Wedding day in history

[saturn]

Here''s a cool idea that I found somewhere: I looked up a bunch of historic events that took place on our wedding date, and I''m going to put the list on the reception tables in the hopes that it might stimulate some interesting conversation.
Look at all the cool things that happened on August 12:

1508 - Ponce de Leon arrives in Puerto Rico

1781 - Birth of Robert Mills, architect and engineer whose designs include the Washington Monument, the National Portrait Gallery and the U.S. Treasury Building.

1851 - Isaac Singer granted patent for his sewing machine

1865 - Disinfectant was used for the first time during surgery by Joseph Lister.

1877 - Thomas Edison invented the phonograph and made the first sound recording.

1896 - Gold is discovered near Dawson City, Yukon Territory, Canada. After word reaches the United States in June of 1897, thousands of Americans head to the Klondike to seek their fortunes.

1898 - Armistice ends the Spanish-American War and Hawaii is formally annexed to US

1908 - Henry Ford''s first Model T, affectionately known as the "Tin Lizzie," rolled off the assembly line in Detroit, Michigan.

1958 - Billboard magazine introduced the "Hot 100" singles chart.

1964 - Mickey Mantle set a major league baseball record when he hit home runs from both the left and ride sides of the plate in the same game.

1972 - The last American combat troops left Vietnam

1978 - In Rome, the first papal funeral ever held outdoors was conducted for Pope Paul VI in St. Peter''s Square.

1981 - The International Business Machines Corporation (IBM) launches its first personal computer, which uses the Microsoft operating system MS-DOS.

Tacori, these apply to you, too! Anyone else know what happened in their date?
I love Google!

 

[XChick03]

Oh, that''s a great idea. I might do the same, if you don''t mind me stealing your idea.

First, I have to decide on a date though.

 

[monarch64]

My husband''s birthday is August 12, although that probably wouldn''t be considered an important day in history to anyone but us, LOL!

Cute idea, though! Definitely a conversation starter.

 

[Tacori E-ring]

VERY cool Saturn! Great idea!

 

[AmberWaves]

You lucky girl! So many cool things happened on your day! I know thr guy in my life would love the one about Mickey Mantle! Now if only we can stay decided on the date for our wedding...

 

[njc]

Thats a really cool idea! I think you are right that it will make for some great conversations.

I actually avoided thinking about what happened in history on our wedding date after a coworker thought the date sounded familar...
August 6, 1945 - World War II: the Atomic bombing of Hiroshima. An atomic bomb codenamed Little Boy is dropped by the American B-29 Enola Gay on the city of Hiroshima in Japan at 8:16 a.m., killing 80,000 outright with another 60,000 dead by the end of the year due to fallout sickness. Ultimately, about 200,000 die due to the atomic bomb.

Although there were some cool things that happened too... Lucy Ball and Andy Worhol were born, Prince released Purple Rain

 

[AmberWaves]

Okay, so this is what happened on one of the days we''re considering:

Nov. 10

1871
Jouranlist and explorer Henry Stanley found the missing David Livingstone in Central Africa and made his famous comment, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1928
Hirohito was crowned Emperor of Japan

1951
The first long distance telephone call without operator assistance took place.
1969
Sesame Street premiered on PBS TV.
1970
The Great Wall of China opened to the world for tourism.
1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opened in Washington, DC.

 

[aphisiglovessae]

WOW, all the stuff that happened on my wedding day was battles and deaths and even the lowest day in the Depression! But here''s the good stuff (although very few):

1497 - Vasco da Gama sets sail on first direct European voyage to India.

1776 - The Liberty Bell was rung to summon citizens of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania for the reading of the Declaration of Independence by the Continental Congress.

1889 - The first issue of the Wall Street Journal is published.

1933 - The Pittsburgh Steelers are found by Arthur Joseph Rooney. The team is the 5th oldest in the NFL.

1947 - Reports are broadcast that a UFO has crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico.

1990 - At 12:34:56 (both AM and PM) the time and date by US reckoning was 12:34:56 7/8/90.

1997 - NATO invites the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland to join the alliance in 1999.

2000 - Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, the fourth book in J.K. Rowling''s hugely popular Harry Potter series, is published.

Feast day of Saint Grimbald

 

[selflove]

Definitely great for conversation starting!!

 

[saturn]

Yeah, I left out the really sad and depressing events, particularly the major plane crash in Japan in 1985. But I think it's kind of cool how some of the events relate to our lives and our wedding: We're going to Hawaii for our honeymoon (it became a U.S. territory), FI and I are both in health professions ( Lister's first use of disinfectant during surgery), our wedding will be in the Detroit area (first Model T), and we've both lived on a street called Ponce de Leon.

Anyone else want to play? It's so neat to see everyone else's events.

 

[snlee]

saturn, neat idea!

Lots of things happened on my wedding day but the one that stands out is...

On August 26, 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution became law, giving women the right to vote!

 

[flopkins]

well I think i have all of you beat w/this one on April 8 -

2004 - The famous Japanese economist and former professor at Waseda University graduate school Kazuhide Uekusa was arrested on the escalator of JR Shinagawa Station because of trying to peep under a high school girl''s skirt with his hand mirror.

 

[FireGoddess]

Okay...okay...everything was either bad or not interesting, except...

1678 Pilgrim''s Progress published

1701 Divorce legalized in Maryland

(Great for a wedding!)

1850 US navy abolishes flogging as punishment

Good thing I didn''t try this for my wedding.

 

[SeattleSparkle]

Saturn, you forgot the most important August 12th Event in History!! 1982 - I was born!!

 

[E B]

Here''s what happened on our prospective date:

March 3rd

1845 Florida became the 27th state.


1847 Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of the telephone, was born in Edinburgh, Scotland.


1879 Belva Ann Bennett Lockwood became the first woman to be admitted to practice before the U.S. Supreme Court.


1887 Anne Mansfield Sullivan arrived at the Alabama home of Capt. and Mrs. Arthur H. Keller to become the teacher of Helen, their blind and deaf 6-year-old daughter.


1931 ''''The Star-Spangled Banner'''' officially became the national anthem of the United States.

 

[aljdewey]

This is for me and for my anniversary twin, Nan!

1576 - Martin Frobisher sights Greenland.

1796 - The U.S. takes possession of Detroit from Great Britain under terms of the Jay Treaty.

1798 - The United States Marine Corps is re-established; they had been disbanded after the American Revolutionary War.

1893 - The first cultured pearl is obtained by Kokichi Mikimoto.

1914 - Babe Ruth debuts in Major league baseball.

1919 - Eight-hour working day and free Sunday made into law in the Netherlands.

1921 - Former US President William Howard Taft sworn in as 10th Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court, becoming the only person to ever be both President and Chief Justice.

1936 - Triborough Bridge in New York City is opened to traffic.

1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt says he will run for a fourth term as President of the United States.

1955 - The phrase In God We Trust is added to all US currency.

1960 - To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is first published.

1962 - First transatlantic satellite television transmission.

1977 - Martin Luther King is posthumously awarded the Medal of Freedom.

1987 - According to the United Nations, the world population crosses the 5,000,000,000 mark.

 

[jcrow]

here''s our day...

November 18

1820

Captain Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica.

1883

Standard time began in the United States.

1886

Chester A. Arthur, the 21st president of the United States (1881–1885), died in New York at 56.

1928

Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie.

1976

Spain''s parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after 37 years of dictatorship.

1978

Jim Jones, a U.S. pastor, led 914 of his followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana, by drinking a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Cult members who refused to swallow the drink were shot.

2003

The Massachusetts Supreme Court ruled 4-3 that the right to same sex marriage was guaranteed by the state constitution.

2004

The UN Security Council held a two-day session in Nairobi. This was the first time it had convened outside of New York headquarters.