1919 - Establishment of International Labour Union (ILO) - I visited the office during my visit to Switzerland in October 2012.
1968 - A week after the assassination of Martin Luther King, the Civil Rights Act of 1968 was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson. The law prohibited discrimination in housing, protected civil rights workers and expanded the rights of Native Americans.
1970 - Apollo 13 was launched from Cape Kennedy at 2:13 p.m. Fifty-six hours into the flight an oxygen tank exploded in the service module. Astronaut John L. Swigert, James A. Lovell and Fred W. Haise then transferred into the lunar module, using it as a "lifeboat" and began a perilous return trip to Earth, splashing down safely on April 17th.
The power of the Seventh Resource must be recognized by leaders around the world, through seven concrete changes:
Focus on international legislation and agreements.
Support, and campaign for, free sustainable trade of recyclable materials to ecologically sound companies across the globe.
Educate, from grass roots up, the public on the critical necessity of recycling.
Agree to a common language of recycling.
To make recycling a community issue, supporting schemes and initiatives which help households and businesses provide Seventh Resource materials for repurposing.
Work with the industry to encourage ‘design for recycling’ in the repurposing of materials – reducing waste, integrating ‘end-of-life’ planning at design stage.
Support innovation, research and initiatives that foster better recycling practices and technology.
1974 - The five-month-old Arab oil embargo against the U.S. was lifted. In the U.S., the embargo had caused long lines at gas stations, prices soared 300 percent amid shortages and a government ban on Sunday gas sales.
Birthday
Grover Cleveland (1837-1908) the 22nd and 24th U.S. president. . He was the only president to serve two nonconsecutive terms and was also the only president to be married in the White House.
1919 - National Socialist Party (Nazi) formed as German Farmers Party
1925 – Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming becomes the first female governor in the United States.
1930 - Mao Tse-tung wrote "A Single Spark Can Start a Prairie Fire" http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/mao/selected-works/volume-1/mswv1_6.htm
1940 – FM radio is demonstrated to the Federal Communications Commission.
2005 – Eris, the largest known dwarf planet in the Solar System, is discovered by the team of Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz using images originally taken on October 21, 2003, at the Palomar Observatory.
70 - Walls of Upper City of Jerusalem were battered down by Romans
1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) was founded by Ignatius Loyola
1787 - Constitution of USA submitted to states for ratification
1908 - Henry Ford First Model T automobile leaves the Piquette plant of Detroit, Michigan
1910 - First test flight of twin engined air plane
1989 - Sony purchases Columbia Pictures
1998 - Google website was launched.
Birthdays
1627 - Bishop Bossuet born
1722 - Birthday of American revolutionary leader Samuel Adams in Boston, Massachusetts. He helped to ignite the revolution and served as a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence and the Articles of Confederation.
