Men in History

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Men in History

By James Hughes

1900        J.F. Pickering patented his airship.1903        Pope Leo XIII celebrated 25 years as the Pope.1909        F.T. Marinetti (1876-1944), Italian poet,published the 1st Futurist Manifesto in the Paris newspaper Le Figaro.It included statements such as “We want to glorify war – the only curefor the world…” and We intend to sing the love of danger, the habit ofenergy and fearlessness.”1920       Robert E. Peary (63), US pole explorer (NorthPole, 6/4/1909), died. 1924       Pierre Lacau, the French Director of Antiquities,was authorised by the Egyptian Cabinet to reopen the tomb ofTutankhamun and resume work. Howard Carter refuses its offer tocontinue his work under Egyptian control wrote Virgil’s biography: “Virgil Thompson: Composer on the Aisle.”1938        Anthony Eden (1897-1977) resigned as Britishforeign secretary in a dispute with PM Neville Chamberlain. He saidChamberlain was appeasing Germany.1938       Hitler demanded self-determination for Germans inAustria and Czechoslovakia. As Hitler’s quest for Lebensraum (“livingspace”) expanded into Czechoslovakia, thousands of Czechoslovakiansoldiers and airmen escaped to participate in the liberation of theircountry.1942        Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the internment ofJapanese Americans on the West Coast.1942        Lt. Edward O’Hare downed five out of nine Japanesebombers that were attacking the carrier Lexington, which earned himthe Congressional Medal of Honor1947       Lord Louis Mountbatten was appointed  the lastviceroy of India.1960     English archeologist Charles Leonard Woolley(b.1880), best known for his excavations at Ur in Mesopotamia, died.He was knighted by King George V in 1935.1961     Percy Aldridge Grainger (78), Australian-UScomposer, pianist, died.1962     U.S. Marine Lieutenant Colonel John H. Glenn, Jr.,became the first American to orbit the earth. Launched from CapeCanaveral, Fla., Glenn made three 90-minute orbits of the earth inFriendship 7, radioing down to Earth, “Oh, that view is tremendous!”The mission also provided important information about what it was likefor an astronaut to be weightless for a long period of time. When theship’s automatic altitude control system began to fail, Glenn, adecorated World War II pilot, took manual control for the rest of theflight. During Friendship 7’s approach to Earth, Glenn saw someflaming material breaking off the capsule, but the parachute openedand the capsule landed safely in the Atlantic Ocean. It was some timelater that NASA mission control determined that the sparks werecrystallized water vapor released by Friendship 7’s air-conditioningsystem. Friendship 7’s flight lasted four hours and 56 minutes.  1967       Elvis Presley released his album “How Great ThouArt.” The song “How Great Thou Art” is a Christian hymn based on aSwedish poem written by Carl Gustav Boberg (1859-1940) in Sweden in1885.1991       Quincy Jones’ “Back on the Block” was named albumof the year at the 33rd Annual Grammy Awards.1993        Ferrucio Lamborghini (76), Italian auto-designer(Lamborghini, Miura), died.1994      Pope John Paul II demanded juristic discriminationof homosexuals.  1995       An American Marine, Sgt. Justin A. Harris, died ina helicopter crash during the evacuation of United Nations forces fromSomalia.1996       Gangsta rapper Snoop Doggy Dogg and his formerbodyguard were acquitted of murder in the 1993 shooting death of analleged gang member. 1999        Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee of India rodeto Pakistan by bus to meet with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for 2 daysof talks.2003       Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian Patrick Reganwas convicted in Alexandria, Va., of offering to sell U.S.intelligence to Iraq and China but acquitted of attempted spying forLibya. Regan was later sentenced to life without parole.2005       In Florida Jeff Gordon won his third Daytona 500.Gordon was born in Vallejo, California, and raised in Pittsboro,Indiana.2006        Archbishop Paul C. Marcinkus (84), a formerVatican bank chief linked to a huge Italian banking scandal in the1980s, was found dead in his home in Sun City, Ariz.2007        Nigeria’s court of appeal ruled that PresidentOlusegun Obasanjo had no legal power to sack of his deputy presidentfor having joined an opposition party.2009      Christopher Nolan (43), an Irish poet andnovelist, died in Dublin. He had refused to let cerebral palsy get inthe way of his writing. Using a “unicorn stick” strapped to hisforehead to tap the keys of a typewriter, Nolan laboriously wrote outmessages and, eventually, poems and books as well. His autobiography,“Under the Eye of the Clock: The Life Story of Christopher Nolan,” wonthe prestigious Whitbread Award in 1988.2010       Alexander Haig (b.1924), a former US Secretary ofState and four-star general, died of complications from an infection.He had served as a top adviser to three presidents and had sought theRepublican presidential nomination for the 1988 elections. 2011        In Burkina Faso Justin Zongo died while in policecustody. The student’s death sparked months of protests that left atleast six dead. In August three policemen faced charges of aggravatedassault related to his death. 2014       Guantanamo Bay prisoner Ahmed al-Darbi (39) ofSaudi Arabia pleaded guilty to war crimes charges for helping plan thesuicide bombing of an oil tanker off Yemen in 2002 that killed acrewman and wounded a dozen others.2014        Former New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin was convictedon 20 counts accepting bribes. 

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