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Post by friar82 on Jan 29, 2021 8:34:53 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1789 *The first meeting of the Providence Abolitionist Society takes place.
1958 *The flag of the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, which was the first of any of the states to fly over the South Pole, is returned to Governor Dennis J. Roberts by Radioman First Class William McPherson of Warwick and Commissaryman First Class Chester Segers of Pawtucket, who served with the expedition exploring Antarctica.
1993 *Old Stone Bank is closed by the Office of Thrift Supervision of the United States Department of the Treasury.
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Post by friar82 on Jan 30, 2021 3:56:44 GMT -5
Today in RI history....
1900 *Roger Williams National Bank of Providence (Charter #1506) is absorbed by the Industrial Trust Company.
1914 *The temperature reaches a high of sixty-two degrees, a record for a day on which the average high in Rhode Island is only thirty-seven.
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Post by friar82 on Jan 31, 2021 6:28:12 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1865 *The Fourth National Bank of Providence (formerly the Continental Bank) is organized and granted federal charter #772.
1867 *Woonsocket is taken from Cumberland and incorporated. There are a number of ideas about the origin and meaning of the city's name, the most poetic of which is that the name traslates to "thunder mist," and refers to the large waterfall on the Blackstone River.
1920 *A brick wall collapses upon firemen fighting a fire at the Washington Bowling Alleys, 99 Washington Street, Providence. Three firemen are killed instantly, two more are dying, and eighteen others injured.
1921 *A building collapse during a fire in the Washington Bowling Alley on Mathewson Street in Providence kills four firefighters—Lieutenant Michael J. Kiernan, Arthur Cooper, John J. Tague, and Thomas Kelleher—and critically injures twenty others.
1949 *National Bank of Commerce and Trust Company is absorbed by Hospital Trust.
1969 *Former Governor John H. Chafee is sworn in as Secretary of the Navy.
1972 *Rhode Island lobster fishermen complain of being harassed by Russian trawlers fishing off Point Judith. Extensive loss of fishing gear and a 75 percent decrease in the size of the catch are reported.
2020 *Former Rhode Island Supreme Court Chief Justice Thomas F. Fay dies at the age of 79. He became chief justice in 1986, and resigned in 1993 under a cloud of ethics allegations.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 1, 2021 10:10:02 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1779 *The British raid North Kingstown and carry off a great number of sheep and cattle and a quantity of corn.
1793 *Jonathon Arnold, author of the Rhode Island Renunciation Statement, dies at the age of 52.
1836 *Rhode Island's first Anti-Slavery Convention is held in Providence.
1865 *Former governor (1847-'49) Elisha Harris dies in Coventry at the age of 69.
1875 *The lamp on Block Island's Southeast Lighthouse, constructed in 1874, is lit for the first time.
1934 *Columbus National Bank, Providence, (a revival of the former Columbus Exchange Bank), is organized and granted federal charter #13981.
1950 *The Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence opens with a performance of Beethoven's "The Consecration of the House" by the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
1984 *Governor J. Joseph Garrahy sends a $956.4 million budget to the General Assembly.
2001 *Channel 10 airs a secret FBI videotape, which reporter Jim Taricani obtained from a confidential source, showing Frank E. Corrente taking a $1,000 bribe from informant Antonio Freitas
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Post by dex on Feb 1, 2021 20:26:24 GMT -5
ODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press
Today is Feb. 1, the 32nd day of 2021. There are 333 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history
In 2003, the space shuttle Columbia broke up during re-entry, killing all seven of its crew members: commander Rick Husband; pilot William McCool; payload commander Michael Anderson; mission specialists Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark; and payload specialist Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli in space.
On this date
In 1790, the U.S. Supreme Court convened for the first time in New York. (However, since only three of the six justices were present, the court recessed until the next day.)
In 1862, “The Battle Hymn of the Republic,” a poem by Julia Ward Howe, was published in the Atlantic Monthly.
In 1865, abolitionist John S. Rock became the first Black lawyer admitted to the bar of the U.S.
Supreme Court.
In 1893, inventor Thomas Edison completed work on the world’s first motion picture studio, his “Black Maria,” in West Orange, New Jersey.
In 1942, during World War II, the Voice of America broadcast its first program to Europe, relaying it through the facilities of the British Broadcasting Corp. in London.
In 1943, during World War II, one of America’s most highly decorated military units, the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, made up almost exclusively of Japanese-Americans, was authorized.
In 1960, four Black college students began a sit-in protest at a Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, North Carolina, where they’d been refused service.
In 1962, the Ken Kesey novel “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest” was first published by Viking Press.
In 1968, during the Vietnam War, South Vietnam’s police chief (Nguyen Ngoc Loan) executed a Viet Cong officer
with a pistol shot to the head in a scene captured by news photographers.
In 1979, Iranian religious leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini received a tumultuous welcome in Tehran as he ended nearly 15 years of exile.
In 2018, a judge ordered a Wisconsin girl, Morgan Geyser, to be committed to a mental hospital for 40 years for stabbing a classmate when she was 12 years old to curry favor with the fictional horror character Slender Man.
Today’s birthdays
Singer Don Everly is 84.
Actor Garrett Morris is 84.
TV personality-singer Joy Philbin is 80.
Political commentator Fred Barnes is 78.
Actor-writer-producer Bill Mumy is 67.
Rock singer Exene Cervenka is 65.
Princess Stephanie of Monaco is 56.
Actor Sherilyn Fenn is 56.
Lisa Marie Presley is 53.
Actor Michael C. Hall is 50.
Rapper Big Boi (Outkast) is 46.
Rock singer-musician Andrew VanWyngarden is 38.
TV personality Lauren Conrad is 35.
Actor-singer Heather Morris is 34.
Actor and mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey is 34.
Rock singer Harry Styles (One Direction) is 2
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Post by friar82 on Feb 2, 2021 5:15:10 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1885 *The oldest stamp collectors' club in the United States, the Rhode Island Philatelic Society, is organized.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 3, 2021 6:00:25 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1776 *The Rhode Island General Assembly votes to compensate individuals who quarter troops.
1899 *An early-morning fire at the Providence Coal Company on Dorrance Street wharf in Providence destroys the company's seven-story wooden coal elevator, as well as several thousand tons of coal
1928 *Governor (1909-'15, 1925-'28) Aram J. Pothier dies in office at the age of 74. His was the longest non-consecutive term of office under the Constitution—nine years, fifty-three days.
1930 *Fire, originating in a waste bandage chute, courses through the two upper floors of the five-story St. Joseph's hospital, causing damage estimated at between $100,000 and $200,000 before being brought under control after a six-hour battle. Four alarms are sounded, calling out half the city's fire apparatus. A total of 148 patients, including fourteen infants (one of them a baby a few hours old), are taken from the institution by nurses, nuns, police, and civilian rescue workers and transferred to other hospitals and private homes.
1994 *Providence patrolman Steven M. Shaw is killed and Patrolman Maurice Green is wounded when a fugitive opens fire while concealed in a closet. Officers return fire, killing robbery suspect Corey Fields.
2004 *The North Kingstown Town Council joins over 200 municipal governments in communities across the country (included at least five other Rhode Island communities) in condemning the federal USA Patriot Act.
Outside of RI...
1959 *Buddy Holly dies in a plane crash. As sung by Don McLean - "The day the music died"
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Post by friar82 on Feb 4, 2021 8:34:14 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1646 *To counter a rapidly declining deer population, the town of Portsmouth orders a closed season on deer hunting "from the first of May till the first of November; and if any shall shoot a deere within that time he shall forfeit five pounds..."
1697 *James Franklin is born in Boston. [James was the elder brother of Benjamin, and in 1732 he published Rhode Island's first newspaper, the Rhode Island Gazette.]
1776 *British Captain James Wallace raids Point Judith, taking sheep and cattle.
1783 *The Treaty of Paris, acknowledging the independence of the United States, formerly concludes the War of Independence.
1895 *A boiler explosion at the icehouse of Earl, Carpenter and Sons, at Mashapaug Pond in Providence, kills three men and a boy, and injures sixteen others.
1980 *News anchor Patrice Wood begins working at Channel 10.
1987 *Shortly after midnight (EST) the United States yacht Stars and Stripes defeats the Australian defender Kookaburra III, 4-0 in the best of seven America's Cup match in Freemantle, Australia.
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Post by dex on Feb 4, 2021 9:29:39 GMT -5
TODAY IN HISTORY
The Associated Press Today is Feb. 4, the 35th day of 2021. There are 330 days left in the year.
Today’s highlight in history
In 1945, President Franklin D.
Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a wartime conference at Yalta.
On this date
In 1783, Britain’s King George III proclaimed a formal cessation of hostilities in the American Revolutionary War.
In 1789, electors chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States.
In 1861, delegates from six Southern states that had recently seceded from the Union met in Montgomery, Alabama, to form the Confederate States of America.
In 1913, Rosa Parks, a Black woman whose refusal to give up her seat on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus to a white man in 1955 sparked a civil rights revolution, was born Rosa Louise McCauley in Tuskegee.
In 1944, the Bronze Star Medal, honoring “heroic or meritorious achievement or service,” was authorized by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
In 1962, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in Memphis, Tennessee, by entertainer Danny Thomas.
In 1976, more than 23,000 people died when a severe earthquake struck Guatemala with a magnitude of 7.5, according to the U.S.
Geological Survey.
In 1983, pop singer-musician Karen Carpenter died in Downey, California, at age 32.
In 1997, a civil jury in Santa Monica, California, found O.J.
Simpson liable for the deaths of his former wife, Nicole Brown Simpson, and her friend, Ronald Goldman.
In 1999, Amadou Diallo, an unarmed West African immigrant, was shot and killed in front of his Bronx home by four plainclothes New York City police officers.
(The officers were acquitted at trial.)
In 2004, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court declared that gay couples were entitled to nothing less than marriage, and that Vermont-style civil unions would not suffice.
Today’s birthdays
Actor Jerry Adler is 92.
Former Argentinian President
Isabel Peron is 90.
Actor Gary Conway is 85.
Actor John Schuck is 81.
Rock musician John Steel (The Animals) is 80.
Singer Florence LaRue (The Fifth Dimension) is 79.
Former Vice President Dan Quayle is 74.
Rock singer Alice Cooper is 73.
Actor Michael Beck is 72.
Actor Lisa Eichhorn is 69.
Football Hall of Famer Lawrence Taylor is 62.
Country singer Clint Black is 59.
Actor Gabrielle Anwar is 51.
Actor Rob Corddry is 50.
TV personality Nicolle Wallace is 49.
Olympic gold medal boxer Oscar De La Hoya is 48.
Singer Natalie Imbruglia is 46.
Rock singer Gavin DeGraw is 44. Rock singer Zoe Manville is 37.
Actor-musician Bashy is 36.
Olympic gold medal gymnastturned- singer Carly Patterson is 33.
Actor Kyla Kenedy( TV: “Speechless”) is 18.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 5, 2021 3:32:09 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1631 *Roger and Mary Williams arrive at Boston, Massachusetts, aboard the Lyon. After getting settled in their hotel, they walked Quincy Market.
1745 *The Rhode Island Colony sloop Tartar, captained by Daniel Fones, is equipped for a four-month cruise to Louisbourg, Cape Breton. They packed plenty of booze on board, which was commonly referred to as the "Tartar Sauce"
1956 *Every active duty fireman is pulled in to fight three separate multiple alarm arson fires in Providence.
1978 *A blizzard drops up to 50 inches of snow on New England states, closing roads to all with the exception of those out on the Westerly Coffee Trail.
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Post by pcdad on Feb 5, 2021 10:35:43 GMT -5
From ‘82’s historical summaries there seems to have a series of devastating fires as well as a rash of bank failures in RI. I guess news reporting back then didn’t include “happy news” and anecdotal “human interest “ new items.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 5, 2021 11:58:21 GMT -5
pcdad - I was thinking the very same thing two mornings ago.
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Post by friar82 on Feb 6, 2021 2:55:28 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1841 *The Rhode Island General Assembly approves an Act calling for a Constitutional Convention to convene in Providence on November 1, 1841.
1902 *The First National Bank of Woonsocket (Charter #1402) is absorbed by the The Industrial Trust Company.
1978 *Beginning before mid-day today and continuing to 8pm on Tuesday, February 7, the state is hit by the worst blizzard in its recorded history. Fifty-five inches fall in Woonsocket, Manville, and Lincoln. The national Weather Services Station at Green Airport records 28.6 inches for the entire storm. There are twenty-one storm-related deaths and 30,000 automobiles are stranded on the highways. Monetary loss to the state is estimated at $110 million.
1981 *Donald F. Shea, of East Providence, a Superior Court Judge for eight years, is elected in Grand Committee as Justice of the state Supreme Court.
1988 *Plans for a new African animal exhibit at the Roger Williams Park Zoo are announced by Providence Mayor Joseph R. Paolino and zoo officials as part of a $28 million master plan intended to dramatically change the zoo's appearance and animal population over the next fifteen years.
1989 *Newsweek magazine highlights Providence on its front cover and names the Capital center as one of ten growing "Hot Cities—America's Best Places to Live and Work."
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Post by friar82 on Feb 7, 2021 3:49:16 GMT -5
Today in RI history...
1860 *The African Union Methodist Church is established in Providence with seventy-six members.
1862 *General Ambrose Burnside leads an amphibious assault against Roanoke Island, North Carolina.
1959 *Woonsocket native Napoleon Lajoie, possibly the greatest second baseman in history, dies in Daytona Beach, Florida.
1966 *The Rhode Island General Assembly passes a law integrating Rhode Island schools.
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Post by pcdad on Feb 7, 2021 8:59:27 GMT -5
Brown vs Board of Ed was 1954 and it took RI until 1966 to integrate schools?
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