On this day in history

[Vista]

A few facts that happened today in the last 50 or so years:

 

1959 - Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel.

 

1967 Prime Minister Harold Wilson devalues Sterling but denies it will affect the value of the £ in everones pocket

 

1969 - Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.

 

1970 - Hafiz al-Assad seized power in Syria.

 

1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit.

 

1984 - Almost 500 people died in a firestorm after a series of explosions at a Mexico City petroleum storage plant.

 

1985 - U.S. President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev met for the first time as they began their summit in Geneva.

 

1990 - NATO and the Warsaw Pact signed a treaty of nonaggression.

 

1994 - The U.N. Security Council authorized NATO to bomb rebel Serb forces striking from neighboring Croatia.

 

1994 The UK's National lottery kicks off for the first time with £7 million up for grabs

 

1997 - In Carlisle, IA, septuplets were born to Bobbi McCaughey. It was only the second known case where all seven were born alive.

 

1998 - The impeachment inquiry of U.S. President Clinton began.

 

1998 - Vincent van Gogh's "Portrait of the Artist Without Beard" sold at auction for more than $71 million.

 

1999 - In Istanbul, Turkey, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) concluded a two-day summit after adopting a new arms accord. During the conference, Russia was criticized for its military campaign against Chechnya's separatist movement.

 

2001 - U.S. President George W. Bush signed the most comprehensive air security bill in U.S. history.

 

2002 - The oil tanker Prestige broke into two pieces and sank off northwest Spain. The tanker lost about 2 million gallons of fuel oil when it ruptured November 13th and was towed about 150 miles out to sea.

 

2002 - The U.S. government completed its takeover of security at 424 airports nationwide.

 

2003 - Eight competing designs for a memorial to the victims of the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks at the World Trade Center were unveiled. One design would be built at the site of the World Trade Center.

[Fishtailparka]

The Ford announcement is the only one I don't remember.

[john_3.0s]

1967

[Vista]

1967

 

I know, Deja Vue eh?

[pauline]

[john_3.0s]

1967

 

I know, Deja Vue eh?

 

'fraid so mate!

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

you must have been bored to post all that

[Vista]

you must have been bored to post all that

 

I would have been if I'd had to type it all myself

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]