This Day in History Apr. 9

Apr. 9

1682 Robert La Salle claims lower Mississippi (Louisiana) for France
1770 Captain James Cook discovers Botany Bay (Australia)
1782 American War of Independence: Battle of the Saintes begins
1860 On his phonautograph machine, ?douard-L?on Scott de Martinville makes the oldest known recording of an audible human voice
1864 Battle of Pleasant Hill LA
1865 Federals capture Fort Blakely AL
1865 Robert E Lee & 26,765 troops, surrender to US Grant at Appomattox
1866 Civil Rights Bill passes over President Andrew Johnson's veto
1867 Passing by a 1 vote, the US Senate ratifies a treaty with Russia for the purchase of Alaska
1869 Hudson Bay Company cedes its territory to Canada
1912 Titanic leaves Queenstown Ireland for New York
1917 Battle of Arras begins
1917 Vimy Ridge France stormed by Canadian troops
1918 Latvia proclaims independence from Russia
1940 German cruiser Bl?cher torpedoed/capsizes in Oslofjord
1940 Germany invades Norway & Denmark during WWII (Denmark surrenders)
1942 Battle of Bataan-US-Filipino forces overwhelmed by Japanese at Bataan
1945 Liberty ship at Bari Italy carrying aerial bombs explodes
1945 Battleship Admiral Scheer sinks British aircraft carrier
1947 Atomic Energy Commission is formed
1953 "TV Guide" publishes 1st issue
1959 NASA names 1st 7 astronauts for Project Mercury
1963 Sir Winston Churchill proclaimed honorary U.S. citizen in White House ceremony
1967 1st Boeing 737 rolls out
1969 1st flight of Concorde 002 (Filton-Bristol)
1980 Soyuz 35 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6
1983 6th Space Shuttle Mission-Challenger 1 returns to Earth
1988 US imposes economic sanctions on Panam?
1991 Georgia SSR votes to secede from the USSR
1991 Release of Microsoft MS-DOS 5.0

1991, the Kentucky Derby was won by strike the gold! You dident post that for history?

My wife was watching the first flight of Concorde, awesome aircraft. My in-laws lived on the west coast of Devon and all through the 1970's and 80's you could set your watch by the double boom as she went supersonic on her way to New York.

Wouldn;t that have been in May?

2015, my daughter was born!

Yep, May 4th.

2015, my daughter was born!