Today In History

"He who forgets history is doomed (or condemned) to repeat it"

George Santayana

"May Day" is is as they say a target rich day in history, so here's my take on some of the better stuff so I don't get writers cramp...

• 1844- Samuel Morse sends 1st telegraphic message ( this made the computer possible).
• 1919- Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages.
• 1928- Pitcairn Airlines (later Eastern) begins service.
• 1941- General Mills introduces Cheerios.
• 1961- Tanganyika granted full internal self-government by Britain.
• 1961- 1st U.S. airplane hijacked to Cuba.
• 1961- Fidel Castro announces there will be no more elections in Cuba.
• 1964- 1st BASIC program runs on a computer (Dartmouth) (my first computer language).
• 1971- Amtrak Railroad begins operation.
• 1979- Home rule introduced to Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland).
• 1979- Marshall Islands (in Pacific) become self-governing.
• 1981- Radio Shack releases Model III TRSDOS 1.3 (my first computer)
• 1989- U.S. Supreme Court rules employees have legal burden to prove non-discriminatory reasons for not hiring or promoting.
• 1999- 125th Kentucky Derby.
• 2003- President George W. Bush declares that 'major combat operations' in Iraq are over. (still there).