Quarterman Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   July 31

   1498:  Columbus sights La Trinidad, Christopher Columbus, on his third
   voyage  to  the  New  World,  first  sighted  the  island he called La
   Trinidad.  Upon his return to Spain, he told the King about the island
   --  describing  it as very lush and pleasant. Spain ruled Trinidad and
   nearby  Tobago  until  1797,  Britain  took  over. Trinidad and Tobago
   became independent in 1962.

   1777: Major General Lafayette, The Marquis de Lafayette, a 19-year-old
   French  nobleman, was made a major-general in the American Continental
   Army.

   1792:  U.S.  Mint  cornerstone,  The cornerstone for the first federal
   government  building  was laid in Philadelphia. It was the cornerstone
   for the U.S. Mint.

   1875:  Andrew  Johnson  d.,  the  17th president of the United States,
   Andrew Johnson, died in Carter Station, Tennessee, at age 66.

   1919: Weimar Constitution, Germany's Weimar Constitution was adopted.

   1948:  NY  International,  President  Truman  helped dedicate New York
   International Airport (later John F. Kennedy International Airport) at
   Idlewild Field.

   1953:  Sen.  Taft  d.,  Senator  Robert A. Taft of Ohio, known as "Mr.
   Republican," died in New York at age 63.

   1964:  Ranger Seven transmits, the American space probe "Ranger Seven"
   transmitted pictures of the moon's surface.

   1972:  McGovern  loses  a  VP,  American  vice  presidential choice of
   Democratic  presidential nominee George McGovern Sen. Thomas Eagleton,
   D-Mo.,  withdrew  from  the  ticket.  Six  days  earlier, Eagleton had
   revealed  that  he  had  previously  been hospitalized for psychiatric
   treatment.

   1974:  Ehrlichman  sentenced,  Watergate  figure  John  Ehrlichman was
   sentenced  to  20 months in prison for his role in the break-in at the
   office  of  Daniel  Ellsberg's psychiatrist. Ellsberg was the Pentagon
   consultant  who  leaked the "Pentagon Papers," documents about the war
   in Vietnam.

   1981:  Torrijos  d.,  The leader of Panama, General Omar Torrijos, was
   killed in a plane crash.

References

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