The Wandering Wordsman » This Day in History http://wordsman.org Defending your brain from the scum of the Internet Mon, 21 May 2012 15:54:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 This Day in History Entry #171 http://wordsman.org/2012/05/16/this-day-in-history-entry-171/ http://wordsman.org/2012/05/16/this-day-in-history-entry-171/#comments Wed, 16 May 2012 05:00:11 +0000 Wordsman http://wordsman.org/?p=2397 ‘Twas not on radio or TV
But I doubt there was that much to see
Fifteen minutes it ran
(Well before there was Cannes)
Technical awards: 1 Writing: 3

Event: The First Academy Awards Ceremony is held
Year: 1929
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1929_Academy_Awards
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_Awards#History

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Yoshitomo and co. sure looked done
Though the Taira seemed set
They would later regret
They let live Yoritomo, his son

Event: Birth of Minamoto no Yoritomo, first Shogun of Japan
Year: 1147
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamoto_Yoritomo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genpei_war

]]> http://wordsman.org/2012/05/09/this-day-in-history-170/feed/ 0 This Day in History Entry #169 http://wordsman.org/2012/05/02/this-day-in-history-entry-169/ http://wordsman.org/2012/05/02/this-day-in-history-entry-169/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 05:00:16 +0000 Wordsman http://wordsman.org/?p=2392 Wanting Anne, Henry was quite distraught
And to marry her he the Pope fought
After all of that noise
She could give him no boys
Which was treason–well, that’s what he thought

Event: Anne Boleyn, wife of King Henry VIII, is arrested on charges of treason, adultery, and incest
Year: 1536
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Boleyn

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You must put yourself in the right place
Just beyond the Earth’s bubble
We set up the Hubble
Got that atmosphere out of our face

Event: The Hubble Space Telescope is launched
Year: 1990
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hubble_Space_Telescope

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They told Houston a problem was had
All that could go wrong did
Even dropping off grid
But they made it–now isn’t that rad?

Event: Apollo 13 returns safely to Earth
Year: 1970
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_13

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Past the ‘Lantic James One spread his reign
By his say, ‘cross the Pond
A new colony dawned
But ‘twould cause his successors some pain

Event: The Virginia Company of London, which would later establish the Jamestown Settlement, is established by royal charter
Year: 1606
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Company

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Doesn’t sound like a rate to amaze
It’s not email, of course
But a letter by horse
‘Cross the West, then, those ponies did blaze

Event: The first Westbound Pony Express trip leaves St. Joseph, Missouri
Also: The first Eastbound Pony Express trip leaves San Francisco
Year: 1860
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pony_Express

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With this preposterous . . . water-plane?
To take off in that duck
You will need all the luck
This designing has rotted your brain!”

Event: Henri Fabre makes the first successful seaplane flight
Year: 1910
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabre_Hydravion

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Bonaparte sought to redo the laws
And long after he died
They would stretch far and wide
Influential his civil code was

Event: The Napoleonic Code goes into effect
Year: 1804
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleonic_code

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Dr. Hess found a digest, which said
That by taking some mold
She could live to be old
Since that day, of germs we have less dread

Event: Orvan Hess and John Bumstead become the first doctors to successfully treat a patient using penicillin
Year: 1942
Learn more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penicillin

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