Monthly Archives: April 2024

Sunday Stuff

On this day April 7

Today in History

  • 1990 An arson attack on the passenger ferry, Scandinavian Star, kills 159

    Insurance fraud is today considered the most likely motive for the attack. According to a 2013 report, 9 crew members started the fire and sabotaged the fire crew’s attempts to extinguish the blaze.

  • 1969 The internet is born

    The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) awarded a contract to build a precursor of today’s world wide web to BBN Technologies. The date is widely considered as the internet’s symbolic birthday.

  • 1948 The World Health Organization is established

    The WHO is a United Nations agency concerned with fighting disease and epidemics worldwide, building up national health services, and improving health education in its 194 member states.

  • 1827 The first friction match is sold

    English chemist John Walker produced and sold the first operable matches. They were soon banned in France and Germany because burning fragments would sometimes fall to the floor and start fires.

  • 1724 Johann Sebastian Bach’s St. John Passion is premiered

    The sacred oratorio is the oldest extant Passion by the German composer. The highly popular work is a dramatization of the final days of Jesus Christ, according to the Gospel of John.

Crime

Seatbelt Campaign

The Saint John Police will once again be conducting a Seatbelt Campaign between April 08th – 12th, 2024. The campaign will focus on educating the public about the dangers associated with driving without properly wearing a seatbelt and on the enforcement of seatbelt legislation.  

Breaking News

Gas price at the pumps Jumps by 7.7 cents a litre.

You Have A Shock coming If you are needing to fill up your gas tank this morning,

The interrupter clause was invoked overnight by the Energy and Utilities Board spiking the price at the pumps by 7.7 cents a litre.

SURPRISE !!!!!!!

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Maximum  for regular self-serve now sits at 183.2.

This comes just two days after a carbon tax increase raised prices by 3.03 cents a litre.

Diesel and furnace oil prices were not affected.

History

On this day April 3

Today in History

  • 1996 The Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski, is arrested

    The mathematician who was driven by anarchist ideas sent out 16 letter bombs between 1978 and 1995, killing 3 people and injuring 23.

  • 1973 The first public mobile telephone call is placed on a Manhattan sidewalk

    Motorola’s Martin Cooper called Joel Engel of Bell Labs. He later told the BBC that his first words were “Joel, I’m calling you from a ‘real’ cellular telephone. A portable handheld telephone.”

  • 1948 Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan

    $12.4 billion was allocated to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II and prevent communists from seizing control.

  • 1940 Soviet troops massacre about 22,000 Polish nationals

    The Katyn massacre is considered the worst massacre of prisoners of war in history. The order to execute all captive members of the Polish Officer Corps was signed by Joseph Stalin.

  • 1885 Gottlieb Daimler patents his engine design

    The German engineer’s so-called “grandfather clock engine” was lighter than previous four-stroke engines and is considered a milestone for the invention of the automobile.