On this Day

[texan]

On this day, 25 Nov 1949, Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer appeared on the music charts and became
THE musical hit of the Christmas season.

Although Gene Autry’s rendition is the most popular, 80 different versions of the song have
been recorded, with nearly 20,000,000 copies sold.

 

[UpstateNYUPSer(Ret)]

On this day, 25 Nov 1963, John Fitzgerald Kennedy was laid to rest in Arlington Cemetary.

 

[texan]

On this day, 26 Nov 1941, FDR establishes modern Thanksgiving holiday.

With a few deviations, Lincoln's precedent was followed annually by every subsequent president--until 1939.

In 1939, Franklin D. Roosevelt departed from tradition by declaring November 23, the next to last Thursday
that year, as Thanksgiving Day.

Considerable controversy surrounded this deviation, and some Americans refused to honor Roosevelt's declaration.
For the next two years, Roosevelt repeated the unpopular proclamation, but on November 26, 1941, he admitted
his mistake and signed a bill into law officially making the fourth Thursday in November the
national holiday of Thanksgiving Day.

 

[texan]

On this day, 27 Nov 1973, The Senate voted 92-3 to confirm Gerald R. Ford as vice president, succeeding
Spiro T. Agnew, who had resigned.

 

[texan]

On this day, 28 Nov 1925, The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting.

 

[texan]

On this day, 29 Nov 1890, The first Army-Navy football game was played at West Point, New York.
The midshipmen from Annapolis dominated, shutting out the cadets, 24-0.
They’ve been stealing each other’s mascots ever since.

 

[texan]

On this day, 30 Nov 1971, ABC-TV presented Brian’s Song as the ABC Movie of the Week.

The touching story was about Chicago Bears running back Brian Piccolo and his friendship with
Gayle Sayers, who watched Brian die a tragic death.

The movie got a rating of 32.9 and a 48 share. The theme song, Brian’s Song, was performed
by Michel Legrand.

 

[texan]

On this day, 1 Dec 1990, Chunnel makes breakthrough

Shortly after 11 a.m. on December 1, 1990, 132 feet below the English Channel, workers drill an opening the
size of a car through a wall of rock. This was no ordinary hole--it connected the two ends of an underwater
tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years.

Over the next four years, nearly 13,000 workers dug 95 miles of tunnels at an average depth of 150
feet (45 meters) below sea level.

Eight million cubic meters of soil were removed, at a rate of some 2,400 tons per hour.

The completed Chunnel would have three interconnected tubes, including one rail track in each
direction and one service tunnel. The price? A whopping $15 billion.

After workers drilled that final hole on December 1, 1990, they exchanged French and British flags
and toasted each other with champagne.

 

[texan]

On this day, 2 Dec 1927,
The first Model A was unveiled on this day in 1927 in New York City’s Waldorf Hotel and in 35 other cities around
the U.S., Canada and Europe.

The car was priced affordably: the Phaeton sold for $395.00 and the Tudor Sedan for $495.00.

The lag between cars available and orders on hand had mounted to 800,000 by the spring of 1928.

Ford made almost two million Model A cars in 1929 alone. But Black Thursday came on October 24th of
that year, ushering in the Great Depression, and from that time on it was downhill all the way.

In 1931, sales dropped to 620,000 units. Production of Model A was shut down in August, and early the
following year, the ‘new order’ took over in the form of the radically different Ford V-8.

By that time, a total of well over 20 million Fords had been manufactured, and almost 5 million of these
had been the brilliant little Model As.

 

[serenity now]

a classic, mechanical simplicity, spark plugs the size of a carrot

 

[moreluck]

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a classic, mechanical simplicity, spark plugs the size of a carrot

I picture Bonnie & Clyde posing on something like this!!

 

[texan]

 

[serenity now]

ask and you shall receive

 

[moreluck]

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker looked so happy when that photo was taken.........no thought whatsoever of being shot full of holes!!!

Thanks!

 

[serenity now]

Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker looked so happy when that photo was taken.........no thought whatsoever of being shot full of holes!!!

Thanks!

that's some serious overkill right there

 

[texan]

On this day, 3 Dec 1955, Elvis Presley’s first release on RCA Victor Records was announced.

No, it wasn’t Hound Dog or Heartbreak Hotel. The first two sides were actually purchased from Sam Phillips
of Sun Records: Mystery Train and I Forgot to Remember to Forget.

Elvis was described by his new record company as “The most talked about personality in recorded music
in the last 10 years.”

 

[moreluck]

Also,I think I heard in '62 on this day.....Four Seasons released Big Girls Don't Cry.

 

[texan]

On this day, 4 Dec 1872, The mystery of the Mary Celeste

The Dei Gratia, a small British brig under Captain David Morehouse, spots the Mary Celeste, an
American vessel, sailing erratically but at full sail near the Azores Islands in the Atlantic Ocean.

The ship was seaworthy, its stores and supplies were untouched, but not a soul was onboard.

On November 7, the brigantine Mary Celeste sailed from New York harbor for Genoa, Italy, carrying
Captain Benjamin S. Briggs, his wife and two-year-old daughter, a crew of eight, and a cargo of
some 1,700 barrels of crude alcohol.

After the Dei Gratia sighted the vessel on December 4, Captain Morehouse and his men boarded
the ship to find it abandoned, with its sails slightly damaged, several feet of water in the hold, and
the lifeboat and navigational instruments missing.

However, the ship was in good order, the cargo intact, and reserves of food and water remained on board.

The last entry in the captain's log shows that the Mary Celeste had been nine days and 500 miles away
from where the ship was found by the Dei Gratia.

Apparently, the Mary Celeste had been drifting toward Genoa on her intended course for 11 days
with no one at the wheel to guide her.

Captain Briggs, his family, and the crew of the vessel were never found, and the reason for the
abandonment of the Mary Celeste has never been determined.

 

[texan]

On this day, 5 Dec 1933, Drinkers toasted the end of Prohibition in the U.S.

It had been 14 years between (legal) drinks. The long dry spell ended at 5:32 p.m., when Utah
became the last of 36 states to ratify the 21st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
(repealing the 18th Amendment, which had prohibited all booze).

 

[packageguy]

1955, The American Federation of Labor and the Congrees of Industrial Organizations merged to form the AFL-CIO.