| In 1673, Governor Francis Lovelace of New York established a monthly delivery system between New York City and Boston. While short lived, the post rider’s trail became known as the Old Boston Post Road. |
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| Prior to the Civil War, baseball competed for public interest with cricket and regional variants of baseball, notably town ball played in Philadelphia and the Massachusetts Game played in New England. In the 1860s, aided by the War, "New York" style baseball expanded into a national game and the NABBP, as its governing body, expanded into a true national organization, although most of the strongest clubs remained those based in New York City, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. By the end of 1865, almost 100 clubs were members of the organization. |
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| England's Lever Brothers sent over some of their staff to start soapmaking here in America and developed Lifebuoy, which was initially sold as an antiseptic soap, but it's formulation was changed when it did not sell well. Along with Lifebuoy, the term "B.O." (body odor) was coined. Advertising came into vogue and the threat of the much-dreaded and socially unacceptable B.O. made an excellent selling tool for soapmakers! |
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| U.S. President Woodrow Wilson addressed the Senate on January 22, 1917 - a little more than two months before the U.S. entered the war against Germany - and appealed for a settlement of the conflict in Europe on the basis of 'peace without victory.' His hopes disappointed he addressed the U.S. Congress on 2 April 1917 to request permission to declare war upon Germany; war was duly declared four days later. |  |
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| In 1939, the uranium atom was split for the first time using the cyclotron at Columbia University in New York City. Thus began the Manhattan Project, leading to the construction of the atom bomb. The project was subsequently moved inland to the University of Chicago to protect the research from any possible German bombing of New York. (Also the weight of the apparatus was so great that the floor was in danger of collapsing!) The cyclotron that performed the first-ever fission experiment was designed and built by John Dunning. |
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| President Harry S. Truman established the Central Intelligence Group in January 1946, directing it to coordinate existing departmental intelligence, supplementing but not supplanting their services. This was all to be done under the direction of a National Intelligence Authority composed of a Presidential representative and the Secretaries of State, War and Navy. Rear Admiral Sidney W. Souers, USNR, who was the Deputy Chief of Naval Intelligence, was appointed the first Director of Central Intelligence. |
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| In late 1948 Knight entered the studio with backing vocalists the Stardusters to cover Paula Watson's hit "A Little Bird Told Me" -- her rendition spent much of the spring of 1949 atop the pop charts, selling in excess of two million copies. |  |
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| Mitch Miller took a song titled "Let Me Go, Devil" and had it rewritten as "Let Me Go Lover", which Weber recorded. Performed on the television program Studio One, the song became an immediate success, selling half a million copies and reaching the top of the chart in the USA and peaking at number 16 in the UK. |  |
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| The Fort Laramie series first aired on January 22, 1956 over the CBS radio network. Weekly stories dealt with living and dying on the American western frontier. The Audition show was done on July 25, 1955. The last broadcast fell on October 28, 1956. |
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| Paul Simon took 6 months to write the lyrics, which are about man's lack of communication with his fellow man. This was one of the songs Simon and Garfunkel performed in 1964 when they were starting out and playing the folk clubs in Greenwich Village. This was their first hit. |  |
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| Hosted by the popular comedy team of Dan Rowan and Dick Martin, this trend-setting, fast-paced, hour-long NBC show featured zany comedy skits, corny jokes, and clever visual humor performed by a cast of regulars. Millions of viewers loved the show's suggestive humor and sense of playful, goofy chaos. |  |
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| The Apollo 5 mission was intended to test the Lunar Module in a space environment, in particular its descent and ascent engine systems, and its ability to separate the ascent and descent stages. The descent engine would become the first throttleable rocket engine fired in space. The mission was also intended to perform a "fire in the hole" test - as depicted in the mission's insignia - whereby the engine of the ascent stage would be fired whilst still attached to the descent stage. This would simulate the conditions experienced during an abort during descent to the lunar surface. |
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| Billy is widely acknowledged as the "Fifth Beatle" having been the only party to ever hand his name included in the label credits of the "Let It Be" and the "Abbey Road" albums as well as the landmark "White Album". Billy also appeared with them in the films "The Complete Beatles" and "Let It Be" as well as performing as part of them during their historic rooftop final concert. |  |
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| "American Pie" is about the death of Buddy Holly. "The Day The Music Died" is February 3, 1959, when Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper were killed in a plane crash after a concert. McLean wrote the song from his memories of the event. The Beatles Sgt. Pepper album was a huge influence, and McLean has said in numerous interviews that the song represented the turn from innocence of the '50s to the darker, more volatile times of the '60s - both in music and politics. |
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| The Landsat images demonstrated the usefulness of remote sensing data for land surveys, land management, water resource planning, agricultural forecasting, forest management, sea ice movement, and cartography. |  |
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| After turning 21, Wonder wrested artistic control over his career from the Motown hit-making factory; the results were such No. 1 hits as "Superstition" (1972), "You Are the Sunshine of My Life" (1973), "I Wish" (1976) and "Sir Duke" (1977). |  |
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| The Champions Tour, formerly called the Senior PGA Tour, has been labeled the most successful senior sports venture in history. An interactive element with fans and television viewers has brought new exposure to the Tour. Since starting out with just two cosponsored events and $250,000 in prize money in 1980, the Champions Tour has grown to more than 30 events. |
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| The "Land Down Under" is Australia, where the group is from. The lyrics were written by lead singer Colin Hay, who told us: "The chorus is really about the selling of Australia in many ways, the over-development of the country. It was a song about the loss of spirit in that country. It's really about the plundering of the country by greedy people. It is ultimately about celebrating the country, but not in a nationalistic way and not in a flag-waving sense. It's really more than that." |
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| In less than a year, "E.T.", the modern day, fairy tale, brought in $194 million in video rentals; replacing the previously #1 rented film, "Star Wars". Something for E.T. to phone home about. |  |
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| In 1997, American Lottie Williams was reportedly the first human to be struck by a remnant of a space vehicle after re-entering the earth's atmosphere. At 3 a.m., while walking in a park in Tulsa, Oklahoma, she saw a light pass over her head. "It looked like a meteor," she said. Minutes later, she was hit on the shoulder by a six-inch piece of blackened metallic material. The debris that struck Ms. Williams has not been examined to confirm its origin, but a used Delta II rocket, launched nine months earlier, had crashed into the Earth's atmosphere half an hour earlier. NASA scientists believe that Williams was hit by a part of it, making her the only person in the world known to have been hit by man-made space debris. |
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