1607 • Jamestown, VA, was settled as a colony of England.
1648 • Margaret Jones of Plymouth was found guilty of witchcraft and was sentenced to be hanged by the neck.
1787 • Captain Arthur Phillip left Britain for Australia. He successfully landed eleven ships full of convicts on January 18th, 1788, at Botany Bay. The group moved north eight days later and settled at Port Jackson.
1821 • The first practical printing press was patented in the U.S. by Samuel Rust.
1913 • Igor Sikorsky flew the first four engine aircraft.
1939 • The first commercial FM radio station in the United States is launched in Bloomfield, CT. The station later becomes WDRC-FM.
1958 • The trade mark Velcro is registered.
1994 • Johnny Carson makes his last television appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman.
MjL 13 May 2013, 4:50 a.m.
Just had a rather embarrassing moment —— I kept getting a 404 error when I tried to access this #Blog. So I called tech support where the guy told me the system was working fine and it was a browser error. I was dubious at first but after shutting Firefox down and restarting —— all was well. I apologized for blaming the web provider. He said it was OK and we said goodbye, except he didn’t hang up for a while and neither did I. Since I was wearing my blue tooth earpiece I was just going to let him hang up but after about ten seconds of small noises from his end of the connection I heard him say rather sadly, “Oh Brother, what a night!”, then “Uh-Oh!” and then the line went dead. I almost felt like calling back and apologizing again. So whoever you are, wherever you are tech support guy, believe me, I have had nights at work like that too! Thanks again.
MjL 13 May 2013, 5:10 a.m.
First, I want to thank Al & Glo once again hosting the graduation party / reunion at their home yesterday. It is always good when we all get together! The weather was a little cool but the food and company was great!
I downloaded yesterday’s party pictures to my computer and have just now put them up on the Blog. Congratulations to Tom and Andy for graduation from college!
I took our little camera but forgot to bring any extra batteries so I didn’t get very many pictures at all. Sorry about that. I also didn’t remove any of the blurry, bad shots either since there are so few of them. Sorry about that too but I’m just not a very good photographer and I usually have to take 3 pictures to get a good one. Oh well.
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