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[dukeman92]

January 24th, 1940

The German government ordered the registration of all Jewish-owned property in Poland.

 

[farce©]

Canned beer was first sold on January 24, 1935.

In partnership with the American Can Company, the Gottfried Krueger Brewing Company delivered 2,000 cans of Krueger’s Finest Beer and Krueger’s Cream Ale to faithful Krueger drinkers in Richmond. Ninety-one percent of the drinkers approved of the canned beer, driving Krueger to give the green light to further production.

 

[donbosco]

On January 24, 1961

'Fire every which way': B-52 carrying nuclear bombs crashed in field

63 years since the events of the Goldsboro Broken Arrow.

spectrumlocalnews.com

 

[donbosco]

"On this day in 1995: Fourteen years after being convicted of the rape and murder of a N.C. Wesleyan College cheerleader, Kermit Smith is executed by lethal injection at Central Prison in Raleigh.

Smith becomes the first white person in North Carolina — and the second in the nation the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976 — to be executed for killing a black person."

kermit smith – NC Miscellany

 

[05C40]

On January 24, 1961

'Fire every which way': B-52 carrying nuclear bombs crashed in field

63 years since the events of the Goldsboro Broken Arrow.

spectrumlocalnews.com

I remember when this happened. I lived about 15 miles from where the bombs landed. When my Dad told me where it was, the description was, "It's in that empty field, just down the road from . . .," and I knew exactly where he was describing. Eventhough I was young, it was talked about, ALOT. And nothing that I have subsequently heard/read contradicted what I heard in the immediate aftermath of the incident. Which actually surprises me. You would think something like this would be TOP SECRET HUSH-HUSH. But it wasn't. Nothing I have read in the past 64 years has materially altered or contradicted my understanding of what happened from what I learned during the first few days after the "incident."

There has to be some lesson in "crisis control management" here. As in, just telling people the truth upfront is always better than the tales we will invent when we sense a cover-up. Or maybe this was a cover-up and the cover story was so horrendous, that no one ever thought, "Well there has to be more."

 

[donbosco]

Parts of the second bomb are still buried in the Faro field where it landed, but officials said there are no radiation leaks.

'Fire every which way': B-52 carrying nuclear bombs crashed in field

63 years since the events of the Goldsboro Broken Arrow.

spectrumlocalnews.com

 

[05C40]

Parts of the second bomb are still buried in the Faro field where it landed, but officials said there are no radiation leaks.​

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'Fire every which way': B-52 carrying nuclear bombs crashed in field

63 years since the events of the Goldsboro Broken Arrow.

spectrumlocalnews.com

Parts of the second bomb are still buried in the Faro field where it landed, but officials said there are no radiation leaks.​

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'Fire every which way': B-52 carrying nuclear bombs crashed in field

63 years since the events of the Goldsboro Broken Arrow.

spectrumlocalnews.com

The story at the time, which may or may not be true, was that the part not recovered was the plutonium "fission trigger." The "fission trigger" creates the environment in which the fusion part explodes. This always seemed unlikely to me. The plutonium trigger was an atomic bomb all by itself. The fusion part of the bomb was nothing without the fission trigger. So not recovering all the fusion part was a nothing burger. Not recovering the plutonium trigger would be an unacceptable risk.

 

[donbosco]

Working Class History

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[Paine]

Working Class History

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One of the most important moments of early U.S. history that doesn’t get nearly enough, if any, play in our public grade schools. But they’re bastions of radical leftism, right?

 

[grimes70]

1945. In an effort to prevent tooth decay, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first U.S. city to add fluoride to its water system.

But we all know it's a commie plot still to this day.

 

[05C40]

1945. In an effort to prevent tooth decay, Grand Rapids, Michigan, became the first U.S. city to add fluoride to its water system.

But we all know it's a commie plot still to this day.

"Women, uh, women sense my power and they seek the life essence. I do not avoid women, Mandrake . . . but I do deny them my essence."

 

[donbosco]

Literary History Today Jan 26: Thomas Wolfe leaps – Better Together Media

The North Carolina born writer decides not to go to Connecticut with his oh-so-patient editor Max Perkins.

bettertogethermedia.com

"But instead of just declining Perkins’ invitation to go to his weekend home, Wolfe opts to board the train and then change his mind at the last moment.

He jumps from a moving train on this day in 1932 and lands onto the Grand Central Station platform. But the clumsy 6’5 writer doesn’t make it onto level ground without injuring himself. He severs a vein in his left arm after falling on the concrete platform.

Writer and editor had been drinking heavily and had made their way unsteadily to the train. When Perkins saw Wolfe on the platform, he described the scene as similar to a beached whale on Cape Cod. Emergency wires were pulled and a crowd gathered around Wolfe. Of course, Wolfe goes into a very long description of what he was thinking: shame that he had injured himself and had broken his arm 'uselessly, horribly, stupidly and wastefully.'”

 

[grimes70]

1988 Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera, a musical version of Gaston Leroux's melodramatic novel, opened in New York City and went on to become the longest-running show in Broadway history.

 

[grimes70]

2fer today Boomer edition

1973 Vietnam War ended

The Paris accord ending the Vietnam War, America's longest war to that time, was signed this day in 1973, providing for an exchange of prisoners and for the unilateral withdrawal of U.S. forces from South Vietnam.




1832 Mathematician and novelist Lewis Carroll, especially remembered for Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass (1871), was born in Daresbury, Cheshire, England.

 

[05C40]

I was in school at UNC. I remember thinking, "Franklin Street is going to wild." I was having visions of sweeping some girl off her feet and kissing her like the Alfred Eisenstaedt photo in NYC Times Square on August 14, 1945. But when I got to Franklin Street, . . ., nothing, zilch, nada. I stood there for about five minutes and then walked back to my dorm room and did my Math 32 homework. Doing my homework probably was a better use of my time.

 

[grimes70]

For all you breeders out there who may have stepped on Lego or 2.

1958 Godtfred Kirk Christiansen, whose father founded the company LEGO in Denmark, filed for a Danish patent (later granted) for a toy building block that became hugely popular around the world.

 

[uncsig]

Thought for sure when I clicked on this today, someone would have mentioned the Challenger exploding after liftoff in 1986. Damn, I can remember that almost like yesterday. And then a year or so later when they finally launched the next Shuttle, we all gathered in a large room at work to watch [and in a fairly literal sense] with held breath till it passed the 73 second mark.

I can't even begin to imagine the conspiracy bullshit we'd be put through had this happened today instead of 39 years ago.

 

[grimes70]

Thought for sure when I clicked on this today, someone would have mentioned the Challenger exploding after liftoff in 1986. Damn, I can remember that almost like yesterday. And then a year or so later when they finally launched the next Shuttle, we all gathered in a large room at work to watch [and in a fairly literal sense] with held breath till it passed the 73 second mark.

I can't even begin to imagine the conspiracy bullshit we'd be put through had this happened today instead of 39 years ago.

I thought about posting this but decidedd it would get more exposure elsewhere and be more well-known a(s your post exemplifies) while the Lego thing is a bit more unknown as far as a date in history.

 

[grimes70]

Another 2fer
First - given the current state of affairs ihis guy and this famous "quote" is mire relevant than ever.

1880 American actor and comedian W.C. Fields was born in Philadelphia

There's a sucker born every minute" is a quotation often associated with P. T. Barnum, an American showman of the mid-19th century, although there is no evidence that he actually said it. Early instances of its use are found among gamblers and confidence tricksters.


1919 The Prohibition (Eighteenth) Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified and went into effect the following year.

 

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