evening all, hope you day was good
Today is the 244 day of the year, We have 144 days till New Years Day.
612 BC - Killing of Sinsharishkun, King of Assyrian Empire, and the destruction of Nineveh.
1519 - Magellan's 5 ships set sail to circumnavigate the Earth
1776 - American Revolutionary War: word of the United States Declaration of Independence reaches London.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=y3KCvMyazj
1831 - William Driver of Salem, Massachusetts, is the first to use the term "Old Glory" in connection with the American flag, when he gives that name to a large flag aboard his ship, the Charles Daggett.
1885 - America's first commercially operated electric streetcar began operation in Baltimore.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=rRcktKcJBJA
1922 - Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio at his summer home on Campobello island.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=ivlyBOvL5U4
1927 - Mount Rushmore was formally dedicated. The individual faces of the presidents were dedicated later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=qx4wu8gzTaM
1948 - Allen Funt's "Candid Camera" TV debut on ABC
[video=youtube;yGkMhGqbJhY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=yGkMhGqbJhY[/video]
1960 - NASA launches Discoverer 13 satellite; it would become the first object ever recovered from orbit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=VhXq0Ehxg3M
1969 - Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in their Los Angeles home by members of Charles Manson's cult, one day after actress Sharon Tate and four other people were slain.
1977 - Postal employee David Berkowitz arrested in Yonkers NY, accused of being "Son of Sam" 44 caliber killer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=dH1ZIhRNJDE
1993 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg was sworn in as the second female U.S. Supreme Court justice.