Archive for November 1st, 2011

BIG SCREEN TELEVISION FROM RCA

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1950s AD

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FIRST H-BOMB DETONATED ON THIS DAY IN 1952

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The hydrogen bomb “Mike”

On Nov. 1, 1952, U.S. scientists exploded the first hydrogen bomb, in a test
at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. With an explosive force of 10 million tons
of TNT, the detonation vaporized the entire island, leaving a crater more than
a mile wide. It was more than 500 times greater than the atomic bomb dropped
on Hiroshima. The test was given the code-name “Mike”.

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HIS LAST #1 HIT ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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"Suspicious Minds" became one of Elvis Presley’s most notable hits and was 
widely regarded as the single that returned Presley’s career, following the 
‘68 Comeback Special that was televised on December 2nd. The song was  
his seventeenth and last number-one record in the U.S.

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PORTLAND POSTCARD ~ OCTOBER 30, 1907

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U.S Cruiser Charleston in Portland Harbor

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