18 th February /22/ Mic Porter

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 2 Events 1841 – The first filibuster in the US Senate begins and lasts until March 11. Recently a similar tactic was used by the House of Lords on the Bill concerning revising the English voting procedures – Mark Twain's Samuel (Clemens) “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” is published. Huck Finn (Tom Sawyer best friend) first appeared in “The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” (1876) but this sequel is more serious, focusing slavery and other aspects of Southern life!

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 3 Events 1901 – Winston Churchill (MP for Oldham) makes his Commons maiden speech – The Academy Awards scheme is announced but the awards are made at a “brunch” on 16 th May 1930 – While examining photographs taken earlier, Clyde Tombaugh discovers the “dwarf planet” Pluto. The volume of Pluto is about 0.6% of earth

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 4 Events 1948 – Eamon de Valera resigns as Irish Taoiseach. 1969: Lulu marries Maurice Gibb (d 12/01.03) of the Bee Gees (until April 1973) – For the only recorded occaion snow falls in the Sahara Desert in southern Algeria – The IRA explodes bombs in Paddington and Victoria railway stations – Three people are killed in a bomb (?IRA) exploding on a London bus – The ban on hunting with dogs in England and Wales becomes illegal as bill passes into law.

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 5 Ins… 1838 – Ernst Mach, Austrian physicist (d. 1916) 1848 – Louis Comfort Tiffany, US glass artist (d. 1933) 1849 – Alexander Kielland, Norwegian author (d. 1906). On 29 th March 1980 a North Sea rig named after him fails and then capsizes killing – Enzo Ferrari, founder of …. (d. 1988) 1933 – Yoko Ono, John Lennon’s lover, peace activist, singer and performance artist.

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 6 Ins… 1933 – Sir Bobby Robson, football player, multi- talented manager (Fulham, Ipswich Town, England, PSV Eindhoven (2), Sporting CP, Porto, Barcelona & Newcastle. Still a figurehead for a Cancer research campaign established in his name. (Born, Sacriston, County Durham, (d. 2009) – Michael Buerk, newsreader 1948 – Sinéad Cusack, Irish actress and Labour party supporter (with husband Jeremy Irons) 1948 – Keith Knudsen, American drummer and songwriter (The Doobie Brothers) (d. 2005)

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 7 Outs… 1294 – Kublai Khan, Mongol Emperor (b. 1215) 1546 – Martin Luther, religious reformer (b. 1483) 1788 – John Whitehurst, English clockmaker and scientist who studied the oscillations of the pendulum (b. 1713) 1842 – Thomas Hazlehurst, soap and alkali manufacturer from Runcorn in Cheshire (b. 1779) 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American folk hero/legend, nurseryman and environmentalist (b. 1774). He who introduced apple trees to large parts of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois.

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 8 Outs… 1967 – J. Robert Oppenheimer, American physicist “father of the atomic bomb” and Scientific director of the Manhattan Project at Los Alamos. At the Trinity test in New Mexico, when the first atomic bomb was detonated he famously recalled the Bhagavad Gita: “If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst at once into the sky, that would be like the splendour of the mighty one... Now, I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.”

10/22/2015 Mic Porter 9 Colonel Leslie R. Groves and Robert Oppenheimer at the “Ground Zero” of Trinity.