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■ May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads meet up in Promontory, Utah, making transcontinental railroad travel possible for the first time in U.S. history. Journeys that had taken months by wagon train or weeks by boat now took only days. ■ On May 7, 1915, the British ocean liner Lusitania is torpedoed without warning by a German submarine off the coast of Ireland, with 1,198 people drowned. It was later revealed that the Lusitania was carrying about 173 tons of war munitions for Britain, which the Germans cited as justification for the attack. ■ On May 12, 1925, a Philadelphia radio station broadcasts the first all-star radio program featuring film actors and actresses. Sound films had not yet debuted, and the broadcast marked the first time that most listeners had heard the voices of film stars like
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■ On May 8, 1933, the first police radio system, connecting headquarters to patrol cars and patrol cars to one another, is installed in Eastchester Township, N.Y. The system consisted of one transmitter of 20 watts for the headquarters and two transmitters of 4.5 volts each for the two patrol cars. ■ On May 17, 1792, a group of 24 traders gather under a buttonwood tree at 68 Wall Street in lower Manhattan ■ On May 9, 1960, the Food and Drug Administration to work out the regulations of the speculative market. approves the world’s first commercially produced The result was the Buttonwood Agreement, a twobirth-control bill. Development of “the pill” was sentence contract that gave birth to the New York Stock commissioned by birth-control pioneer Margaret Sanger Exchange. and funded by heiress Katherine McCormick. ■ On May 18, 1917, six weeks after the United States ■ On May 11, 1981, reggae legend Bob Marley dies of formally enters the First World War, the U.S. Congress cancer in Miami Beach, Fla. Marley, born in Jamaica passes the Selective Service Act, giving the president in 1945, formed his band, the Wailers, in 1963. In the power to draft soldiers. By the end of World the early 1970s, the band’s records began to catch on War I in November 1918, some 24 million men had outside Jamaica, assisted by Eric Clapton’s cover of “I registered. (c) 2012 King Features Synd., Inc. Shot the Sheriff.”
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■ On May 19, 1715, the colony of New York passes a law making it illegal to “gather, rake, take up, or bring to the market, any oysters whatsoever” during May, June, July and August. This regulation was only one of many that were passed in the early days of America to help preserve certain species.
THE 1970s (continued) • On October 1, 1971, the 107-acre Walt Disney world resort officially opened, seven years after Walt Disney had procured 27,443 acres of land in central Florida. Unfortunately, Disney had passed away five years earlier and never saw his dream fulfilled. It is now the world’s most-visited entertainment resort and welcomes about 17 million visitors per year. • Does the name Louise Brown ring a bell? She was a five-pound, 12-ounce baby girl delivered in July 1978, the world’s first test-tube baby, born as a result of the experimental in vitro fertilization process. Although called a test-tube baby, her conception actually took place in a petri dish. Brown became a mother herself in 2006. • After scoring 1590 out of a possible 1600 on the SAT, 17-year-old Bill Gates enrolled at Harvard in 1973. He stayed in contact with his boyhood chum Paul Allen, and after dropping out of Harvard, Gates teamed up with Allen in 1975 to form Microsoft, a combined abbreviation of “microcomputer” and “software.” • The big news of 1977 was the death of Elvis Presley, declared by the medical examiner as the result of “coronary arrhythmia.” Over the eight months prior to the King’s death, his physician had prescribed more than 10,000 doses of sedatives, amphetamines and narcotics. The autopsy revealed 14 different drugs in Presley’s system at the time of his death. As thousands lined up outside Graceland’s gates during the funeral, a car swerved into a group of fans, killing two. More than 80,000 people lined the procession route to his Forest Hill Cemetery burial site. • In 1972, burglars broke into the Democratic Party’s National Committee office at the Watergate Hotel. In the coming months it was revealed that President Richard Nixon was involved in covering up the burglary and possessed a number of stolen tapes. When he refused to surrender the tapes, a judge ordered the chief executive to hand them over. In 1974, impeachment proceedings were initiated against the president. In August of that year, Nixon resigned and Gerald Ford became president. A month later, Ford issued a full pardon to Nixon for “all offenses against the United States.” • What were folks wearing in the 1970s? Bell-bottomed pants paired with either a turtleneck sweater or flowerprint shirt was a popular look. After the premiere of the movie “Saturday Night Fever” in 1977, John Travolta’s three-piece suit and wide-collared shirt inspired the disco fashion. For women, hot pants and thigh-high boots were all the rage, as were fringed leather miniskirts and platform shoes. Guys sported sideburns, and the large “Afro” hairstyle became fashionable. • In the sports world, Hank Aaron beat
Babe Ruth’s home run record when he hit his 715th career home run in April 1974. By the time Aaron retired in 1976, his record was 755 homers, one that held until 2006. ABC began broadcasting Monday Night Football in 1970, and ESPN, an acronym for Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, was launched in September 1979 as a cable network devoted strictly to sports broadcasting. • In 1975, powerful Teamsters Union leader Jimmy Hoffa vanished from a restaurant parking lot in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan. He was allegedly tied to organized crime, and it was assumed he was killed by the Mafia. His body has never been found. • On television, our favorite Westerns “Gunsmoke” and “The Virginian” were phased out, as were sitcoms “Bewitched” and “I Dream of Jeannie.” The Sci-Fi era was ushered in with hits such as “The Six-Million Dollar Man,” “The Bionic Woman” and “Battlestar Galactica.” The controversial sitcom “All in the Family” had its run from 1971 to 1979, featuring the fictional Archie Bunker’s frequently inappropriate remarks about religious, political and social issues of the day. Game shows gained in popularity, including “Wheel of Fortune,” “Family Feud” and “The Price is Right,” first hosted by Bob Barker in 1972. NBC debuted “Saturday Night Live” in 1975; George Carlin was the first host with musical guests Janis Ian and Billy Preston. HBO was inaugurated as the first pay-TV channel in 1972. • Hard rockers were listening to the likes of Aerosmith, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Deep Purple, while Southern rockers tuned into The Allman Brothers and Lynyrd Skynyrd. Disco lovers listened to the Bee Gees and danced the Hustle, and soft rock folks enjoyed the crooning of the Carpenters, Barry Manilow and the Osmonds. Billboard magazine declared Elton John the best artist of the decade. We started listening to our music on the Sony Walkman, a portable cassette player, in 1979. • At the theaters we were viewing “The Godfather,” “Rocky” and “Dirty Harry.” We were scared out of our seats by “The Exorcist,” “Jaws” and “Carrie” and laughed uproariously at “Animal House,” “Young Frankenstein” and “Monty Python.” George Lucas’ career took off with “American Graffiti” in 1973, followed by “Star Wars” in 1977, which quickly became the highestgrossing film of all time, an honor it maintained for the next five years.
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While lying on my bed counting the flies on the ceiling, it suddenly occured to me that they were walking upside down. No matter how many times I try, I can’t do it myself. Heck I can’t even walk up the wall to get to the ceiling. What do flies have that I don’t. Fried in Missoula Dear Fried: Obviously one thing the fly is endowed with that you seem to lack is a brain. In short, the fly simply has better equipment than you. First of all, when you look at your ceiling, you see a smooth surface. To a fly it’s the Badlands of South Dakota. Ridges, valleys, hills and dales are laid out in a vast expanse to the fly. Nature has provided the creature with the proper equipment to overcome these obstacles. With the right gear, he can grasp and hold this rugged surface with each of its six legs. Each of the fly’s legs have a tiny pincer much like the claws of a crab. Underneath the claws are two fat footpads that give the little fellow plenty of surface area with which to cling. These pads, call pulvilli, are adhesive and have tiny hairs that have spatula like tips. The hairs produce a glue-like substance made of sugars and oils. If you had six sticky feet, and a body that weighs next to nothing, you too could climb the walls.
● Average speed of a fly in flight is 4.5 m.p.h.. ● Flies smell with their antennae. ● Flies will only continue to beat their wings so long as their feet are free. As soon as the feet become stationary, they will stop flying. ● Flies' reputation for uncleanliness is also well deserved. Many of man’s primary diseases are transmitted by flies, including the deadlyYellow Fever. Entomologists Dr. Yao and Dr. Yuan of China studied more than 378,046 common house flies and estimated that each carried no less than 1,941,000 bacteria on their bodies. ● One of the things that separate Flies (Diptera) from other flying insects are their wings. Flies are the only insects that have only two. All other insects have four wings.
Mr. Know-It-All Knows This About Flies… ● In all there are over 120,000 species of flies ranging in size from 1/20th of an inch to well over three inches. ● The average house fly lives on average 21 days. ● A flies wings beat 200 times per second. ● Flies don’t grow. They are born full size. ● Flies have 4000 lenses in each eye, but can’t see worth a darn! Their vision may be bad but they detect movement. ● Flies jump up and backwards when taking off.
FAMOUS LANDMARKS OF THE WORLD: WAR MEMORIALS As Memorial Day approaches, Tidbits looks at two of America’s monuments to our fallen veterans. • The black granite panels of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall are inscribed with the names of the 58,272 who died or remain missing from the war. About three million people visit this site every year. • The Wall was the idea of Jan Scruggs, a corporal who served in Vietnam in 1969-1970 as part of the 199th Light Infantry Brigade. The memorial recognizes the sacrifice of all those who served. In 1979, he and a group of vets founded a nonprofit organization to raise funds for the project and raised nearly $9 million from private contributions, with no federal funds used. In 1980, President Jimmy
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Carter signed the legislation that provided the site near the Lincoln Memorial. A design contest was held, and in 1981, the winning design was chosen from 1,421 entries, submitted by a 21year-old Yale University architecture student, Maya Ying Lin. • Groundbreaking took place in March 1982, and the Wall’s official dedication took place in November of that year. Each of the V-shaped monument’s two sections is 246.75 feet (75.2 m) long and consists of 70 inscribed panels. The names were not carved by hand but rather by a computerized typesetting process. The black granite came from India, one of only three places in the world where this volume of black granite in large sizes could be found. • The first casualty of the war was Richard Fitzgibbon, who died in June 1956. The name of his son is also etched in the granite; he was a casualty
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in the world, standing 78 feet (23.8 m) tall, with a weight of 100 tons. The figures are 32 feet (9.8 m) high and wear helmets with a 3.5-foot (1.1-m) diameter. The flagpole is 60 feet (18.3 me) long. A proclamation was issued in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy that a U.S. flag should fly from the memorial 24 hours a day. There are 108 parts in the sculpture that are bolted and welded together from the inside, with access to the inside through a trap door in one of the soldier’s cartridge belts. • Over the course of nine years, hundreds of sculptors assisted head sculptor Felix de Weldon, who first completed it in plaster, disassembled it, and trucked the pieces to Brooklyn to be cast in bronze. The bronzing process alone took three years to complete. Dates and locations of every major Marine Corps engagement are etched around the base of the monument.
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