Rob’s Megaphone

This was recently sent to me.
I wanted to pay it forward.
History Mystery 
 
  
Abraham Lincoln was elected to Congress in 1846. 
John F. Kennedy was elected to Congress in 1946. 
Abraham Lincoln was elected President in 1860. 
John F. Kennedy was elected President in 1960. 
Both were particularly concerned with civil rights. 
Both wives lost their children while living in the White [...]

The information for this post was sent to me by a friend to run on Rob’s Megaphone. 
I thought it was really interesting, so I dug a little.  I discovered that this post had made the rounds in the blogosphere – more than once. What I found most interesting was that more than 200 sites ran this history from the [...]

1998: The Akashi-Kaikyo bridge, the world’s longest suspension bridge, opens for traffic in Japan.
1987: The Al and Peg Bundy family debuted on “Married … With Children.” It was one of the Fox-TV network’s first sitcoms, running for 11 seasons. The same evening, “The Tracey Ullman Show” premiered with short cartoons introducing The Simpsons.
1943: Poon Lim [...]

1721 – Sir Robert Walpole enters office as the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom under King George I.
1818 – The United States Congress adopts the flag of the United States with 13 red and        white stripes and one star for each state (then 20).
1850 – Los Angeles, California is incorporated as [...]

  All of the following happened on April 3rd in the year . . .

1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England.

1860 – The first successful Pony Express run from Saint Joseph, Missouri to Sacramento, California begins.

1882 – American Old West outlaw Jesse James is killed by Robert Ford for a $5,000 [...]

Today is International Children’s Book Day
What’s so great (and maybe not so great) about April 2.
On this date in:
2005: Pope John Paul II Dies  
1902: “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. 
1865:  Gen. Robert E. Lee informed Confederate President Jefferson Davis that he must evacuate the Confederate [...]