Archive for January 6th, 2022

COMMUNICATION REVOLUTIONIZED IN 1838

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On this day in 1838, Samuel Morse’s telegraph was demonstrated
for the first time at the Speedwell Iron Works in Morristown,
New
Jersey
. The telegraph, a device which used electric impulses to transmit
encoded messages over a wire, would eventually revolutionize
long-distance communication, reaching the height of its popularity
in the 1920s and 1930s.

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Samuel Finley Breese Morse
(April 27, 1791 – April 2, 1872)

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THE ‘WHEEL’ IS STILL TURNING SINCE 1975

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Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated game
show in American television, premieres on NBC on January 6, 1975. Created by television legend Merv Griffin and hosted since the early 1980s by Pat Sajak and Vanna White (below), Wheel is one of the
most popular television shows in the world.

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wheel
White next to the Wheel of Fortune puzzle board.

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THE REAL TRAGEDY ON THIS DAY IN 2021

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Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian Babbitt  (1985 – 2021)

 

On January 6, 2021, during the United States
Capitol attack
, Capitol Police officer Michael
Byrd (below) shot and killed UNARMED Ashli
Babbitt, one of the rioters, while ATTEMPTING
to breach a barricaded door leading to the
Speaker’s Lobby, where members of the u.s.
evacuated.



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