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CHIMP ORBITS EARTH ON THIS DAY IN 1961

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Enos the chimp in a flight couch, about to make his space flight from 
Cape Canaveral, Florida

Mercury-Atlas 5 was a unmanned spaceflight of the Mercury program. It
was launched with a 5 1/2 year old chimpanzee named Enos aboard. The
craft orbited the Earth twice and splashed down about 200 miles south of
Bermuda.

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chimpanaut postcard

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NUMBER-TWO ON THIS DAY IN 1969

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ANNUAL HOLIDAY TRADITION SINCE 1924

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macy parade promo
From the New York Herald Tribune, November 27, 1924

FIRST BALLOON
The first balloon in 1927 was modeled after the character Felix the Cat

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1929

mickey  parade

Mickey Mouse made his grand debut in the Macy’s Santa Claus Parade
(now Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade) in 1934.

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1950

Santa 86th Annual Macy Thanksgiving

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A HOLIDAY GREETING FROM PDX RETRO ~

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On September 28, 1789, George Washington, in his first term as U.S. President, was 
presented with a resolution by the First Federal Bicameral Congress asking that he 
recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving.  A few days later, Washington issued
a proclamation making Thursday, Nov. 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgiving,”
which was the first time Thanksgiving was celebrated under the Constitution.  


  
great thanks

 

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY ~

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                                        Camille Bohannon

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