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WRLD: 1969 – King Idris, dismissive as tanks, troops, converge on Tripoli, is dismissed from throne in bloodless coup

SPRT: 1972 – American Fischer triumphs over Russian bear in Iceland

ENTR: 1902 – France’s “Trip to the Moon” is first of the Sci-Fi genre (Video)

BDAY: Gloria Estefan; Seiji Ozawa; Rocky Marciano; Edgar Rice Burroughs

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WRLD: 1997 – People’s princess dies in car crash, fleeing paparazzi

TECH: 1965 – Pregnant Guppy gives birth to Super, flying offspring; key in landing man on the moon

HUH?: 1422 – Henry VI becomes king of England; first of two kingships before his first birthday

BDAY: Richard Gere; Van Morrison; Itzhak Perlman; Eldridge Cleaver

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

WRLD: 1363 – Youliang, Yuanzhang toe-to-toe on the Poyang in one of history’s largest sea battles

SPRT: 1990 – Griffeys Sr & Jr, grab hits in first; first father and son combo to do so

OTHR: 1976 – Europe’s largest street fest erupts into riot in Notting Hill

BDAY: Andy Roddick; Cameron Diaz; Warren Buffet; Mary Shelley

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HistorTweet Week in Review W/E August 29, 2009

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Here are your top stories for the week ending August 29, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Indonesia, August 27, 1883: Krakatoa’s last gasp = Hiroshima times 10,000; shock waves circle Earth 7 times; tsunamis; 36,000 deaths: http://bit.ly/p8UoX
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Hot Lava] In the 1800s, the island volcano of Krakatoa was largely unknown. That all changed in 1883, when the island erupted into one of the most catastrophic natural disasters in recorded history, in an explosion that was heard more than 3000 miles away. Dust from the eruption was carried as far as New York City, and affected solar radiation and the earth’s weather for several years after. The eruption spawned several tsunamis, in the Indian and Pacific oceans, the West Coast of the US, South America, and the English Channel. [SFX: Volcano] The explosion, with a total force equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT, destroyed the entire northern portion of the island.

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE Greece, August 29, 2004 –De Lima, surprise leader after 13, knocked off the road and his game by crazed ex-priest, ends up bronzed: http://bit.ly/11mWiQ
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Runnin with the Devi] Brazil’s Vanderlei de Lima was not expected to be the frontrunner in the the 2004 marathon in the Athens Olympics, but, after 13 miles, he claimed the lead. Nine miles later, Cornelius Horan, clad in an orange kilt, stepped into the middle of the course and pushed de Lima into the crowd. Horan, a deranged, defrocked, Irish priest, was fresh of a two-month sentence for having stood for 20 seconds in the middle of the track at Britain’s Grand Prix the year earlier. De Lima collected himself and finished the race valiantly, although, having been knocked out of rhythm by Horan, [SFX: Break my Stride] he was knocked out of first and second place by runners from Italy and the US. At the closing ceremonies, de Lima was awarded the medal for sportsmanship by the International Olympic Committee.

[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go huh? [SFX: Things that make you go hmm?]DATELINE America, August 25, 1835 – According to the Sun, there’s intelligent life on the Moon. More intelligent than life at Yale, apparently: http://bit.ly/13zLlb:
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Walking on the Sun] In 1835, upstart newspaper, the New York Sun, seeking publicity, published a set of satirical articles telling the fantastic story of life on the moon, supposedly uncovered by Sir John Herschel, observed through his telescope in South Africa. [SFX: Man on the Moon] The public swallowed, hook line and sinker, illustrated tales of upright-walking beavers, who lived in huts and were capable of making fire, and winged anthropomorphs. The paper sold thousands of copies, and attracted a contingent from Yale University, who traveled to the Sun’s headquarters for details and left believers.

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

August 23:Drummer Keith Moon
August 24:PLO Leader Yasser Arafat
August 25 Composer Leonard Bernstein
August 26: Humanitarian Mother Teresa
August 27: Pee-Wee Herman Creator Paul Reubens
August 28: Philosopher Johann von Goethe
And August 29: King of Pop, Michael Jackson


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WRLD: 2005 – Katrina’s whirlwind tour slams Gulf Coast

SPRT: 2004 – De Lima, surprise leader after 13, knocked off the road and his game by crazed ex-priest, ends up bronzed

OTHR: 1911 – Ishi, last surviving unassimilated Native American, found in Oroville corral

BDAY: Michael Jackson; Robin Leach; Charlie Parker; Ingrid Bergman

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

WRLD: 1963 – Martin shares his dream

TECH: 1845 – America’s oldest continuously published magazine, Scientific American, is created. Or did it evolve?

ENTR: 1961 – Marvelettes’ “Postman” delivers Motown’s 1st hit

BDAY: LeAnn Rimes; Shania Twain; Leo Tolstoy; Johann von Goethe

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

WRLD: 1883 – Krakatoa’s last gasp = Hiroshima times 10,000; shock waves circle Earth 7 times; tsunamis; 36,000 deaths

SPRT: 1982 – At 119, Henderson steals past Brock and into the record books

HUH?: 1896 - World’s shortest war goes A-Z in 40 minutes

BDAY: Paul Pee-Wee Herman Reubens; Barbara Bach; Tuesday Weld; Lyndon B. Johnson

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

WRLD: 1346 – Chivalry is dead? Clue: England’s Army, in Crécy, with the longbow

TECH: 1994 – If he only had a heart. . . Wizards of Papworth grant Briton’s wish with battery-operated ticker

OTHR: 1978 – Smiling Pope, John Paul, becomes 2nd in the Year of Three; 33 days later, his death makes room for 3rd

BDAY: Macaulay Culkin; Branford Marsalis; Geraldine Farraro; Mother Teresa

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

WRLD: 1944 – Vive la liberté! Allies liberate Paris; Cholitz defies Hitler, leaves landmarks intact

SPRT: 1974 – Connors cannonballs into Avon River, but her target was a net on the other side (video)

HUH?: 1835 – According to the Sun, there’s intelligent life on the Moon. More intelligent than life at Yale, apparently

BDAY: Claudia Schiffer; Elvis Costello; Sean Connery; Leonard Bernstein

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WRLD: 1954 – Brazil’s president, distraught at center of crises, resigns, commits suicide. Then comes the love

SPRT: 1875 – A Shropshire Lad, using oil and brandy against the cold, pain, swims Channel’s 39 miles in 22 hours

OTHR: 1857 – Panic, depression between the Mexican-American and Civil wars

BDAY: Marlee Matlin; Cal Ripken, Jr., Vince McMahon; Yasser Arafat

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WRLD: 1985 – Mole, unmasked, flees West to East after ratting out 170 colleagues

OTHR: 1977 – Condor takes prize for trip through the loop on Gossamer wings. Just one of those things

HUH?: 1784 – State of Franklin decides to go it alone, cedes from the US for 4 years

BDAY: Kobe Bryant, Keith Moon, Barbara Eden, Gene Kelly

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E August 22, 2009

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Here are your top stories for the week ending August 22, 2009:


[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Mexico, August 20, 1940: Stalin to Mercader: Want to learn about communism? Just axe Trotsky! http://bit.ly/26xmel

The Back-Story:

[SFX: Kalinka] In the struggle for succession after Lenin’s death, Josef Stalin won, and Leon Trotsky lost. After living in a series of countries following his exile, Trotsky and his family found a home and security in Mexico. [SFX: I Think I will Travel to Rio] In 1936, the increasingly paranoid Stalin tried several bolsheviks, including, in absentia, Trotsky in absentia, and his fate was sealed. Following an unsuccessful attempt by machine-gun wielding assassins, the NKVD enlisted a trusted family friend, communist Ramon Mercador, who, on pretext of having Trotsky read his manuscript, attacked him with the blunt end of an ice axe. Trotsky died the following day.

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE America, August 16, 1954 – Sports fans and swimsuit fans rejoice: your illustrious journal has arrived: http://bit.ly/DLeBw

The Back-Story:

[SFX: Allstar].The third time was a charm for “Sports Illustrated.” Following the failure of two magazines with that name, Henry Luce, publisher of Time magazine, decided that the country needed a national magazine with sports coverage. Unable to buy rights to the name to “Sport” for $200,000, Luce secured the rights to “Sports Illustrated,” for a fraction of that cost. The first issue hit the stands in August of 1954. The famed swimsuit issue debuted 10 years later.[SFX:Yellow Polka Dot Bikini]


[SFX: SOUND827]: Things that make you go huh? [SFX: Things that make you go hmm?]DATELINE Paris, August 21, 1911 – Peruggia slips Mona Lisa under clothes; alert Louvre staff notices blank spot on wall the following day: http://bit.ly/Yl5cr:

The Back-Story:

[SFX: Mona Lisa] On the morning of August 22, 1911, an amateur painter set out to paint a model’s reflection in the newly installed glass that covered the Mona Lisa, intending to show the folly of covering the masterpiece in glass. He was greeted by a bare wall. [SFX: Has Anybody Seen My Baby?]Thinking that the museum had removed the picture for photographing, he inquired, and, ultimately, it was discovered that the painting had been stolen the day earlier. Vincenzo Peruggia, a former employe of the Louvre, had removed it from its frame, stuffed it under his clothes, and left undetected. Two years later, he tried to sell the unsellable painting, with the stipulation that it be hung in Italy’s Uffizi museum, restoring to Italy what had been stolen by Napoleon. He was arrested, and the Mona Lisa was restored to Paris. [SFX: Back to Paris]

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

August 16: Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin

August 17:Frontiersman Davy Crockett

August 18 Mexican Presendente Felipe Calderon

August 19: American President Bill Clinton

August 20: American President Benjamin Harrison

August 21: Jazz great Count Basie

and August 22: Chinese statesman, Deng Xiaoping

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WRLD: 1642 – Standard finale to long, uncivil parliament: Civil War

SPRT: 1989 - Ryan King of Ks, notches 5K (video)

HUH?: 565 – Columba sends Nessie packing

BDAY: Ray Bradbury, Deng Xiaoping, Dorothy Parker, Claude Debussy

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

WRLD: 1968 – Hope springs in Prague; held in Czech by Russian Bear

SPRT: 1951 – Fetch & Karrup, at a blistering pace of 80 miles a day, take the prize in the first trans-American race

HUH?: 1911 – Peruggia slips Mona Lisa under clothes; alert Louvre staff notices blank spot on wall the following day

BDAY: Kim Cattrall, Kenny Rogers, Wilt Chamberlain, Count Basie

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

WRLD: 1940 – Stalin to Mercader: Want to learn about communism? Just axe Trotsky!

SPRT: 1920 – Are you ready for some football? First professional football league organized in Canton

OTHR: 1992 – Fergie’s separated – from her blouse - Jack B. nipping at her toes, in pics posted in Brit press

BDAY: Al Roker, Robert Plant, Connie Chung; Benjamin Harrison

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

WRLD: 43 BC – Octavius bullies his way to Consulship; dies same day, 57 years later

SPRT: Big day for race fans 1909 – first 500 at Indy; 1934 – First Soapbox Derby

OTHR: 1960 – Belka, Strelka, a rabbit, 40 mice, and a pair of rats ride into orbit and back alive, on Sputnik 5

BDAY: John Deacon, Bill Clinton, Ogden Nash, Orville Wright

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

WRLD: 1917 – Water-strapped Thessaloniki burns to the ground; from its ashes, a modern city is built

SPRT: 1989 – Man U kidding me? Isle of Man’s Knighton buys, bails on Manchester United

HUH?: 1590 – Governor returns to Roanoke Island from business trip, finds nobody home

BDAY: Felipe Calderon, Robert Redford, Roman Polanski, Meriwether Lewis

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

WRLD: 1962 – Teen, Peter Fechter, shot trying to scale Berlin Wall; Soldiers East & West idly watch him bleed to death

SPRT: 1978 – Up, up, and away, and transatlantic as Double Eagle II goes from Maine to Miserey

HUH?: 1982 - Chamberlains are blamed, but the dingo got their baby

BDAY: Sean Penn; Jiang Zemin; Mae West; Davy Crockett

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WRLD: 1896 – Thousands follow fisherman’s lure to Klondike, last great gold rush

SPRT: 1954 – Sports fans and swimsuit fans rejoice: your illustrious journal has arrived

ENTR: 1977 –The King is dead, but the music, rumors live on

BDAY: Madonna; Kathie Lee Gifford; Frank Gifford; Menachem Begin

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E August 15, 2009

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Here are your top stories for the week ending August 15, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Egypt [SFX: Walk like an Egyptian], August 12, 30 BC – Cleopatra has the world’s most beautiful face, but her asp is to die for: http://bit.ly/3zX43l
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Fire] Long before Romeo and Juliet, there were star-crossed lovers, Antony and Cleopatra. Cleopatra the queen, known for her facial beauty[SFX: Ride the Beauty], had a penchant for marrying kings, the last of these being the famed Marc Antony. One story has Antony, his army deserting him, proclaiming that Cleopatra betrayed him. Cleopatra, fearing for her life, has messengers sent to tell him that she is dead. On hearing the news, he stabs himself, and so distraught is Cleopatra at his death that she has an asp brought to her chamber and induces it to bite her, posioning her to death.

[SFX: SOUND827]Sports: DATELINE England, August 2, 1971 – Harvey Smith’s victory reversed for making a reversed victory sign to judges: http://bit.ly/3iPGhZ
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Atliens].Harvey Smith was a controversial figure in the upper-class sport of show jumping. In 1971, he returned to compete in the Derby that he had won the year before, but forgot to bring back the trophy. The judges said he arrogantly assume he’d win again, and assured he would not. He did. When he passed the reviewing stand, he gestured toward the judges; they deemed it obscene and stripped him of the title. [SFX: Bad Boys]Harvey insisted that he was merely giving Churchill’s “V for Victory” salute, but, after the judges restored his title, admitted that he had, in fact, given an obscene salute which, thenceforward, was known as the Harvey Smith.

[SFX: SOUND827]: http://bit.ly/vZyQ0:
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Pistol Packin’ Mama] In 1918, women were not allowed to vote in America, and they were fighting mad. Some 305 of them enlisted in that most prototypical bastion of testosterone, the United States Marine Corps. The first of these, Opha mae Johnson, goes down as the first woman to enlist in the Marines. Although women were only permitted to enlist in the reserves and did not see combat, their contribution was vital to the eventual victory in World War I. [SFX: Anything you can do]

[SFX: SOUND827]This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]
This weeks birthdays:
August 9: Chemist Amedeo Avogadro
August 10: US President Herbert Hoover
August 11 Genealogist Author Alex Haley
August 12: Director Cecil B. DeMille
August 13: Presidente Fidel Castro
August 14: Comedian Steve Martin
And August 15: Chef of Julia and Julia fame, Julia Childs

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WRLD: 1914 – A man, a plan. . . a canal opens in Panama

SPRT: 1971 – Harvey Smith’s victory reversed for making a reversed victory sign to judges

ENTR: 1969 – Yasgur’s Farm overrun by Aquarians, Peace and Music

BDAY: Linda Ellerbee; Phyllis Schafly; Julia Childs; Napoleon

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WRLD: 1980 – Strike at Lenin Shipyard in Gdansk signals rise of Solidarity, decline of Polish communism

SPRT: 1979 – Challenging race turns deadly as force 10 storm surprises Fastnet competitors

OTHR: 1994 – French intelligence agents tranquilize, bag, and cage the Jackal; relocate him to captivity

BDAY: Halle Berry; Magic Johnson; Gary Larson; Steve Martin

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

WRLD: 1961 – Good walls make good neighbors? E. Germans erect wall to plug the brain-drain

SPRT: 2008 – Phelps butterflies to another record: 8x Gold in a single Olympics.

OTHR: 1918 – Opha Mae Johnson brings new meaning to “dress uniform” as Corps goes coed

BDAY: Fidel Castro; George Shearing; Alfred Hitchcock; Annie Oakley

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

WRLD: 30 BC – Cleopatra has the world’s most beautiful face, but her asp is to die for

SPRT: 1994 – Players strike a blow for oppressed workers everywhere. Players’ strike blows World Series. Strike blows

TECH: 1981 – Hello, I’m a PC. Are we compatible? IBM gets personal, introducing the 5150

BDAY: Pete Sampras; John Derek; Jane Wyatt; Cecil B. DeMille

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WRLD: 1952 – Teen-king proclaimed in Jordan

SPRT: 1984 – Barefoot Budd decks Decker, tripping up her dream of Olympic gold

OTHR: 1965 – With Frye family in the hot seat; Watts boils over, burns

BDAY: Hulk Hogan; Steve Wozniak; Mike Douglas; Alex Haley

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

WRLD: 1990 – After epic 15-month journey, Magellan begins four years of map-making over Venus

SPRT: 1981 – For the love of Pete! #14 Rose to the top of the NL hit parade

HUH?: 2003 – Long-distance relationship: She’s in Texas; he’s in . . . space on their wedding day

BDAY: Antonio Banderas; Ian Anderson; Eddie Fisher; Herbert Hoover

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

WRLD: 1969 – Madman Manson’s family massacres, seeking to incite race wars

SPRT: 1988 – Canada’s loss is hockey’s gain as the Great One becomes King

OTHR: 1048 – Brixen’s Bishop goes from Poppo to Pope to the grave in 23 days

BDAY: Christopher Cuomo; Deion Sanders; Jean Piaget; Amedeo Avogadro

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WRLD: 1963 – 125 uneventful years followed by 1 night of excitement; thieves grab 2.5M pounds in Great Train Robbery

SPRT: 1988 – And on the 8th day, there was light at Wrigley field. Um, this is news?

OTHR: 1974 – Tricky Dick pulls out early; Ford pulls into the White House driveway

BDAY:Roger Federer; Keith Carradine; Dustin Hoffman; Matthew Henson

Histortweet Week in Review - W/E August 8, 2009

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Here are your top stories for the week ending August 8, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Japan, August 6, 1945: Unprecendented destruction as Enola Gay drops A-Bomb Hiroshima: http://bit.ly/12Wabe
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Japanese Monks] In a devastating exclamation point to World War II, the lone bomber, Enola Gay, named after the pilot’s mother, flew over Hiroshima, a city chosen because of a favorable weather forecast, and unleashed “Little Boy,” the first atomic weapon ever deployed in combat, making good on an ultimatum, that was ignored by the Japanese government. All told, as many as 140,000 died in the blast, and another 80,000, in Nagasaki days later, before Japan announced its unconditional surrender.

[SFX: SOUND827]Technology: DATELINE The Moon, August 2, 1971. 1971 – Scott and Irwin, dune buggying on the moon, turn up the Genesis rock: http://bit.ly/14mseq [SFX: Fly me to the moon]
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Everyone’s gone to the moon] While Neil Armstrong may have walked on the moon, his successors tooled around in moon buggies. These were no joy rides, though: They were there to work. On August 2, 1971, astronauts David Scott and James Irwin were off on a mission to find a specimen from the primitive lunar crust, the first material to solidify from the moon’s molten outer layer. After roaming for an hour, taking pictures, they had their eureka moment and returned home with the Genesis rock. [SFX: It’s the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown].

[SFX: SOUND827]In Other News: DATELINE Italy, August 9, 1048: [SFX: Kyrie] Brixen’s Bishop goes from Poppo to Pope to the grave in 23 days: http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/04614a.htm
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Mo Money Mo Problems]After the death of Pope Clement II, the Tusculan faction asserted their power to have Benedict II restored to the papacy. He, in the words of the Catholic dictionary, “disappeared entirely from history” after 8 months. Henry III, apprised of Clement’s death, appointed Poppo, Bishop of Brixen, and, upon the removal of Benedict, Poppo was enthroned as Damascus II. A short 23 days later, Poppo was dead, victim of malaria or poisoning, depending whom you believe..[SFX: Poison]

[SFX: SOUND827]This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]
August 2: Novelist James Baldwin
August 3: Singer Tony Bennett
August 4 The President of the United States, Barack Obama
August 5: First Man on the Moon Neil Armstrong
August 6: Artist Andy Warhol
August 7: Archaelogist Louis Leakey
And August 8: Polar Explorer Matthew Henson

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

WRLD: 1819 - BO Knows Battle: BOlivar, at BOyaca, wins independence for BOgota

SPRT: 1987 – Teenager Lynne Cox swims from US to USSR as water freezes, Cold War thaws

HUH?: 1974 – Philippe Petit strings wire between twin towers, walks across a half dozen times before his arrest

BDAY: Garrison Keillor; Stan Freberg; Louis Leakey; Mata Hari

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WRLD: 1945 – Unprecendented destruction as Enola Gay drops A-Bomb on Hiroshima

SPRT: 1926 – Ederle performs swimmingly, channeling her energy into first crossing by a female

OTHR: 1971 – Against the Wind, Prince of Tides sails wrong-way ‘round the world

BDAY: Ginger Spice; M. Night Shyamalan; Andy Warhol; Lucille Ball

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

WRLD: 1962 – Mandela begins 5-year stretch in SA jail that stretches almost three decades

SPRT: 1901 – O’Connor sets first record for standing long jump; it stands 20 years

ENTR: 1962 – Good-bye, Norma Jean; Monroe dies, controversy won’t

BDAY: Patrick Ewing; Maureen McCormick; Neil Armstrong; John Houston

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

WRLD: Finks rat out Frank family; Gestapo moves in

SPRT: 1936 – Jesse’s jump wins respect and second of four medals in Berlin

OTHR: 1693 – France gushes at Dom Perignon’s bubbly creation

BDAY: Barack Obama; Raoul Wallenberg; Queen Elizabeth; Percy Bysshe Shelley

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

WRLD: 1977 – We don’t need no thought control

SPRT: 1852 – It’s Harvard over Yale in first American intercollegiate athletic event

OTHR: 1492 – In 1492, Columbus sets off on ocean blue

BDAY: Tom Brady; Martha Stewart; Martin Sheen; Tony Bennett

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

WRLD: 1610 - Henry Hudson discovers passage to the pacific. Not. Only missed by about 2000 miles

SPRT: 1976 – Lauda in critical condition after fiery crash at Grand Prix; comes back to take trophy one year later

TECH: 1971 – Scott and Irwin, dune buggying on the moon, turn up the Genesis rock

BDAY: Lance Ito; James Baldwin; Carroll O’Connor; Myrna Loy

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Histortweet Week in Review - W/E August 1, 2009

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Here are your top stories for the week ending August 1, 2009:

[SFX: SOUND827]World: DATELINE Italy, July 29, 1900: Anarchist Bresci sails home to shoot the king
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Kill the King] In the eyes of anarchist Gaetano Bresci, Italy’s king, Umberto I, had become a tyrant. When Bresci, who had fled his native Italy for America, heard the news of cannons being fired at laborers protesting the high price of bread, he sailed to France, bought a revolver, and started practicing. Eventually, he made his way to Milan, where he shot the king four times during a medal ceremony. Bresci was sentenced to life,[SFX: You are guilty] but died in suspicious circumstances after a year in prison.[SFX: Kill the King]

[SFX: SOUND827]Things that make you go Huh?:[SFX: Things that make you go hmm] DATELINE Prague, July 30, 1419. Hussites, dissatisfied with city council, throw the bums out. Of the windows. Not the last Czech defenestration
The Back-Story:
[SFX: Close the door! They’re coming in the windows!] In another story involving an angry mob, after Hussite protestors in Prague were attacked with stones from inside the town hall, they stormed the hall and threw the several members of the town council out of the windows to their death. In1618, History repeated itself [SFX: Do It Again]at the second defenestration of Prague.

[SFX: SOUND827]In other news: DATELINE New York, July 28, 1945: Préjà-vu as Airplane slams into skyscraper into NYC
The Back-Story:
[SFX: New York, New York] Flying in fog is never easy. Doing so in the middle of Manhattan can be fatal. On a foggy July morning, Lt. Col. William Smith gave it a try in his B-25 Bomber, despite the warnings of the control tower[SFX: Space Oddity]. He quickly became disoriented and dropped illeegally low, to 1,000 feet, weaving his way through about a dozen skyscrapers before his fateful – and fatal – encounter with the Empire State Building. Fourteen people died in the accident, but the building stood tall.[SFX: I’m Still Standing]

[SFX: SOUND827]This week’s birthdays:[SFX: In the Club]
July 26: Psychiatrist Carl Jung
July 27: Ballplayer and Madonna’s Squeeze, A-Rod
July 28: Children’s Author Beatrix Potter
July 29: Dictator Benito Mussolini
July 30: Governator Arnold Schwarzenneger
July 31: “Harry Potter” Author JK Rowling
And August 1: National Anthem Lyricist Francis Scott Key

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

WRLD: 1966 – Mao’s bringing Revloutionary back. Let the purges begin

ENTR: 1981 – Video killed the radio star. Cable pioneer MTV launches, originally as music video channel

HUH?: 1774 – Oxygen re-discovered. Again. No more, okay? http

BDAY: Jerry Garcia; Yves Saint Laurent; Herman Melville; Francis Scott Key

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