Today in history, greetings, and social banter here. (More)
The Warsaw Confederation recognized religious freedom in Poland today (1573). Also, Peter the Great founded the Russian Academy of Sciences (1724), Horace Walpole coined the word serendipity in a letter to Horace Mann (1754), Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice was published (1813), Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev sighted the continent of Antarctica (1820) and, a year later, Alexander Island (1821), Northwestern University received its charter (1851), the Yale Daily News premiered as America’s first daily college newspaper (1878), snowflakes measuring a record 15 inches in diameter and 8 inches thickness fell at Fort Keogh, Montana (1887), Walter Arnold of East Peckham was fined one shilling for speeding at 8mph instead of the customary speed limit of 2mph (1896), the Carnegie Institution of Washington was founded (1902), Congress established the U.S. Coast Guard (1915), city-owned streetcars began running in San Francisco (1917), the Knickerbocker Storm struck Washington, D.C. (1922), the nation’s first ski tow began operating in Vermont (1934), Iceland legalized abortion (1935), Rudolf Caracciola set a world land speed record on a public road at 268.9mph (1938), Elvis Presley made his TV debut (1956), the Lego company patented their toy bricks (1958), the Canadian Parliament selected the current Flag of Canada (1965), Tropical Storm Domoina made landfall in Mozambique (1984), United Support of Artists for Africa recorded “We Are the World” to raise money for Ethopian famine relief (1985), seven astronauts died when the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after liftoff (1986), the Supreme Court of Canada overturned all restrictions on abortion (1988), and 65 people died when snow collapsed a roof at Poland’s Katowice International Fair (2006). And hundreds of thousands of Egyptians filled the streets in the “Friday of Anger” protest against President Hosni Mubarak (2011).
Good morning! ::hugggggs::
Source:
http://bpicampus.com/2013/01/28/campus-chatter-january-28-2013/