Posts by Lydia Jane Allison

PIONEER DAY (UTAH) Pioneer Day commemorates the day in 1847 when Brigham Young led his “pioneer band” of Mormons into the Salt Lake valley to establish a settlement–their new Zion. The Mormons had been driven from New York, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois and had spent four difficult months traveling 1,073 miles overland to reach the…

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS George Lee “Sparky” Anderson (February 22, 1934 – November 4, 2010) was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) player, coach, and manager. He managed the National League‘s Cincinnati Reds to the 1975 and 1976 championships, then added a third title in 1984 with the Detroit Tigers of the American League. Anderson was the first manager to win the World Series in both leagues. His 2,194 career wins are the sixth-most for a manager…

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American gangster of the Great Depression. He led a group known as the “Dillinger Gang“, which was accused of robbing 24 banks and four police stations. Dillinger was imprisoned several times but escaped twice. He was charged, but not convicted, of the murder…

1290s 1298: BATTLE OF FALKIRK: ENGLAND’S EDWARD LONGSHANK DEFEATED WILLIAM WALLACE’S SCOTTISH REBELS 1790s DIED 1796: ROBERT BURNS (POET) 1830s 1836: CANADA’S FIRST PUBLIC RAILWAY (CHAMPLAIN AND ST. LAWRENCE) OPENED 1860s 1861: THE FIRST MAJOR MILITARY ENGAGEMENT IN THE CIVIL WAR TOOK PLACE AT BULL RUN CREEK, VIRGINIA 1870s 1873: JESSE JAMES HELD UP THE…

1300s BORN 1304: PETRARCH (POET) 1304: EDWARD I OF ENGLAND TOOK THE LAST REBEL STRONGHOLD IN THE WARS OF SCOTTISH INDEPENDENCE 1590s 1591: RELIGIOUS LEADER ANNE HUTCHINSON WAS BAPTIZED 1810s 1810: COLOMBIA DECLARED INDEPENDENCE FROM SPAIN 1870s 1871: BRITISH COLUMBIA JOINED THE CANADIAN CONFEDERATION150 Years Ago 1875: CONNECTICUT STATE AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION ESTABLISHED 1890s 1893:…

60s 64: FIRE BEGAN NEAR CIRCUS MAXIMUS THAT DESTROYED 2/3 OF ROME, ITALY 1550s 1553: LADY JANE GREY WAS REPLACED BY MARY I OF ENGLAND AS QUEEN OF ENGLAND AFTER HAVING THE TITLE FOR ONLY NINE DAYS 1810s BORN 1814: SAMUEL COLT (INVENTOR) 1830s BORN 1834: EDGAR DEGAS (PAINTER) 1840s 1848: “BLOOMERS” (LONG, LOOSE, TROUSERS)…

FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS Gerry Thomas (February 17, 1922 – July 18, 2005) was a Canadian who moved to the US to become a salesman. He is sometimes credited with inventing the TV Dinner in 1952. Thomas, who worked for the Swanson food company in America in the 1950s and went public with his account decades later, said he designed the…