1593 - State of Holland grants patent on windmill with crankshaft

1858 - Opening of Nova Scotia Railroad from Halifax to Truro; distance of 150 km

1869 - Prince Arthur opens the Montreal Curling Club, the city's first covered rink

1877 - Thomas Edison patents phonograph

1890 - In South Dakota, Sioux leader Sitting Bull is arrested on suspicion of leading an uprising, then killed in subsequent gunfight

1902 - Governor-General Gilbert John Elliot, Earl of Minto, sends greetings to King Edward VII using Marconi's radio system based at Table Head in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, via Poldhu, Cornwall, England; this is the first intelligible transatlantic radio message; a year earlier, Marconi had successfully sent a test signal from Cornwall to St. John's, Newfoundland

1913 - Irving Berlin attends opening of Loew's Yonge Street Theatre (today the Elgin), a vaudeville house; premieres his new song, The International Rag

1925 - Montreal Canadiens beat NY Americans 3-1 in first NHL hockey game played in Madison Square Gardens

1939 - First commercial manufacture of nylon yarn, by DuPont at Seaford Delaware

1939 - Gone With the Wind premieres in Atlanta, Georgia

1952 - Christine Jorgenson is the first person to undergo a sex-change operation

1960 - Opening of Montreal's new $30 million International Air Terminal at Dorval

1961 - In Tel Aviv, Israel, Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler's "final solution of the Jewish question," is condemned to death by an Israeli war crimes tribunal

1964 �?House of Commons votes 163-78 to adopt design for a new National Flag of Canada based on a Royal Military College design suggested by George Stanley

1964 - Glenn Yarbrough records "Baby The Rain Must Fall"

1966 - Walt Disney, animator, dies at 65; put in suspended animation

1969 - Plastic Ono Band plays its only concert at London's Lyceum Ballroom

1970 - Soviet Venera 7 is the first spacecraft to land on another planet, Venus

1973 - Canadian jockey Sandy Hawley becomes the first jockey to win 500 races in one year

1973 - Last issue of Nova Mundo, a Portuguese newspaper in Toronto

1973 - Pirates of Caribbean ride opens at Disneyland

1979 �?In St. Catherines, Ontario, photo editor Chris Haney and sportswriter Scott Abbott devise the Trivial Pursuit board game, with a current events theme

 

Birthdays

  37 - Nero Claudius Caesar Drusus Germanicus [Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus] Antium - fifth emperor of Rome and the last of the Julio-Claudian line
1832 - Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel - French engineer: designed the Eiffel Tower and the internal structure of the Statue of Liberty
1850 - Joseph-Alphonse Couture, Ste-Claire, Quebec - veterinarian: published first Canadian textbook on breeding and livestock diseases in 1882
1861 - Charles Edgar Duryea - inventor of first auto built & operated in US
1878 - Robert Meldrum Stewart, Gladstone, Manitoba - astronomer: established a time service within the government offices in Ottawa which ultimately became the NRC official time signal
1882 - Helena Rubinstein - US cosmetic manufacturer
1892 - J Paul Getty, Minneapolis Minnesota - oil magnate - Getty Oil
1896 - Margaret Bannerman, Toronto Ontario - silent film actress
1912 �?Stan [ley Newcomb] Kenton, Wichita, Kansas - musician: Stan Kenton Orchestra; pioneer in jazz education, conducting over 100 clinics annually throughout the 1960s and 1970s
1918 - Jeff Chandler [Ira Grossel] Brooklyn NY - actor: Broken Arrow, Away All Boats
1920 - James Charles MacLeod, Campbellford Ont - Anglican clergyman: for 35 years serves the immense diocese of the Arctic
1922 - Alan Freed, Pennsylvania - Disk Jockey: introduced term "rock-n-roll"
1924 - Robert Salter, Stratford, Ontario - orthopaedic surgeon, professor; originated concept of continuous passive motion (CPM) of joints to stimulate cartilage regeneration
1925 - Sam Pollock, Montreal, Quebec - hockey player, manager: Montreal Canadiens; assembled the national team that won the Canada Cup in 1976
1933 - Tim Conway, Willoughby Ohio - comedian: McHale's Navy, Carol Burnett Show
1940 - Nick Buoniconti - NFL player: Miami Dolphins / sportscaster NBC
1941 - Heath Lamberts [James Langcaster] Toronto - actor: Stratford/Shaw Festivals/Broadway; Order of Canada recipient
1942 - Dave Clark, London England - musician: Dave Clark 5 - Glad All Over
1949 - Don Johnson, Flatt Creek Missouri - actor: Miami Vice, Harrad Experiment

 

Gentle Thoughts

 

Birds of a feather flock together and dump on your car.  

 

When I'm feeling down, I like to whistle.  It makes the neighbor's dog run to the end of his chain and gag himself.  

 

A penny saved is a government oversight. 

 

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.  

 

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.  

 

The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement. 

 

He who hesitates is probably right. 

 

Did you ever notice: The Roman Numerals for forty (40) are 'XL.'  

 

If you think there is good in everybody, you haven't met everybody.  

 

If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.  

 

The sole purpose of a child's middle name is so he can tell when he's really in trouble.

 

There's always a lot to be thankful for if you take time to look for it. For example I am sitting here thinking how nice it is that wrinkles don't hurt    

 

Did you ever notice: When you put the 2 words 'The' and 'IRS' together it spells 'Theirs�?