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3 rd February 2012

3 rd February 2012. “The Day (1959) the Music died!” [Don McLean – American Pie]. Events. 313 – Roman Empire Co-emperors Constantine the Great and Valerius Licinius proclaim religious freedom thus ending the persecution of Christians.

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3 rd February 2012

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  1. 3rd February 2012 “The Day (1959) the Music died!” [Don McLean – American Pie] Mic Porter

  2. Events 313 – Roman Empire Co-emperors Constantine the Great and Valerius Licinius proclaim religious freedom thus ending the persecution of Christians. 1488 – Portugal’s Bartolomeu Dias lands in Mossel Bay (South Africa) after rounding the Cape of Good Hope, the furthest south travelled “so far” by a European. 1637 – Netherlands( aka The United Provinces) “Tulip mania” collapses when sellers can, no longer, find buyers for bulbs they have contracted for. At its height the cost of a single bulb was equivalent to an artisan’s wages for 10 years! (Wikipedia). Mic Porter

  3. Events 1690 – The colony of Massachusetts issues American’s first paper money. [Not a new concept but developed in 7th century China “Tang Dynasty.”] 1870 – The Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution ratified, guaranteeing voting rights to citizens regardless of race but some states devise procedures to circumvent it. “ The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, colour, or previous condition of servitude. The Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Mic Porter

  4. Events 1917 –The US breaks off diplomatic relations with Germany but does not enter the war until 6th April. 1943 – The US Army Transport ship “Dorchester” is sunk by a U-boat. 230 (of 902) survived; famous as the four chaplains onboard perished having given their life jackets away. Jack Kerouac was due to be onboard but had been called, by telegram, back to Columbia University to play football! In America this is “4 Chaplin day” – some states fly their flags at “half” mast. (Actually, a flag width below the top to leave space for the “invisible flag of death” to fly above.) Mic Porter

  5. Events 1958 – Founding of the Benelux Economic Union, a pilot for the, later, European Economic Community. 1959 – “The Day the Music Died” (Don McLean – “American Pie”) named for a A BeechcraftBonanza crashing near Clear Lake, Iowa killing Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, JP “The Big Bopper” Richardson and pilot Roger Peterson. “But February made me shiver With every paper I delivered, Bad news on the door step, I couldn't take one more step, I can't remember if I cried When I read about his widowed brideBut something touched me deep inside, The day, the music, died” (Lyrics sourced: http://wilstar.com/midi/americanpie-print.htm ) Mic Porter

  6. Events 1960 – PM Harold Macmillan speaks of the "a wind of change" of increasing national consciousness blowing through colonial Africa, decolonisation follows. 1961 – The US Air Forces begins Operation Looking Glass, until 1990 a "Doomsday Plane" is always in the air and capable of direct control (in the event of the destruction of the SAC's command HQ) of all the US bombers and missiles. 1966 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted Moon. Mic Porter

  7. Events 1984 – John Buster and team at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center announce the first live birth as a result of women to women human embryo transfer. 1995 – Astronaut Eileen Collins is the first woman to pilot the Shuttle (STS-63) as “Discovery” launches from Kennedy Space Center (Florida). 1998 – A low-flying US Military plane causes the death of 20 people when it cuts the cable of a Cavalese cable-car near Trento, Italy. 2011 – All 232 IPv4 internet addresses are officially distributed but not all are, yet, allocated. IPv6 (2126 addresses) to follow. Mic Porter

  8. Ins… 1826 – Walter Bagehot, English essayist, journalist and businessman Stuckey's Banking Company) known forThe British Constitution (1867) (enlarged 2nd edition; published 1872; after the 1867 Reform Act.) (d. 1877) 1843 – William Cornelius Van Horne, American-born railway pioneer and executive. Responsible for overseeing the construction (1881-1885) of the Canadian Transcontinental “railroad”; built to Stephenson's gauge of 4’ 8½” (1435mm) (d. 1915) 1857 – Giuseppe Moretti, a green tie wearing Italian sculptor working in America. (d. 1935) Mic Porter

  9. Ins… 1859 – Hugo Junkers, German aircraft designer credited with move from wire braced fabric and wood to metal for his monoplane designs. A socialist and pacifist who fell out with then Nazis and died before his company manufactured for the Third Reich’s Luftwaffe. (d. 1935) 1894 – Norman Rockwell, influential American illustrator and painter. (d. 1978) 1911 – Robert Earl Jones, American actor, boxer, butler, chauffeur and father of James Earl Jones (b.1931), actor (d. 2006). Mic Porter

  10. Ins… 1918 – Joey Bishop (bornJoseph Abraham Gottlieb); “Rat Pack” member (Ocean’s 11), CBS Talk Show Host, entertainer, (d. 2007) 1924 – E. P. Thompson, English socialist historian, (The Making of the English Working Class), peace campaigner and against “The Bomb”. (d. 1993) 1937 – Billy Meier, Swiss ufologist and extraterrestrial contactee and communicator. 1955 – KirstyWark, BBC journalist & broadcaster. 1958 – Joe F. Edwards, Jr., American astronaut on flew in Endeavour (STS-89) servicing the Mir station Mic Porter

  11. Outs…  1014 – Sweyn Forkbeard, son of Harald Bluetooth (Scandinavian uniting King, d. 986/7) and father of Cnut the Great; Viking King of Denmark, England and Norway (b. c960) 1468 – Johannes Gutenberg, blacksmith, goldsmith, printer, publisher and inventor of the movable type/liquid ink, printing press. (When? (?)1439 but known to be working by 1450 when he started printing his epoch making bible – finished 1455). An invention often argued as the most important of the 2nd millennium; essential to the Renaissance, the reformation and triggering the Age of Enlightenment epoch. (b. c. 1398) Mic Porter

  12. Outs…  1534 – The Irish rebel Silken Thomas is executed, in London, on Henry VIII’s order. 1832 – George Crabbe, Suffolk poet and naturalist (coleoptera (beetle) specialist). (b. 1754) 1862 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French mathematician, physicist and investigator of meteorites. (b. 1774) 1873 – Isaac Baker Brown, English gynaecologist and surgeon whose career ended when he was found to be treating patients without their consent and expelled from the from the Obstetrical Society of London. (b. 1811) Mic Porter

  13. Outs…  1922 – John Butler Yeats, painter, father of William Butler Yeats (1865, playwright and poet) and Jack B. Yates (1871, artist) .(b. 1839) • 1924 – Woodrow Wilson, 28th President (Democrat, two terms) of the United States, Nobel laureate. In 1916 he campaigned under the slogan "He kept us out of war", but U.S. neutrality was lost in early 1917 when Germany intensified the “submarine war.” (b. 1856) • 1935 – Hugo Junkers, German engineer (b. 1859 on the same day) Mic Porter

  14. Outs… 1943 – The “Four Chaplains” plus another 668 aboard of the torpedoed USAT Dorchester. George L. Fox - Alexander D. Goode - Clark V Poling - John P. Washington 1955 – Vasili Blokhin, Stalin’s chernaya rabota (black work) specialist. Appointed executioner-in-chief and clandestine assassin. “Most Prolific Executioner” (Guinness World Records) (b.1895) Mic Porter

  15. Outs… 1959 – “The Day the Music Died” o Buddy Holly, singer (b. 1936) o Roger Peterson, pilot (b. 1937) o Ritchie Valens, singer (b. 1941) o J.P. "The Big Bopper“ Richardson, singer (b.1930) 1964 – Sir Albert Richardson, architect, teacher and President of the Royal Academy.(b. 1880) • 1967 – Joe Meek, English record producer. Famous hit... The Tornados with “Telstar” (1962) but infamous for murdering his landlady and then killing himself; debt, depression, murder, suicide. (b. 1929) Mic Porter

  16. Outs… • 1985 – Frank Oppenheimer, physicist, Manhattan Project worker and younger brother of J Robert Oppenheimer (1902 -1965) who was the founding director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Later removed from Government service/funded research when he became “outed” as an “active” member of the American Communist Party between 1937-39 and thus a embroiled in the 1950s McCarthyism witch-hunt. Also counting against him was his studies at the Cavendish Laboratory Cambridge (?1935-7) – a university that supplied many spies/double and triple agents!(b. 1912) Mic Porter

  17. Image: Mark Smith – reproduced with his approval. Mic Porter

  18. Image: Mark Smith – reproduced with his approval Mic Porter

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