"Heartbreak Hotel" was Presley’s first on his new record label
RCA Victor. It was recorded in a session that featured his band
the Blue Moon Boys, along with guitarist Chet Atkins and pianist
Floyd Cramer.

The single topped Billboard‘s Top 100 chart for seven weeks,
was number one on the Country and Western chart and reached
number five on the R&B chart, becoming Presley’s first million-
seller, and one of the best-selling singles of 1956. In 1995 it was
inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame.

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington,
D.C., is one of the largest non-profit scientific and educational institutions
in the world. Its features include geography, archaeology and natural
science, the promotion of  environmental and historical conservation,
and the study of world culture and history.

The Society began as a club for an elite group of scholars and wealthy
patrons interested in travel. On January 13, 1888, 33 explorers and
scientists gathered at the Cosmos Club, a private club in Washington,
D.C., to organize "a society for the increase and diffusion of geographical
knowledge." After preparing a constitution and a plan of organization, the
National Geographic Society was incorporated on January 27.

  
       September, 1906

October, 2013

      Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 – September 26, 2008)

Newman appeared in 67 films, including Butch Cassidy and the Sundance
Kid, (1969) and Hud (1963). He made his acting debut at age seven in a
school production of Robin Hood. After a single appearance on Broadway,
he was offered a movie contract with Warner Brothers. He won numerous
awards, including an Academy Award for best actor for his performance
in the 1986 Martin Scorsese film The Color of Money and eight other
nominations.

Newman was also a professional race car driver/team owner, winning
several national championships. He also co-founded Newman’s Own,
a food company from which he donated all post-tax profits and royalties
to charity.

In the early 1880s, Dr. Charles Browne Fleet a physician and pharmacist from
Lynchburg, Virginia, invented ChapStick as a lip balm. The handmade product, 
which resembled a wickless candle wrapped in tin foil, was sold locally, and did 
not have much success.

In 1912, John Morton, also a Lynchburg resident, bought the rights to the
product for five dollars. Mrs. Morton melted the pink ChapStick mixture in
their home kitchen, cooled it, and cut it into sticks. Their lucrative sales were 
used to found the Morton Manufacturing Corporation.

In the early 1930s, Frank Wright, Jr., a local commercial artist was paid a
flat fee of $15 to design the ChapStick logo that is still in use today.

                                   
                                      Dr. Charles B. Fleet                   

The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games,
was a multi-sport event which was held in Chamonix, France. Originally called
“International Winter Sports Week", in association with the 1924 Summer
Olympics, the sports competitions were held at the foot of Mont Blanc in
Chamonix, and Haute-Savoie, France between January 25 and February 5, 
1924. The Games were organized by the French Olympic Committee, and 
were in retrospect designated by the International Olympic Committee.