This Day in History

[Amnorix]

Today...

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by LiveSteam

This one hurts.
1890. The Wounded Knee Massacre occurs when members of the US Seventh Cavalry Regiment kill over 150, and wound an additional 50, men, women and children of the Lakota Sioux. The key to the battle were four rapid fire "Hotchkiss Guns", or revolving cannons, shooting 37 mm bullets at a rate of 43 bullets per minute.

Wow. Based on my calculations, that's 1,591 mm per minute.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

December 30
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2009. The last roll of Kodachrome film is processed by the last processor of such film, ending its 74 year run as a staple of photography.

How would someone figure that out? I would guess that there are little drug stores all over the U.S. that still develop film, unless maybe Kodachrome film always got sent to some sort of Kodak specialist.

I think my mother still uses a film camera.

[Misplaced_Chiefs_Fan]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

Wow. Based on my calculations, that's 1,591 mm per minute.

Well, that is a tad slower than a ZSU-23-4's rate of firing 4000 23-mm rounds a minute (1000 rounds per barrel), but considering they weren't firing the Hotchkiss at Sioux aircraft, it's probably fast enough.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by Rain Man

How would someone figure that out? I would guess that there are little drug stores all over the U.S. that still develop film, unless maybe Kodachrome film always got sent to some sort of Kodak specialist.

I think my mother still uses a film camera.

My understanding from the entry is that the last processing shop in the US to which such film was sent stop doing that work.

It appears to be legit -- this is from an NPR story on the matter.

The film, known for its rich saturation and archival durability of its slides, was discontinued last year to the dismay of photographers worldwide. But Kodak gave the last roll ever produced to McCurry. He has just processed that coveted roll at Dwayne's Photo Service in Parsons, Kan. — the last remaining location that processes the once-popular slide film.

And he's got a piece of advice for amateur photographers with unused Kodachrome film lying around: Get it to Dwayne's! The Kansas photo shop will stop processing Kodachrome rolls on Dec. 30.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow...114/kodachrome

[Amnorix]

December 31.

535. The great Byzantine general Belisarius completes his conquest of Sicily, ending his Consulship for the year.

1600. The British East India Company is chartered.

1695. England institutes a window tax, causing many to brick up their windows to avoid having to pay the tax. The tax would also have important ramifications on architecture over a very protracted period of time in both England and France, which also introduced the tax (it wasn't repealed in FRance until 1926).

1759. Arthur Guinness signs a lease for up to 9,000 years at an unused brewery and begins brewing Guinness.

1862. Abraham Lincoln signs an act admitting a portion of what was then Virginia into the Union, thus creating what we now now as West Virginia and forever splintering the former Old Dominion.

1904. First New Year's Eve celebration in New York's Times Square.

1909. Opening of the Manhattan Bridge.

1951. The Marshall Plan official ends, after dispensing $13.3 billion in US aid.

1955. GM is the first company to make over $1 billion in a single year.

1983. AT&T Bell is broken up.

1999. Boris Yeltsin resigns, elevating Vladimir Putin to the office of President of Russia.

1999. The US turns over control of the Panama Canal to Panama.

[Amnorix]

That's a wrap. It's been fun, and I certainly learned quite alot in the process. Hope everyone that was interested enjoyed it.

Happy New Year to all.

[Rain Man]

Wait, what? It's stopping?

There are all sorts of things I still don't know.

[Donger]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

That's a wrap. It's been fun, and I certainly learned quite alot in the process. Hope everyone that was interested enjoyed it.

Happy New Year to all.

[Sofa King]

There still hasn't been a quality substitute to this thread.

[JOhn]

Mar 12, 1944 - 1st B-29 Superfortress lands on Iwo Jima following the island's capture from the Japanese

[TimeForWasp]

July 9



0118 - Hadrian, Rome's new emperor, made his entry into the city.

0455 - Avitus, the Roman military commander in Gaul, became Emperor of the West.

1540 - England's King Henry VIII had his 6-month-old marriage to his fourth wife, Anne of Cleves, annulled.

1553 - Maurice of Saxony was mortally wounded at Sievershausen, Germany, while defeating Albert of Brandenburg-Kulmbach.

1609 - In a letter to the crown, the emperor Rudolf II granted Bohemia freedom of worship.

1755 - General Edward Braddock was killed when French and Indian troops ambushed his force of British regulars and colonial militia.

1776 - The American Declaration of Independence was read aloud to Gen. George Washington's troops in New York.

1789 - In Versailles, the French National Assembly declared itself the Constituent Assembly and began to prepare a French constitution.

1790 - The Swedish navy captured one third of the Russian fleet at the naval battle of Svensksund in the Baltic Sea.

1792 - S.L. Mitchell of Columbia College in New York City became the first Professor of Agriculture.

1808 - The leather-splitting machine was patented by Samuel Parker.

1816 - Argentina declared independence from Spain.

1847 - A 10-hour work day was established for workers in the state of New Hampshire.

1850 - U.S. President Zachary Taylor died in office at the age of 55. He was succeeded by Millard Fillmore. Taylor had only served 16 months.

1868 - The 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified. The amendment was designed to grant citizenship to and protect the civil liberties of recently freed slaves. It did this by prohibiting states from denying or abridging the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States, depriving any person of his life, liberty, or property without due process of law, or denying to any person within their jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

1872 - The doughnut cutter was patented by John F. Blondel.

1877 - Alexander Graham Bell, Gardiner Greene Hubbard, Thomas Sanders and Thomas Watson formed the Bell Telephone Company.

1878 - The corncob pipe was patented by Henry Tibbe.

1900 - The Commonwealth of Australia was established by an act of the British Parliament, uniting the separate colonies under a federal government.

1918 - 101 people were killed when an inbound local train collided with an outbound express in Nashville, TN.

1922 - Johnny Weissmuller became the first person to swim the 100 meters freestyle in less than a minute.

1935 - Norman Bright ran the two mile event in the record time of 9 minutes, 13.2 seconds at a meet in New York City.

1943 - American and British forces made an amphibious landing on Sicily.

1947 - The engagement of Britain's Princess Elizabeth to Lt. Philip Mountbatten was announced.

1951 - U.S. President Truman asked Congress to formally end the state of war between the United States and Germany.

1953 - New York Airways began the first commuter passenger service by helicopter.

1968 - The first All-Star baseball game to be played indoors took place at the Astrodome in Houston, TX.

1971 - The United States turned over complete responsibility of the Demilitarized Zone to South Vietnamese units.

1982 - A Pan Am Boeing 727 crashed in Kenner, LA, all 146 people aboard and eight people on the ground were killed.

1985 - Herschel Walker of the New Jersey Generals was named the Most Valuable Player in the United States Football League (USFL).

1985 - Joe Namath signed a five-year pact with ABC-TV to provide commentary for "Monday Night Football".

1997 - Mike Tyson was banned from the boxing ring and fined $3 million for biting the ear of opponent Evander Holyfield.

2005 - Danny Way, a daredevil skateboarder, rolled down a large ramp and jumped across the Great Wall of China. He was the first person to clear the wall without motorized aid.

[Holladay]

I'm a lurker...and like this page. Keep it going Amnorix or whomever else. This is why I like the planet.

[patteeu]

Originally Posted by Holladay

I'm a lurker...and like this page. Keep it going Amnorix or whomever else. This is why I like the planet.

I think he retired it because after a year of cherry picking the most interesting things that happened on each day, there's not much new to add.

[Amnorix]

Originally Posted by patteeu

I think he retired it because after a year of cherry picking the most interesting things that happened on each day, there's not much new to add.

That's basically right. I keep considering spin off threads, focusing on some particular topic or series of events. Eventually I will likely do one.

[Rain Man]

Originally Posted by Amnorix

That's basically right. I keep considering spin off threads, focusing on some particular topic or series of events. Eventually I will likely do one.

Have you considered my suggestion of doing a "this day in the future" thread? That one would get all sorts of readership.