Garnet's Life Adventures

Cool things from the past

So 1 week from today is a very special day see why . . .

On January 25, 1759 - Scottish poet Robert Burns is born on this day in 1759. The day is still celebrated by Burns fans across the English-speaking world, with high-spirited "Robert Burns Night" feasts, featuring haggis and other Scottish delicacies, as well as enthusiastic drinking, toasting, and speechmaking.

1776 - the Continental Congress authorizes the first national Revolutionary War memorial in honor of Brigadier General Richard Montgomery, who had been killed during an assault on Quebec on December 31, 1775.

1869 - Pat Garrett, both celebrated and despised as the man who killed Billy the Kid, abandons a life of luxury in Louisiana and heads west.

1882 - Virgina Woolf, British novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and critic known for her stream-of-consciousness style and feminist perspective was born. Woolf developed innovative literary techniques which spun elements of lyric poetry into prose fiction. As a young woman Woolf moved to Gordon Square, Bloomsbury. The house became a gathering place for writers, artists and intellectuals and this "Bloomsbury Group" is remembered as an incubator of modern artistic thought. Her first major published work was The Voyage Out (1915); other books included Mrs. Dalloway (1925), A Room of One's Own (1929) collected her lectures and meditations on the place of women in literature.

1890 - United Mine Workers of America Founded

1919 - in Paris, delegates to the peace conference formally approve the establishment of a commission on the League of Nations.

1924 - the first Winter Olympics take off in style at Chamonix in the French Alps.

1942 - Thailand declares war on the United States and England. On this day, Thailand, a Japanese puppet state, declares war on the Allies.

1948 - Fatal Tokyo Bank Robbery

1956 - Khrushchev declares that Eisenhower is "striving for peace"

1960 - the National Association of Broadcasters proposes that disc jockeys accepting payment from record labels for broadcasting particular songs would be charged a $500 fine and spend a year in prison. The practice, known as payola, had provoked an extensive investigation by the NAB.

1961 - President John F. Kennedy becomes the first U.S. president to hold a live televised news conference

1972 - President Richard Nixon, in response to criticism that his administration has not made its best efforts to end the war, reveals that his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger has held 12 secret peace negotiating sessions between August 4, 1969, and August 16, 1971. The negotiations took place in Paris with Le Duc Tho, a member of Hanoi's Politburo, and/or with Xuan Thuy, Hanoi's chief delegate to the formal Paris peace talks.

1978 - I was born!!!

1983 - My friend Louise was born!!!

posted by Sara @ 6:03 pm