1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.

150 y.a.:

 Manbird wrote: 
Try me...

 aflanigan wrote: 
I suspected as much years ago

 Manbird wrote: 

To tell the truth, I forgot why I came here.

 aflanigan wrote: 
No. We gonna stay here locked in this room until you decide to telll the trooth. Dat could be be minutes, seconds, half tetons, cornocoids, whole hourses, long days short days sunday and weeks months of days, days of months or minutes and years or MORE! Its up to you, punk. Go ahead and scream. Ain't nobody can hears you in here. SCREAM, PUNK I DARE YA!!!!! See? Ain't no body here cept you and me. And those guys over there. But you think they care if you scream? Maybe. Maybe not. You're not as tough as maybe they and we think you are, are you, punk? So you might as well tell the truth.
 

 Red_Dragon wrote: 

Wasn't he on that game show, To Tell the Truth?

1990 – Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

1969 – Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.

 black321 wrote: 
I never even thought about time zones before, thank you for the history lesson!

On this day in 1883, American business set about changing the natural order of things because nature was interfering with commerce. And once again it was because nature didn't fit in with the march of technology. The technology in this case was the telegraph.
The telegraph had been greatly enhanced over the preceding three decades and now plain folk and businessmen could send messages that were received almost instantly hundreds of miles away (and with the new relays, often thousands of miles away). That's when they decided nature was wrong. The problem was time.
All across America people set the town clock and the house clock by the sun. (Now since you are such a smarty-pants you are probably saying - "but the days are longer in summer than winter." Boy, I'll bet your parents are glowing to have raised a bright young thing like you. But before you reach in that drawer to pull out that Mensa application remember there's still 24 hours from noon to noon. But as the guy who paints Astro Turf says - "I digress.")
So each town kept time by sun time. Thus, if it were noon in NYC, it would be — perhaps — 11:54 in Philadelphia since the sun needed six more minutes to be straight up there. And, it could be say 11:25 in Pittsburgh. If you've got that down pat, consider the minor changes north or south for curvature. Therefore, if you telegraphed a business associate "need response by 4:00 p.m." you could be sure of only one thing - his or her time was not your time.
For years business people grappled with the confusion. Then the time thing began to play havoc with America's largest industry and engine of growth - the railroads. From the problem of timetables…..to delivery schedules…..to en route status updates....letting Mother Nature control time was out of the question. Thus, on this day in 1883, by mutual agreement of the railroads and the telegraph companies - at noon a telegram was sent from the U.S. Naval Observatory setting the time in the four different time zones they set up for the U.S.
The darn thing worked so well that the next year they convinced the rest of the world to set up global time zones. We trust that Mother Nature was not too embarrassed by being shown up in this manner and we hope She is taking no joy in watching humans sitting in traffic jams before even the birds get up. Thank God for technology! Er....oops....thanks technology.

 buzz wrote: 
Yes and so were the worms

 buzz wrote: 
not sure, but it was coated with alar

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
was it a genetically modified apple or did it have worms?

2003 – The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules 4 to 3 in Goodridge v. Department of Public Health that the state's ban on same-sex marriage is unconstitutional and gives the state legislature 180 days to change the law making Massachusetts the first state in the United States to grant marriage rights to same-sex couples.

2003 – In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing controversial anti-gay amendment Section 28, becomes effective.

1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.