Events in history
Because the Dragon Ladon guarded the Golden Apples, this constellation may have something to do with gold.
- January 24th, 1848, James W. Marshall discovered a gold nugget at Sutter's Mill in northern California, a discovery that led to the gold rush of '49. - Uranus/Nodus 2
- Mar 14th 1900, Congress ratified the Gold Standard Act. - Jupiter/Alwaid
Poison scattered over the earth
- Hirosima bomb Aug 6 1945, Surrender of Japan, Aug 14th - Pluto /Giansar, Neptune /Edasich
- April 26th, 1986, the world's worst nuclear accident occurred at the Chernobyl plant in the Soviet Union. An explosion and fire in the number-four reactor sent radioactivity into the atmosphere; at least 31 Soviets died immediately. - Solar eclipse on April 9th/Nodus11
- 27th 1 1951 an era of atomic testing in the Nevada desert began as an Air Force plane dropped a one-kiloton bomb on Frenchman Flats.- Saturn/Nodus 1
- May 7th 1984, a $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the "Agent Orange" class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they'd suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant. - Uranus/Alwaid
- A Liberian-registered tanker ran aground in Scotland's Shetland Islands, spilling more than 24 million gallons of light crude oil. - Pluto
- Jan 13th 1993 when American and allied warplanes raided southern Iraq Saddham Hussein used poison gas bombs and blew up oil wells. - Pluto /Arrakis
- Jan 4th 1988 Drinking water began to dry up in Pittsburgh suburbs because of a massive diesel oil spill two days earlier that fouled the Monongahela and Ohio Rivers. - Uranus /Etamin
- October 15 1997 at 4:43 EDT (8:43 GMT) from Cape Canaveral Cassini spacecraft was launched. It will arrive at Saturn in 2004 to begin studying the ringed planet and its moon Titan. Cassini carries 30 kgs of Plutonium onboard. - Saturn /Nodus1, Mars/Alwaid
- July 1st 1946, the United States exploded a 20-kiloton atomic bomb near Bikini Atoll in the Pacific. - Pluto/Giansar
- June 1st, 1933 Monsanto (agricultural chemicals) first trading 10.00 AM EDT New York - Neptune/Thuban
Events
- Jan 6th 1838 - The telegraph was demonstrated for the first time in public at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown, New Jersey this day by Samuel F.B. Morse. - Pluto/Nodus 11
- W.H. Fox Talbot produces first photographic negative, Jan 25 1839. - Saturn/Kuma
- 1894 - W.K. Dickson received a patent for motion picture film. A demonstration included a 47-frame film (about 2 seconds) that showed a man sneezing. - NNode/Nodus 11
- Jan 5th 1896, an Austrian newspaper ("Wiener Presse") reported the discovery by German physicist Wilhelm Roentgen of a type of radiation that came to be known as "X-rays." - Uranus/Arrakis
- Ford Motor Company formed Jun 16 1903 - Uranus/Grumium
- Wright brothers 1st flight in heavier-than-air craft Dec 17 1903 - Uranus/Etamin
- Mar 7th 1926, the first successful trans-Atlantic radio-telephone conversation took place, between New York and London. - Pluto/Dziban
- Sputnik I launched, Oct 4th 1957 - Saturn/Kuma
- January 31st, 1958, the United States entered the Space Age with its first successful launch of a satellite into orbit, "Explorer One." - Uranus/Giansar
- January 25th, 1959, American Airlines opened the jet age in the United States with the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a Boeing 707. - SNode/Nodus 11
- April 12th 1981, the space shuttle "Columbia" blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its first test flight. - Saturn/Edasich
- April 4th 1983, the space shuttle "Challenger" roared into orbit on its maiden voyage. - Jupiter/Alwaid
- Jan 13th 1993 The space shuttle "Endeavor" blasted off from Cape Canaveral, and American and allied warplanes raided southern Iraq. - Pluto/Arrakis
- May 17th 1792, the New York Stock Exchange was founded by brokers meeting under a tree located on what is now Wall Street. - NNode/Edasich
- United Nations Charter signed in San Francisco, June 26 1945 - Pluto/Giansar
- April 25th 1945, delegates from some 50 countries met in San Francisco to organize the United Nations. - Neptune/Edasich
- Jan 27th 1967, more than 60 nations signed a treaty banning the orbiting of nuclear weapons. - Neptune /Arrakis
- February 27th, 1973, members of the American Indian Movement occupied the hamlet of Wounded Knee in South Dakota, the site of the 1890 massacre of Sioux men, women and children. (The occupation lasted until May.) - Pluto/Nodus 1
- Mar 24th 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. - Neptune /Nodus 1
Edward Gein Necrophiliac, cannibal. He began an obsession with anatomy and dug up graves, dismembering the bodies and dressing up in their skin. 'Psycho' and 'The Silence of the Lambs' were based on Edward Gein. - Neptune/Dziban
- Allies liberated Paris, Aug 25th 1944 - Pluto/Giansar, Neptune/Nodus 1
- On July fourth, 1776, the Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence. - NNode/Giansar
- Jan 27th 1945, Soviet troops liberated the Nazi concentration camps Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland. - Pluto/Giansar, Neptune/Nodus1
- Jan 27th 1944, the Soviet Union announced the end of the deadly German siege of Leningrad, which had lasted for more than two years. - Neptune/Edasich
- July 3rd 1962, Algeria became independent after 132 years of French rule. - NNode/Giansar
- Feb 12th 1973, the first release of American prisoners of war from the Vietnam conflict took place. - Pluto/Edasich
- Feb 26th 1848, the Second French Republic was proclaimed. - Uranus/Nodus 11
- April 3 1996, Theodore Kaczynski was arrested, accused of being the Unabomber. (He later pleaded guilty to 13 federal charges against him.) - SNode/Nodus 11
- April 14th 1931, King Alfonso the 13th of Spain went into exile, and the Spanish Republic was proclaimed. - Uranus/Nodus 11, Jupiter/Dziban
- April 21st 1836, an army of Texans led by Sam Houston defeated the Mexicans at San Jacinto, assuring Texas independence - Pluto/Nodus 11
- April 30th 1975, the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon fell to Communist forces. - Saturn/Dziban
- Aug 25th 1944, After America entered the war in Europe, the Allies liberated Paris and hence defeated the Germans and freed Europe - Pluto/Giansar
- Jan 9th 1945, during World War Two, American forces began landing at Lingayen Gulf in the Philippines and hence freed Asia from the Japanese. - Pluto /Giansar
- April 25th 1945, during World War Two, US and Soviet forces linked up on the Elbe River, a meeting that dramatized the collapse of Nazi Germany's defenses. - Neptune/Edasich
- Jan 16th 1991, the White House announced the start of Operation Desert Storm to drive Iraqi forces out of Kuwait. Jupiter/Gianzar
Health and medicines
- April 11th 1953, Oveta Culp Hobby became the first Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. - SNode/Giansar
- May 11th 1946, the first packages from the relief agency CARE (Cooperative for American Remittances to Europe) arrived in Europe, at Le Havre, France. - Pluto/Giansar
- On May 12th, 1820, the founder of
modern nursing, Florence Nightingale, was born in
Florence, Italy. - SNode/Nodus 1 - Jan 4 1885 - Dr. William Grant of Davenport, IA, performed the first successful appendectomy. - Uranus/Edasich
- January 22nd, 1973, the Supreme Court handed down its "Roe versus Wade" decision, which legalized abortion, using a trimester approach. - Pluto/Edasich