Apple CEO Tim Cook poses with Apple enthusiasts Fans Waiting in Line for iPhone 6

 

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The Apple CEO, Tim Cook, surprised iPhone enthusiasts who lined up outside an Apple store today in Palo Alto, California, waiting to buy the new iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus.

Cook posed for selfies with Apple enthusiasts and cheered alongside them when it came time to open the doors at 8 a.m.

The phones, which were unveiled at a Sept. 9 media event in Cupertino, California, are already shaping up to be one of Apple’s biggest successes to date. Pre-orders for the smartphones have broken all previous benchmarks, according to the tech giant.

Cook has called the plus-sized devices the best phones Apple has ever produced.

Today In History, September 19

September 19 is the 262nd day of the year. There are 103 days remaining until the end of the year.

Monument of Kostas Georgakis in Corfu

Kostas Georgakis

 Today's Highlight In History-  1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.

 by 1.00am on 19 September 1970  Kostas Georgakis,,  drove his Fiat 500 to Matteoti square and there set himself ablaze. According to eyewitness accounts by street cleaners who were working around the Palazzo Ducale there was a sudden bright flash of light in the area at around 3.00am At first they did not realize the flame was a burning man. when they approached closer they saw Georgakis burning and running ablaze, shouting "Long Live Greece", "Down with the tyrants", "Down with the fascist colonels" and "I did it for my Greece."


1676 – Jamestown is burned to the ground by the forces of Nathaniel Bacon during Bacon's Rebellion.

1778 – The Continental Congress passes the first United States federal budget.

1796 – George Washington's Farewell Address is printed across America as an open letter to the public.

1799 – French Revolutionary Wars: French-Dutch victory against the Russians and British in the Battle of Bergen.

1846 – Two French shepherd children, Mélanie Calvat and Maximin Giraud, experience a Marian apparition on a mountaintop near La Salette, France, now known as Our Lady of La Salette.

1881 – U.S. President James A. Garfield dies of wounds suffered in a July 2 shooting.

1893 – Women's suffrage: in New Zealand, the Electoral Act of 1893 is consented to by the governor giving all women in New Zealand the right to vote.

1946 – The Council of Europe is founded following a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.

1952 – The United States bars Charlie Chaplin from re-entering the country after a trip to England.

1957 – First American underground nuclear bomb test (part of Operation Plumbbob).

1970 – Kostas Georgakis, a Greek student of geology, sets himself ablaze in Matteotti Square in Genoa, Italy, as a protest against the dictatorial regime of Georgios Papadopoulos.

1972 – A parcel bomb sent to Israeli Embassy in London kills one diplomat.

1985 – A strong earthquake kills thousands and destroys about 400 buildings in Mexico City.

1989 – A terrorist bomb explodes UTA Flight 772 in mid-air above the Tùnùrù Desert, Niger, killing 171.

1991 – Ötzi the Iceman is discovered by German tourists.

1995 – The Washington Post and The New York Times publish the Unabomber's manifesto.

2011 – Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees surpasses Trevor Hoffman to become Major League Baseball's all time saves leader with 602.

The Husband and Wife Who Look Like Identical Twins

Davis carries her bride, Brux. They managed to tie the knot despite protestations from a Russian registry office (Picture: CEN)

Alison Brooks (on the left), married Alina Davis (right). in Russia, a country where same-sex weddings are banned, violence against homosexuals is on the rise.

23-year-old Alina was born a man named Dmitry Kozhukhov. She labels herself as “androgyne,” which means she doesn’t fit neatly into one gender identity, goes around wearing women’s clothes every day, but because her birth certificate lists her as a man, the Russian authorities couldn’t refuse them their marriage certificate or their right to marry.
 Both Brooks and Davis wore white wedding dresses. While the two were refused entry through the front door they  had to enter through the rear entrance to get married. Davis thinks this is a big moment for couples in Russia. “We are not alone in having such problems,” she says. “I have written to couples who are planning similar marriages and are afraid of failures with registration. Be aware – you cannot be refused.”

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.