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Today in history

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November 10, 1958: The Hope Diamond is given to the Smithsonian Institution by New York jeweler Harry Winston.

The 45-carat gem was cut from a huge blue diamond found in India in the 1600s. After that, it went through a series of owners, several of whom were said to be victims of a curse. The diamond's owners did have some rotten luck, including bankruptcy, kidnapping, insanity and murder. But it's a pretty stone.
 
Outlooker said:
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November 10, 1958: The Hope Diamond is given to the Smithsonian Institution by New York jeweler Harry Winston.

The 45-carat gem was cut from a huge blue diamond found in India in the 1600s. After that, it went through a series of owners, several of whom were said to be victims of a curse. The diamond's owners did have some rotten luck, including bankruptcy, kidnapping, insanity and murder. But it's a pretty stone.
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Did anything happen to the Smithsonian?
 
1775 - the United States Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress
1919 - the American Legion opened its first national convention in Minneapolis
1944 - during World War II, the ammunition ship U.S.S. Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded while moored at the Manus Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327 missing and presumed dead
1951 - customer dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called Alameda, California Mayor Frank Osborne without operator assistance
1969 - the children's educational program Sesame Street made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS)
1975 - the cargo ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Canadian waters of Lake Ontario, later made famous by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's hit

 
smokeshadow said:
1775 - the United States Marines were organized under authority of the Continental Congress
1919 - the American Legion opened its first national convention in Minneapolis
1944 - during World War II, the ammunition ship U.S.S. Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded while moored at the Manus Naval Base in the Admiralty Islands in the South Pacific, leaving 45 confirmed dead and 327 missing and presumed dead
1951 - customer dialed long-distance telephone service began as Mayor M. Leslie Denning of Englewood, New Jersey called Alameda, California Mayor Frank Osborne without operator assistance
1969 - the children's educational program Sesame Street made its debut on National Educational Television (later PBS)
1975 - the cargo ship Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Canadian waters of Lake Ontario, later made famous by Canadian singer Gordon Lightfoot's hit

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Sorry, mate. That should be Lake Superior, a.k.a. Gitchigumi (or Gitche Gumee). The Edmund Fitzgerald was an American Great Lakes freighter.
 
^^sorry, gsdx, I miss-read the article that I was utilizing. It stated that the freighter sank in ". . .Canadian (Ontario) waters. . ." and I missconstrued that to mean Lake Ontario !oops!
 
smokeshadow said:
^^sorry, gsdx, I miss-read the article that I was utilizing. It stated that the freighter sank in ". . .Canadian (Ontario) waters. . ." and I missconstrued that to mean Lake Ontario !oops!
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Not a problem. Except for Lake Michigan (which is completely within the United States, the US/Canadian border divides the Great Lakes and the Niagara River in half.

Experts believe that the ship would have been safe if it had been able to reach Whitefish Bay:
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November 13, 1956: The Supreme Court declares Alabama's segregated bus laws unconstitutional. This brings an end to the year-long Montgomery Bus Boycott, which had started a few days after Rosa Parks was arrested for her history-making stand on a city bus.
 
1960 - Georgia on my mind reaches No. 1

 
1851 - Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick; or, The Whale was published in the United States almost a month after being released in Britain
1862 - during the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln gave the go-ahead for Major General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital of Richmond. The resulting battle of Fredericksburg proved to be a disaster for the Union
1881 - Charles J. Guiteau went on trial for assassinating President James A. Garfield. Guiteau was convicted and hanged the following year.
1915 - African-American educator Booker T. Washington, 59, died in Tuskegee, Alabama
1940 - during World War II, German planes destroyed most of the English town of Coventry
1970 - a chartered Southern Airways DC-9 crashed while trying to land in West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board, including the Marshall University football team and it's coaching staff
 
November 15, 1971: Intel Corporation releases the 4004, a 4-bit central processing unit (CPU), the world's first commercially produced microprocessor.

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The 4004 in 1971


The 4004 was designed by Federico Faggin, an Italian-American physicist, engineer, inventor and entrepreneur.

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Federico Faggin in 2011
 
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1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade
 
November 17, 2003: Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is sworn in as Governor of California.

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