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July 19, 2007
Today in History: July 19th
The following information can be found at: History.com - This Day in History
1553: Lady Jane Grey deposed
After only nine days as the monarch of England, Lady Jane Grey is deposed in favor of her cousin Mary. The 15-year-old Lady Jane, beautiful and intelligent, had only reluctantly agreed to be put on the throne. The decision would result in her execution. Read the complete article.Cite the above article:
Lady Jane Grey deposed. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 04:18, Jul 19, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=5190.
The following reference book in the GSU Library has information on Lady Jane Grey:
Author: Jackson, Guida.
Title: Women who ruled / Guida M. Jackson.
Call Number:REF. D107 .J331990
1799: Rosetta Stone found
On this day in 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte's Egyptian campaign, a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles nor ... Watch the video clip.
For more information on the Rosetta Stone, the GSU Library has the following book available:
Author: Budge, E. A. Wallis (Ernest Alfred Wallis), Sir, 1857-1934.
Title: The Rosetta stone.
Call Number:PJ1531.R5 R6X1950
1898: Emile Zola flees France
Novelist Emile Zola flees France on this day in 1898 to escape imprisonment after being convicted of libel against the French army in the notorious Dreyfus affair. Read the complete article.Cite this article:
Emile Zola flees France. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 05:11, Jul 19, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=4037.
If you are interested in finding out more information about Emile Zola, the GSU library has several books in the collection. Here are two titles:
Author: Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred, 1853-1922.
Title: EĢmile Zola, novelist and reformer; an account of his life & work.
Call Number: PQ2528 .V61971
Author: Josephson, Matthew, 1899-1978.
Title: Zola and his time : the history of his martial career in letters, with an account of his circle of friends, his remarkable enemies, cyclopean labors, public campaigns, trials, and ultimate glorification / by Matthew Josephson.
Call Number: PQ2528 .J61969
Search the library catalog for more titles.
1935 : Parking meters debut
A woman feeding the meter in New York, 1948The first automatic parking meter in the U.S., the Park-O-Meter invented by Carlton Magee, was installed in Oklahoma City by the Dual Parking Meter Company. Twenty-foot spaces were painted on the pavement, and a parking meter that accepted nickels was planted in the concrete at the head of each space. The city paid for the meters with funds collected from them. Today parking meters are big business. Companies offer digital parking meters, smart parking meters, and, even more remarkably, user-friendly parking meters. The user-friendly parking meters are an attempt to stem the tide of "violent confrontations" between users and their meters.Cite this article:
Parking meters debut. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 05:25, Jul 19, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=7518.
1979: Oil tankers collide in Caribbean Sea
On this day in 1979, two gigantic supertankers collide off the island of Little Tobago in the Caribbean Sea, killing 26 crew members and spilling 280,000 tons of crude oil into the sea. At the time, it was the worst oil-tanker accident in history and remains one of the very few times in history when two oil tankers have collided. Read the complete article.Cite this article:
Oil tankers collide in Caribbean Sea. (2007). The History Channel website. Retrieved 05:30, Jul 19, 2007, from http://www.history.com/tdih.do?action=tdihArticleCategory&id=850.
Posted by d-nadler at July 19, 2007 03:09 PM