Thank you for all that attended the SOARA Field Day 2015. I know some of you wanted to attend and had work or family obligations. You can live vicariously through some pictures taken during the event below or click here for more.
Upcoming Activities
- SOARA Auction - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, May 4, 2024
- SOARA 50th Anniversary Special Event - 9:00 am – 5:00 pm, May 18, 2024 – May 19, 2024
- Ham Radio License Exams - 6:00 pm – 7:00 pm, May 20, 2024
- Membership Meeting - 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm, May 20, 2024
- SOARA Elmer Saturday - 9:00 am – 12:00 pm, May 25, 2024
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Today in History
1506 - Philip of Burgundy and England sign trade agreement
1900 - The "Hawaiian Organic Act" is enacted by US Congress making Hawaii a US territory
1944 - NY Giant Phil Weintraub gets 11 RBIs
1971 - 25th NBA Championship: Milwaukee beat Baltimore Bullets in 4 games
1984 - Strong winds cause a 30 min delay in Toronto Blue Jays game
1985 - "Shoah", French documentary about the Holocaust, directed by Claude Lanzmann, starring Richard Glazar and Raul Hilberg, premieres in Paris
1651 - Jean-Baptiste de la Salle, French priest and saint of the Catholic Church, born in Reims, Champagne, Kingdom of France (d. 1719)
1723 - Mathurin Jacques Brisson, French zoologist and naturalist (Ornithologie), born in Fontenay-le-Comte (d. 1806)
1857 - Eugen Bleuler, Swiss psychiatrist (introduced the term schizophrenia to describe the disorder previously known as dementia praecox), born in Zollikon, Switzerland (d. 1940)
1858 - Mary Dimmick Harrison, US First lady (1889-93) as second wife of the 23rd President Benjamin Harrison, born in Honesdale, Pennsylvania (d. 1948)
1941 - Johnny Farina, American rocker (Santo and Johnny), born in Brooklyn, New York
1997 - Ayaan Chawla, Indian entrepreneur
1630 - Ercole Porta, Italian composer, dies at 44
1792 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich, dies at 73
1792 - Hans Adolf Friedrich von Eschstruth, composer and lawyer, dies at 36
1926 - Bessie Coleman, American aviator and 1st African-American woman and Native American to hold a pilot license, dies in a plane crash at 34
1983 - Muddy Waters [McKinley Morganfield], American blues singer and guitarist ("Mannish Boy"; "Got My Mojo Working"), dies of heart failure, while fighting cancer, at 70
2006 - Lawrence Patrick, Biomechanics Professor, crash test subject