On this day in history.

[J. A.]

Just because Austria won this year:
May 24, 1956: The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.

 

[scifan57]

Just because Austria won this year: May 24, 1956: The first Eurovision Song Contest is held in Lugano, Switzerland.

Who won?

 

[J. A.]

Who won?

Lys Assia won with the song "Refrain" for Switzerland.

 

[scifan57]

Lys Assia won with the song "Refrain" for Switzerland.

Thank you.

 

[zstairlessone]

On May 24, 1941, Robert Zimmerman is born

And on May 24, 1844, Samuel Morse sends the first telegraph message, using (of course) his code.

 

[J. A.]

May 25, 1878: premiere of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera "H.M.S. Pinafore" at the Opera Comique, London




Wikipedia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.M.S._Pinafore

 

[J. A.]

June 5, 2012: The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_2012

 

[scifan57]

June 5, 2012: The last transit of Venus of the 21st century begins. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transit_of_Venus,_2012

Here's a picture I took at the time.

 

[J. A.]

Here's a picture I took at the time. <img src="http://www.ipadforums.net/attachment.php?attachmentid=57092"/>

Very good! (The picture and that you posted it.) I couldn't add the one I wanted to from Wikipedia- parse error again.
This is better than the picture I'd have posted.

 

[J. A.]

June 9, 1843: Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner, Austrian novelist and pacifist, first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, is born.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertha_von_Suttner

 

[zstairlessone]

Donald Duck turned 80 years old today.

June 9, 1934 he was created

 

[J. A.]

June 10, 1832: Nikolaus August Otto, German inventor (Otto engine), is born in Holzhausen an der Heide, Germany.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolaus_Otto

 

[J. A.]

June 12, 1929: Annelies Marie "Anne" Frank is born in Frankfurt, Germany.




Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Frank

 

[J. A.]

June 23, 1919: Hermann Gmeiner, founder of SOS Children's Villages, was born in Alberschwende, Austria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermann_Gmeiner

 

[scifan57]

June 28, 1914; the Archduke Franz Ferdinand is assassinated in Sarajevo, setting off what became known as the Great War or World War I.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archduke_Franz_Ferdinand_of_Austria