[guide.chat] Fact of the day
- From: "Carol O'Connor" <missbossyboots33@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "guide Chat List" <guide.chat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2011 09:18:38 +0100
menopause
More than 1,500 American women reach menopause every day - the period during
which ovulation and menstruation ceases. It usually occurs in women between 45
and 55 years. Menopause is associated with changes in the balance of sex
hormones which can lead to emotional and physical changes. It is during
menopause that bone density often falls significantly and may go below the
fracture threshold (the density at which fractures occur easily). Regular
weight-bearing exercises and a calcium-rich diet, especially during the teens
and early twenties, can increase peak bone density and decrease the risk of
bone fractures in later life.
Holidays
Cameroon: Union Nationale Camerounaise Day.
Japan: Disaster Prevention Day.
Libya: Revolution Day.
Slovakia: Constitution Day.
Tanzania: Heroes' Day.
Uzbekistan: Independence Day (from USSR, 1991).
Beginning of Orthodox ecclesiastical year.
Vietnam: Independence Day.
Events
1661 - First yacht race took place; participants were England's King Charles
versus his brother, James.
1676 - Nathaniel Bacon led an uprising at Jamestown, Virginia, in which the
settlement was burned down.
1773 - Phillis Wheatley's "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," was
published, making her the first African-American poet to be published.
1807 - Former Vice President Aaron Burr was acquitted on charges of plotting to
annex territory in Louisiana and Missouri to establish an independent republic.
1821 - William Becknell took a group of traders from Independence, Missouri,
toward Santa Fe, blazing the Santa Fe Trail.
1836 - Marcus Whitman and wife Narcissa established the first American
settlement in northern Oregon Territory. Narcissa was one of the first white
women to travel the Oregon Trail.
1859 - First Pullman sleeping car was put into service.
1864 - Confederate forces, led by General John Bell Hood, evacuated Atlanta,
anticipating the arrival of Union General William T. Sherman's troops.
1865 - Joseph Lister performed first surgery using antiseptics.
1870 - The Prussians defeated the French at Sedan in the last battle of the
Franco-Prussian War.
1878 - Emma Nutt of Boston became the first female telephone operator.
1882 - The first Labor Day was observed in New York City by the Carpenters and
Joiners Union.
1890 - First baseball tripleheader was played: Boston vs Pittsburgh.
1894 - Labor Day was declared a national holiday by an act of Congress.
1904 - Helen Keller graduated with honors from Radcliffe College.
1905 - Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces of Canada.
1914 - St. Petersburg, Russia changed its name to Petrograd.
1916 - Bulgaria declared war on Rumania, expanding the World War I.
1923 - The Kanto earthquake leveled Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan, killing 300,000.
1939 - Germany invaded Poland, beginning World War II in Europe.
1939 - "Physical Review" published first article describing black holes.
1941 - Yellow star became obligatory wear for Jews under the Third Reich.
1945 - Japan surrendered to the United States, ending World War II. (Japan's
date is 9/2.)
1969 - Moammar Gadhafi deposed King Idris in the Libyan revolution.
1970 - Dr. Hugh Scott of Washington, D.C. Became the first African-American
superintendent of schools of a major American city.
1971 - Qatar declared independence from Great Britain.
1972 - Bobby Fischer of the United States defeated Boris Spassky of Russia for
the world chess title.
1976 - Representative Wayne L. Hayes (D-Ohio) resigned because of scandal with
Elizabeth Ray.
1983 - Korean Airlines Flight 007, flying from New York to Seoul, was shot down
by the Soviets after it strayed into restricted airspace over Sakhalin Island
in the Sea of Japan. All 269 people aboard were killed, including 61 Americans,
among them U.S. Representative Larry McDonald.
1985 - Seventy-three years after it sunk in the North Atlantic, the wreck of
the R.M.S. Titanic was found by a US-French expedition; it was four hundred
miles off the coast of Newfoundland, Canada.
1991 - Uzbekistan declares independence from the Soviet Union.
2004 - Prosecutors in Colorado dropped a sexual assault charge against
basketball star Kobe Bryant.
2005 - Seven members and former members of the AFL-CIO form a new trade union
organization, the Change to Win Federation.
Births
1875 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American novelist who wrote "Tarzan, the Ape Man."
1907 - Walter Reuther, American labor leader who merged the American Federation
of Labor with the Congress of International Organizations.
1923 - Rocky Marciano, American world heavyweight boxer who retired undefeated.
1933 - Conway Twitty, American country and western music star.
1939 - Lily Tomlin, American comedienne and actress.
1946 - Barry Gibb, English singer.
1950 - Dr. Phil McGraw, American talk show host.
1957 - Gloria Estefan, Cuban singer.
1968 - Mohammed Atta, Egyptian terrorist who participated in the hijacking of
American Airlines Flight 11, the first plane to crash into the World Trade
Center during the September 11, 2001 attacks.
1976 - Erik Morales, Mexican boxer.
Deaths
1557 - Jacques Cartier, French explorer.
1715 - Louis XIV, king of France.
1838 - William Clark, American explorer who with Meriwether Lewis led the first
overland expedition to the Pacific Northwest.
1914 - Martha, last known passenger pigeon, at Cincinnati Zoo.
1977 - Ethel Waters, American actress and singer.
1983 - Henry "Scoop" Jackson, Democratic United States Senator from Washington.
1989 - A. Bartlett Giamatti, former president of Yale University and
Commissioner of Baseball.
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