Madness

Some ladies need to have their heads examined, this fashion madness is  getting out hand. will you call this the dressing of a normal woman.

Today In History September 18

 September 18 is the 261st day of the year. There are 104 days remaining until the end of the year.



 Today's Highlight In History.1998 – ICANN is formed.

Founded	September 18, 1998
Focus	Manage Internet protocol numbers and Domain Name System root
Location	Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Key people	Fadi Chehadé (CEO)
Slogan	One World. One Internet.
Website	www.icann.org

 The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN,   a nonprofit organization that is responsible for the coordination of maintenance and methodology of several databases of unique identifiers related to the namespaces of the Internet, and ensuring the network's stable and secure operation.
 much of its work has to do with the Internet's global Domain Name System, which includes policy development for internationalization of the DNS system, introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs), and the operation of root name servers. The numbering facilities ICANN manages include the Internet Protocol address spaces for IPv4 and IPv6, and assignment of address blocks to regional Internet registries. ICANN also maintains registries of Internet protocol identifiers.

1850 – The U.S. Congress passes the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850.

1851 – First publication of The New-York Daily Times, which later becomes The New York Times.

1882 – The Pacific Stock Exchange opens.

1906 – A typhoon with tsunami kills an estimated 10,000 people in Hong Kong.

1914 – World War I: South African troops land in German South West Africa.

1919 – The Netherlands gives women the right to vote.

1919 – Fritz Pollard becomes the first African-American to play professional football for a major team, the Akron Pros.

1922 – Hungary is admitted to the League of Nations.

1927 – The Columbia Broadcasting System goes on the air.

1934 – The USSR is admitted to the League of Nations.

1939 – World War II: Polish government of Ignacy Mościcki flees to Romania.

1939 – The Nazi propaganda broadcaster known as Lord Haw-Haw begins transmitting.

1940 – The British liner SS City of Benares is sunk by German submarine U-48; those killed include 77 child refugees

1943 – World War II: The Jews of Minsk are massacred at Sobibór.   1943 – World War II: Adolf Hitler orders the deportation of Danish Jews.   1947 – The National Security Council and the Central Intelligence Agency are established in the United States under the National Security Act.   1948 – Margaret Chase Smith of Maine becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate without completing another senator's term, when she defeats Democratic opponent Adrian Scolten.   1959 – Vanguard 3 is launched into Earth orbit.   1960 – Fidel Castro arrives in New York City as the head of the Cuban delegation to the United Nations.   1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.   1962 – Burundi, Jamaica, Rwanda and Trinidad and Tobago are admitted to the United Nations. 1973 – The Bahamas, East Germany and West Germany are admitted to the United Nations.   1974 – Hurricane Fifi strikes Honduras with 110 mph winds, killing 5,000 people.   1977 – Voyager I takes first photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.   1981 – Assemblée Nationale votes to abolish capital punishment in France.   1982 – Christian militia begin killing six-hundred Palestinians in Lebanon.   1984 – Joe Kittinger completes the first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.   1987 – Jerzy Kukuczka becomes the second mountaineer to summit all 14 Eight-thousanders.   1990 – Liechtenstein becomes a member of the United Nations.   1991 – Yugoslavia begins a naval blockade of 7 Adriatic port cities.   1998 – The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), a nonprofit organization that manages the assignment of domain names and IP addresses in the Internet, was established.

2007 – Pervez Musharraf announces that he will step down as army chief and restore civilian rule to Pakistan, but only after he is re-elected president.

2009 – The 72 year run of the soap opera The Guiding Light ends as its final episode is broadcast.

2014 – Scottish independence referendum

Today In History; September 16

September 16 is the 259th day of the year. There are 106 days remaining until the end of the year.


 Today's Highlight In History
1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.
A photocopier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply, using a technology called xerography, a dry process that uses electrostatic charges on a light sensitive photoreceptor to first attract and then transfer toner particles (a powder) onto paper in the form of an image. Heat, pressure or a combination of both is then used to fuse the toner onto the paper. 

The Xerox 914 was the first successful commercial plain paper copier which in 1959 revolutionized the document-copying industry. The culmination of inventor Chester Carlson's work on the xerographic process, the 914 was fast and economical. The copier was introduced to the public on September 16, 1959, in a demonstration at the Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York, shown on live television.



 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Harlem Heights is fought.

1795 – The first occupation by United Kingdom of Cape Colony, South Africa with the Battle of Hout Bay, after successive victories at the Battle of Muizenberg and Wynberg, after William V requested protection against revolutionary France's occupation of the Netherlands.

1812 – The Fire of Moscow begins shortly after midnight and destroys three quarters of the city days later.

1863 – Robert College of Istanbul-Turkey, the first American educational institution outside the United States, is founded by Christopher Robert, an American philanthropist.

1880 – The Cornell Daily Sun prints its first issue in Ithaca, New York. The Sun is the nation's oldest, continuously-independent college daily.

1908 – The General Motors Corporation is founded.

1919 – The American Legion is incorporated.

1920 – The Wall Street bombing: A bomb in a horse wagon explodes in front of the J. P. Morgan building in New York City killing 38 and injuring 400.

1928 – The Okeechobee hurricane strikes southeastern Florida, killing more than 2,500 people. It is the third deadliest natural disaster in United States history, behind the Galveston hurricane of 1900 and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake.

1959 – The first successful photocopier, the Xerox 914, is introduced in a demonstration on live television from New York City.

1961 – Typhoon Nancy, with possibly the strongest winds ever measured in a tropical cyclone, makes landfall in Osaka, Japan, killing 173 people.

1963 – Malaysia is formed from the Federation of Malaya, Singapore, North Borneo (Sabah) and Sarawak. However, Singapore soon leaves this new country.

1970 – King Hussein of Jordan declares military rule following the hijacking of four civilian airliners by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). This results in the formation of the Black September Palestinian paramilitary unit.

1975 – Papua New Guinea gains independence from Australia.

1975 – The Cape Verde Islands, Mozambique, and São Tomé and Príncipe join the United Nations.

1978 – An earthquake measuring 7.5 to 7.9 on the Richter scale hits the city of Tabas, Iran killing about 25,000 people.

1987 – The Montreal Protocol is signed to protect the ozone layer from depletion.

2007 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269 carrying 128 crew and passengers crashes in Thailand killing 89 people.

2013 – A gunman kills twelve people at the Navy Yard in Washington, D.C.

Today In Histroy; September 15

September 15 is the 258th day of the year. There are 107 days remaining until the end of the year.



 Today's Highlight In History; 1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title 3 times at the Superdome in New Orleans.



Muhammad Ali born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr.; January 17, 1942., is an American former professional boxer, considered among the greatest heavyweights in the sport's history^] He is one of the most recognized sports figures of the past 100 years, crowned "Sportsman of the Century" by Sports Illustrated and "Sports Personality of the Century" by the BBC.
Ali left the ring with a record of 56 wins, five losses and 37 knockouts.


 

1616 – The first non-aristocratic, free public school in Europe is opened in Frascati, Italy.

1789 – The United States Department of State is established (formerly known as the "Department of Foreign Affairs").


1830 – The Liverpool to Manchester railway line opens.

1831 – The locomotive John Bull operates for the first time in New Jersey on the Camden and Amboy Railroad.

1851 – Saint Joseph's University is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

1862 – American Civil War: Confederate forces capture Harpers Ferry, Virginia.

1963 – 16th Street Baptist Church bombing: Four children killed at an African-American church in Birmingham, Alabama, United States

1966 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to a sniper attack at the University of Texas at Austin, writes a letter to Congress urging the enactment of gun control legislation.

1974 – Air Vietnam Flight 706 is hijacked, then crashes while attempting to land with 75 on board.

1978 – Muhammad Ali outpointed Leon Spinks in a rematch to become the first boxer to win the world heavyweight title 3 times at the Superdome in New Orleans.

1981 – The Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously approves Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice of the Supreme Court of the United States

1981 – Vanuatu becomes a member of the United Nations.

1987 – United States Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze sign a treaty to establish centers to reduce the risk of nuclear war.

2007 – Colin McRae dies when the helicopter he was piloting crashes near his Lanarkshire home.

Today In History;September 14

September 14 is the 257th day of the year. There are 108 days remaining until the end of the year.



 Today's Highlight In History;
1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
 George Frideric Handel 23 February 1685 – 14 April 1759) was a German-born, British Baroque composer famous for his operas, oratorios, anthems and organ concertos.

Messiah is an English-language oratorio composed in 1741 by George Frideric Handel, with a scriptural text compiled by Charles Jennens from the King James Bible, and from the version of the Psalms included with the Book of Common Prayer. It was first performed in Dublin on 13 April 1742 and received its London premiere nearly a year later. After an initially modest public reception, the oratorio gained in popularity, eventually becoming one of the best-known and most frequently performed choral works in Western music.


1741 – George Frideric Handel completes his oratorio Messiah
 
1901 – President of the United States William McKinley dies after an assassination attempt on September 6, and is succeeded by Theodore Roosevelt.

1917 – Russia is officially proclaimed a republic.

1960 – The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is founded.

1960 – Congo Crisis: With CIA help, Mobutu Sese Seko seizes power in a military coup, suspending parliament and the constitution.

1975 – The first American saint, Elizabeth Ann Seton, is canonized by Pope Paul VI.

1979 – Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki is assassinated upon the order of Hafizullah Amin, who becomes the new president.

1982 – President-elect of Lebanon, Bachir Gemayel, is assassinated.

1984 – Joe Kittinger becomes the first person to fly a gas balloon alone across the Atlantic Ocean.

1985 – Penang Bridge, the longest bridge in Malaysia, connecting the island of Penang to the mainland, opens to traffic.

2000 – Microsoft releases Windows ME.

2001 – Historic National Prayer Service held at Washington National Cathedral for victims of the September 11 attacks. A similar service is held in Canada on Parliament Hill, the largest vigil ever held in the nation's capital.

2003 – In a referendum, Estonia approves joining the European Union.

2007 – Late-2000s financial crisis: The Northern Rock bank experiences the first bank run in the United Kingdom in 150 years.

2008 – All 88 people on board Aeroflot Flight 821 are killed when the plane crashes on approach to Perm Airport.

Hotel owner shot by his security man

 George, the owner of Reception Hotel and MD of Light years cyber cafe, all located in Ago Palace Way Okata was shot at close range by his security man within the hotel premise,  Friday night.

 He died on the way to the hospital. The cause of the cold blooded murder was still unclear.
Meanwhile, the O.P.C, security guard is behind bars following further investigation by the police

Today In History, September 13, 2014

September 13 is the 256th day of the year There are 109 days remaining until the end of the year.



 Today's Highlight In History.

Desmond Mpilo Tutu  (Nobel Peace Prize laureates). is a South African social rights activist and retired Anglican bishop who rose to worldwide fame during the 1980s as an opponent of apartheid.
He was the first black Archbishop of Cape Town and bishop of the Church of the Province of Southern Africa now the Anglican Church of Southern Africa.

 Today September 13, 1989  the Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa was led by Desmond Tutu.







  
The Most Reverend
Desmond Tutu Archbishop Emeritus of Cape Town


1898 – Hannibal Goodwin patents celluloid photographic film.

1899 – Henry Bliss is the first person in the United States to be killed in an automobile accident.

1899 – Mackinder, Ollier and Brocherel make the first ascent of Batian (5,199 m – 17,058 ft), the highest peak of Mount Kenya.

1900 – Filipino resistance fighters defeat a small American column in the Battle of Pulang Lupa, during the Philippine–American War.

1906 – First flight of a fixed-wing aircraft in Europe.

1914 – World War I: South African troops open hostilities in German south-west Africa (Namibia) with an assault on the Ramansdrift police station.

1933 – Elizabeth McCombs becomes the first woman elected to the New Zealand Parliament.

1956 – The IBM 305 RAMAC is introduced, the first commercial computer to use disk storage.

1979 – South Africa grants independence to the "homeland" of Venda (not recognised outside South Africa).

1988 – Hurricane Gilbert is the strongest recorded hurricane in the Western Hemisphere, later replaced by Hurricane Wilma in 2005 (based on barometric pressure).

1989 – Largest anti-Apartheid march in South Africa, led by Desmond Tutu.

1993 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands with Palestine Liberation Organization chairman Yasser Arafat at the White House after signing the Oslo Accords granting limited Palestinian autonomy.

1994 – Ulysses probe passes the Sun's south pole.

2001 – Civilian aircraft traffic resumes in the United States after the September 11 attacks.

2006 – Kimveer Gill kills one student and injures 19 more in the Dawson College shooting.

2007 – The Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples is adopted by the United Nations General Assembly.

2008 – Hurricane Ike makes landfall on the Texas Gulf Coast of the United States, causing heavy damage to Galveston Island, Houston and surrounding areas.

2013 – Taliban insurgents attack the United States consulate in Herat, Afghanistan, with two members of the Afghan National Police reported dead and about 20 civilians injured.