A Day in History Around the World
History is made every day. We put the days of the month into a hat and drew out February 5th
events that happened throughout history on that one day 816 - Frankish emperor Louis grants archbishop Salzburg immunity
1428 - King Alfonso V, orders Sicily’s Jews to attend conversion sermons 1488 - German emperor Maximilian I caught in Belgium 1512 - French troops under Gaston de Foix rescues Bologna 1556 - Kings Henri I & Philip II sign Treaty of Vaucelles 1631 - Rhode Island founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston 1649 - Prince of Wales becomes king Charles II 1663 - Earthquake in Canada 1679 - German emperor Leopold I signs peace with France 1782 - Spanish take Minorca (western Mediterranean) from English 1783 - Sweden recognizes US independence 1817 - 1st US gas co incorporated, Baltimore (coal gas for street lights) 1818 - Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to Sweden & Norway thrones 1825 - Hannah Lord Montague of NY creates 1st detachable shirt collar 1846 - “Oregon Spectator” 1st newspaper be published on West Coast 1850 - Adding machine employing depressible keys patented, NY 1861 - 1st moving picture peep show machine patented by Sam Goodale 1865 - Battle of Hatcher’s Run, VA (Armstrong’s Mill, Dabney’s Mill) 1870 - 1st motion picture shown to a theater audience, Philadelphia 1879 - Joseph Swan demonstrates light bulb using carbon glow 1887 - Snow falls on San Francisco 1897 - Marcel Proust meets Jean Lorrain in a pistol duel 1900 - The US and United Kingdom sign treaty for Panama Canal 1901 - Loop-the-loop centrifugal RR (roller coaster)patent by Ed Prescot 1916 - Enrico Caruso records “O Solo Mio” for Victor Talking Machine 1917 - Present Mexican constitution adopted 1918 - Separation of church & state begins in USSR 1924 - Royal Greenwich Observatory broadcasts hourly time signals 1931 - Maxine Dunlap - 1st US women to earn glider pilot license 1936 - National Wildlife Federation forms 1937 - 1st Charlie Chaplin talkie, “Modern Times,” released 1940 - Glenn Miller & Orchestra record “Tuxedo Junction” 1942 - “Woman of the Year” with Hepburn & Tracy opens at Radio City 1943 - Clandestine Radio Atlantiksender, Germany, 1st transmission 1945 - US troops under General Douglas MacArthur enter Manilla 1948 - Gretchen Fraser - 1st US woman Olympic slalom champion 1953 - “Peter Pan” by Walt Disney opens at Roxy Theater, NYC 1958 - Vanguard TV-3 back-up launches into Earth orbit; reaches 6 km 1962 - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn alignment 1963 - Maarten Schmidt discovers enormous red shifts in quasars 1967 - “Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour” premieres on CBS 1969 - US population reaches 200 million 1970 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site 1971 - Apollo 14 lands. Shepard & Mitchell walk on Moon for 4 hrs 1972 - US airlines begin mandatory inspection of passengers & baggage 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced - 25 consecutive life terms for 25 murders 1974 - US Mariner10 1st close-up photos of Venus’ cloud structure
Few is the number who think with their own minds and feel with their own hearts. - - Albert Einstein
Answers to Unscramble - page 4
1. age 2. does 3. not 4. protect 5. you 6. from 7. love 8. but 9. love
10. to 11. some 12. extent 13. protects 14. you 15. from 16. age 17. Anais 18. Nin
22 YOUNG AT HEART ♦ February 2012 to research and report on the historical and diverse
Answers to Anagrams - page 20
TOM CRUISE AL PACINO
GEORGE CLOONEY MORGAN FREEMAN SYLVESTER STALLONE BRUCE WILLIS ROBERT DE NIRO LEONARDO DI CAPRIO TOM HANKS MEL GIBSON JUDE LAW CLINT EASTWOOD
GWYNETH PALTROW WINONA RYDER SIGOURNEY WEAVER JENNIFER ANISTON GILLIAN ANDERSON HALLE BERRY NICOLE KIDMAN ANGELINA JOLIE CATHERINE ZETA-JONES KATE WINSLET JULIA ROBERTS MERYL STREEP
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Answers to Splitwords Puzzle - page 15
history - healthy - backyard - flowers - reuse - volunteering – deduct - romantic - mended - consumer – giving – mileage - valentine - avocado
Answer to Riddle Me This - page 20
1. Silence 2. A coin
3. An ear of corn 4. A river
5. A splinter 6. A hole
Answer to Cryptogram - page 21 The man who moves a mountain begins by carrying away small stones. Confucious Answer to Heart Word Search Puzzle - page 21
The aorta is the biggest and longest of the hearts arteries. The aorta carries oxygen rich blood from the left ventricle of the heart to all the body
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