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Today in History 06/21/17

Illustration of a meeting of 'Molly Maguire' men during a strike at a coal mine circa 1870 (© Kean Collection/Getty Images)(1877) Irish immigrant activists executed in Pennsylvania
Ten men are executed for murder in two separate Pennsylvania hangings, but the guilty verdicts against the ‘Molly Maguires,’ a group of Irish immigrant coal miners, will remain controversial, as many believe they were made martyrs for attempting to unionize fellow workers.
The Molly Maguires was an Irish 19th-century secret society active in Ireland, Liverpool and parts of the eastern United States, best known for their activism among Irish-American and Irish immigrant coal miners in Pennsylvania. After a series of often violent conflicts, twenty suspected members of the Molly Maguires were convicted of murder and other crimes and were executed by hanging in 1877 and 1878. This history remains part of local Pennsylvania lore.
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1964 FBI poster seeking information as to the whereabouts of Andrew Goodman, James Earl Chaney and Michael Henry Schwerner, civil rights campaigners who went missing in Mississippi. (© MPI/Getty Images)(1964) Three civil rights workers disappear in Mississippi
Andrew Goodman, James Chaney, and Mickey Schwerner are in Mississippi to register black voters, and after being arrested and released by the local sheriff, are never seen alive again. Eighteen people will be charged with their deaths in what becomes known as the ‘Mississippi Burning’ murders.
In June 1964 in Neshoba County, Mississippi, three civil rights workers were abducted and murdered in an act of racial violence. The victims were Andrew Goodman and Michael “Mickey” Schwerner from New York City, and James Chaney from Meridian, Mississippi. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations and its member organization the Congress of Racial Equality. They had been working with the “Freedom Summer” campaign by attempting to register African Americans in the southern states to vote. This registration effort was a part of contesting over 70 years of laws and practices that supported a systematic policy of disenfranchisement of potential black voters by several southern states that began in 1890.
Date: Jun 21, 1964

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Pelé celebrates scoring for Brazil against Italy in the World Cup final on June 21, 1970 (© Varley/Colosport/Rex Features)(1970) Pelé and Brazil win World Cup in legendary final
Mexico City’s Azteca Stadium is filled to the brim as Brazil and Italy meet in football’s World Cup final. The game will pass into legend, in part for superstar Pelé’s magnificent athleticism, and team captain Carlos Alberto’s final goal, considered by many the greatest of all time.
The 1970 FIFA World Cup Final was held on Sunday, 21 June, in the Estadio Azteca in Mexico City, to determine the winner of the 1970 FIFA World Cup. This final, between Brazil and Italy, marked the first time that two former world champions met in a final; Italy had previously won the World Cup in 1934 and 1938, while Brazil won in 1958 and 1962.
Date: Jun 21, 1970
Champion: Brazil national football team

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US Marshalls escort John Hinckley Jr. as he returns to a marine base via helicopter in Quantico, Virginia, on Aug 8, 1981 (© Barry Thumma/AP)(1982) Would-be presidential assassin is found legally insane
Having shot six times at President Ronald Reagan in an assassination attempt, John Hinckley, Jr. is found not guilty by reason of insanity. The verdict will spur much argument, leading states to change or even abolish laws allowing the admissibility of the insanity defense in US courts.
John Warnock Hinckley Jr. is an American citizen who, on March 30, 1981, attempted to assassinate U.S. President Ronald Reagan in Washington, D.C. Hinckley wounded Reagan with a bullet that ricocheted and hit him in the chest. Hinckley also wounded police officer Thomas Delahanty and Secret Service agent Timothy McCarthy, and critically wounded Press Secretary James Brady. All of the shooting victims survived, although Brady’s 2014 death was later ruled a homicide 33 years after he was shot.
Born: May 29, 1955 (age 62) · Ardmore, OK
Parents: Jo Ann Moore · John Warnock Hinckley Sr.
Siblings: Scott · Diane
Education: Yale University · Texas Tech University · Highland Park High School
Highlights
  • 1955: John Warnock Hinckley Jr. was born on May 29, 1955 in Ardmore, Oklahoma, and moved with his wealthy family to Dallas, Texas, at the age of 4.

  • 1981: On March 30, 1981, at 2:27 p.m. local time, Hinckley shot a .22 caliber Röhm RG-14 revolver six times at Reagan as he left the Hilton Hotel in Washington, D.C., after the president addressed an AFL–CIO conference.

  • 1982: At his trial in 1982, in Washington, D.C., having been charged with 13 offenses, Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity on June 21.

  • 2005: On December 30, 2005, a federal judge ruled that Hinckley would be allowed visits, supervised by his parents, to their home in Williamsburg, Virginia.

  • 2011: On March 29, 2011, the day before the 30th anniversary of the assassination attempt, Hinckley’s attorney filed a court petition requesting more freedom for his client, including additional unsupervised visits to the Virginia home of Hinckley’s mother, Joanne.

  • 2016: Hinckley was released from institutional psychiatric care on September 10, 2016, and will live full-time at his mother’s home.

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Today in History 05/08/17

Rumor the German Shepherd at the Westminster Kennel Club 141st Annual Dog Show (© Eugene Gologursky/WireImage/Getty Images)(1877) First Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show held
A group of hunters who had formed the Westminster Kennel Club hold their first dog show at Gilmore’s Garden, later renamed Madison Square Garden. The show is an immediate success and will become the second-longest running continuously held sporting event in the U.S.
The Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show is a prestigious all-breed conformation show that has been held in New York City annually since 1877. Currently, the breed and Junior Showmanship competitions are held at Piers 92 and 94, while the group and Best in Show competitions are held at Madison Square Garden. The number of entries is so large at nearly 3000 that two days are required for all dogs to be judged.
Website: hwww.westminsterkennelclub.org
First occurred: May 08, 1877

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The first business to sell Coca-Cola was at the soda fountain in Jacob's Pharmacy, 1886, in Atlanta, Georgia (© John Van Hasselt/Sygma/Corbis)(1886) First bottles of Coca-Cola sold
Jacob’s Pharmacy in Atlanta, Georgia, begins offering a bubbly beverage called Coca-Cola, a patent medicine said to ease ailments such as dyspepsia, headache, impotence, and morphine addiction. The drink will become rather popular as time goes by.
Coca-Cola is a carbonated soft drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company. Originally intended as a patent medicine, it was invented in the late 19th century by John Pemberton and was bought out by businessman Asa Griggs Candler, whose marketing tactics led Coca-Cola to its dominance of the world soft-drink market throughout the 20th century. The drink’s name refers to two of its original ingredients, which were kola nuts and coca leaves. The current formula of Coca-Cola remains a trade secret, although a variety of reported recipes and experimental recreations have been published.
Website: www.cocacola.com
Inventor: John Pemberton

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The ruins of Rue Victor Hugo and La Place Du Mouillage after the blast of the Mount Pelée volcano on May 10, 1902 at St. Pierre, Martinique (© Archive Farms/Getty Images)(1902) Saint-Pierre buried after Mount Pelée erupts on Martinique
Called “the Paris of the Caribbean,” Saint-Pierre is wiped off the map as Martinique’s Mount Pelée volcano erupts with a fury, sending black clouds of superheated gases and dust 420 mph over the seaside town. More than 30,000 will perish in what will be the worst volcanic disaster of the 20th century.
Mount Pelée is a semi-active volcano at the northern end of Martinique, an island and French overseas department in the Lesser Antilles island arc of the Caribbean. Its volcanic cone is composed of layers of volcanic ash and hardened lava. The volcano is currently in a quiescent state, which means it is not active, but is registering seismic activity.
Last eruption: 1932
Elevation: 4,583 feet (1,397 m)
Prominence: 4,583 feet (1,397 m)
Mountain range: Lesser Antilles Volcanic Arc

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People celebrating VE Day along the Champs Élysées in Paris on May 8, 1945 (© Serge DE SAZO/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)(1945) German surrender ends WWII in Europe
With the unconditional surrender of the German military now official, the Allies and their supporters celebrate with massive VE Day demonstrations around the globe. The deadliest conflict in world history is over in Europe, but WWII still rages on in the Pacific.
Victory in Europe Day, generally known as V-E Day, VE Day or simply V Day, was the public holiday celebrated on 8 May 1945 to mark the formal acceptance by the Allies of World War II of Nazi Germany’s unconditional surrender of its armed forces. It thus marked the end of World War II in Europe.
Allied Army Positions on May 10 1945

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Today in History 03/15/17

Detail from 'The Death of Caesar' (1798) by Vincenzo Camuccini (© Leemage/UIG/Getty Images)(44 BCE) Roman dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated
The usually festive Ides of March take a tragic turn as ‘dictator-for-life’ Julius Caesar is attacked by a group of knife-weilding Roman senators. Among the assassins is Caesar’s protégé and friend, Marcus Brutus.
The assassination of Julius Caesar was the result of a conspiracy by many Roman senators. Led by Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus, and Marcus Junius Brutus, they stabbed Julius Caesar to death in a location adjacent to the Theatre of Pompey on the Ides of March, 44 BC. Caesar was the dictator of the Roman Republic at the time, having recently been declared dictator perpetuo by the Senate. This declaration made several senators fear that Caesar wanted to overthrow the Senate in favor of tyranny. The conspirators were unable to restore the Roman Republic. The ramifications of the assassination led to the Liberators’ civil war and, ultimately, to the Principate period of the Roman Empire.
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The first Australian cricket team to visit England, circa 1878 (© Hulton Archive/Getty Images)(1877) Australia and England meet in debut Test cricket match
Melbourne is the site of cricket’s first officially recognized Test match, with Australia hosting rival England in the sport’s most demanding challenge. This four-day match ends with Australia winning by 45 runs.

Test matches in the period 1877 to 1883 were organised somewhat differently from international cricket matches today. The teams were rarely representative, and the boat trip between Australia and England, which usually lasted about 48 days, was one that many cricketers (especially amateurs) were unable or unwilling to undertake. As such, the home teams enjoyed a great advantage.

Thirteen Test Matches were played during the period, all between Australian and English sides. Most were not styled as representative “England v. Australia” contests, however: this description was only applied later by cricket statisticians. The same is true of their designation as “Test matches”, which did not enter into the vernacular until 1885. Eleven of the thirteen matches played to 1883 were in Australia, where the colonials made the most of their home advantage, winning seven while England won four, and two matches were drawn.

By 1883, the tradition of England-Australia tours was well established, that year having concluded the first Ashes series. When England lost at home for the first time in 1882, The Sporting Times lamented the death of cricket in the mother country and declared that “the body will be cremated and the ashes taken to Australia”. England captain Ivo Bligh promised that on the tour to Australia in 1882–83 he would regain “the ashes” and the term began to be established. During that tour a small terracotta urn was presented to Bligh by a group of Melbourne women. The urn is commonly, but erroneously, believed to be the trophy of the Ashes series, but it has never been formally adopted as such and Bligh always considered it to be a personal gift.

A number of the problems that continue to bedevil cricket today had already surfaced by 1883: there were umpiring disputes, betting controversies, match-fixing, and even a riot.


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Film stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton at their first wedding in Montreal, Canada, on March 15, 1964 (© William Lovelace/Evening Standard/Getty Images)(1964) Hollywood power couple Taylor and Burton get hitched
Screen star Elizabeth Taylor takes her fifth walk down the aisle and British thespian Richard Burton his second, as they marry following an affair that caused years of tabloid frenzy. They will divorce 10 years later, only to remarry after just months later. Their second marriage will last less than a year.
Elizabeth Taylor

Elizabeth Taylor


Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, DBE was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well known public figure for the rest of her life. The American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend in 1999.

Lived: Feb 27, 1932 – Mar 23, 2011 (age 79)
Height: 5′ 3″ (1.60 m)
Spouse: Larry Fortensky (m. 1991 – 1996) · John Warner (m. 1976 – 1982) · Richard Burton (m. 1975 – 1976) · Richard Burton (m. 1964 – 1974) · Eddie Fisher (m. 1959 – 1964) · Mike Todd (m. 1957 – 1958) · Michael Wilding
Children: Maria Burton (Daughter) · Liza Todd (Daughter) · Michael Wilding Jr. (Son) · Christopher Edward Wilding (Son)
Buried: Forest Lawn Memorial Park

Richard Burton

Richard Burton


Richard Burton, CBE was a Welsh actor who was noted for his mellifluous baritone voice. Burton established himself as a formidable Shakespearean actor in the 1950s, and he gave a memorable performance of Hamlet in 1964. He was called “the natural successor to Olivier” by critic and dramaturg Kenneth Tynan. An alcoholic, Burton’s failure to live up to those expectations disappointed critics and colleagues and fueled his legend as a great thespian wastrel.

Lived: Nov 10, 1925 – Aug 05, 1984 (age 58)
Height: 5′ 10″ (1.78 m)
Spouse: Sally Burton (m. 1983 – 1984) · Susan Hunt (m. 1976 – 1982) · Elizabeth Taylor (m. 1975 – 1976) · Elizabeth Taylor (m. 1964 – 1974) · Sybil Williams (m. 1949 – 1963)
Children: Kate Burton (Daughter) · Liza Todd (Daughter) · Maria Burton (Daughter) · Jessica Burton (Daughter)
Siblings: Ifor Jenkins (Brother) · Cecilia Jenkins (Sister) · Graham Jenkins (Brother)


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President Lyndon B. Johnson addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, DC, March 15, 1965, to outline his proposals for voting rights for all citizens. Vice President Hubert Humphrey is at left and House Speaker John McCormack is at right. (© AP)(1965) President Johnson’s civil rights speech
The struggles of civil rights activists, and the recent violence they encountered in Alabama, inspire LBJ’s speech to the US Congress. He quotes the activists’ hallmark phrase, “we shall overcome,” and calls for voting rights for all. The speech will help galvanize support for the Voting Rights Act.

I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy.

I urge every member of both parties—Americans of all religions and of all colors—from every section of this country—to join me in that cause.

At times history and fate meet at a single time in a single place to shape a turning point in man’s unending search for freedom. So it was at Lexington and Concord. So it was a century ago at Appomattox. So it was last week in Selma, Alabama.

There is no Negro problem. There is no southern problem. There is no northern problem. There is only an American problem.

And we are met here tonight as Americans—not as Democrats or Republicans—we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.

This was the first nation in the history of the world to be founded with a purpose. The great phrases of that purpose still sound in every American heart, north and south: “All men are created equal” — “Government by consent of the governed” — “Give me liberty or give me death.”…

Those words are a promise to every citizen that he shall share in the dignity of man. This dignity cannot be found in man’s possessions. It cannot be found in his power or in his position. It really rests on his right to be treated as a man equal in opportunity to all others. It says that he shall share in freedom, he shall choose his leaders, educate his children, provide for his family according to his ability and his merits as a human being….

Many of the issues of civil rights are very complex and most difficult. But about this there can and should be no argument. Every American citizen must have an equal right to vote. There is no reason which can excuse the denial of that right. There is no duty which weighs more heavily on us than the duty we have to ensure that right.

Yet the harsh fact is that in many places in this country men and women are kept from voting simply because they are Negroes….

Experience has clearly shown that the existing process of law cannot overcome systematic and ingenious discrimination. No law that we now have on the books—and I have helped to put three of them there—can ensure the right to vote when local officials are determined to deny it.

In such a case our duty must be clear to all of us. The Constitution says that no person shall be kept from voting because of his race or his color. We have all sworn an oath before God to support and to defend that Constitution.

We must now act in obedience to that oath.

Wednesday I will send to Congress a law designed to eliminate illegal barriers to the right to vote….

To those who seek to avoid action by their National Government in their home communities—who want to and who seek to maintain purely local control over elections—the answer is simple. Open your polling places to all your people. Allow men and women to register and vote whatever the color of their skin. Extend the rights of citizenship to every citizen of this land. There is no constitutional issue here. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong—deadly wrong—to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote in this country. There is no issue of States rights or National rights. There is only the struggle for human rights.

I have not the slightest doubt what will be your answer….

But even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in Selma is part of a far larger movement which reaches into every section and State of America. It is the effort of American Negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American life.

Their cause must be our cause too, because it is not just Negroes but really it is all of us, who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome….

This great, rich, restless country can offer opportunity and education and hope to all—all black and white, all North and South, sharecropper and city dweller. These are the enemies—poverty, ignorance, disease—they are our enemies, not our fellow man, not our neighbor. And these enemies too—poverty, disease, and ignorance—we shall overcome.


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Today in History 01/08/17

Painting on cloth by Kills Two (1869-1927), Sioux Indian, of the conflict between General George Custer & Crazy Horse (© Universal History Archive/Getty Images)(1877) Crazy Horse’s last stand
A victor at Little Big Horn just six months earlier, Crazy Horse finds himself under attack by US forces. After exhausting all ammunition, the Oglala Lakota leader and his followers retreat, and by May, he and his surviving band will surrender.
The Battle of Wolf Mountain, also known the Battle of the Wolf Mountains, Miles’s Battle on the Tongue River, the Battle of the Butte and called the Battle of Belly Butte by the Northern Cheyenne, occurred January 8, 1877, in southern Montana Territory between soldiers of the United States Army against Lakota Sioux and Northern Cheyenne warriors during the Great Sioux War of 1876. It was fought about four miles southwest of modern-day Birney, along the Tongue River. In 2001, the Wolf Mountains Battlefield was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was raised to the status of National Historic Landmark in 2008.
Date: Jan 08, 1877

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Film still from RKO Pictures' 'Citizen Kane' starring Orson Welles, 1941 (© Apic/Getty Images)(1941) Hearst retaliates against ‘Citizen Kane’
Newspaper tycoon William Randolph Hearst bans ads for Orson Welles’ new movie ‘Citizen Kane,’ convinced it’s a malicious portrait of his life. The film will later be hailed as possibly the greatest ever made.
When a reporter is assigned to decipher newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane’s dying words, his investigation gradually reveals the fascinating portrait of a complex man who rose from obscurity to staggering heights. Though Kane’s friend and colleague Jedediah Leland, and his mistress, Susan Alexander, shed fragments of light on Kane’s life, the reporter fears he may never penetrate the mystery of the elusive man’s final word, “Rosebud.”
IMDB:www.imdb.com/title/tt0033467
Release date: Sep 05, 1941 (United States)
Director: Orson Welles
Estimated budget: $839,727 USD
Screenwriters: Orson Welles · Herman J. Mankiewicz · John Houseman · Mollie Kent · Roger Q. Denny
Awards: Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay
Music by: Bernard Herrmann

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Elvis Presley (1935 - 1977), circa 1950s (© Redferns/Getty Images)(1946) Elvis gets his first guitar
Gladys Presley brings her 11-year-old son Elvis to the Tupelo Hardware Store, in their hometown of Tupelo, Mississippi, buying him a $6.95 guitar as a birthday present. Less than a decade later he will set the rock ‘n roll scene on fire.
Elvis Aaron Presley was an American musician and actor. Regarded as one of the most significant cultural icons of the 20th century, he is often referred to as “the King of Rock and Roll”, or simply, “the King”.
IMDB:www.imdb.com/name/nm0000062
Website: elvis.com
Lived: Jan 08, 1935 – Aug 16, 1977 (age 42)
Height: 6′ 0″ (1.82 m)
Spouse: Priscilla Presley (m. 1967 – 1973)
Partner: Linda Thompson (1972 – 1976)
Children: Lisa Marie Presley (Daughter)
Buried: Graceland

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Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov looks out the window of the Russian space station Mir in February 1995. (© NASA/Space Frontiers/Getty Images)(1994) Russian cosmonaut blasts off for a long, long flight
Valeri Polyakov takes off aboard the Soyuz TM-18 en route to the Mir space station. He’ll conduct experiments on Mir for 437 days, the longest any human has ever been in space. Researchers will examine Polyakov during and after the mission to ascertain the mental and physical strains of extended space travel.
Valeri Vladimirovich Polyakov is a Russian former cosmonaut. He is the holder of the record for the longest single spaceflight in human history, staying aboard the Mir space station for more than 14 months during one trip. His combined space experience is more than 22 months.
Born: Apr 27, 1942 (age 74) · Tula, Russia
Space agency: Russian Federal Space Agency
Space missions: Soyuz TM-7 · Soyuz TM-6 · Soyuz TM-18 · Soyuz TM-20 · Mir
Highlights
  • 1964: Polyakov dedicated himself to the field of space medicine in 1964 after the flight of the first physician in space, Boris Yegorov, aboard Voskhod 1.

  • 1972: Polyakov was selected as a cosmonaut in Medical Group 3 on March 22, 1972.

  • 1988: His first flight into space occurred on Soyuz TM-6 in 1988.

  • 1994: Polyakov completed his second flight into space in 1994–1995, spending 437 days in space between launching on Soyuz TM-18 and landing on TM-20, setting the record for the longest time continuously spent in space by an individual in human history.

  • 1995: On January 9, 1995, after 366 days in space, Polyakov formally broke the spaceflight duration record previously set by Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov six years earlier.

  • 1995: He returned to Earth aboard Soyuz TM-20 on March 22, 1995.

  • 1999: Polyakov’s record for longest cumulative time in space of 678 days over two missions stood until surpassed in 1999 by cosmonaut Sergei Avdeyev with a total of 747 days in space during three different missions.

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Today in History

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(1877) Japan’s Satsuma Rebellion ends with the samurai’s last stand
1877 A Westernized army is replacing the samurai warrior class and this loss of status has incited Saigō Takamori to lead 40,000 samurai in the Satsuma Rebellion. Samurai defeats, however, have left just 500 or so warriors to fight one last stand against 30,000 Imperial Army troops at the Battle of Shiroyama..

The Battle of Shiroyama took place on 24 September 1877, in Kagoshima, Japan. It was the final battle of the Satsuma Rebellion, where the heavily outnumbered samurai under Saigō Takamori made their last stand against Imperial Japanese Army troops under the command of Generals Yamagata Aritomo and Kawamura Sumiyoshi. The battle culminated in the annihilation of Saigō’s army as well as his death, marking the end of the Satsuma Rebellion.

Date: Sep 24, 1877


— Source: wiki/Battle_of_Shiroyama
(1906) Wyoming’s monolith becomes a monument
Likely formed by a 40 million-year-old igneous intrusion, a 1,267-foot-high rock formation jutting from Wyoming’s Black Hills is designated as America’s first National Monument. Native Americans will petition that the name be changed from ‘Devils Tower’ to the Lakota ‘Bear Lodge.’. 1906

Devils Tower is an laccolithic butte composed of igneous rock in the Bear Lodge Mountains near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. It rises dramatically 1,267 feet above the Belle Fourche River, standing 867 feet from summit to base. The summit is 5,112 feet above sea level.

Area: 2.10 sq miles (5.45 km²)
Elevation: 5,112 feet (1,558 m)
First ascent: Jul 04, 1893
Established: Sep 24, 1906
Managed by: National Park Service
Website: https://www.nps.gov/deto


— Source: wiki/Devils_Tower
(1957) Ebbet’s Field bids farewell to their beloved ‘bums’
1957 The Brooklyn Dodgers beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 2-0 in a bittersweet victory as the Dodgers plays their final game at Ebbet’s Field. Just two years after winning their first World Series, the team’s been bought and will be moving to Los Angeles, much to the chagrin of their New York fans..

Ebbets Field was a Major League Baseball stadium in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New York City. It is known mainly as the home of the Brooklyn Dodgers baseball team of the National League, from 1913 to 1957, but was also home to three National Football League teams in the 1920s.

Opened: Apr 09, 1913
Closed: Sep 24, 1957
Destroyed: Feb 23, 1960
Capacity: 18,000


— Source: wiki/Ebbets_Field
(1982) Prince predicts premillennial partying
‘1999,’ the title track to the fifth album by rising Minneapolis music star Prince, hits the record stores and the airwaves. Its mixture of dance-party groove, cutting-edge synthesizers, and anti-nuke message grabs listeners almost two decades before the song’s titular time frame.. 1982

1999 is the fifth studio album by American recording artist Prince. It released on October 27, 1982 by Warner Bros. Records. The album was his first top ten album on the Billboard 200 chart in the United States and became the fifth best-selling album of 1983 and was certified Multi-Platinum by RIAA. 1999 was Prince’s breakthrough album, but his next album, Purple Rain, would become his most successful. The title track was a protest against nuclear proliferation and became his first top ten hit in countries outside the United States. It was also the first album to feature The Revolution. The band’s moniker is written in reverse on the front cover. According to the Rolling Stone Album Guide, “1999 may be Prince’s most influential album: Its synth-and-drum machine-heavy arrangements codified the Minneapolis sound that loomed over mid-’80s R&B and pop, not to mention the next two decades’ worth of electro, house, and techno.” In 2003, the TV network VH1 placed 1999 49th in its list of the greatest albums of all time. The album was also part of Slant Magazine’s list “The 50 Most Essential Pop Albums” and the magazine listed the album at #8 on its list of “Best Albums of the 1980s”.

Release year: 1982
Genre: Pop music, Contemporary Pop
Label: Warner Bros.
Artist: Prince


— Source: wiki/1999_(disambiguation)
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