Peristiwa Dunia, Mitos & Sejarah

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punkerzoe posted on 24-9-2013 01:41 PM
Sept 24, 1996:
Stephen King releases two books at once

nice!! aku suka stephen king

anniez08

Sep 25, 1897:  William Faulkner is born

                William Faulkner is born this day near Oxford, Mississippi. Faulkner's father was the business manager of the University of Mississippi, and his mother was a literary woman who encouraged Faulkner and his three brothers to read.
  Faulkner was a good student but lost interest in studies during high school. He dropped out sophomore year and took a series of odd jobs while writing poetry.
  In 1918, his high school girlfriend, Estelle Oldham, married another man, and Faulkner left Mississippi. He joined the British Royal Flying Corps, but World War I ended before he finished his training in Canada, and he returned to Mississippi. A neighbor funded the publication of his first book of poems, The Marble Faun (1924). His first novel, Soldiers' Pay, was published two years later.
  In 1929, Faulkner finally married Estelle, his high school sweetheart, who had divorced her first husband after having two children. The couple bought a ruined mansion near Oxford and began restoring it while Faulkner finished The Sound and the Fury, published in October 1929. The book opens with the interior monologue of a developmentally disabled mute character. His next book, As I Lay Dying (1930), featured 59 different interior monologues. Light in August (1932) and Absalom, Absalom (1936) also challenged traditional forms of fiction.
  Faulkner's difficult novels did not earn him enough money to support his family, so he supplemented his income selling short stories to magazines and working as a Hollywood screenwriter. He wrote two critically acclaimed films, both starring Humphrey Bogart: To Have and Have Not was based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, and The Big Sleep was based on a mystery by Raymond Chandler.
  Faulkner's reputation received a significant boost with the publication of The Portable Faulkner (1946), which included his many stories set in Yoknapatawpha county. Three years later, in 1949, he won the Nobel Prize in literature. His Collected Stories (1950) won the National Book Award. During the rest of his life, he lectured frequently on university campuses. He died of a heart attack at age 65.
            
                           

novelloverzz

anniez08 posted on 25-9-2013 12:07 AM
Sep 25, 1897:  William Faulkner is born

setia pada cinta...

jarikuku

HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Kerja-kerja Pembinaan Stadium Merdeka Dimulakan

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1956, kerja-kerja pembinaan Stadium Merdeka telah dimulakan. Pembinaan stadium ini dilakukan atas desakan Persatuan Bola Sepak Selangor dan Persatuan Bola Sepak Malaya selepas Perang Dunia Kedua kerana stadium yang terdapat di Jalan Ampang tidak dapat digunakan lagi. Pada 15 September 1955, Jawatankuasa Perancangan Pembinaan Stadium diwujudkan bagi mengkaji pelan dan kos pembinaannya. Sebanyak 160 pelan cadangan dikemukakan kepada kerajaan dengan kos pembinaan dianggarkan berjumlah $ 2.3 juta. Tetuan K.C Boon Co. Ltd dan Tetuan Lim Quee and Sons telah dilantik sebagai kontraktor utama serta pengendaliannya dilakukan oleh Jabatan Kerja Raya Tanah Melayu. Pada 15 Februari 1957, YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra, Perdana Menteri Persekutuan Tanah Melayu telah meletakkan batu asas stadium ini. Pembinaan stadium ini dipercepatkan bagi membolehkan acara sambutan kemerdekaan Tanah Melayu dapat dilakukan pada 31 Ogos 1957. Pada 21 Ogos 1957, pembinaan Stadium Merdeka selesai dilakukan dan pengendaliannya diserahkan kepada Lembaga Penguasa (Board of Control). Stadium Merdeka telah dibuka kepada orang ramai buat pertama kalinya pada 24 hingga 29 Ogos 1957. Upacara perasmian stadium ini telah disempurnakan oleh YTM Tunku Abdul Rahman pada 30 Ogos 1957. Pembinaan Stadium Merdeka pada hari ini dalam tahun 1957 menjadi lambang kemegahan negara kerana ia bukan sahaja menjadi lokasi bagi acara-acara sukan tetapi juga menjadi lokasi bagi acara-acara penting negara.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

jarikuku

TODAY IN HISTORY - 25.9.1820: Ampère’s Law

Using an astatic pair of needles, the French physicist discovered that parallel currents attract, whilst opposite currents repel. He used this to devise a law for the dynamic effects of live conductors, which led to the development of powerful electromagnets. The unit of electric current is named after Ampère. He published his electrodynamic theory and views on the relationship between electricity and magnetism in 1822 and 1826.

Source : Deutsche Welle

anniez08

novelloverzz posted on 25-9-2013 08:51 AM
setia pada cinta...

so sweetttt.. kan nov..

novelloverzz

anniez08 posted on 25-9-2013 01:52 PM
so sweetttt.. kan nov..

tu la kan..mst pompuan tu terharu sgt2...

jarikuku

HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pelancaran TiungSAT-1

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 2000, Satelit Mikro pertama negara, TiungSAT-1 telah dilancarkan ke orbit pada jam 6.05 petang waktu Malaysia dari Pusat Pelancaran Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakshtan. Satelit Mikro negara yang pertama ini dibina menerusi kerjasama teknikal antara Malaysia Astronautic Technology Sdn. Bhd. (ATSB), Bahagian Sains Angkasa (BAKSA), Jabatan Perdana Menteri; dan Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), United Kingdom. TiungSAT-1 yang beratnya 50 kilogram ini mempunyai keupayaan mengambil gambar muka bumi pada resolusi 80 meter dari aras bumi untuk kegunaan pemantauan sumber perhutanan, pertanian dan pencemaran. Stesen setelit buminya terletak di Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM). Satelit mikro pertama yang berharga RM 34 juta ini dibangunkan oleh sekumpulan lapan jurutera dan pensyarah Malaysia melalui kerjasama pemindahan teknologi dan latihan mendalam dengan Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL), yang berpangkalan di Pusat Angkasa Lepasa Surrey di Universiti Surrey, United Kingdom.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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TODAY IN HISTORY - 26.9.1887: Presentation Of The Gramophone

The inventor Thomas Alva Edison had already registered the patent for a machine for recording voices in 1877, the so-called Edison phonograph. He stretched a diaphragm with a cutting stylus across the tapered end of a funnel, which was attached to a tin foil cylinder.

If one turned the cylinder and at the same time spoke into the funnel, the stylus moved up and down through the vibrating diaphragm and left traces on the cylinder in point recording, also known as vertical recording. So that as much pressure as possible was exerted on the stylus, the voices had to be very powerful, so, for a long time, hit songs and military marches prevailed with the cylinders and later when recording records.

The Edison phonographs, however, had a significant disadvantage: they could not be duplicated and the sound quality left a lot to be desired. As Edison however had registered his patent, inventors who wished to develop his ideas further had to devise new systems. On 26th September 1887, the German American Emile Berliner registered a device at the Washington Patent Office, which he named “gramophone”.

Monika Riemke of the EMI-Electrola record company explained: “Gramophone comes from Greek: It is made up of gramma (writing, written) and phon (sound, voice).”

Thanks to his gift for invention, the German Emile Berliner worked his way up to the management level of the American Bell Telephone Company, which purchased his patent for a telephone microphone. Emile Berliner, however, was not only interested in sound transmission but also in sound recording and in particular in the patents of Edison, which he developed further.

For his recording and playing device, the gramophone, he developed a lateral recording process, which is explained by John Krämer, recording technician at EMI Electrola:
“He bent the cutting stylus at an angle of 90o to the diaphragm, so that the sound waves now came out laterally. But the cutting stylus moved horizontally, so the groove remained the same depth. He was able to use a flat disc, more or less the first record, and because it was flat, it could be duplicated and pressed.”

Right into the nineteen-fifties, records were still pressed out of shellac, a mixture of heavy spar, soot and animal hairs. In order to produce a template for duplication, zinc discs were covered with a layer of liquid wax in which the cutting stylus embedded the grooves.

The recording procedure was still rather awkward, as Alfred Kaine, repertoire manager for Deutsches Grammophon (German Gramophones) in Hamburg, explains:

“The orchestra, the ensemble stood or sat in front of a horn, the singer was on a platform on wheels. When it grew loud, she was pushed away, when it grew quiet she was pushed towards the horn and behind a curtain a technician boiled the wax.”

A further disadvantage: The first gramophones could only be operated via a hand crank. This wasn’t exactly a treat for the ears, as was reflected in the low sales figures. It wasn’t until the introduction of the spring motor and Caruso’s voice that the gramophone made its breakthrough.

Thanks to progress made in sound quality, the electrical recording process was launched in the 1920s; microphones and loudspeakers replaced the funnel. In the 1950s, vinyl records were launched on the market; from 1957 these were produced in stereo. The era of shellac and gramophones had finally come to an end.

The gramophone only remained in the trademark of a record company: In 1900, the “Gramophon Company” chose a drawing by Henry Barraud as its logo. This is the famous dog Nipper, who sits in front of a gramophone, listening to his master’s voice.

In 1931, the “Gramophon Company” and the “Columbia Graphophone Company” founding the holding company “Electric and Musical Industries”, EMI for short. Up until today, the company has kept their emblem with the dog and gramophone as a logo. And that is not the only legacy of Emile Berliner’s one-time invention. Although the Compact Disc set out to conquer the music industry in 1982, EMI still presses vinyl records even today.

John Krämer of EMI explained, “A stereo record experiences both movements, vertical recording and lateral recording, otherwise two channels couldn’t be recorded. On the vinyl records that we make today, the left channel is that of Edison and the right that of Berliner.”

Source : Deutsche Welle

punkerzoe

Sep 26, 1888:
T.S. Eliot is born

                On this day, poet T.S. Eliot is born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Eliot's distinguished family tree included an ancestor who arrived in Boston in 1670 and another who founded Washington University in St. Louis. Eliot's father was a businessman, and his mother was involved in local charities.


Eliot took an undergraduate degree at Harvard, studied at the Sorbonne, returned to Harvard to study Sanskrit, and then studied at Oxford. After meeting poet and lifelong friend Ezra Pound, Eliot relocated to England. In 1915, he married Vivian Haigh-Wood, but the marriage was unhappy, partly due to her mental instability. She died in an institution in 1947.


Eliot began working at Lloyd's Bank in 1917, writing reviews and essays on the side. He founded a critical quarterly, Criterion, and quietly developed a new brand of poetry. His first major work, The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock, was published in 1917 and hailed as the invention of a new kind of poetry. His long, fragmented images and use of blank verse influenced nearly all future poets, as did his masterpiece The Waste Land, published in Criterion and the American review The Dial in 1922. While Eliot is best known for revolutionizing modern poetry, his literary criticism and plays were also successful. In 1925, he accepted a job as an editor at Faber and Faber, which allowed him to quit his job at the bank. He held the position for the rest of his life.


Eliot lectured in the United States frequently in the 1930s and 1940s, a time when his own worldview was fluctuating: He converted to Christianity. In 1957, he married his assistant, Valerie Fletcher. The couple lived happily until his death in 1965.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/ts-eliot-is-born

            

punkerzoe

Sept 27, 1996:
F. Scott Fitzgerald stamp is issued

                On this day in 1996, the U.S. Postal Service issues an F. Scott Fitzgerald commemorative stamp.
Fitzgerald was born in St. Paul, Minnesota, to a once well-to-do family that had lost much of its wealth and influence. A well-off aunt sent Fitzgerald to boarding school in New Jersey in 1911 and later to Princeton. Although Fitzgerald engaged actively in theater, arts, and other campus activities, his financial background was considerably poorer than those of his classmates, and he resented what he perceived as his outsider status. He left Princeton after three years and joined the Army during World War I.


During his Army service, he was stationed in Montgomery, Alabama, where he fell in love with Zelda Sayre, daughter of a State Supreme Court justice. She rejected the young man, fearing he would not be able to support her. Fitzgerald vowed to win her back. He moved to New York and wrote This Side of Paradise (1920), which immediately launched the 23-year-old writer to fame and fortune. Impressed by his success, Zelda agreed to marry him, and the two began a whirlwind life of glamorous parties and extravagant living in New York.


Unfortunately, the Fitzgeralds lived far beyond their means and soon found themselves deeply in debt. They moved to Europe, hoping to cut back on expenses. There, they befriended other expatriate writers, including Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. While in Europe, Fitzgerald finished his masterpiece The Great Gatsby (1925). However, Europe proved no cheaper for the Fitzgeralds. Although Fitzgerald published dozens of short stories–178 in his lifetime, for which he was amply paid–the couple's debts mounted. Fitzgerald plunged into alcoholism, and his wife became increasingly unstable. In 1930, she suffered the first of several breakdowns and was institutionalized. She spent the rest of her life in a sanitarium. Fitzgerald's next novel, Tender Is the Night, failed to resonate with the American public, and Fitzgerald's fortunes plummeted. In 1937, he moved to Hollywood to try screenwriting. He fell in love with a Hollywood gossip columnist, stopped drinking, and began renewed literary efforts, but died of a heart attack in 1940 at the age of 44.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... ald-stamp-is-issued

            

punkerzoe

Sep 30, 1868:
First volume of Little Women is published

               

The first volume of Louisa May Alcott's beloved children's book Little Women is published on this day. The novel will become Alcott's first bestseller and a beloved children's classic.

Like the fictional Jo March, Alcott was the second of four daughters. She was born in Pennsylvania but spent most of her life in Concord, Massachusetts, where her father, Bronson, associated with Transcendentalist thinkers Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau. The liberal attitudes of the Transcendentalists left a strong mark on Louisa May Alcott. Her father started a school based on Transcendentalist teachings, but after six years it failed, and he was left unable to support the family. Louisa dedicated most of her life and writing to supporting her family. In 1852, her first story, the Rival Painters: A Tale of Rome, was published in a periodical, and she made a living off sentimental and melodramatic stories over the next two decades. In 1862, she worked as a nurse for Union troops in the Civil War until typhoid fever broke her health. She turned her experiences into Hospital Sketches (1863), which earned her a reputation as a serious literary writer.

Looking for a bestseller, a publisher asked Alcott to write a book for girls. Although reluctant at first, she poured her best talent into the work, and the first volume of the serialized novel Little Women became an instant success. She wrote a chapter a day for the second half of the book. Her subsequent children's fiction, including Little Men (1871), An Old-Fashioned Girl (1870), Eight Cousins (1875), and Jo's Boys (1886), were not as popular as Little Women. She also wrote many short stories for adults. She became a strong supporter of women's issues and spent most of her life caring for her family's financial, emotional, and physical needs. Her father died in March 1888, and she followed him just two days later at the age of 55.

source: http://www.history.com/this-day- ... -women-is-published

            

jarikuku

TODAY IN HISTORY - The World's First Nuclear Submarine Commissioned

The USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine, is commissioned by the U.S. Navy.

The Nautilus was constructed under the direction of U.S. Navy Captain Hyman G. Rickover, a brilliant Russian-born engineer who joined the U.S. atomic program in 1946. In 1947, he was put in charge of the navy's nuclear-propulsion program and began work on an atomic submarine. Regarded as a fanatic by his detractors, Rickover succeeded in developing and delivering the world's first nuclear submarine years ahead of schedule. In 1952, the Nautilus' keel was laid by President Harry S. Truman, and on January 21, 1954, first lady Mamie Eisenhower broke a bottle of champagne across its bow as it was launched into the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut. Commissioned on September 30, 1954, it first ran under nuclear power on the morning of January 17, 1955.

Much larger than the diesel-electric submarines that preceded it, the Nautilus stretched 319 feet and displaced 3,180 tons. It could remain submerged for almost unlimited periods because its atomic engine needed no air and only a very small quantity of nuclear fuel. The uranium-powered nuclear reactor produced steam that drove propulsion turbines, allowing the Nautilus to travel underwater at speeds in excess of 20 knots.

In its early years of service, the USS Nautilus broke numerous submarine travel records and in August 1958 accomplished the first voyage under the geographic North Pole. After a career spanning 25 years and almost 500,000 miles steamed, the Nautilus was decommissioned on March 3, 1980. Designated a National Historic Landmark in 1982, the world's first nuclear submarine went on exhibit in 1986 as the Historic Ship Nautilus at the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, Connecticut.

Source : History Channel

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pelancaran Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1972 Perkhidmatan Penerbangan Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia (MAS) telah dilancarkan dengan rasmi di Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Subang oleh Pemangku Perdana Menteri Tun Dr. Ismail. Hadir sama dalam majlis pelancaran tersebut ialah Menteri Perhubungan Tan Sri Sardon Jubir dan Pengerusi MAS Encik G.K. Rama Iyer. Dengan pelancaran tersebut kapal terbang MAS akan memulakan operasinya pada 1 Oktober 1972 dengan lebih 20 penerbangan berlepas dari Lapangan Terbang Antarabangsa Subang dengan menggunakan lambang 'Wau Bulan'. Walaupun MAS syarikat yang baru muncul tetapi ianya mempunyai warisan sejarah yang cemerlang daripada syarikat MSA yang mempunyai pengalaman yang luas dalam perkhidmatan penerbangan. MAS bukan sahaja menjadi jambatan yang menghubungkan antara Malaysia Barat dengan Malaysia Timur tetapi juga menghubungkan Malaysia dengan negara-negara lain di dunia. Sistem Penerbangan MAS sebagai' National Flag Carrier' diharapkan dapat berkembang dengan lebih pesat membawa misi dan harapan rakyat Malaysia ke arah hubungan ekonomi dan sosial dengan dunia luar. Pelancaran perkhidmatan penerbangan MAS pada hari ini dalam tahun 1972 diharap dapat meningkatkan lagi mutu perkhidmatan udara di negara ini sebagai sebuah syarikat penerbangan.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

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1 OKTOBER 2013

On October 1, 1949, the People's Republic of China was formally established, with its national capital at Beijing.

• The proclamation was the climax of years of battle between Mao's communist forces and the regime of Nationalist Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek, who had been supported with money and arms from the American government
  

• "The Chinese people have stood up!" declared Mao as he announced the creation of a "people's democratic dictatorship."
  

• The people were defined as a coalition of four social classes: the workers, the peasants, the petite bourgeoisie, and the national-capitalists. The four classes were to be led by the CCP, as the vanguard of the working class. At that time the CCP claimed a membership of 4.5 million, of which members of peasant origin accounted for nearly 90 percent.
  

• The party was under Mao's chairmanship, and the government was headed by Zhou Enlai ( 1898-1976) as premier of the State Administrative Council (the predecessor of the State Council).
  

    This photo, taken on October 1, 1949, during a ceremony held at Tian'anmen Square in capital city Beijing,

shows Chinese former Chairman Mao Zedong declaring that the People's Republic of China was formally established

The national flag of the People's Republic of China was raised in Tiananmen Square

on October 1, 1949, the day the People's Republic of China was formally established.

The land force of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) passes through Tiananmen Square

during the nation founding day parade on October 1, 1949.

sos 1: http://www.china.org.cn/pictures/60th_anniversary/2009-08/20/content_18372175.htm
sos 2: http://www.chaos.umd.edu/history/prc.html

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Perasmian Menara Kuala Lumpur

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1996, Menara Kuala Lumpur telah dirasmikan oleh Perdana Menteri, Y.A.B Dato’ Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Menara telekomunikasi keempat tertinggi di dunia dan paling tinggi di Asia Tenggara ini berkedudukan 515 meter dari aras laut dengan ketinggian 421 meter. Tujuan pembinaanya adalah untuk mempertingkatkan kualiti telekomunikasi dan perkhidmatan transmisi penyiaran di negara ini. Kerja-kerja pembinaannya telah bermula pada Julai 1992 dengan kos sebanyak RM 270 juta. Ia telah dibuka kepada orang ramai pada 23 Julai 1996. Datuk Nik Mohammed bin Nik Mahmud merupakan arkitek yang bertanggungjawab mereka bentuk menara ini. Unsur reka bentuknya dipengaruhi oleh seni bina Islam, Jerman, Perancis dan tempatan. Menara Kuala Lumpur terletak dalam kawasan Hutan Simpan Bukit Nanas, salah satu hutan simpan tertua di negara ini menawarkan satu adunan budaya yang unik, pengembaraan dan alam semulajadi. Selain menjadi tarikan pelancong yang utama, Menara Kuala Lumpur memainkan peranan penting dalam bidang penyiaran dan telekomunikasi dengan rakan kongsi utamanya iaitu penyiar nasional, Radio Televisyen Malaysia (RTM) dan syarikat induknya, Telekom Malaysia. Menara ini menjadi lambang dan bukti bukan sahaja terhadap pencapaian negara tetapi juga kejayaan kepada pendekatan Dasar Penswastaan yang diperkenalkan oleh kerajaan.

Sumber : Arkib Negara

cikatilia

jarikuku posted on 30-9-2013 01:49 PM
HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Pelancaran Sistem Penerbangan Malaysia

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1972 Pe ...

airport subang dlm kenangan..


sedih.. kenapala they ols roboh bangunan tu... cantik aje..

jarikuku

TODAY IN HISTORY - Ford Motor Company Unveils The Model T

On October 1, 1908, the first production Model T Ford is completed at the company's Piquette Avenue plant in Detroit. Between 1908 and 1927, Ford would build some 15 million Model T cars. It was the longest production run of any automobile model in history until the Volkswagen Beetle surpassed it in 1972.

Before the Model T, cars were a luxury item: At the beginning of 1908, there were fewer than 200,000 on the road. Though the Model T was fairly expensive at first (the cheapest one initially cost $825, or about $18,000 in today's dollars), it was built for ordinary people to drive every day. It had a 22-horsepower, four-cylinder engine and was made of a new kind of heat-treated steel, pioneered by French race car makers, that made it lighter (it weighed just 1,200 pounds) and stronger than its predecessors had been. It could go as fast as 40 miles per hour and could run on gasoline or hemp-based fuel. (When oil prices dropped in the early 20th century, making gasoline more affordable, Ford phased out the hemp option.) "No car under $2,000 offers more," ads crowed, "and no car over $2,000 offers more except the trimmings."

Ford kept prices low by sticking to a single product. By building just one model, for example, the company's engineers could develop a system of interchangeable parts that reduced waste, saved time and made it easy for unskilled workers to assemble the cars. By 1914, the moving assembly line made it possible to produce thousands of cars every week and by 1924, workers at the River Rouge Ford plant in Dearborn, Michigan could cast more than 10,000 Model T cylinder blocks in a day.

But by the 1920s, many Americans wanted more than just a sturdy, affordable car. They wanted style (for many years, the Model T famously came in just one color: black), speed and luxury too. As tastes changed, the era of the Model T came to an end and the last one rolled off the assembly line on May 26, 1927.

Source : History Channel

anniez08

   Oct 2, 1985:Hollywood icon Rock Hudson dies of AIDS

On this day in 1985, actor Rock Hudson, 59, becomes the first major U.S. celebrity to die of complications from AIDS. Hudson's death raised public awareness of the epidemic, which until that time had been ignored by many in the mainstream as a "gay plague."
Hudson, born Leroy Harold Scherer Jr., on November 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Illinois, was a Hollywood heartthrob whose career in movies and TV spanned nearly three decades. With leading-man good looks, Hudson starred in numerous dramas and romantic comedies in the 1950s and 60s, including Magnificent Obsession, Giant and Pillow Talk. In the 1970s, he found success on the small screen with such series as McMillan and Wife.  To protect his macho image, Hudson's off-screen life as a gay man was kept secret from the public.
In 1984, while working on the TV show Dynasty, Hudson was diagnosed with AIDS. On July 25, 1985, he publicly acknowledged he had the disease at a hospital in Paris, where he had gone to seek treatment. The news that Hudson, an international icon, had AIDS focused worldwide attention on the disease and helped change public perceptions of it.
The first cases of AIDS were reported in 1981 and the earliest victims were gay men who often faced public hostility and discrimination. As scientists and health care officials called for funding to combat the disease, they were largely ignored by President Ronald Reagan and his administration. Rock Hudson was a friend of Reagan's and his death was said to have changed the president's view of the disease. However, Reagan was criticized for not addressing the issue of AIDS in a major public speech until 1987; by that time, more than 20,000 Americans had already died of the disease and it had spread to over 100 countries. By 2006, the AIDS virus had killed 25 million people worldwide and infected 40 million others.   

credit to: www.history.com   

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HARI INI DALAM SEJARAH - Perdana Menteri Merasmikan Terminal Bas Puduraya

Pada hari ini dalam tahun 1976, YAB Perdana Menteri Dato’ Hussein Onn telah merasmikan Hentian Pudu Raya, Kuala Lumpur. Hentian Pudu Raya yang dahulunya digunakan sebagai landasan keretapi dibina di kawasan 3 ekar dan terletak 3.5 meter di bawah Jalan Pudu. Pembinaan Hentian Puduraya bermula pada tahun 1973 dan siap sepenuhnya pada 1 September 1976. Ia mempunyai 24 ruang tempat letak bas dan boleh memuatkan sebanyak 40 buah bas. Hentian ini dibina dengan tujuan untuk menyediakan perkhidmatan bas ke bandar-bandar di seluruh semenanjung Malayasia, Singapura dan Selatan Thailand. Selain daripada itu, ia juga dapat mengurangkan masalah kesesakan lalu lintas di kawasan tersebut. Pada 12 April 2010, terminal ini ditutup buat sementara, setelah mendapati perlunya terminal ini dinaik taraf bagi meningkatkan perkhidmatan. Sehubungan itu operasi dipindahkan ke terminal bas sementara di Bukit Jalil sehingga selesainya kerja-kerja naik taraf pada 16 April 2011. Naik taraf pusat pengangkutan ini adalah di bawah Program Transformasi Kerajaan bagi meningkatkan perkhidmatan kepada rakyat. Pada 27 Ogos 2011, Perdana Menteri, Datuk Seri Mohd Najib Tun Razak merasmikan upacara pelancaran semula dan penamaan baru iaitu Pudu Sentral. Terminal bas ini yang dahulunya menyediakan perkhidmatan untuk ke bandar-bandar di seluruh Semenanjung Malaysia, tetapi ianya kini hanya beroperasi kepada syarikat perkhidmatan bas yang menuju destinasi ke Utara Semenanjung Malaysia sahaja. Manakala semua perkhidmatan bas ke selatan telah dipindahkan ke Terminal Bersepadu Selatan yang terletak di Bandar Tasik Selatan.

Sumber : Arkib Negara