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PORTLAND POSTCARD FROM 1935
IT WAS ON THIS DAY IN 1956
STATUE DEDICATED ON THIS DAY IN 1886
Unveiling of the Statue of Liberty
A dedication ceremony for the Statue of Liberty was held on the afternoon of
Thursday, October 28, 1886. President Grover Cleveland, the former New York governor, presided over the event ,accepting the statue on behalf of the United
States. On the morning of the dedication, a parade was held in New York City;
estimates of the number of people who watched it ranged from several hundred thousand to a million. President Cleveland headed the procession. As the parade passed the New York Stock Exchange, traders threw ticker tape from the windows, beginning the New York tradition of… the ticker-tape parade.
MICROSOFT’S BILL GATES IS 57 TODAY
William Henry "Bill" Gates III is the former chief executive and current
chairman of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company, which he co-founded with Paul Allen on April 4, 1975.
MADE IN CHOCOLATE TOWN!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup was created in 1928 by H. B. Reese (below), a former
dairy farmer and shipping foreman for Milton S. Hershey. Reese, was inspired by
Hershey, and left the dairy farm to start his own candy business. The H.B. Reese
Candy Co. was established in the basement of Reese’s home in Hershey, PA. and
used Hershey chocolate in his confections. In 1963, several years after his death,
Reese’s company was sold to Hershey Foods Corporation.
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