51 years in the past at present, the Bosphorus Bridge was accomplished, linking mainland Europe with Anatolia over the Bosporus Straits for the primary time. It’s a gravity-anchored suspension bridge with metal towers and inclined hangers, and upon its completion was the 4th longest suspension bridge on this planet. READ extra… (1973)
The thought of a bridge crossing the Bosphorus dates again to antiquity. The Greek author Herodotus says in his Histories that, on the orders of Emperor Darius the Nice of the Achaemenid Empire (522 BC–485 BC), Mandrocles of Samos as soon as engineered a pontoon bridge throughout the Bosphorus, linking Asia to Europe; this bridge enabled Darius to pursue the fleeing Scythians in addition to place his military within the Balkans to overwhelm Macedon.
When a storm destroyed the bridge, Darius ordered his troopers to provide the Bosphorus 100 lashes, calling it “depraved water”. Leonardo da Vinci additionally proposed a suspension bridge over the Bosphorus to Sultan Bayezid II in 1502 or 1503.
Extra Good Information from this Date:
- American founding father and president, John Adams was born (1735)
- Russia’s first structure and legislative meeting established by the Tsar (1905)
- The Ottoman Empire signed an armistice ending WW I in Center East (1918)
- El Salvador and Honduras signed a peace treaty over border dispute (1980)
- First democratic elections in Argentina after 7 years of army rule (1983)
- The Madrid peace convention organized by the US and Soviet Union opened, the primary time in 43 years that Israel has talked to all its Arab neighbors about peace (1991)
- Each day Present host Jon Stewart led 200,000 folks in a Rally to Restore Sanity on the Nationwide Mall in Washington, DC selling a return to reasoned dialogue in America’s political life (2010)
83 years in the past at present, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave an extra one billion {dollars} in Lend-Lease Act funding to Nice Britain to assist fund the Allied efforts to win World Struggle II.
Although FDR had been re-elected on a platform promising to maintain America out of the conflict, Roosevelt needed to assist Churchill and the UK defeat Nazi Germany, which had already swallowed up France and Poland. The laws sub-titled ‘An Act to Promote the Protection of the U.S.’, allowed American intervention with out troops really getting into the conflict till years later.
The 4 years of support additionally went to the Soviet Union, Free France, China, and others, and included meals, oil, weaponry, warships, and warplanes. It was largely free, though in return the U.S. was given leases on army bases throughout Allied territory. The whole of $50 billion donated (half trillion in 2019 {dollars}) was 17% of the entire expenditures of the U.S. in the course of the conflict which ended 4 years later.
Russia’s Joseph Stalin acknowledged the significance of the $50 Billion intervention saying, “With out American manufacturing, the Allies may by no means have received the conflict.” (1941)
And, on today in 2005, the Frauenkirche church in Dresden, Germany, which was destroyed within the firebombing of that metropolis in the course of the Second World Struggle, was re-consecrated after a thirteen-year rebuilding challenge energized by $10 million in donations from world wide, together with a big donation and organizational fundraising from an American who’d seen the church as a baby. (READ extra of the outstanding story, right here, and see the result.)
And, on today in 1938, The Struggle of the Worlds radio drama was broadcast on CBS nationwide, and its distinctive format of reports reporting unintentionally despatched the nation right into a panic. Upwards of one million folks really believed alien Martians had landed. It was the Halloween episode of The Mercury Theatre on the Air produced, directed and narrated by actor and future filmmaker Orson Welles, tailored from the H. G. Wells novel The Struggle of the Worlds.
Many had tuned in late and missed the announcement that this was a dramatic play. As a substitute, they heard what appeared like a information bulletin: “Women and gents, we interrupt our night of dance music to carry you a particular bulletin…at 20 minutes earlier than eight… a number of explosions of incandescent gasoline… touring from the planet Mars.”
Additionally, on today in 1982, the Australian band Males At Work went to No.1 within the US for the primary time with “Who Can It Be Now”.
Fashioned in Melbourne in 1978 by songwriter Colin Hay on lead vocals and Ron Strykert on guitar, their energetic rhythms, reggae-inspired vocals, and quirky humorousness—and memorable sax riffs by Greg Ham who performed flute on their first single “Down Beneath”—earned them worldwide success and the Grammy Award for Finest New Artist, with their debut LP Enterprise as Typical.
Completely satisfied eighty fifth Birthday to Grace Slick, the singer-songwriter and musician, broadly recognized in rock and roll historical past for her position in San Francisco’s psychedelic music scene within the mid-Nineteen Sixties with Jefferson Airplane, and later Jefferson Starship.
Slick’s highly effective vocals have been featured in a lot of well-known songs, together with White Rabbit, Someone to Love, We Constructed This Metropolis, and Nothing’s Gonna Cease Us Now. Nowadays, after greater than 20 years sober, she devotes herself to portray, after retiring from music 21 years in the past.
Three years in the past, she gave Chick-fil-A—whose CEO was recognized for funding organizations that have been in opposition to same-sex marriage—permission to make use of Starship’s 1987 hit Nothing’s Gonna Cease Us Now in a TV advert. Afterward, she donated her portion of the earnings to an LGBT group. (1939)
Completely satisfied Birthday to Henry Winkler who turns 79 at present. The actor, comic, director, and producer skyrocketed to fame for his position as Arthur ‘Fonzie’ Fonzarelli, within the sitcom Completely satisfied Days, enjoying a lovable unhealthy boy who’s into bikes.
Amongst his many roles on stage and display screen, Winkler usually appeared on the TV collection Arrested Improvement and Parks and Recreation—and he just lately received an Emmy for his supporting position at nighttime comedy collection Barry.
He landed the breakout position as ‘The Fonz’ on his twenty seventh birthday, and audiences beloved him a lot that his minor character changed into the star of the present. Later, his agent advised he write a kids’s guide about his struggles as a child with undiagnosed dyslexia, when he was continually punished and criticized by his father for being “gradual, silly, and never dwelling as much as his potential.” He discovered his area of interest, nevertheless, in theater, and earned an MFA from the Yale Faculty of Drama.
He’s since co-written 35 kids’s and younger grownup books with writer Lin Oliver. Collectively on a guide tour by way of Zoom this 12 months, they launched Lights, Digicam, Hazard, the second in an “Alien Celebrity” collection that speaks to children who’re trying in: “Desirous to be on the within and at all times feeling like an outsider… So we wrote about an alien in a really unusual land: Hollywood.” WATCH a enjoyable interview this month from Good Morning America… (1945)
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