Carol Tucker(1/18/2017 2:08:13 PM) And because CeoExpress claims I am too wordy, here is the "on this day" feature
ON THIS DAY: In 350 General Magnentius deposed Roman Emperor Constans and proclaims himself Emperor. In 1535 Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro founded Lima, the capital of Peru. In 1778 James Cook was the first known European to discover the Hawaiian Islands, which he names the "Sandwich Islands". In 1788 the first elements of the First Fleet carrying 736 convicts from Great Britain to Australia arrived at Botany Bay. In 1797 start of First mail service from Montréal to New York, Niagara and Detroit. In 1884 Dr. William Price attempted to cremate the body of his infant son, Jesus Christ Price, setting a legal precedent for cremation in the United Kingdom. In 1886 modern hockey was born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. In 1896 an X-ray generating machine was exhibited for the first time by HL Smith. In 1903 a transmitter in Wellfleet, Massachusetts sent the first transatlantic radio transmission to originate in the United States. In 1907 John J McLaughlin was awarded a trademark for a his beverage, "Canada Dry Pale Ginger Ale," in Toronto, Ontario. In 1911 Eugene B Ely landed on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco Bay, the first time an aircraft landed on a ship. In 1912, English explorer Robert F Scott and his expedition reached the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen had gotten there first. In 1977 scientists identified a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease.