Thursday, October 14, 2010

October 14

Track Year Event Artist Song Album
1. 1773 Just before the beginning of the American Revolutionary War, several of the British East India Company's tea ships are set ablaze at the old seaport of Annapolis, Maryland. April Stevens & Nino Tempo Tea for Two Sing the Great Songs
2. 1867 The 15th and the last military Shogun of the Tokugawa shogunate resigns in Japan, returning his power to the Emperor of Japan and thence to the re-establishedcivil government of Japan The Microphones Samurai Sword The Glow, Pt 2
3. 1884 The American inventorGeorge Eastman, receives a U.S. Government patent on his new paper-strip photographic film. Lakes Photographs Photographs
4. 1888 Louis Le Prince films first motion picture: Roundhay Garden Scene. The Instruments For a Silent Movie Billions of Photographs
5. 1926 The children's book Winnie-the-Pooh, by A.A. Milne, is first published. The Outsiders The Bear Complete Polydor Tapes
6. 1982 U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs. Joy Zipper Drugs American Whip
7. N/A World Standards Day (International) Quasi It's All the Same Field Studies

(Historical facts about October 14 are from Wikipedia)

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