| On the south side of Faneuil Hall Square in Boston, a narrow passageway leads into the gloomy recesses of a yard or court of irregular shape ; this is Corn Court, and in the middle of this court stands, overshadowed by tall modern neighbors, the oldest inn in Boston. As early as 1634, Samuel Cole had an ordinary on this spot. |
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| The Revenue Act of 1791 established tariffs on select imported goods and imposed excise taxes on a variety of goods, including horse-drawn carriages, distilled liquor, snuff, and refined sugar. These taxes proved extremely unpopular. Discontent boiled over into the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, in which farmers protested a tax on whiskey of 30 cents per gallon. The government repealed most of these sales taxes in 1801 but temporarily reinstated them to finance the War of 1812. |
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| On March 3, 1791, the United States Congress, by the passing of a resolution directed that a mint be established. President Washington did not act upon these recommendations until April of 1792. |
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| In 1821, the first U.S. patent issued to a Black-American was granted to Thomas Jennings for a "dry-scouring" cleaning process. Jennings used his royalties to buy his family out of slavery and to support the abolition of slavery. In 1831, Thomas Jennings became assistant secretary for the First Annual Convention of the People of Color in Philadelphia, PA. |
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| The U.S. Mint in New Orleans operated as a branch of the United States Mint from 1838 to 1861 and from 1879 to 1909. During its years of operation, it produced over 427 million gold and silver coins of nearly every American denomination, with a total face value of over $307 million. |  |
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| F. O. J. Smith financed Morse's visit to England, and accompanied him there (where they found that their inventions had been anticipated) in 1838. The pair returned somewhat miffed if not chastened, but aware that their's was not the only telegraph in the world. Through Smith and persistence, Morse finally succeeded in getting a federal subsidy of $30,000 by an Act of Congress in 1843, which made possible a 40-mile demonstration line between Washington, DC and Baltimore, over which the first public message was sent on May 24, 1844. This message ("What hath God wrought") was composed by Annie G. Ellsworth, the daughter of Mr Ellsworth of the U. S. Patent office, a friend of Morse's. |
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| The Five and Ten Cent stamps of 1847 were the first adhesive postage stamps authorized for issue by the U.S. Post Office Department, in response to a law passed on March 3, 1847. The law was to take effect on July 1, 1847 and made illegal the use of postage stamps not authorized by the Postmaster General. | |
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| The gold dollar and Double Eagle were authorized by the Act of March 3, 1849, and the Liberty Head type began circulating soon afterward. The $20 gold coin owes its existence,in part, to the discovery of gold in California in 1848, of which the famous Sutter's Mill discovery was but the beginning. The California Gold Rush created a steady flow of gold, part of which reached the United States Mint in Philadelphia. Instead of striking gold in traditional $10 pieces,the Mint decided to also issue larger denominations. In February 1849,Congress authorized the striking of $20 gold coins, which were created by the very talented Chief-Engraver James Barton Longacre. The term "double eagle" is derived from the fact that the $10 coin is called an "eagle". | |
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| The Department was established on March 3, 1849, the eve of President Zachary Taylor's inauguration, when the Senate voted 31 to 25 to create the Department. Its passage was delayed by Congressional Democrats who were reluctant to create more patronage opportunities for the incoming Whig administration. It is administered by the United States Secretary of the Interior, who typically comes from a Western state. |
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| It was proposed in 1851 both as a result of the decrease in postage rates from five cents to three and to answer the need for a small denomination, easy to handle coin. The three cent silver featured a shield on a six sided star on the obverse and the Roman numeral 'III' on the reverse. The coin was composed of 75% silver and 25% copper to ensure that the coin would be considered real currency yet not worth melting down for the silver. The coins were physically the smallest coins ever minted by the United States, weighing only 4/5 of a gram and with a diameter smaller than a modern dime. The silver coins were known as "fishscales". | |
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| In 1853 Congress commissioned the Army's Topographic Bureau to conduct a series of surveys to find a suitable route for a transcontinental railroad. There were six major expeditions; five of them covered the area between the Great Plains and California, Oregon, and Washington, and the sixth explored the coastal states of California and Oregon. All of these expeditions were accompanied by naturalists and were provided, through the Smithsonian, with equipment and instructions for collecting. |
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| At the insistence of the War Department, Congress passed, on March 3, 1855, the Shield amendment to the appropriation bill, which made $30,000 available "under the direction of the War Department in the purchase of camels and the importation of dromedaries, to be employed for military purposes." After trafficking down the North African coast and spending $12,000 for desirable beasts, he returned with thirty-three camels. On June 4 Wayne started his caravan westward. They stopped near Victoria, where the animals were clipped and Mrs. Mary A. Shirkey spun and knit for the president of the United States a pair of camel-pile socks. The animals were finally located at Camp Verde, where several successful experiments were made to test the camels' utility in the pursuit of Indians and the transportation of burdens. Wayne reported that camels rose and walked with as much as 600 pounds without difficulty, traveled miles without water, and ate almost any kind of plant. |
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| On March 3, 1855, in the act that required prepayment of postage on domestic letters, Congress also authorized the establishment of registered mail service, the first additional special service offered by the Post Office Department. To ensure proper handling of registered mail, all items remained locked in mail pouches while in transit. Only postmasters and clerks assigned especially to registered mail had keys to access registered letters. Initially, registered mail cost five cents plus the price of postage. |
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| Acknowledging an undersized military, in March 1863, Congress passed the National Enrollment Act, which subjected all single men age 20-45 and married men up to age 35 to a draft lottery. Enlistment bounties led to immigrants (25 percent) and southern blacks (10 percent) forming a sizeable portion of the Union army. The draft was controversial, especially among the working class, because the wealthy could "buy their way out" for $300 (less than the cost of hiring a substitute, also allowable). In July 1863, a mob burned the New York City draft office, touching off a five-day riot that targeted anger at the city's black population as well as the wealthy. |
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| In 1863, the National Academy of Sciences was chartered in the U.S. The Act stipulated that the Academy would "whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment or report upon any subject of science or art." The Academy would receive no compensation, but the actual expenses incurred for the Government's requirements were to be paid from appropriations. |
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| On March 3, 1862, Congress passed a bill establishing a branch mint in the territory of Nevada. The immense production of gold and silver from the Comstock mines prompted the establishment of a branch U.S. Mint in Carson City in 1866. The handsome structure on the northeast corner of Carson Street and Robinson was built of prison-quarried sandstone and produced nearly $50 million in coin of the realm until it closed down in 1933. From its opening in 1870 to the closing of the coin operations in 1893, coinage amounted to $49,274,434.30. |
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| The fourth issue, authorized by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1863 were issued in denominations from $1 to $10,000. Series dates consisted of1869, 1874, 1875, 1878, 1880, 1907, 1917, and 1923. All of these notes carried the following obligation: "The United States will pay to bearer __ dollars. This note is legal tender at its face value for all debts public and private, except duties on imports In their initial issue, they were printed in $20, $100, $500, $1,000, $5,000 and $10,000 denominations, making them more likely to have been used as interbank funds transfer instruments than pocket change. |
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| Congress approves the Indian Appropriations Act, which ends the practice of treating Indian tribes as sovereign nations by directing that all Indians be treated as individuals and legally designated "wards" of the federal government. After 1871, the federal government negotiated formal agreements with the tribes which had to be approved by both the House of Representatives and the Senate. This was a change from the earlier treaty system where treaties (whether made with tribes or independent nations) required ratification only by the Senate. |
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| President General Ulysses Grant (1869-1877) was elected on a platform which included a promise of civil service reform. Grant took his campaign promise seriously and endeavored to gain legislative cooperation. Under the Act, President Grant appointed an "Advisory Board of the Civil Service." The Board attempted to examine and solve the issues of competitive examinations for entrance, position classification, competitive promotion and efficiency ratings. |
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| The first recorded hockey game played on an indoor rink between two teams and reported in the press took place on March 3, 1875 at the Victoria Skating Rink in Montréal. The game as we now know it was shaped in Montréal according to rules prescribed by George Aylwin Creighton. |
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| The twenty cent coin had one of the shortest mintages and lowest circulations in US coin history, for both the series and the denomination. It was minted from 1875-1878, but was only released for circulation in 1875 and 1876, with only a few hundred proofs released during the remaining two years. It also has the distinction of being one of the few coins minted in the short lived Carson City Mint. | |
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| In 1879, the office of director of the U.S. Geological Survey was authorized by Congress which made appropriations "for sundry civil expenses of the government." Clarence King, the first director, was nominated on March 21, 1879. The Survey was national in scope for the classification of public lands and their geological structure, mineral resources, and products. The first geological survey financed by Congress was authorized by act of Congress and provided $5,000 for a survey made by George William Featherstonhaugh of the land between the Missouri and Red Rivers. |
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| In 1882, the first steam distribution plant of importance in the U.S. made its first distribution of steam from a central plant at to the United Bank Building on Broadway. The plant, built on the block bounded by Cortlandt, Dey, Greenwioch and Washington Streets had a 225-ft high chimney, and generated steam from 48 boilers each rated 250-h.p. By nine months later, the output served 62 customers. |
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| In 1883, the first steel vessels of the U.S. Navy were authorized by Congress. Four boats were built - the cruisers Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, and a dispatch boat Dolphin. The Atlanta was launched October 9, 1884. Of these, the Chicago was the largest, with a length of 325 feet and width of 48 feet. The Atlanta and the Boston were 270 feet long and 42 feet wide, powered by horizontal back-acting engines and cylindrical tubular boilers. |
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| The American Telephone and Telegraph Company is formed as a subsidiary of then-parent American Bell Telephone Company, with a charter to build and operate the original long distance network. By the end of the year, AT&T completes its first line, between New York and Philadelphia. The initial capacity of the line was one call. |
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| In 1885, a new service was started Special Delivery. The Special Delivery Stamps indicated that an extra fee had been charged for immediate delivery to a person’s address once the mail was delivered to the nearest Post Office. |  |
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| On March 3, 1887, Annie Sullivan met Helen Keller for the first time, she was to be her governess. Helen Keller had also become blind, but she was also deaf and mute. Annie helped Helen talk, read, write and feel things. Annie made Helen happy and helped her to have a good life. |  |
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| The Isabella Quarter Dollar was minted at the request of the Board of Lady Managers of the Columbian Exposition in 1893, who thought women needed to be honored. The quarters sold for a dollar at the exposition as did the Columbian Half Dollar. The half dollar seemed a better buy and the Isabella quarter didn’t sell very well. Only 24,214 quarters were distributed. | |
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| When the United States was invited to participate in the Paris Exposition of 1900, Lafayette was still very much a part of the American psyche. It was decided that a statue of Lafayette on horseback would be sculpted by Paul Wayland Bartlett and displayed at the Exposition. School children from all over the nation contributed small change to the Lafayette Monument Fund. Raising nearly $50,000 during the campaign, they also learned much about the Revolutionary War and the part played by General Lafayette. More money was to come from the sale, at $2 each, of the 50,000 Lafayette commemorative dollar coins authorized by Congress on March 3, 1899. The Lafayette Memorial Commission originally requested that 100,000 half dollars be minted, but it later decided that dollars would make better souvenirs. |
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| In 1901, the office of Standards, Weights and Measures was created by an act of Congress, establishing it as a separate bureau for the work previously conducted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey of the Treasury Department. Its first director was Samuel Wesley Stratton. On July 1, 1913, it became the National Bureau of Standards under the Department of Commerce. |
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| On March 3, 1913, lawyer Inez Milholland Boissevain, clad in a white cape and riding a white horse, led the great women's suffrage parade down Pennsylvania Avenue in the nation's capital. Behind her stretched a long procession, including nine bands, four mounted brigades, three heralds, more than 20 floats and more than 5,000 marchers. Soon, however, the crowds -- mostly men in town for the inauguration of Woodrow Wilson the following day -- surged into the street, making it almost impossible for the marchers to pass. Occasionally only a single file could move forward. Women were jeered, tripped, grabbed, shoved, and many heard "indecent epithets" and "barnyard conversation." Secretary of War Henry Stimson then ordered soldiers from Fort Myer to restore order. |
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| Modeled on the British Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, the advisory committee was created by President Woodrow Wilson in an effort to organize American aeronautical research and raise it to the level of European aviation. Its charter and $5,000 initial appropriation (low even for 1915) were appended to a naval appropriations bill and passed with little notice. The committee's mission was to "direct and conduct research and experimentation in aeronautics, with a view to their practical solution." |
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| The motion picture brought Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh and Wallace Reid to the silver screen in what has frequently been called the greatest silent film ever produced. When it opened in New York City, ticket prices were $2.00 each, which was considered astronomical at the time. In today's currency, accounting for inflation, that would be about $17 - $20. One million people saw the film within a year after its release. |  |
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| Insulin is a life-saving treatment for people suffering from diabetes, and it is hailed as one of the twentieth century's greatest medical discoveries. But the discovery of insulin was in fact a collaborative process; it was the result of a four-man research team - physician Frederick Banting, graduate student Charles Best, Professor of Physiology J.J.R. Macleod, and biochemist J.B. Collip. |  |
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| Time was co-founded in 1923 by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce, making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The two had previously worked together as chairman and managing editor of the Yale Daily News. It set out to tell the news through people, and for many decades the magazine's cover was of a single person. The first issue of Time was published on March 3, 1923, featuring on its cover Joseph G. Cannon, the retired Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. |
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| Francis Scott Key first published his impressions of the Fort McHenry victory as a broadside poem, with a note that it should be sung to the popular British melody "To Anacreon in Heaven." Soon after, Thomas Carr's Baltimore music store published the words and music together under the title "The Star-Spangled Banner." The song gained steadily in popularity in the years before the Civil War. By 1861 it shared with "Yankee Doodle" and "Hail Columbia" the distinction of being played on most patriotic occasions. Nonetheless Congress did not make the song the national anthem until 1931. |
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| The song is based both musically and lyrically on Willie the Weeper The lyrics are heavily laden with drug references, being a product of the Harlem jazz culture." Calloway also wrote an extended version, adding verses which describe Minnie and Smokey going to jail; Minnie pays Smokey's bail, but he abandons her there. Another verse describes her tempting "Deacon Lowdown" when she "wiggled her jelly roll" at him. Finally, they took Minnie to "where they put the crazies", where she dies. This explains why both the short version and the long version end with the words "Poor Minnie, poor Min." |
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| On March 3, 1934, Dillinger escaped from the "escape-proof" (as it was dubbed by local authorities at the time) Crown Point, Indiana county jail which was guarded by many police and national guardsmen. Newspapers reported that Dillinger had escaped using a wooden gun blackened with shoe polish. Dillinger further embarrassed the town, as well as then-42-year-old Sheriff Lillian Holley, by driving off in her brand new V-8 Ford. |
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| Returning to Los Angeles in 1940, Shaw still owed his record label, RCA Victor, several sides. He scored a second huge hit with “Frenesi,” a catchy melody written by Mexican composer Alberto Dominguez. Shaw then formed a new band, again including a string section, and recorded definitive versions of Hoagy Carmichael’s swing classic “Star Dust,” and Jerome Kern’s harmonically complex “All the Things You Are.” |
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| Beginning in March 1945, Batman and Robin made regular appearances on the Superman radio drama on the Mutual Broadcasting System. Efforts were made to launch a Batman radio series in 1943 and again in 1950, but neither came to fruition. In many ways the radio program served as inspiration to the writers of the comic books. It was on the radio show that Kryptonite was first presented as Superman's Achilles heel, and it was on the radio that Superman first teamed up with Batman and Robin to pursue the most dastardly of villains. |
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| Como’s relaxed style and romantic vocals made him one of the most enduring singers of the 1950’s and early mid 1960’s. Among his more than 150 top twenty hits include the #1 recordings of “Till the End of Time” (1945), “Prisoner Of Love” (1946), “Surrender” (1946), “Chi-Baba, Chi-Baba (My Bambino Go To Sleep)” (1947), “’A’—You’re Adorable” (with the Fontane Sisters, 1949), “Some Enchanted Evening” (1949), “Hoop Dee Doo” (1950), “If” (1951), “Don’t Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes” (1952), “No Other Love” (1953), “Wanted” (1954), “Hot Diggity (Dog Ziggity Boom)” (1956), “Round and Round” (1957), “Catch a Falling Star” (1958), and “It’s Impossible” (1970). |
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| Hoping to attract a major league team, Milwaukee County decided to build a 36,000 seat baseball stadium. Milwaukee had long been a possible target for relocation - Bill Veeck had tried to move his St. Louis Browns there years earlier but was voted down by the other American League owners. |
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| Smaller than the previous Pioneers, Pioneer 3 and 4 each carried only a single experiment to detect cosmic radiation. Both vehicles were planned to flyby the moon and return data about the Earth and Moon's radiation environment. The launch of Pioneer 3 failed when the launch vehicle first's stage cut-off prematurely. The launch of Pioneer 4 was successful, and Pioneer 4 was the first American spacecraft to escape Earth's gravitational pull as it passed within 58,983 km of the moon (about twice the planned flyby altitude). The spacecraft did return data on the Moon radiation environment, although the desire to be the first man-made vehicle to fly past the moon was lost when the Soviet Union's Luna 1 passed by the Moon several weeks before Pioneer 4. |
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| "Duke of Earl" was first recorded by The Dukays for Nat Records in 1960. Vee Jay bought the master tapes to Duke of Earl and wanted to release it immediately, but Nat Records did not want the Dukays' name on the record (as "Night Owl" was struggling to make the charts); so, the producers offered Eugene Dixon a choice: Start a solo career with "Duke of Earl" and be replaced as lead singer of the Dukays by a man named Charles Davis, or Stay with the Dukays and have Davis start HIS solo career with "Duke of Earl." Chandler chose option #2 with the blessings of the group. |
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| "My Girl" was written by Smokey Robinson and Ronald White, who were both members of The Miracles. Robinson wrote the lyrics, which were inspired by his wife, Claudette. The previous year, Robinson wrote "My Guy" for Motown singer Mary Wells. That song carried the same sentiment of unconditional love, but from a female perspective. It was the first of 4 US #1 hits for The Temptations. |  |
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| Christie's distinctive falsetto in the hook chorus and the way the song builds set it apart from other songs on the radio and helped make it a hit. Other hits for Lou Christie, who is a 1961 graduate of Moon High School, Moon Township, Pennsylvania, included "The Gypsy Cried" (1962), "Two Faces Have I" (1963), "Rhapsody in The Rain" (1966), which reached a #16 chart position, and "I'm Gonna Make You Mine" (1969). |  |
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| Stone Mountain is in fact a piece of enormous granite that was formed of molten magma some 350 million years ago. Although geologists to this day are still uncertain how this gargantuan rock came to be exposed, exposed it is and is the largest piece of exposed granite in the world. The face of Stone Mountain bears a carving of General Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis and General Stonewall Jackson known as the Confederate Memorial. The carving was an incredibly long process, beginning with talks in 1909 and not being completed until 1972. |
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| This mission was the first to be sent to the outer solar system and the first to investigate the planet Jupiter, after which it followed an escape trajectory from the solar system. The spacecraft achieved its closest approach to Jupiter on December 3, 1973, when it reached approximately 2.8 Jovian radii (about 200,000 km). |  |
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| "Killing Me Softly with His Song" is about Don McLean, a singer/songwriter famous for his hit "American Pie." Flack worked on this in the studio for 3 months, playing around with various chord structures until she got it just right. It won Grammys in 1974 for Record Of The Year, Song Of The Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal. |  |
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| Stewart was known for his soulful blues and folk ballads, but this gave him a new look. Stewart gained many new fans with this, but alienated most of his old ones, who had no interest in Disco. As a member of The Faces, he earned a reputation as hard-rocking party animal, but this changed that image. |  |
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| "Jump" was Van Halen's first #1 hit, and their only #1 with David Lee Roth as lead singer. As early as 1981, Eddie Van Halen had written the keyboard part that would eventually become this song. David Lee Roth didn't like the idea of Eddie playing keyboards, and it wasn't until Eddie had built his own recording studio that he recorded the song with Ted Templeman during a late night recording session. When hearing the song, the band decided to include it on the 1984 album - something that is rumored to have contributed to Roth's departure a year later. |
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| Jackson was going to do a remake of the Martha Reeves And the Vandellas' 1965 hit "Nowhere to Run," but Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, who were her songwriters and producers, suggested they do an original song with a similar beat (this meant they would keep more of the songwriting royalties). Jam and Lewis pulled the word "Escapade" from a notebook they kept of song title ideas, and came up with the track while Jackson wrote the lyrics. This was one of 7 US Top-5 singles from the album. |
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| In 2005, the first solo non-stop and fastest flight around the world without refueling ended as Steve Fossett landed at the Salina Municipal Airport, Kansas. He left there 67 hours earlier on 28 Feb 2005, in The GlobalFlyer, a single-engine, single-use experimental jet plane. The first non-stop two-person flight around the world, was made in 1986 by Jeana Yeager and Dick Rutan in nine days, covering 26,366 miles without refueling. The GlobalFlyer, purpose-built of light composites, carried fuel comprising 86 percent of its weight at take-off in 13 tanks in its long wings and boom tanks. The chief designer, Jon Karkow, had spent five years planning the project, sponsored by Sir Richard Branson, owner of Virgin Atlantic Airways. |
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1634 First tavern in Boston opens
(Samuel Cole)
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1791 First Internal Revenue Act (taxing distilled
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1791 Congress establishes US Mint
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1821 Thomas Jennings received a patent for "dry
scouring of clothes"
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1835 Congress authorizes a US mint at New Orleans
LA
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1843 Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test
electro-magnetic telegraphs"
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1845 First US law overriding a Presidential veto
(John Tyler's)
1847 Post Office Department authorized to issue
postage stamps
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1849 Gold Coinage Act authorizes $20 Double Eagle
gold coin
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1849 US Department of the Interior established
by Congress
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1851 Congress authorizes smallest US silver coin
(3¢ piece)
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1853 Transcontinental railroad survey is authorized
by Congress
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1853 US Assay Office in New York NY authorized
1855 Congress approves $30,000 to test camels
for military use
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1855 Registration of letters authorized by Congress
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1863 First US wartime military conscription bill
enacted
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1863 Abraham Lincoln approves charter for National
Academy of Sciences
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1863 Congress authorizes a US mint at Carson City
NV
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1863 Gold certificates (currency) authorized by
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1871 Congress changes Indian tribes status from
independent to dependent
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1871 Congress establishes the civil service system
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1875 First recorded hockey game (Montréal)
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1875 Congress authorizes 20¢ coin, lasts
only 3 years
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1879 US geological survey director authorized
in Department of the Interior
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1882 New York Steam Corp begins distributing steam
to Manhattan buildings
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1883 Congress authorizes the first steel vessels
in US Navy
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1885 American Telephone & Telegraph (AT&T)
incorporates
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1885 US Post Office offers special delivery for
first-class mail
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1887 Anne Sullivan begins teaching 6 year old
blind-deaf Helen Keller
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1893 Columbian Isabella silver quarter authorized
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1899 Congress authorizes Lafayette silver dollar
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1901 Congress creates National Bureau of Standards,
in Department of Commerce
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1913 A women's suffrage march in Washington D.C.
- chaos ensues
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1915 National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics
(NASA forerunner) created
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1915 The now-famous film, "The Birth of a
Nation", debuted in New York City
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1921 Toronto's Dr Banting & Dr Best announce
discovery of insulin
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1923 Time magazine publishes first issue
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1931 "Star Spangled Banner" officially
becomes US national anthem
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1931 Cab Calloway records "Minnie the Moocher"
(Jazz's first million seller)
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1934 John Dillinger breaks out of jail using a
wooden pistol
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1940 Artie Shaw and his orchestra recorded the
"Frenesi" for RCA Victor
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1945 Superman encountered Batman and Robin for the
first time on Mutual Radio
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1951 "If" by Perry Como topped the
charts
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1953 Boston Braves, who own Milwaukee minor league
franchise, block St Louis Browns attempt to shift their franchise to Milwaukee
1959 First US probe to enter solar orbit, Pioneer
4, is launched
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1962 "Duke of Earl" by Gene Chandler
topped the charts
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1965 Temptations' "My Girl" reaches
#1
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1966 Lou Christie was striking gold for his hit
"Lightnin’ Strikes"
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1967 White Sox given permission to use semi-DH
in training camp with home club permission (use of pinch hitter twice in same
game)
1972 Sculpted figures completed at Stone Mountain
GA
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1972 Pioneer 10 launched thru asteroid belt &
Jupiter
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1973 "Killing Me Softly with His Song"
by Roberta Flack topped the charts
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1979 "Da’ya' Think I'm Sexy?" by Rod
Stewart topped the charts
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1984 "Jump" by Van Halen topped the
charts
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1990 "Escapade" by Janet Jackson topped
the charts
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2005 First solo non-stop and fastest flight around
the world without refueling
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