Thursday Septemeber 30th - International Translation Day
Today in History
1901
Suspension bridges, the Ferris Wheel, and now vacuums. Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1955
Heading westbound on Highway 466 just outside Cholame, California, movie star James Dean is killed in a head-on collision with another driver. University student Donald Turnupseed was driving home in his Ford when he swerved into the oncoming lane, smashing into Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder.
Live Fast, Die young and Leave a good looking corpse.
1994
Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defense that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
2002
Bronco nostalgia- Despite out shooting their opponents, the Swift Current Broncos manage a tie for the 3rd straight game.
Aaron Rome's goal with only 37 seconds left in the 3rd period forced overtime against the Kootenay Ice last night in Cranbrook.
2004
Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2005
A ceremony was held yesterday in Swift Current to recognize the construction of the new $15 million Wastewater Treatment Plant.
2005
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten dares to publish editorial cartoons containing Islamic prophet Muhammad including a bomb in turban image. These toons spark Muslim protests, violence, riots and death across the globe. Mobs burn down the 10-story Danish Consulate in Beirut.
National news headlines: Tony Curtis, who defiantly worked to mold himself from a 1950s movie heartthrob to a respected actor with such films as "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Defiant Ones" and "Some Like It Hot," has died. He was 85.
Birthdays
-47- Eddie Montgomery born in Lancaster, Kentucky. He joins Troy Gentry to form the Southern rock-tinged Montgomery Gentry, winning Vocal Duo of the Year honors from the Country Music Association in 2000
50th Anniversary of the Flintstones. YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
All characters were based on the Honeymooners. “Jackie Gleason's lawyers told him that he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they also told him, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show that so many kids love, and so many parents love, too?”
The Flintstones was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed.
The Flintstones also became the first primetime animated series to last more than two seasons; this record wasn't surpassed by another primetime animated TV series until the third season of The Simpsons in 1992.
The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston. In 1963, Winston pulled their sponsorship from the show when Wilma became pregnant.
Today in History
1901
Suspension bridges, the Ferris Wheel, and now vacuums. Hubert Cecil Booth patents the vacuum cleaner.
1955
Heading westbound on Highway 466 just outside Cholame, California, movie star James Dean is killed in a head-on collision with another driver. University student Donald Turnupseed was driving home in his Ford when he swerved into the oncoming lane, smashing into Dean's Porsche 550 Spyder.
Live Fast, Die young and Leave a good looking corpse.
1994
Supreme Court of Canada rules a man accused of sexual assault can use the defense that he was too drunk to know what he was doing.
2002
Bronco nostalgia- Despite out shooting their opponents, the Swift Current Broncos manage a tie for the 3rd straight game.
Aaron Rome's goal with only 37 seconds left in the 3rd period forced overtime against the Kootenay Ice last night in Cranbrook.
2004
Merck & Co. pulled Vioxx, its heavily promoted arthritis drug, from the market after a study found it doubled the risk of heart attacks and strokes.
2005
A ceremony was held yesterday in Swift Current to recognize the construction of the new $15 million Wastewater Treatment Plant.
2005
Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten dares to publish editorial cartoons containing Islamic prophet Muhammad including a bomb in turban image. These toons spark Muslim protests, violence, riots and death across the globe. Mobs burn down the 10-story Danish Consulate in Beirut.
National news headlines: Tony Curtis, who defiantly worked to mold himself from a 1950s movie heartthrob to a respected actor with such films as "Sweet Smell of Success," "The Defiant Ones" and "Some Like It Hot," has died. He was 85.
Birthdays
-47- Eddie Montgomery born in Lancaster, Kentucky. He joins Troy Gentry to form the Southern rock-tinged Montgomery Gentry, winning Vocal Duo of the Year honors from the Country Music Association in 2000
50th Anniversary of the Flintstones. YABBA DABBA DOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!
All characters were based on the Honeymooners. “Jackie Gleason's lawyers told him that he could probably have The Flintstones pulled right off the air. But they also told him, “Do you want to be known as the guy who yanked Fred Flintstone off the air? The guy who took away a show that so many kids love, and so many parents love, too?”
The Flintstones was the first American animated show to depict two people of the opposite sex (Fred and Wilma; Barney and Betty) sleeping together in one bed.
The Flintstones also became the first primetime animated series to last more than two seasons; this record wasn't surpassed by another primetime animated TV series until the third season of The Simpsons in 1992.
The first two seasons were co-sponsored by Winston cigarettes and the characters appeared in several black and white television commercials for Winston. In 1963, Winston pulled their sponsorship from the show when Wilma became pregnant.
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