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| Today In History By: MetroSoruce News On This Day: In 1850, Frank Baldwin patented the first adding machine. It was 20 inches high and weighed ten pounds. In 1861, Samuel Goodale of Cincinnati, Ohio patented the first peep show viewer. He called it a "mutoscope." The faster the mutoscope was cranked, the faster the images were presented, giving the semblance of continuous motion. In 1931, Maxine Dunlap became the first woman licensed as a glider pilot. In 1937, the movie "Modern Times," the first Charlie Chaplin "talkie movie," was released. In 1942, the movie "Woman of the Year," starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, opened at Radio City Music Hall. In 1953, Walt Disney's full length animated feature "Peter Pan" debuted. In 1957, Errol Flynn won 30-thousand-dollars on the TV quiz show "The Big Surprise" while answering questions on "The Sea and Ships." In 1971, the Apollo 14 astronauts, Alan Shepard Jr. and Edgar Mitchell, landed on the moon. In 1972, Bob Douglas became the first black man to be elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. In 1973, funeral services were held at Arlington National Cemetery for the last American soldier killed before the Vietnam cease-fire, William Nolde. In 1977, the TV show "Fish" a spinoff of "Barney Miller," debut on ABC-TV. In 1978, Fred Newman set a world record of 88 successful basketball free throw shots in a time... while blindfolded! In 1989, the TV miniseries "Lonesome Dove" debuted on CBS-TV. In 1992, "right-to-die" advocate, Dr. Jack Kevorkian, was freed on bond following his arrest in the assisted suicides of two women. In 1993, the TV show "I'll Fly Away" last aired on NBC. In 1993, Federal judge Kimba Wood, President Clinton's expected choice for attorney general, withdrew from consideration, saying her babysitter had been an illegal alien for seven years. In 1993, Oscar-winning writer-director Joseph Mankiewicz died at the age of 83. In 1996, the TV show "Second Noah" debuted on ABC. In 1996, actress Elizabeth Taylor filed for divorce from Larry Fortensky, her seventh husband. In 1997, investment bank Morgan Stanley announced a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter. In 1997, the verdict in the O.J. Civil lawsuit was returned. Simpson was found guilty and ordered to pay Ron Goldman's family $8.5 million. In 1998, President Clinton insisted that the allegations in the sex scandal engulfing him were false, while the independent counsel Kenneth Starr said he was making significant progress in his search for the truth. In 1998, the biggest winter storm of the season battered the eastern United States for a second day, pummelling the Mid-Atlantic and New England coastlines with rain and high winds while dropping new snow as far inland as Illinois. In 1999, boxer Mike Tyson was sentenced to a year in jail for assaulting two people after a car accident on August 31st 1998. In 2002, a federal grand jury in Alexandria, Virginia, indicted the man dubbed the "American Taliban" on ten charges. John Walker Lindh was accused of conspiring to kill Americans with Osama bin Laden's Taliban terrorist network. In 2006, the Pittsburgh Steelers clinched the Super Bowl 40 championship in a 21 to ten victory over the Seattle Seahawks at Detroit's Ford Field. In 2008, a parade was held in New York City for the Super Bowl 42 champion New York Giants. Players assembled on 26 floats down New York's famed Broadway while confetti rained on supporters decked out in red and blue. The parade came two days after the Giants downed the previously undefeated New England Patriots 17-14 at Super Bowl 42 in Glendale, Arizona. In 2009, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer. Justice Ginsburg was operated on at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The 75-year old Ginsburg was nominated to the Supreme Court by former President Bill Clinton in 1993. In 2009, USA Swimming suspended Olympic superstar Michael Phelps from competition for three months following Phelps' admission to engaging in what he called "regrettable" behavior at a college party. The sports organization said on its official website that Phelps, quote, "disappointed so many people, particularly the hundreds of thousands of USA Swimming member kids who look up to him as a role model and a hero." Photos of the 23-year-old Olympian inhaling from a marijuana water pipe was splashed all over the media. Story Posted: Fri Feb 5 08:18:40 CST 2010 Created: Fri Feb 5 08:20:14 CST 2010 BACK TO HOME/NEWS |
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