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1/20 (1401): The Taula de canvi (Catalan: "Table of change"), described as Europe's first-ever public bank, began operations inside Barcelona's Llotja de Mar.
9/2 (1963): CBS Evening News becomes U.S. network television's first half-hour weeknight news broadcast, when the show is lengthened from 15 to 30 minutes.
12/25 (2004): The Cassini orbiter releases Huygens probe which successfully landed on Saturn's moon Titan on January 14, 2005.
11/1 (1897): Italian Sport-Club Juventus is founded by a group of students of Liceo Classico Massimo d'Azeglio.
(Julian calendar)
12/25 (1946): The first European self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction is initiated within the Soviet Union's F-1 nuclear reactor.
1/1 (1772): The first traveler's cheques, which could be used in 90 European cities, are issued by the London Credit Exchange Company.
There is a warm and gentle atmosphere About the form of one we love, and thus As in a tender mist our spirits are Wrapped in the ... of that which is to us The health of life's own life--
When soft winds and sunny skies With the green earth harmonize, And the young and dewy dawn, Bold as an unhunted fawn, Up the windless heaven is gone,-- Laugh--for ambushed in the day,-- Clouds and whirlwinds watch their prey.
5/1 (1978): Japan's Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took From life's green tree his Uranian lute; And from his touch sweet thunder flowed, and shook All human things built in contempt of man,-- And sanguine thrones and impious altars quaked, Prisons and citadels...
6/19 (1785): The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States.
This was the first passage of a comet predicted ahead of time.
A gentle story of two lovers young, Who met in innocence and died in sorrow, And of one selfish heart, whose rancour clung Like curses on them; are ye slow to borrow The lore of truth from such a tale?
Is it that in some brighter sphere We part from friends we meet with here? Or do we see the Future pass Over the Present's dusky glass?
O thou immortal deity Whose throne is in the depth of human thought, I do adjure thy power and thee By all that man may be, by all that he is not, By all that he has been and yet must be!
7/4 (2009): The Statue of Liberty's crown reopens to the public after eight years of closure due to security concerns following the September 11 attacks.
11/11 (1813): War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm: British and Canadian forces defeat a larger American force, causing the Americans to abandon their Saint Lawrence campaign.
It can't be "Summer"! That -- got through! It's early -- yet -- for "Spring"! There's that long town of White -- to cross --...
Follow to the deep wood's weeds, Follow to the wild-briar dingle, Where we seek to intermingle, And the violet tells her tale To the odour-scented gale, For they two have enough to do Of such work as I and you.
FAMED for their civil and domestic quarrels See heartless Henry lies by headless Charles; Between them stands another sceptred thing, It lives, it reigns--"aye, every inch a king." Charles to his people, Henry to his wife, In him the double...
A great Hope fell You heard no noise The Ruin was within Oh cunning wreck that told no tale And let no Witness in The...
10/12 (1945): The Lao Issara took control of Laos' government and reaffirmed the country's independence.
10/12 (2010): The Finnish Yle TV2 channel's Ajankohtainen kakkonen current affairs program airs controversial Homoilta episode (literally "gay night"), which leads to the resignation of almost 50,000 Finns from the Evangelical Lutheran Church.