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1799: The Leonid meteor shower is the first known meteor shower in North America. According to the diary of this day, astronomer Andrew Ellicot Douglas wrote on a boat near the Florida keys: "The whole heaven seems to be lit up by rockets in the sky, flying in infinite directions, and I have been expecting some of them to land on the boat." Douglas refers to the Leonid meteor shower (related to Comet Temple Tuttle), which comes from Leo and has a period of about 33-34 years. It reaches its peak in 165438+ 10 almost every year; 1966 The Leonid meteor shower is said to be the most spectacular, with thousands of meteors falling like rain every hour.

1892: William "Humpty Dumpty" H Finger becomes the first professional football player on record. Before this day, no player publicly accepted cash payment to participate in this sport, unlike professional baseball 25 years ago. Football players used to exchange their services for fees or trinkets to pawn. 1892, Pittsburgh Sports Club (PAC) offered $250 to invite Pudge Heffelfinger, a football star of Yale University, to participate in a game, but he refused because he felt that it was not enough to endanger his position in the Amateur Sports League (a non-profit voluntary sports organization in the United States). Shortly after1892165438+10/2, Allegheny Sports Association (AAAA) made a counter-offer, which was said to have been accepted by Heffinger. According to their general ledger records that day, Mr. finger's fee was $25, and the "performance bonus for playing games" was $500 in cash. Pittsburgh Sports Club was shocked to see Hefsinger wearing AAA uniforms, and they flew into a rage. AAA never admitted to paying the player, nor did it disclose that he had received such payment, until several years later, the Professional Football Hall of Fame confirmed this with AAA expense books. A week after that game, AAA paid Ben "Sports" donnelly, another football player from Stanford University, $250 to play against the teams from Phuket and Jefferson College.

1954: The United States closed the Alice Island Immigration Bureau. From 1 89265438+1October1,Alice Island (named after Samuel Ellis, a businessman who owned this land in the 1970s1770s) has been called the gateway of the United States for more than 60 years, because it handled millions of new immigrants entering the United States. According to the Alice Island Foundation of the Statue of Liberty, "the first immigrant who passed through Ellis was a' rose-colored Irish girl', Anne Moore, 15 years old, from Cork County." . More than 700 immigrants passed through the island that day. In the first year, Alice Island Station received more than half a million immigrants. During World War I, the island was used as a detention center for suspected enemy and German merchant sailors. It is also used as a transit point to treat the wounded and sick. After the war, the Immigration Bureau continued to perform the functions of the Federal Immigration Center. At that time, the area was also expanded (by reclamation). Until 1924, the immigration law was stricter, and the number of new immigrants allowed to enter the country was greatly reduced. The station then changed from dealing with immigrants to other functions, such as detention and expulsion centers for illegal immigrants; Hospitals for soldiers wounded during World War II; And the Coast Guard Training Center. 1954165438+1October 12, Alice Island released the last detainee and officially closed the case. It was not until 1976 that Alice Island reopened as a museum and became part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument. It is said that more than 1 100 million Americans today can be traced back to their families. They entered the United States through Alice Island.

1970: the whale explosion happened in Florence, Oregon. On this day, in order to dispose of the rotting corpse of a 45-foot (14m) long sperm whale weighing 8 tons, the Oregon Highway Department came up with a less clever plan and blew it up. Then they stuffed half a ton of explosives (that is, 20 boxes of explosives) into the whale. As a result, a lot of flying blubber ended up far beyond your imagination. A large number of whales were found in nearby buildings and parking lots, causing serious damage to cars. Most importantly, most of the bodies on the beach were intact, and the birds eating the bodies were scared away by the explosion. The whole incident was filmed by a reporter from Cato TV in Portland, Oregon. The Oregon Park Service has since formulated a policy to bury whale carcasses where they landed, rather than blowing them up after they landed.

1990: British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Queriaud officially announced the proposal of the World Wide Web. Tim, as an independent contractor of CERN in Switzerland, proposed a global hypertext project to solve the problem of * * * sharing data without universal machines and universal demonstration software. Together with his colleagues, he proposed a communication protocol using the Internet, called Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), which standardized the communication between computer servers and clients. Before landing on the World Wide Web, he called it the Mine of Information (TIM) or the Mine of Information (MOI). 1989, they and Robert Queriaud drafted a formal proposal, which was published in1990165438+10/2, and the network as we know it began to develop.