| In 1617, the first one-way streets were established in London. An Act of Common Council was passed to regulate the "disorder and rude behaviour of Carmen, Draymen and others using Cartes." Seventeen narrow and congested lanes were specified. They ran into Thames Street, including Pudding Lane (where the Great Fire of London began in 1667). The traffic regulation continued for two centuries. |
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| Whereas many of our subjects in divers parts of our Colonies and Plantations in North America, misled by dangerous and ill designing men, and forgetting the allegiance which they owe to the power that has protected and supported them; after various disorderly acts committed in disturbance of the publick peace, to the obstruction of lawful commerce, and to the oppression of our loyal subjects carrying on the same; have at length proceeded to open and avowed rebellion, by arraying themselves in a hostile manner, to withstand the execution of the law, and traitorously preparing, ordering and levying war against us |
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| Throughout history, the Little Mermaid has provided inspiration to many. When the Danish brewer, Carl Jacobsen, attended a performance of ballet master Hans Beck's "The Little Mermaid" in 1909, he was so thrilled with the performance, particularly by leading prima donna Ellen Price that he ordered a statue to be erected in honour on the tale by Hans Christien Andersen. The Sculptor Edward Eriksen was commissioned to create a statue of the Little Mermaid to sit on a granite stone at Langelinie Pier, wistfully looking for her prince. She was modelled after the head of dancer Ellen Price and the torso of sculptor Edward Eriksen?s wife, Eline, and stands 165 centimetres tall and weights 175 kilograms. |
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| The Comic Strip Gasoline Alley was created by Frank King in 1919 for the Chicago Tribune. It had evolved from an earlier works called The Rectangle. When the Strip first started, it was more or less a reflection of middle American life in the back alley with a group of men and their automobiles. The main character was Walter Wallet, a young bachelor. One unique thing about the Gasoline Alley Strip was that all the characters grew up in real time, meening every year they were one year older. You can always guess the age of toys or other marketed items by the approximate age of Skeezix. |
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| Billy Jones and Ernest Hare became known as The Happiness Boys, because as radio entertainers they were sponsored, beginning in August 1923 on Manhattan New York station WEAF, by the Happiness Candy Stores. By 1924 they adopted "How Do You Do?" as their radio theme song. In 1928, Jones and Hare became the highest paid singers in radio, $1,250 a week. The two were billed as radio's first comedians and were also credited with creating and performing the first singing commercial. |
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| Seventeen-year-old Bob Feller makes his first start and strikes out 15, one less than the AL record, as Cleveland beats
St. Louis 4-1. This farm boy from Van Meter, Iowa was only 17 when he struck out eight members of the St. Louis Cardinals in three innings of an exhibition game. After this awesome display of pitching, Feller was advised to seek voluntary retirement from high school in order to sign a professional baseball contract. For 20 years, the teenage phenomena was known as "Bullet Bob" and "Rapid Robert." As a rookie, he struckout 15 batters in a single game, which at that time was an American League record. In 1940, Bullet Bob became the first American League pitcher to throw a complete game no-hitter on opening day. |
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| On August 23, 1939, four days after the economic agreement was signed and a little over a week before the beginning of World War II, Ribbentrop and Molotov signed the Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact. (The pact is also referred to as the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact and the Ribbentrop-Molotov Pact.) If there were ever a problem between the two countries, it was to be handled amicably. The pact was supposed to last for ten years; it lasted for less than two. |
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| The Lindy was named after American aviation hero Charles A. Lindbergh; and began its entry into the American lifestyle in 1927. In the late 1920's in Harlem Lindy Hop was breaking out wherever people were partying... But it wasn't until after the opening of the Savoy Ballroom that Lindy Hop got its name and a home. At the Savoy the Lindy Hop got hotter and hotter, as people danced to the top Big Bands in the land. When it looked like it couldn't get any better, a young dancer named Frankie "Musclehead" Manning created the first airsteps in 1935, and the Lindy Hop soared. |
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| The 25th anniversary tour begins and is highlighted by the team's 4,000th career game. The Globetrotters play before 75,000 fans packed into Berlin's Olympic Stadium. Just prior to the game, a helicopter lands on the field and emerging from the helicopter was the Globetrotters' special guest, 1948 U.S. Olympian Jesse Owens. The Berlin crowd cheered Owens for a solid 15 minutes before the start of the game. |
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| She joined the Columbia roster in 1950 and made several hits for them, among them "You're Just in Love," "Beautiful Brown Eyes," "Half As Much," "Hey There," the number one hit "Come on-A My House," and "If Teardrops Were Pennies." Clooney had 13 Top 40 hits in the early '50s. |
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| Chattanooga OF Don Grate betters his 1952 record by throwing a baseball 443 feet 31_2 inches. Glen Gorbous will beat it in 1957. Don Grate, who averaged 11.3 points in four NCAA Tournament games in 1944 and 1945, pitched briefly for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1945 and 1946. He once held the world record for the farthest baseball throw (more than 400 feet). |
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| Founded by Keneth Olsen with $70,000. The leading producer "Minicomputers", DEC became the second largest computer company in the 1970s. Ken Olsen made the famous statement "There will never be a use for a computer in the home". Completely missing the PC revolution, DEC declined and was bought and disbanded by PC maker Compaq in 1998. |
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| Modugno won the San Remo Song Festival in 1958 with the song 'Nel Blu Dipinto di Blu', which became an international hit. Mitchell Parish wrote English lyrics for the tune, and it became popular on the American charts as 'Volare'. The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences presented its first Grammy awards in 1958 and chose Modugno as the best composer of the year and 'Volare' as the best song. |
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| In his quest to uncover the life of the secretive frog, Jorge Sabater was aided by the people of a local tribe called the Fangs. Their name for the Goliath is Niamoa, meaning "mother's son, because its size and limbs remind them of a small child. Sabater's frog weighed in at seven pounds, four and a half ounces (7 lbs, 4.5 oz). It had a snout vent length of about thirteen inches and measured thirty-two inches overall with legs extended. This established a world record for the largest frog set in 1960. |
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| This was an instant hit in the England, but not in America, where it was released on Swan records, the only US label that would take it. Swan put it out in September 1963, but while The Beatles were huge in England, they were still no big deal in America until February 1964. That's when Beatlemania took hold and this became a US hit. |
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| The Beatles' second film, is a wild and funny picture about a religious sect who attempts to recover a sacrificial ring from Ringo, forcing The Beatles to travel the globe. This movie, again directed by Richard Lester, includes the popular songs 'Ticket to Ride," 'Another Girl' and "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away." |
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| During its 35-day mission, Lunar Orbiter 1 collected an enormous quantity of data on the topography of the lunar surface. A total of 413 high- and moderate-resolution photographs were taken. This included 262,000 square kilometers of the nearside of the Moon and over 3,000,000 square kilometers of the farside. |
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| Like many Stones songs, it has highly suggestive lyrics, but they are just subtle enough to keep it from getting banned by radio stations. The Stones started recording this as a Country song based on Hank Williams' "Honky Tonk Blues." They made it into a rocker for release as a single and released the country version, "Country Tonk," a few months later on Let It Bleed. |
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| The Intelsat 4 series continued the growth of the Intelsat communications network. The series included the first commercial communications satellite built outside of the United States (F4 was assembled by British Aircraft Corporation). |
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| Their first two singles were released in 1971, but "Annabella" and "Daisy Mae" failed to reach the U.S. charts or get much radio play. Their third effort however, "Don't Pull Your Love" became a smash hit, climbing to number 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, although it failed to chart at all in the UK. The band continued to struggle artistically until 1975 when they released "Fallin' In Love", an easy listening ballad that was perfect for the adult oriented, FM soft rock market. The record shot up the U.S. charts, eventually hitting number one, while climbing to number 33 in the UK. |
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| Pilot Bryan Allen took off from Shafter Airport, Shafter, California, at 7:30 a.m. and landed 7 minutes, 27.5 seconds later. The official circuit, a figure-8 course around pylons one-half mile apart with a 10-foot hurdle at the beginning and the end, covered 1.15 miles. The Gossamer Condor traveled a total of 1.35 miles from takeoff to landing. Its flight speed was between 10 and 11 mph, with Allen, a championship bicyclist and hang-glider enthusiast, developing one-third horsepower. |
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| Olivia's next movie, Xanadu (1980), received a panning from the critics and did not draw the public into the cinema. However, the soundtrack was a roaring success, with Olivia's song Magic topping the US charts, and the title song, a duet with ELO, also selling well. The movie has since become something of a cult classic, with a small but dedicated following. |
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| Seattle pitcher Gaylord Perry is ejected in the 7th inning of a 4-3 loss to the Red Sox for doctoring the baseball. It is the first time in his 20 ML seasons that the self-proclaimed spitball king has been bounced for that offense. |
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| Said Aouita dominated middle distance running in the 1980s at all distances between 800m and 5000m. He raced often and he ran fast, and his name monopolised the all-time lists at many of these distances. At Berlin on 23 August, he recorded a time 3min 29.46sec for 1500m, breaking the World Record that Steve Cram (Great Britain) had set only five weeks earlier. |
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| The 3-million dollar suit charged that the NCAA interfered with his right to earn a living as a sports broadcaster. NCAA's Football Television Committee voted in March against Hornung being the color analyst for the broadcasts. He was awarded $1,160,000. |
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| This was one of the first Madonna songs to take on a political issue. Her previous hits, like "Holiday," "Borderline," and "Lucky Star," stayed well clear of controversy. |
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1617 First one-way streets established
(London)
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1775 England's King George III proclaimed the
American colonies in a state of open rebellion
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1883 Phillies make 27 errors against Providence
(wild pitches, walks & passballs count as errors prior to 1888)
1889 First ship-to-shore wireless message received
in US (SF)
1892 John H. Stedman of Rochester, NY patented
the printed streetcar transfer (also invented the fuzzy pipe cleaner)
1904 Automobile tire chain patented
1913 The statue of "The Little Mermaid" was unveiled in Copenhagen
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1919 "Gasoline Alley" cartoon strip
premiers in Chicago Tribune
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1923 Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, "The Happiness
Boys", debuted on radio
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1924 Mars' closest approach to Earth since the
10th century
1936 Bob Feller made his pitching debut with the
Cleveland Indians
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1939 USSR & Germany sign a non-aggression
pact
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1943 Lindy Hop makes the cover of "LIFE" magazine
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1951 Harlem Globetrotters play in Olympic Stadium,
Berlin before 75,052
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1952 "Half As Much" by Rosemary Clooney
topped the charts
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1953 Don Grate sets record for throwing a baseball
(443' 3")
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1957 Digital Equipment Corp. founded
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1958 Marie Ashton completes playing piano a female
record 133 hours
1958 "Volare" by Domenico Modugno topped
the charts
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1960 World's largest frog (7.25 lb.) caught (Equatorial
Guinea)
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1963 Beatles release "She Loves You"
in the UK
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1965 The U.S. premiere of the motion picture "Help!",
starring The Beatles
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1966 Lunar Orbiter 1 takes first photograph of
Earth from Moon
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1969 "Honky Tonk Woman" by the Rolling
Stones topped the charts
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1973 Intelsat communications satellite launched
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1975 "Fallin' in Love" by Hamilton,
Joe Frank & Reynolds topped the charts
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1977 First man-powered flight of a mile (Bryan
Allen in Gossamer Condor)
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1977 Cincinnati Bengals was trademark registered.
1980 "Magic" by Olivia Newton-John topped
the charts
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1982 Gaylord Perry was tossed out of a game for
throwing an illegal spitball
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1985 Said Aouita of Morroco sets the 1.5k record
(3:29.46) in Berlin
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1985 Paul Hornung sues NCAA and wins
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1986 "Papa Don't Preach" by Madonna
topped the charts
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