On this day in the year 747 before the common era (BCE), according to the North African mathematician Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100–170 CE) the Nabonassar Era begins; considered a significant turning point in history for introducing accurate, systematic, astronomical and historical record-keeping, utilized in the Babylonian Chronicle and later in Ptolemy's Almagest…Ptolemy is most well known for his synthesis of Aristotelian and Platonic thought and method; his writing was the principle source of information on those philosopher in Western Europe from the collapse of the Roman Empire until they were reintroduced in the twelfth century due to the collaborative work of Jewish, Christian and Muslim scholars over the prior two hundred years.
On this day in the year 1401 of the common era (CE) William Sawtrey of England, on ordained priest, is convicted of heresy and becomes the first martyr among a group known as the Lollards, whose principle demand was that the scriptures be allowed to be printed in the vernacular and made available to general public for their edification. In an egregious act of human sacrifice he burnt at the stake; two hundred and fifteen years later; the Roman Inquisition delivers an injunction to Galileo demanding he abandon his teaching that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun, a scientific finding that the church had labelled Copernican-heliocentrism and previously condemned. One hundred and ten years after that, the first Mass is celebrated in the first American Catholic church, at St. Joseph's in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
On this in the in the year 1606 CE, marks the first known landing by a European in Australia; Dutch navigator Willem Janszoon makes port at the Pennefather River, Cape York, northern Australia.
On this day in 1797 CE the Bank of England issues the first £1 note; sixty-six years later, United States President Abraham Lincoln signs National Currency Act, establishes single currency thought the nation.
In 1866 CE the New York state Legislature forms New York City’s, Metropolitan Board of Health; four years later a pneumatic powered transit system is first demonstrated in for the New York City subway. Forty-seven years after that, in 1917 CE, the first jazz records are recorded: Dixie Jazz Band One Step and Livery Stable Blues by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band for the Victor Talking Machine Company, in New York, New York; thirteen years later the first red & green traffic lights are installed in Manhattan. Five years after that, the New York Yankees release Babe Ruth who then signs a three year contract with the Boston Braves.
In 1895 CE, Michael Owens of Toledo, Ohio, patents a glass-blowing machine to make glass bottles.
In 1919 CE the United States Congress establishes Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona; ten years later President Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
In 1920 CE the German silent horror film classic The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, starring Werner Krauss is released; four years later, Adolf Hitler goes on trial for treason in Munich, Germany for his involvement in the "Beer Hall Putsch;" he was convicted and sentenced to five years in prison, though he only served nine months, and during that time he wrote his tawdry political manifesto Mein Kampf. Twelve years after that, in 1936 CE, Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen" to the German public and the world; six years later, Werner Heisenberg, a principal scientist in the German nuclear weapons program, delivers a lecture to Nazi officials about extracting energy from nuclear fission.
In 1935 CE the first demonstration of R.A.D.A.R (Radio Detection and Ranging) is given by Robert Watson-Watt and Arnold Wilkins in Daventry, England; three years later the first passenger ship is equipped with this new tool. Two years after that, in 1940 CE, the United States Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, New York; nine years later, the United States Air Force, Lucky Lady II, a B-50 Superfortress takes off from Carswell Air Force Base in Fort Worth, Texas on the first nonstop around-the-world, a journey that takes fifteen days to complete.
In 1936 CE a military coup in Japan leaves the young emperor Hirohito in place as the head of state and titular deity of the Japanese people but denudes the throne of all power; five years later the puppet government of Vichy-France, controlled by Nazi Germany, makes religious education in school mandatory.
In 1944 CE Sue Dauser of the Nurse Corps is commissioned as a Captain in the United States Navy, she is the first woman in American history to achieve this rank.
In 1952 CE, British prime minister Winston Churchill announces that the United Kingdom has its own atomic bomb; fifteen years later the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (U.S.S.R.) performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan. Nine years after that in 1976 CE, the United States performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site; eleven years later the U.S.S.R. resumes nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan. Two years after that, South African president F.W. Willem de Klerk orders the destruction of six completed nuclear weapons in their arsenal, and a seventh device under construction.
In 1954 CE the first typesetting machine (photo engraving) is used in Quincy, Massachusetts; on this same day Michigan representative Ruth Thompson, a Republican, introduces legislation to congress seeking to ban the use of the United States Postal Service for distributing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonographic material…she was referring to Rock & Roll records.
In 1960 CE the great Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, Nebraska to become National Wrestling Association, world-wrestling champion; seven years later Gagne does it again, beating Mad Dog Vachon in St. Paul, Minnesota to regain the NWA title.
In 1962 CE the United States Supreme Court disallows separation by race on public transportation; twenty-one years later, Michael Jackson's Thriller album goes number one on the LP (long playing record) charts and stays there thirty-seven weeks. Twenty-nine years after that, Trayvon Martin, a seventeen-year-old African-American teenager is shot and killed by the coward, George Zimmerman, in Sanford, Florida; Zimmerman is later acquitted by a sympathetic jury because Martin, who was merely walking home from the store after purchasing some Skittles was black, and Zimmerman who had been following him became scared.
In 1971 CE the United Nations (UN) secretary-general U Thant signs a proclamation marking the vernal equinox as international Earth Day; on this same day two Royal Ulster Constabulary officers are shot and killed by the Irish Republican Army while on mobile patrol in the Ardoyne area of Belfast, North Ireland
In 1974 CE the price of gold in Paris hits a record one hundred and eighty-eight dollars per ounce; today the price of gold is $5,214.
In 1979 CE the last total eclipse of sun (viewable from the continental United States) occurs for the twentieth century, eleven years later, from Venezuela to the Pacific Ocean a total eclipse of the sun is viewable for a length of four minutes and nine seconds.
In 1990 CE the U.S.S.R. agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czechoslovak Socialist Republic by July of the following year.
In 1993 CE a truck bomb explodes in parking garage of the World Trade Center at 12:18 PM, in New York, New York. It was carried out by followers the notorious “Blind Sheikh,” later prosecuted and convicted for his crimes; the blast killed six people and injured over one thousand in what was then, the deadliest act of terrorism perpetrated in and against the United States.
In 2001 CE the Taliban destroy two giant, 1500-year-old Buddha statues in Bamyan, Afghanistan, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a holy site for Buddhists who follow pilgrimage routes along the ancient Silk Road; this act of religious desecration gave rise to the expression “talibanned,” applied to any act of wanton and ignorant destruction engaged in for the furtherance of a political and propagandistic goal, as in: Donald Trump “talibanned” congress on January 6th, 2021 when he encouraged his followers to storm the United States Capitol. Twenty-four years after the Taliban blew up the Buddhas, the first death from measles occurs in United States in over a decade, it happens in the state of Texas and it is the first death of a child to take place in twenty-two years…the outbreak continues and has spread to other states.
In 2009 CE, Yugoslav Army general Nebojsa Pavkovic is convicted of committing crimes against humanity during the Kosovo War and sentenced to 22 years in prison; ten years later it is announced that there have been more than four thousand five hundred complaints of child sexual abuse against migrant children received by United States Health Department, and that the Department of Justice had received an additional one thousand three hundred criminal referrals against agents and officers of Customs and Border Protection, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, along with the operators of the private and for profit detention centers holding the migrant children in their facilities.
In 2018 CE on the tenth anniversary of its operation the Global Seed Vault in Svalbard, Norway, receives its one-millionth; six years later, scientists release their findings on the "lost" continent of Balkanatolia, published in Earth-Science Reviews (March 2022), that linked southern Europe with Asia, providing passageway for animal migrations between thirty-five and thirty-eight million years ago.
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