles; Aaron Copland; Jawaharlal Nehru; Claude Monet

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++This Tweet in History: November 12, 2009++

WRLD: 1933 – Grey snaps shot of camera shy Nessie

SPRT: 1892 – Allegheny Athletic Association hires Pudge “the Ringer” Heffelfinger

HUH?: 1970 – Hey, ho, blow the whale down. Or up. Exploding whale blows up in OHD’s face

BDAY: Tonya Harding; Nadia Comaneci; Neil Young; Auguste Rodin

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++This Tweet in History: November 11, 2009++

WRLD: 1918 – War to End all Wars ends in Versaille. All wars yet to be ended

SPRT: 1973 – Soviets decline match in Santiago after anti-Marxist coup in Chile

HUH?: 1911 – Midwest US cities hit record high, low temperatures on the same day

BDAY: Leonardo DiCaprio; Jonahtan Winters; Kurt Vonnegut, Jr; George Patton

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++This Tweet in History: November 10, 2009++

WRLD: 1982 – Rumors of Brezhnev’s death are not exaggerated

OTHR: 1871 – Dr. Livingstone, he (correctly) presumes

ENTR: 1969 – Educational TV finds builds a home at 123 Sesame Street

BDAY: MacKenzie Phillips; Roy Scheider; Richard Burton; Martin Luther

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++This Tweet in History: November 9, 2009++

WRLD: 1989 – East meets West in Berlin as the floodgates are open and The Wall is symbolically down

SPRT: 1946 – Pointless end to year’s most anticipated college clash

HUH?: 1993 – Princess of Wales, all exercised over pics in gym suit, files suit

BDAY: Lou Ferrigno; Mary Travers; Carl Sagan; Spiro Agnew

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++This Tweet in History: November 8, 2009++

WRLD: 1520 – Executions begin in the Stockholm Bloodbath, leading to animosity, separation of Sweden and Denmark

SPRT: 1966 – LBJ signs law clearing AFL/NFL to merge into new NFL

TECH: 1895 – X-phile Röntgen sees what lies beneath the surface

BDAY: Leif Garrett; Morley Safer; Patti Page; Margaret Mitchell

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E November 7, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending November 7, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Central America, November 3, 1903 – Panama trades canal to US for independence from Colombia: http://bit.ly/3peOx3

The Back-Story: [SFX:Panama] It was a marriage of convenience. France had spent five years trying to build a canal across Panama, but gave up the effort after losing 22,000 workers to yellow fever.[SFX: Fever] Over the objection of Colombia, of which Panama was still a part, the French made a deal for the United States to complte the canal. The US didn’t want to pay the prrice that Colombia was demanding, so it struck a deal – with Panama. Panama, which was in thein the midst of its independence movement, needed the financial and military backing the the US could provide and, in exchange for these, agreed to give the United States to the canal zone in perpetuity. [SFX: For God’s Sake, John, Sit Down]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Tipperary, November 1, 1884 – Hurlers, camogiers, and rounders rejoice! There’s a GAA for that: http://bit.ly/28E7zb
The Back-Story: [SFX: Shades of a blue orphanage; It’s a long way to tipperary] The Gaelic Athletic Association was formed by a spirited group of Irishmen who had the foresight to realize the importance of establishing a national organization to review and nurture traditional, indigenous pastimes. The group’s original charter called out the sports Gaelic Football, Hurling, Handball, and Rounders. This year, the Association marked their 125th anniversary with 125 celebrations. [SFX:Holiday]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In other news: DATELINE Tacoma, November 7, 1940 – Galloping Gertie, resonating with 42 mph wind, collapses: http://bit.ly/V9YQz (video)
The Back-Story: [SFX:Love Rollercoaster; Blowing in the wind] The Tacoma Narrows bridge opened to traffic on July 1940 and collapsed spectacularly just four months later. It was nicknamed Galloping Gertie because of the way that it contorted in the wind. Although the bridge was built to withstand winds of up to 120 miles per hour, it collapsed in winds of just 42 mph as the wind resonated with the harmonic frequency of the bridge, amplifying its movements. Spectacular footage of the collapse, now preserved in the Library of Congress, shows a reporter whose car was the last to attempt a crossing on that fateful day, abandoning his car and escaping just in time. His daughter’s dog, who snapped at him when he tried to help her out of the vehicle, was the only casualty of the collapse.. [SFX:Rip it up; How much is that doggie in the window]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

November 1: Author Stephen Crane
November 2:Queen of France Marie Antoinette
November 3:Politician Michael Dukakis
November 4: Folk humorist Will Rogers
November 5: Actor Roy Rogers
November 6: Composer John Philip Sousa
And November 7: Chemist Madame Curie

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++This Tweet in History: November 7, 2009++

WRLD: 1907 – Jesus saves. . . Nacozari

SPRT: 1991 – Magical hoops careers ends with a whimper as he announces he’s HIV positive

OTHR: 1940 – Galloping Gertie, resonating with 42 mph wind, collapses

BDAY: Joan Sutherland; Billy Graham; Leon Trotsky; Madame Curie

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++This Tweet in History: November 6, 2009++

WRLD: 1999 – God save the the Queen! Aussies reject republic, stick with Brit monarchy

SPRT: 1869 – Rutgers 6, Princeton 4 in first official college football game

OTHR: 1917 – 250,000 casualties later, Canadians lead allies to victory at Ypres, gaining 5 miles of turf

BDAY: Rebecca Romijn; Maria Shriver; James Naismith; John Philip Sousa

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++This Tweet in History: November 6, 2009++

WRLD: 1999 – God save the the Queen! Aussies reject republic, stick with Brit monarchy

SPRT: 1869 – Rutgers 6, Princeton 4 in first official college football game

OTHR: 1917 – 250,000 casualties later, Canadians lead allies to victory at Ypres, gaining 5 miles of turf

BDAY: Rebecca Romijn; Maria Shriver; James Naismith; John Philip Sousa

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++This Tweet in History: November 5, 2009++

WRLD: 1916 – Austro-Hungarian-German emperors need recruits for Russian war, Act on November 5th giving birth to Poland

SPRT: 1994 – After 10 year hiatus, Foreman, 45, KOs Moorer, 26, becoming oldest heavyweight champ

OTHR: 1872 – Suffragette Susan B. suffers jail sentence for voting attempt

BDAY: Tatum O’Neal; Peter Noone; Ike Turner; Roy Rogers

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++This Tweet in History: November 4, 2009++

WRLD: 1956 – Soviet tanks put brutal end to Hungarians’ dreams of freedom

SPRT: 1928 – Rothstein, figure in Black Sox scandal, gunned down over welched poker debt

OTHR: 1922 – Tut, tut, tut! Boy King’s tomb, spared desecration by grave robbers, is unearthed by Brit explorers

BDAY: Kathy Griffin; Laura W. Bush; Walter Cronkite; Will Rogers

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++This Tweet in History: November 3, 2009++

WRLD: 1903 – Panama trades canal to US for independence from Colombia

SPRT: 1998 – The Body, after forsaking wrestling ring and throwing hat in the ring, lands in the Governor’s mansion

TECH: 1957 – Laika’s the first living being launched into space, but doesn’t live long

BDAY: Dolph Lundgren; Adam Ant; Michael Dukakis; Charles Bronson

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++This Tweet in History: November 2, 2009++

WRLD: 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem assassinated following coup in S. Vietnam, drawing US deeper into the conflict

SPRT: 1986 – Waitz wins her 8th NYC marathon by a mile

HUH?: 1948 – Dewey Defeats Truman. Not! You can’t believe everything you read

BDAY: k.d. Lang; James K. Polk; Marie Antoinette; Daniel Boone

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++This Tweet in History: November 1, 2009++

WRLD: 1986 – Rhine runs red after fire at Swiss chemical plant

SPRT: 1884 – Hurlers, camogiers, and rounders rejoice! There’s a GAA for that

OTHR: 1896 – Long before Playboy & Penthouse, Nat Geo bares the bewbs

BDAY: Jenny McCarthy; Lyle Lovett; Gary Player; Stephen Crane

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E October 31, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending October 31, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE India, October 31, 1984 – Gandhi assassinated by her bodyguards; bloody rioting follows: http://bit.ly/ZcFzp

The Back-Story: [SFX:Point Blank; Insensiblement; Hommage a Haydn] Indira Gandhi worked, as her father, Jawaharal Nehru, had, towards doing away with castes and unifying the populace. However, when she authorized Operation Bluestar, to remove insurgents who had taken up positions in the Golden Temple, she alienated the religious Sikh population, both because she desecrated the temple and because it was done with no regard for the thousands of civilian worshippers in the temple, almost 500 of whom died. Although she became the sworn enemy of the Sikhs, Gandhi refused to have her Sikh bodyguards reassigned, in a demonstration of her trust for the two who had served her for many years. This trust was misplaced; the two shot her in the garden of her official residence. In the aftermath, there was violent anti-Sikh rioting in the streets, resulting in massive loss of life and in the destruction of families from which the Sikh community still reels. [SFX: White Riot]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Zaire, October 30, 1974 – Ali, on the ropes for 7 rounds, is all up in George Foreman’s Grill in the 8th; wins Rumble in the Jungle: http://bit.ly/4h9aou
The Back-Story: [SFX: Bungle in the Jungle] George Foreman was on top of the world of boxing. He had easily dispatched of his competition, including Joe Frazier and Ken Norton, who had defeated his elder challenger, Muhammad Ali. In the build-up to the fight, Ali engaged in psychological warfare, taunting the champion and gaining popular support in the nation of Zaire, where the bout was to be held. On the day of the fight, the challenger surprised everyone, including his corner man, Angelo Dundee, by clinging to the ropes, allowing Foreman to tire himself out for seven rounds; finally taking the fight to himin the 8th and swiftlyu knocking the champion out. [SFX:Mama said knock you out]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE New Jersey, October 30, 1938 – The Martians have landed? In New Jersey? Well[s], Well[es]. . . http://bit.ly/VcB7X
The Back-Story: [SFX:Rosalita; Radio Loves You; Who Listens to the Radio?; Radio Ga Ga] It was just a radio program. Really. On the eve of Halloween, Orson Welles presented an adaptation of HG Wells’ “War of the World,” staging it as though it were a series of news bulletin interrupting a program of dance music. Althoughthere were explicit disclaimers that it was just a radio drama, many who heard the broadcast though that the drama was, in fact, actually taking place; some armed themselves, and some hid in the cellars. [SFX:Fooled again (I don’t Like It); We don’t get fooled again;The end of the world as we know it]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

October 25: Composer Georges Bizet
October 26: Gospel Artist Mahalia Jackson
October 27: American President Theodore Rosevelt
October 28: Discoverer of the Polio Vaccine Jonas Salk
October 29: Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf
October 30: Author Fyodor Dostoevsky
And October 31: Painter Jan Vermeer

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WRLD: 1984 – Gandhi assassinated by her bodyguards; bloody rioting follows

SPRT: 1950 – Earl Lloyd breaks the NBA’s color barrier

OTHR: 1517 – Luther nails 95 Theses on indulgent church’s door

BDAY: Ethel Waters; Chiang Kai-Shek; John Keats; Jan Vermeer

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++This Tweet in History: October 30, 2009++

++This Tweet in History: October 30, 2009++

WRLD: 1961 – World rocks under weight of Russian Tsar Bomba; Largest. Detonation. Ever.

SPRT: 1974 – Ali, on the ropes for 7 rounds, is all up in George Foreman’s Grill in the 8th; wins Rumble in the Jungle

HUH?: 1938 – The Martians have landed? In New Jersey? Well[s], Well[es]+. . .

BDAY: Maradona; Ezra Pound; Fyodor Dostoevsky; John Adams

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++This Tweet in History: October 25, 2009++

WRLD: 1975 – On deathbed, Franco anoints Prince Juan Carlos temp head of state, Spain’s first monarch in 44 years

OTHR: Inspired by Dunant’s Souvenir de Solferino, Swiss enlist 16 nations, found the Red Cross

HUH?: 1618 – Raleigh returns from S. America sans gold; ends up sans head on 15 year old suspended sentence

BDAY: Winona Ryder; Kate Jackson; Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf; Fanny Brice

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++This Tweet in History: October 28, 2009++

WRLD: 1918 – Slavs Czech out of Austro-Hungarian empire

SPRT: 1922 – Princeton upsets Chicago in first nationally broadcast college sporting event

OTHR: 1893 - Tchaikovsky’s Pathétique symphony debuts; not long after, composer departs in pathos

BDAY: Mamoud Ahmadinejad; Bill Gates; Bruce Jenner; Johas Salk

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++This Tweet in History: October 27, 2009++

WRLD: 1999 – Terrorists raid Armenian parliament, kill Prime Minister, Chairman

SPRT: 2004 – Bambino’s Curse over, Sox win series

OTHR: 1992 – Schindler slaughtered by shipmates for being gay

BDAY: John Cleese; Roy Lichtenstein; Dylan Thomas; Theodore Roosevelt

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++This Tweet in History: October 26, 2009++

WRLD: Korea’s head of intel kills president, accidently on purpose (spontaneously premeditated)

SPRT: 1951 – Louis ends retirement, only to be retired by Marciano in the 8th

ENTR: 1965 – Beatles bop by Buckingham where Queen bestows MBEs

BDAY: Hillary Rodham Clinton; Pat Sajack; Jackie Coogan; Mahalia Jackson

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++This Tweet in History: October 25, 2009++

WRLD: 1971 – At UN, it’s Formosa out, PRC in

ENTR: 1938 – Bishop Beckman decries soundtrack of the primrose path to Hell – swing music

OTHR: Into the valley of death rode the 600

BDAY: Jon Anderson; Helen Reddy; Pablo Picasso; Georges Bizet

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E October 24, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending October 24, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Great Britain, October 19, 1989 – Guildford Four released as court reverses biggest miscarriage of justice in Britain: http://bit.ly/4fb2LC

The Back-Story: [SFX:Me and Julio; I Want to Break Free] Paul Hill, Gerry Conlon, Paddy Armstrong, and Carole Richardson were arrested and coerced into confessing various crimes related to IRA attacks. In spite of their later retractions and, in some cases, valid alibis, the four were convicted in October 1975, and given life sentences. In 1977, four IRA men confessed to the crimes for which the Guildford Four were serving sentences, but they the men were never charged. In 1989, a detective looking into the case unearthed evidence that the notes from the police interviews had been heavily manipulated. On the strength of this evidence, the four were granted an appeal, their convictions were ultimately reversed, and, after 15 years of imprisonment, the Guildford 4 were freed. In June, 2000, Prime Minister Tony Blair issued a formal apology to the four. [SFX: Freebird; Release Me]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Mexico City, October 20, 1968 – Fosbury flops to record height, Olympic gold, in Mexico City, revolutionizing sport: http://bit.ly/PiJQg (video)
The Back-Story: [SFX: Foppup; Jump; Jump Around] In the late 1950s, American colleges switched from sawdust on the landing side of the high-jump pit to large bundles of foam rubber. This change made possible a revolution in the sport. No longer limited by the need to land on his feet to avoid injury, Dick Fosbury devised an ingenious technique of running right up to the bar and arching his back over the bar as he jumped it backwards. He refined the technique, dubbed the “Fosbury Flop” by a local reporter, earning an NCAA title and, ultimately, an Olympic record and Gold Medal. His unorthodox (at the time) technique immediately gained popularity.[SFX:How I Got Over 7:35; It's a Living Thing]

[SFX: SOUND827]: Entertainment: DATELINE London, October 18, 1968 Yogi and Boo-Boo take down John and Yoko in drug bust: http://bit.ly/37emjY
The Back-Story: [SFX:Roses; Ashes to Ashes; Framed] Scotland Yard’s Detective Sergeant Norman Pilcher built his career targeting musicians for drug arrests. In 1968, he set his sights on John Lennon. John had been tipped to the impending raid three weeks prior, and had arranged to have his apartment meticulously cleaned, fearing that its previous tenant, Jimi Hendrix, may have left a trace of drugs behind. Pilcher came with his drug-sniffing dogs, Yogi and Boo Boo, and a huge contingent of police, expecting to find a large party in full swing. Although Lennon insisted that he was framed, and Pilcher was later jailed for corruption because of his deeds on the drug squad, the experience had huge repercussions on Lennon’s life, resulting in his deportation from the US, in 1971, and contributing to his and Yoko Ono’s loss of custody of Yoko’s daughter. [SFX: The No-No Song; Up in Smoke; Everybody must get Stoned]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

October 18: Jazz Great Wynton Marsalis
October 19: Pop Artist Peter Max
October 20: Composer Charles Ives
October 21: Israeli Statesman Benjamin Netanyahu
October 22: Composer Franz Liszt
October 23: Soccer Legend Pele
And October 24: Rock’n’Roll Pioneer The Big Bopper

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++This Tweet in History: October 24, 2009++

++This Tweet in History: October 24, 2009++

WRLD: 1945 – WWII Allies ratify Charter, founding United Nations

SPRT: 1992 – Blue Jays squad, with no actual Canadians, brings Canada its first World Series trophy

HUH?: 1951 – 7 years after D-Day, after start of the Korean War, Truman calls it: WWII’s over!

BDAY: Tila Tequila; Kevin Kline; F. Murray Abraham; The Big Bopper

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++This Tweet in History: October 23, 2009++

WRLD: 1956 – Hungarians rally in the streets against Soviet rule

ENTR: 1958 – Smurfs descend on Spirou

HUH?: 1739 - Brits, Spaniards go toe-to-to over Jenkins’ Ear

BDAY: ”Weird” Al Yankovic; Michael Chrichton; Pele; Johnny Carson

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++This Tweet in History: October 22, 2009++

WRLD: 1844 – Thousands of Millerites' Great Anticipation, turns into Great Disappointment

SPRT: 1926 – Whitehead drops Houdini with three swift punches; Great One falls on Halloween

OTHR: 1964 – Sartre to Nobel: No Thanks

BDAY: Deepak Chopra; Timothy Leary; N.C. Wyeth; Franz Liszt

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++This Tweet in History: October 21, 2009++

WRLD: 1969 – Coup installs Barre as president of Somalia

SPRT: 1973 – Dryer Rams into safety zone. Twice

TECH: 1879 – Light bulb over Edison’s head for brilliant carbonized filament idea

BDAY: Carrie Fisher; Benjamin Netanyahu; Dizzie Gillespie; Alfred Nobel

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++This Tweet in History: October 20, 2009++

WRLD: 1740 – War of Austrian Succession begins over Old Europe’s resistance to Maria Theresa’s ascension

SPRT: 1968 – Fosbury flops to record height, Olympic gold, in Mexico City, revolutionizing sport (video)

OTHR: 1947 – Un-American Activities Committee begins making Hollywood safe from Communism

BDAY: Snoop Dogg; Tom Petty; Bela Lugosi; Charles Ives

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++This Tweet in History: October 19, 2009++

WRLD: 1989 – Guildford Four released as court reverses biggest miscarriage of justice in Britain

SPRT: 1957 – Goal! Canadien Rocket scores his 500th

TECH: 1943 – Rutgers researchers isolate antibiotic for tuberculosis

BDAY: Evander Holyfield; Divine; Peter Max; John Le Carre

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++This Tweet in History: October 18, 2009++

WRLD: 1929 – Famous Five prevail on Canada’s Privy Council: Women are persons, too

SPRT: 1977 – Three pitchers, three swings, three dingers for Mr. October

ENTR: Yogi and Boo-Boo take down John and Yoko in drug bust

BDAY: Wynton Marsalis; Martina Navratilova; Chuck Berry; Lotte Lenya

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E October 17, 2009

[SFX: CHURCHBELL] Greetings, History Lovers! Welcome to This Tweet in History, the Week In Review, podcasting to you on tape delay from our North American Studios.

Here are your top stories for the week ending October 17, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE France, October 13, 1894–Nabbed for Esterhazy’s crime, defamed Dreyfus does decade on Devil’s Isle before exoneration, reinstatement: http://bit.ly/1KGnlQ
The Back-Story: [SFX:Whodunit; Lies lies lies] The Dreyfus affair became a symbol of anti-Semitism in late 19th Century France. Alfred Dreyfus, an immgrant from Germany and an officer in the French army, was convicted of treason for passing documents to the Germans and sent to Devil's Island. Some 10 years later, when evidence surfaced that pointed to Walsin Esterhazy, Dreyfus had a retrial, but prosecutors suppressed the new information[SFX: Keep It Dark]. Prominent writer, Emile Zola, wrote his famous "J'accuse" (I accuse) [SFX: J’Accuse] treatise, damning the legal shennanigans, and Dreyfus was eventually exonerated. He went on to continue a success career as an army officer. [SFX: An Innocent Man]

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Edmonton, Canada, October 15, 1989 – The Great One cruises past Mr. Hockey on points: http://bit.ly/duJeR (video)
The Back-Story: [SFX: Hit Me with Your Best Shot] Wayne Gretzky entered the game against his former team, on their home ice, one point behind his idol, Gordy Howe's, all-time record of 1850. He scored early in the game to tie the record, and there it stood after two periods. Gretzky's body was so battered that he almost sat out the third period, but he soldiered on and scored a goal to tie the game and claim the record. [SFX:You're on Top of the World]

[SFX: SOUND827]: In other news: DATELINE Earth, October 12, 1999 : Somewhere in the world, 6 billionth human arrives. Birthday party as though it’s 1999: http://bit.ly/20EwJB:
The Back-Story: [SFX:1999; Saginaw; Just Enough for the City; Born in the USA; Born in East LA] The United Nations Population fund designated October 12, 1999, as The Day of 6 Billion. According to their calculations, on that date, somewhere in the world, [SFX: All Around the World] the 6 billionth human was born. While the date itself is disputed, with many researchers believing that #6 billion arrived months earlier, it serves as a symbolic line in the sand which, now crossed, mandates attention from the nations. [SFX: What's going on?; Too many people]

[SFX: SOUND827] This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]

October 11: US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt
October 12: Civil Rights Activist Dick Gregory
October 13: British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
October 14: Colonialist William Penn
October 15: Duchess Sarah Ferguson
October 16:I Playwright Eugene O’Neill
And October 17: Playwright Arthur Miller

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++This Tweet in History: October 17, 2009++

WRLD: 1989 – San Francisco rocked by massive 6.9 quake, felt as far as LA and Las Vegas

SPRT: 1968 – Smith, Carlos blackballed of medals for Black Power salute

OTHR: 1931 – Murderous gangster Al Capone convicted for. . . tax evasion

BDAY: Wyclef Jean; Evel Knievel; Rita Hayworth; Arthur Miller

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++This Tweet in History: October 16, 2009++

WRLD: 1964 – China is 5th to explode an A-Bomb; joins rest of UN Security Council in Club Nuke

SPRT: 1996 – Thousands of counterfeit tickets result in stampede at Guatemala soccer match, leaving 83 dead

RLGN: John-Paul II breaks 400-year streak of Italian popes

BDAY: John Mayer; Eugene O’Neill; Oscar Wilde; Noah Webster

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