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April 2, 2012 | WEATHER
It's official! Last month was the warmest March on record in the Nashville area and today we have the opportunity to break another record. News 2's Davis Nolan has the history lesson and the forecast. Hint: Get those air conditioners checked.
April 1, 2012 | WEATHER
No joke, beautiful weather today, April Fools Day, in Middle Tennessee. Some patchy fog this morning that will disappear as the Sun heats us up. Chance of rain as you head East on I-40 on the plateau. Details from the always reliabe Davis Nolan at News 2.
August 25, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 26, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, guaranteeing American women the right to vote, was certified in effect by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
On this date:
In 1910, Thomas Edison demonstrated for reporters an improved version of his Kinetophone, a device for showing a movie with synchronized sound.
In 1936, the Anglo-Egyptian Treaty, calling for most British troops to leave Egypt, was signed in Montreux,... August 24, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History:
On Aug. 25, 1944, Paris was liberated by Allied forces after four years of Nazi occupation.
On this date:
In 1916, the National Park Service was established within the Department of the Interior.
In 1921, the United States signed a peace treaty with Germany.
In 1943, U.S. forces liberated New Georgia in the Solomon Islands from the Japanese during World War II.
In 1958, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed a measure providing... August 23, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Aug. 23, 1927, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed in Boston for the murders of two men during a 1920 robbery. (Sacco and Vanzetti were vindicated in 1977 by Massachusetts Gov. Michael S. Dukakis.)
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In 1775, Britain’s King George III proclaimed the American colonies in a state of “open and avowed rebellion.”
In 1914, Japan declared war against Germany in World War... August 19, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlights in History: On Aug. 20, 1911, The New York Times sent a message around the world by regular commercial cable to see how long it would take; the dispatch, which said simply, "Times, New York: This message sent around world. Times," was filed at 7 p.m. and returned to its point of origin 16 1/2 minutes later.
On this date: In 1833, Benjamin Harrison, 23rd president of the United States, was born in North Bend, Ohio.
In 1866, President Andrew Johnson... August 16, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: In 1915, a mob in Cobb County, Ga., lynched Jewish businessman Leo Frank, whose death sentence for the murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan had been commuted to life imprisonment. (Frank, who'd maintained his innocence, was pardoned by the state of Georgia in 1986.) In 1942, during World War II, U.S. 8th Air Force bombers attacked Rouen, France.
In 1943, the Allied conquest of Sicily was completed as U.S. and British forces entered Messina.
In... August 15, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: In 1777, American forces won the Revolutionary War Battle of Bennington.
In 1812, Detroit fell to British and Indian forces in the War of 1812.
In 1858, a telegraphed message from Britain's Queen Victoria to President James Buchanan was transmitted over the recently laid trans-Atlantic cable.
In 1920, Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians was struck in the head by a pitch thrown by Carl Mays of the New York Yankees; Chapman died the... August 14, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 15, 1961, as workers began constructing a Berlin Wall made of concrete, East German soldier Conrad Schumann leapt to freedom over a tangle of barbed wire in a scene captured in a famous photograph.
In 1914, the Panama Canal opened to traffic.
In 1935, humorist Will Rogers and aviator Wiley Post were killed when their airplane crashed near Point Barrow in the Alaska Territory.
In 1945, in a radio address, Japan's Emperor Hirohito... August 6, 2011 | TOP STORIES
It's Monday, the 220th day of 2011. There are 145 days left in the year.
Today's Highlight in History: On Aug. 8, 1911, President William Howard Taft signed a measure raising the number of members in the U.S. House of Representatives from 391 to 433, effective with the next Congress, with a proviso to add two more members when New Mexico and Arizona became states.
(The number of House seats has remained at 435 ever since, except for a temporary increase to 437 after Alaska... August 6, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: In 1782, Gen. George Washington created the Order of the Purple Heart, a decoration to recognize merit in enlisted men and non-commissioned officers.
In 1882, the famous feud between the Hatfields of West Virginia and the McCoys of Kentucky erupted into full-scale violence.
In 1911, movie director Nicholas Ray ("Rebel Without a Cause") was born in Galesville, Wis.
In 1942, U.S. and allied forces landed at Guadalcanal, marking the... August 5, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: In 1911, actress-comedian Lucille Ball was born in Jamestown, N.Y.
In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel, arriving in Kingsdown, England, from France in 14 1/2 hours.
In 1945, during World War II, the United States dropped an atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, resulting in an estimated 140,000 deaths.
In 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.
In 1978, Pope Paul VI died at Castel... August 4, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Today's Highlight in History: In 1861, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Revenue Act of 1861, which included the first-ever federal personal income tax, a 3-percent levy on incomes above $800 (however, no income tax ended up actually being collected under this law).
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In 1864, during the Civil War, Union Admiral David G. Farragut led his fleet to victory in the Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala.
In 1924, the comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold... August 3, 2011 | TOP STORIES
On This Day in History
1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.
1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published as a weekly.
1830 The city of Chicago was planned.
1927 - Radio station 2XAG, later named WGY, in Schenectady, NY, began experimental operations from a 100,000-watt transmitter.
1944 - Nazi police discovered Anne Frank and her family, hiding in secret quarters above her father's factory in Amsterdam, Holland.
1956... August 2, 2011 | TOP STORIES
Highlights in history on this date:
1492 - Christopher Columbus sets sail from Palos, Spain, looking for a route to India across the Atlantic, encountering the New World instead.
1571 - The Ottomans massacre inhabitants of Famagusta, Cyprus, after an 11-month siege.
1589 - Henry of Navarre, first of the Bourbon line, succeeds the assassinated Henry III as king of France.
1645 - Denmark loses much land to Sweden at peace of Broemsebro.
1675 - French defeat Dutch and... August 1, 2011 | TOP STORIES
1100 King William II of England, reviled as the brutal and corrupt son of William the Conqueror, is killed by an arrow while hunting in the New Forest, Hampshire, and is succeeded by his brother, Henry I.
1807 Billy Blue advertises in The Sydney Gazette as a licensed ferryman on Sydney Harbour. The Afro-Jamaican former convict had been transported for stealing sugar in Kent.
1917 Workers at Randwick tram workshops strike after being given cards to record how fast they complete jobs... |
