(1789) George Washington elected first US presidentIn a unanimous vote, the US Electoral College elects General George Washington to the presidency. He will again be elected unanimously to a second term in 1792, with John Adams serving as vice president both times.George Washington was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation’s establishment and came to be known as the “father of the country,” both during his lifetime and to this day.
Lived: Feb 22, 1732 – Dec 14, 1799 (age 67) Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) Spouse: Martha Washington (m. 1759 – 1799) Children: Martha Parke Custis (Daughter) · Frances Custis (Daughter) · Daniel Parke Custis, Jr. (Son) · Daniel Parke Custis Jr (Son) Structures: Mount Vernon Buried: Mount Vernon
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1755: Lt. Governor Dinwiddie rewarded Washington in 1755 with a commission as “Colonel of the Virginia Regiment and Commander in Chief of all forces now raised in the defense of His Majesty’s Colony” and gave him the task of defending Virginia’s frontier.
1759: On January 6, 1759, Washington married wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis, then 28 years old.
1784: Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones that he purchased from “several unnamed ‘Negroes,’ presumably Mount Vernon slaves” in 1784.
1789: Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, taking the first presidential oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.
1797: Washington retired from the presidency in March 1797 and returned to Mount Vernon with a profound sense of relief.
1799: Washington died at home around 10 p.m. on Saturday, December 14, 1799, aged 67.
(1789) Amendments aim to form a more perfect unionThe US Congress passes 12 amendments to the nation’s constitution, ensuring protections for individual liberties, including the freedom of speech and the press, the right to assembly, and the right to exercise religion. Ten of the amendments, comprising the Bill of Rights, will be ratified by the states.
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government’s power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people. The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights 1689, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta (1215). In practice, the amendments had little impact on judgements by the courts for the first 150 years after ratification.
On June 8, 1789, Representative James Madison introduced nine amendments to the constitution in the House of Representatives. Among his recommendations Madison proposed opening up the Constitution and inserting specific rights limiting the power of Congress in Article One, Section 9. Seven of these limitations would become part of the ten ratified Bill of Rights amendments. Ultimately, on September 25, 1789, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment to the Constitution, each consisting of one one-sentence paragraph, and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison’s original proposal that the articles be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution, they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it. Articles Three through Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One through Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution on May 5, 1992, as the Twenty-seventh Amendment. Article One is technically still pending before the states.
Although Madison’s proposed amendments included a provision to extend the protection of some of the Bill of Rights to the states, the amendments that were finally submitted for ratification applied only to the federal government. The door for their application upon state governments was opened in the 1860s, following ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment. Since the early 20th century both federal and state courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to apply portions of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments. The process is known as incorporation.
There are several original engrossed copies of the Bill of Rights still in existence. One of these is on permanent public display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.
The Bill of Rights, twelve articles of amendment to the to the United States Constitution proposed in 1789, ten of which, Articles three through twelve, became part of the United States Constitution in 1791. Note that the First Amendment is actually “Article the third” on the document, Second Amendment is “Article the fourth”, and so on. “Article the second” is now the 27th Amendment. “Article the first” has not been ratified
(1789) Parisians storm an ancient symbol of royal tyrannyThe French Revolution’s flash point is centered on Paris’ Bastille, as upwards of 1,000 insurgents attack the medieval fortress and prison to acquire its large stores of gunpowder. Bastille Day will be celebrated from then on as a national holiday in France.The Storming of the Bastille occurred in Paris, France, on the afternoon of 14 July 1789. The medieval fortress, armory, and political prison in Paris known as the Bastille represented royal authority in the center of Paris. The prison contained just seven inmates at the time of its storming but was a symbol of abuses by the monarchy; its fall was the flashpoint of the French Revolution.
(1789) Mutiny breaks out on the HMS BountyHaving completed his mission of sailing from England to Tahiti to gather breadfruit saplings, Captain Bligh finds his command under siege less than a month into the return voyage. Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian leads the mutinous crewmembers, and they will set Bligh and 18 loyalists adrift in an open boat.The mutiny on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty occurred in the south Pacific on 28 April 1789. Led by Acting Lieutenant Fletcher Christian, disaffected crewmen seized control of the ship from their captain, Lieutenant William Bligh, and set him and 18 loyalists adrift in the ship’s open launch. The mutineers variously settled on Tahiti or on Pitcairn Island. Bligh meanwhile completed a voyage of more than 3,500 nautical miles in the launch to reach safety, and began the process of bringing the mutineers to justice.
Date: Apr 28, 1789
wiki/Mutiny_on_the_Bounty(1967) Muhammad Ali refuses Army inductionMuhammad Ali refuses to be drafted into the Army during the Vietnam War, citing race issues in the US and his religious beliefs. The protest will lead to his arrest and suspension of his boxing license for several years, putting Ali in the spotlight as a controversial figure and civil rights icon instead of in the boxing ring.Muhammad Ali was an American professional boxer and activist. He is widely regarded as one of the most significant and celebrated sports figures of the 20th century. From early in his career, Ali was known as an inspiring, controversial, and polarizing figure both inside and outside the ring.
Lived: Jan 17, 1942 – Jun 03, 2016 (age 74) Height: 6′ 3″ (1.91 m) Spouse: Yolanda Williams (m. 1986 – 2016) · Verónica Porche Ali (m. 1977 – 1986) · Khalilah ‘Belinda’ Ali (m. 1967 – 1977) · Sonji Roi (m. 1964 – 1966) Children: Laila Ali (Daughter) · Muhammad Ali Jr. (Son) · Asaad Amin (Son) · Maryum Ali (Daughter) · Hana Ali (Daughter) · Khaliah Ali (Daughter) · Rasheda Ali (Daughter) · Jamillah Ali (Daughter) · Miya Ali (Daughter) Siblings: Rahman Ali (Brother) Related movies: Ali Website: www.ali.com
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1975: Construction of the mall, the first of its kind in the Philippines, began shortly after Ali’s victory in a match with Joe Frazier in nearby Araneta Coliseum in 1975.
1986: On November 19, 1986, Ali married Yolanda (“Lonnie”) Williams.
1988: In 1988, Ali and Frazier joined Foreman, Larry Holmes, and Ken Norton in Las Vegas for the making of the film Champions Forever.
2002: In an interview published in 2002, Joe Frazier recalled that he had first met Ali around 1968.
2011: In 2011, on the eve of the 40th anniversary of his first fight with Ali, and the year of his death, Frazier reiterated that he had forgiven Ali.
2016: Though his condition was initially described as “fair”, it worsened and he died the following day at age 74 from septic shock.
wiki/Muhammad_Ali(1994) Ames receives life sentence after spying for SovietsCIA counterintelligence officer, and spy for the USSR and Russia, Aldrich Ames pleads guilty to espionage and is sentenced to life in prison. His years of treason compromised hundreds of intelligence operations and led to the execution of sources.Aldrich Hazen Ames is a former American Central Intelligence Agency operative and analyst turned KGB mole, who was convicted of espionage in 1994. He is serving a life sentence without the possibility of parole in the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana Ames was formerly a 31-year CIA counterintelligence operative and analyst who committed espionage against the United States by spying for the Soviet Union and Russia. At the time of his arrest, Ames had compromised more CIA “assets” than any other mole in history until Robert Hanssen’s arrest seven years later. As far as is currently known, Ames compromised the second-most number of assets, behind only Hanssen.
Born: May 26, 1941 (age 75) · River Falls, WI Spouse: Maria del Rosario Casas Dupuy · Nancy Segebarth Education: George Washington University · University of Chicago · McLean High School Parents: Carleton Cecil Ames (Father) · Rachel Aldrich Ames
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1977: In 1977, Ames was assigned to handle him, and Fedorenko betrayed information about the Soviet missile program to Ames.
1983: Nevertheless, in September 1983, the CIA assigned Ames back to the SE division in Washington.
1985: Yurchenko returned to the Soviet Union in 1985 and was reassigned to a desk job within the FCD, a reward for helping to keep Ames’ spying a secret.
1986: In 1986 and 1991, Ames passed two polygraph examinations while spying for the Soviet Union and Russia, respectively.
1990: Nevertheless, in 1990–91, Ames was reassigned to the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center Analysis Group, providing him with access to “extremely sensitive data”, including information on US double agents.
1994: On February 22, 1994, Ames and his wife were formally charged by the United States Department of Justice with spying for the Soviet Union and Russia.
wiki/Aldrich_Ames(2001) US millionaire entrepreneur is first tourist in spaceA former aerospace engineer, investment banker Dennis Tito pays $20 million to hitch a ride on the Russian Soyuz TM-32 mission. The amateur astronaut will spend more than a week orbiting earth as a visitor on the International Space Station.Dennis Anthony Tito is an American engineer and multimillionaire, most widely known as the first space tourist to fund his own trip into space. In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station. This mission was launched by the spacecraft Soyuz TM-32, and was landed by Soyuz TM-31.
Born: Aug 08, 1940 (age 76) · Queens, NY Spouse: Elizabeth Pavlova James Space missions: Expedition 2 · Soyuz TM-32 · Soyuz TM-31 Education: New York University · Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Children: Bradford James Tito (Son) · Michael Anthony Tito (Son) · Paula Joan Tito
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1972: In 1972, he founded Wilshire Associates, a leading provider of investment management, consulting and technology services in Santa Monica, California.
2001: In mid-2001, he spent nearly eight days in orbit as a crew member of ISS EP-1, a visiting mission to the International Space Station.
2002: He is a member of Psi Upsilon and received an honorary doctorate of engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute on May 18, 2002 and is a former scientist of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
(1789) George Washington elected first US presidentIn a unanimous vote, the US Electoral College elects General George Washington to the presidency. He will again be elected unanimously to a second term in 1792, with John Adams serving as vice president both times.George Washington was an American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States. He served as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War, and later presided over the 1787 convention that drafted the United States Constitution. He is popularly considered the driving force behind the nation’s establishment and came to be known as the “father of the country,” both during his lifetime and to this day.
Lived: Feb 22, 1732 – Dec 14, 1799 (age 67) Height: 6′ 2″ (1.88 m) Spouse: Martha Washington (m. 1759 – 1799) Children: Martha Parke Custis · Daniel Parke Custis, Jr. · Frances Parke Custis · Nellie Davis Vice President: John Adams Parents: Augustine Washington (Father) · Mary Ball Washington (Mother)
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1759: On January 6, 1759, Washington married wealthy widow Martha Dandridge Custis, then 28 years old.
1775: Washington assumed command of the Continental Army in the field at Cambridge, Massachusetts in July 1775 during the ongoing siege of Boston.
1784: Prior to these, he had a set made with real human teeth, likely ones that he purchased from “several unnamed ‘Negroes,’ presumably Mount Vernon slaves” in 1784.
1789: Washington was inaugurated on April 30, 1789, taking the first presidential oath of office on the balcony of Federal Hall in New York City.
1797: Washington retired from the presidency in March 1797 and returned to Mount Vernon with a profound sense of relief.
1799: Washington died at home around 10 p.m. on Saturday, December 14, 1799, aged 67.
wiki/George_Washington(1938) Disney’s ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ opensWalt Disney’s first full-length animated feature is released and will defy naysayers, winning both critical praise and boffo box office returns, eventually earning more money than any previous film in history.The first, and by far most memorable full-length animated feature from the Disney Studios, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” may have been superseded technically by many of the films that followed it. But its simple story of a charming little princess saved from the evil deeds of her wicked stepmother, the queen, by a group of seven adorable dwarfs made history when it was first released in December, 1937 and has since become an incomparable screen classic.
Release date: Feb 04, 1938 (United States) Directors: David Hand · Wilfred Jackson · Ben Sharpsteen · Larry Morey · William Cottrell · Perce Pearce Gross revenue: $418.20 million USD Awards: Academy Honorary Award · Saturn Award for Best Classic Film DVD Release · DVD Exclusive Award for Best Overall New Extra Features, Library Title · New York Film Critics Circle Special Award Screenwriters: Ted Sears · Earl Hurd · Merrill De Maris · Webb Smith · Richard Creedon · Otto Englander · Dorothy Ann Blank · Dick Rickard Featured songs: Heigh-Ho · Someday My Prince Will Come · The Silly Song
wiki/Snow_White_and_the_Seven_Dwarfs_(1937_film)(1945) ‘The Big Three’ meet for Yalta ConferenceLeaders of WWII’s Allied forces, Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Franklin Roosevelt, convene in Yalta, a Crimean resort town, to discuss postwar plans for dividing up a war-ravaged Europe. Many will come to believe the meeting lays the foundation of the Cold War.The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union, represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively, for the purpose of discussing Europe’s post-war reorganization. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea, USSR.
Start date: Feb 04, 1945 End date: Feb 11, 1945
wiki/Yalta_Conference(1974) Heiress Patty Hearst kidnappedAn obscure radical group, The Symbionese Liberation Army, kidnaps the 19-year-old daughter of Randolph Hearst, heiress to her family’s newspaper fortune. Brainwashed into supporting her captors’ cause, Hearst will later be seen robbing a bank with them before being found 19 months later.Patricia Campbell Hearst, now known as Patricia Hearst Shaw, is the granddaughter of American publishing magnate William Randolph Hearst. She became nationally known for events following her 1974 kidnapping while she was a 19-year-old student living in Berkeley, California. Hearst was abducted by a left-wing terrorist group known as the Symbionese Liberation Army. After being isolated and threatened with death, she became supportive of their cause, making propaganda announcements for them and taking part in illegal activities.
Born: Feb 20, 1954 (age 62) · San Francisco, CA Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m) Net worth: $45 million USD (2016) Spouse: Bernard Shaw (m. 1979 – 2013) Children: Lydia Hearst (Daughter) · Gillian Hearst-Shaw (Daughter) Parents: Randolph Apperson Hearst (Father) · Catherine Wood Campbell (Mother)
(1789) George Washington elected first US president
