Jonathan Cainer Zodiac Forecasts


On This Day Sunday 4th June 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1896, In the dead of night, Henry Ford secretly wheeled his first automobile, the "Quadricycle", out of his shed in Detroit and took it for its first test drive. In 1937, Sylvan Goldman, owner of the Standard Supermarket chain, pushed the first ever shopping trolley down the aisles of his Oklahoma store. He built his trolleys by attaching baskets and wheels to folding chairs.
On This Day Saturday 3rd June 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1949, Humes High School in Memphis, Tennessee, issued a 14-year-old Elvis Presley with his school report. He achieved an 'A' in language but only managed a 'C' in music. In 2003, 85,000 British GCSE students discovered they had to take replacement question papers after a batch of the original exams was found opened in the street.
On This Day Friday 2nd June 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1886, US President Grover Cleveland married Florence Folsom in a ceremony at the White House. She was 21 and he was 49. At 28 years his junior, she became the youngest first lady in US history. In 1989, Rolling Stones bass guitarist Bill Wyman married Mandy Smith in a secret ceremony at Bury St. Edmonds. He was 52, and she was 19. The marriage ended in divorce 3 years later.
On This Day Thursday 1st June 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1966, Bob Dylan tried to rewrite the rules of folk music at the Albert Hall in London. He started playing an electric guitar and was booed by purists. In 1967, The Beatles rewrote the rules of popular music when they released "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" - one of the most influential and ground-breaking albums ever.
On This Day Wednesday 31st May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1678, Lady Godiva made a protest against taxes by riding stark naked through Coventry. In 1669, Samuel Pepys, was forced to give up writing his diary due to failing eyesight.
On This Day Tuesday 30th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1889, New York socialite, Mary Phelps Jacob, received a lot of support when she patented the modern brassiere. In 1933, Sally Rand introduced her exotic fan dance at Chicago�s Century of Progress Exposition. The act consisted of her dancing completely naked, using two large feather fans to cover her modesty.
On This Day Monday 29th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1848, the �Californian� newspaper fell under the spell of gold fever and had to suspend publication because so many of their staff had left to join the gold rush. In 1912 fifteen women were suspended from their jobs at the �Ladies Home Journal� for dancing the "Turkey Trot" during their lunch hour.
On This Day Sunday 28th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1742, Britain�s first public indoor swimming pool opened at Goodman's Fields in East London. In 1842, Britain�s first public library was opened in Frederick Street, Salford.
On This Day Saturday 27th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1977, Virgin Music released The Sex Pistols' single God Save the Queen. It was banned by TV and radio, but sold 200,000 copies in one week and got to No.2 in the UK charts. In 1989, Cliff Richard released his one hundredth single, The Best Of Me, which became his 26th song to reach the UK top 10.
On This Day Friday 26th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 2002, British body artist Charlie Wilson performed a record 600 body piercings on 28-year-old Kam Ma to beat the world record. The piercing took place over 8 hours 32 minutes .Kam Ma had been on a high-Vitamin C diet to make his skin extra stretchy. In 2004, Zafar Gill, of Pakistan, broke the world record for lifting the heaviest weight using only his right the ear. Over 113 lb of gym weights were clamped to his ear and he carried the weight for seven seconds.
On This Day Thursday 25th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1994, the Camelot consortium won the contract to run Britain's first National Lottery. They predicted they would create dozens of millionaires from the lucky entrants in the draws. In 2002, Shigeo Obara, of Japan, found the world�s luckiest clover. Instead of the standard three-leaves, his clover had 18.
On This Day Wednesday 24th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1956, Lys Assia from Switzerland won the first Eurovision Song Contest with a song called Refrain. Great Britain and Austria missed the application deadline and did not participate in the competition, held in Lugano, Switzerland. In 2003, Britain's entry to the Eurovision Song Contest, in Latvia, scored 'Nil Points' after no countries at all voted for Jemini singing Cry baby.
On This Day Tuesday 23rd May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1934, Wallace Carothers, working for DuPont in the US, extracted long, strong, flexible strands of a synthetic polymer fibre out of a test tube. The corporation patented it as "nylon" and paved the way for the synthetic fabric revolution. In 1982, the UK Musicians Union tried to ban Synthesisers and Rhythm Machines from recording sessions and concerts in an attempt to safeguard the jobs of live musicians.
On This Day Monday 22nd May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1959, authorities in Albania banned a children's book because it featured a black rabbit marrying a white rabbit. In 1997, Bugs Bunny became the first cartoon character (of any colour) to appear on an American postage stamp.
On This Day Saturday 20th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1927, Charles Lindbergh set off from New York aboard the "Spirit of St. Louis" to become the first man to fly across the Atlantic. In 1932 , Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic. In 1939, Pan American Airways introduced the first regular transatlantic passenger air service.
On This Day Friday 19th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1257, a tornado travelled from Windsor to St Albans. Witnesses described it as a 'marvellous sore tempest of weather, the air being darkened on every side from the four corners thereof, and withal chanced such a thunder as few the like had been heard'. In 1780 - A smoky blackness covered New England and parts of Canada. It was so dark that people had to light candles and lamps to see at noon. To this day, its cause is still unexplained.
On This Day Thursday 18th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1953, Pilot Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to break the sound barrier when she flew a Sabrejet F-86 over Rogers Dry Lake, California. In 1991, Britain's first woman astronaut, 27-year-old Helen Sharman from Sheffield, blasted into orbit to spend eight days on the Soviet Mir Space Station.
On This Day Wednesday 17th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1969, Dubliner Tom McClean made the first ever solo transatlantic crossing in a rowing boat. Tom now draws on his experience of 5 such transatlantic journeys and his army experience in the SAS, in his new career as a motivational speaker. In 1970, Norwegian, Thor Heyerdahl, crossed the Atlantic on Ra, his reed and papyrus raft, to prove that ancient Mediterranean could have reached the Americas.
On This Day Tuesday 16th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1987, a huge barge, the Bobro 400, set sail from New York Harbour carrying 3,200 tons of garbage. The refuse began an eight-week, 6,000 mile journey in search of a suitable disposal site but eventually returned to New York Harbour, still fully laden. In 1988 the US high court ruled that police did not require a warrant to search discarded garbage.
On This Day Monday 15th May 2006
 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 1878, Robert Chesebrough registered the name "Vaseline" for his petroleum jelly. When working as a chemist in the Pennsylvania oil fields, he noticed that workers used "rod wax" � a waste that collected around the pump rods on the oil wells to rub on cuts and grazes. At his home he developed a purified version that he stored in his wife�s empty flower vases. Adding the popular medical term "line" to the word "vase" gave him the brand name "Vaseline�. In 1923, Listerine mouthwash was registered as a trademark by The Lambert Pharmaceutical Company. Its early popularity may be connected to the fact that it contained 27 percent alcohol, making it approximately 54 proof .

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