Red_Dragon wrote: 
and 9 volt battery sales sky-rocketed 

1954: Texas Instruments announces the first transistor radio

 black321 wrote: 

And just another reason why Teddy was the Man!!

On this day (-2)...former President Teddy Roosevelt was out on the stump trying to regain the highest office in the land. He was trying to unseat Taft, his handpicked successor. Since the Republicans decided to stick with the incumbent, Taft; Teddy had to form his own party - the Progressive. But the press renamed the Progressive's - The Bull Moose Party after Teddy had said he felt as fit as a bull moose.

Anyway, this day found Teddy in Milwaukee on his way to deliver a speech. Quietly, through the crowd, moved a certain John Schrank, a New York bartender. He reached between two people trying to shake the candidate's hand, and fired a bullet straight into Teddy's chest.

The force of the shot knocked Teddy back against a parked car as the crowd wrestled Schrank to the ground. His aides ran to Roosevelt and urged him to go to the hospital. He pointed out there was no blood around the bullet hole in his lapel and damn-it he had come to give a speech.

He walked to the podium and pulled his speech from his inside jacket pocket. Only then did he notice that the bullet had gone through all 100 pages of the double folded speech. What he didn't know was that the bullet had gone four inches into his chest. And the reason there had been no blood was that the speech had compacted around the wound.

But Teddy meant to give a speech and a speech he gave - for over 50 minutes. Then, as the crowd cheered, he bowed and finally agreed to go to the hospital, where he was treated for shock and extreme blood loss.

well everyone  time for  Today in History !  

 first this.... Padres 10... Indians ...nothing..... a complete shut out massacre. 

Winnie the pooh made his debute on this day in 1926.  

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
 
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1908: The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers and win the World Series

105 years 

 meower wrote: 
Like, thanks.

 meower wrote: 
Like, thanks.

September 17th 1849: Tubman escapes On this day in 1849, Harriet Tubman escaped from slavery. Tubman was born into slavery but eventually escaped to Philadelphia, using the North Star to guide her. She soon returned to Maryland to rescue her family from slavery. She became a major figure in the Underground Railroad, helping to rescue hundreds of slaves. Tubman was a notable member of the abolitionist movement, and served as a Union spy during the Civil War. After the war she campaigned for female suffrage alongside Susan B. Anthony. Harriet Tubman died in 1913 aged 93.

On the 17th day of September, 226 years ago, the Framers signed their names to the U.S. Constitution.

1400: Owain Glyndŵr is proclaimed Prince of Wales; the last Welshman to hold the title.

1870: Louisa Ann Swain of Laramie, Wyoming becomes the first woman in the United States to cast a vote legally after 1807.

1522: The Victoria, the only surviving ship of Ferdinand Megellan's expedition, returns to Spain, becoming the first ship to circumnavigate the world.

1952:  A number of witnesses report seeing a ten-foot-tall "monster" with a red face and a green body in Flatwoods, West Virginia.

1977: Voyager I is launched

1882: The first Labor Day parade in the country is held in New York City

1836: Sam Houston is elected first President of the Republic of Texas

 black321 wrote: 

I know, what a killjoy, right? The cool thing is, sometimes reality is even weirder than legend/myth.

Mark Twain said, "Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't."

Think about how unusual it was that this free black woman, born in New Haven, CT prior to the civil war, had the gumption to go work for a man who lived in the deep South, where slavery existed. I don't think I would have had the guts to do that if I were an African-American. She ends up being captured, not by bounty hunters seeking to pass her off as a fugitive slave, but by a Mexican General.