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UNTHERED SPACEWALK ON THIS DAY IN 1984

Astronaut Bruce McCandless becomes to the first human to fly untethered in space, February 7 ...

While in orbit 170 miles above Earth, Navy Captain Bruce
McCandless II became the
first human being to perform
an untethered spacewalk
, when he exits the U.S. space
shuttle Challenger and maneuvers freely, using a bulky
white jet pack of his own design.

McCandless orbited Earth in tangent with the shuttle at
speeds greater than 17,500 miles per hour—the speed
at which satellites normally orbit Earth—and flew up to
320 feet away from the Challenger. After an hour and a
half of testing and flying the jet-powered backpack and
admiring Earth, McCandless safely reentered the shuttle.


Picture of Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II
(June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017)

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THE PATTY HEARST INCIDENT ON THIS DAY

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On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, the 19-year-old granddaughter
of newspaper publisher
William Randolph Hearst, was kidnapped
from her apartment in Berkeley, California, by three armed men.

Her fiancee, Steven Weed, was beaten and tied up along with a
neighbor who tried to help. Witnesses reported seeing a struggling Hearst being carried away blindfolded, and she was put in the trunk
of a car. Neighbors who came out into the street were forced to take cover after the kidnappers fired their guns to cover their escape.

Three days later, the Symbionese Liberation Army (SLA), a small
U.S. leftist group, announced in a letter to a Berkeley radio station
that it was holding Hearst as a “prisoner of war.” Four days later,
the SLA demanded that the Hearst family give $70 in foodstuffs to
every needy person from Santa Rosa to Los Angeles. This done,
said the SLA, negotiation would begin for the return of Patricia
Hearst.

February 4, 1974. Newspaper heiress Patricia "Patty" Hearst is kidnapped at gunpoint in her ...

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Bernard Shaw, husband to Patty Hearst, has died of cancer | Daily Mail Online

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Patricia Campbell Hearst will turn 70 on February 20th.

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POEM WAS PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1845

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Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven,” beginning “Once
upon a midnight dreary,”was published on this day in the
New
York Evening Mirror
.

Poe’s dark and macabre work reflected his own tumultuous and
difficult life. Born in Boston in 1809, Poe was orphaned at age
three and went to live with the family of a Richmond,
Virginia, businessman. Poe studied at the University of Virginia but was
expelled for gambling
. He later enrolled briefly at a military
academy
. 

01/29/1845 - Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" was published for the first ...
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Edgar Allan Poe (January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
 

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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52 U.S. hostages held in Iran fly to freedom after 444-day ordeal 40 years ago this hour (Jan 20 ...

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AMENDMENT RATIFIED ON THIS DAY IN 1919

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The 18th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a progressive effort
to enforce social reform via expanded federal power and popularly known as Prohibition, was ratified on this day in history, Jan. 16,
1919. 

The amendment stated, "The manufacture, sale, or transportation
of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the
United States and all the territory
subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is
hereby prohibited.”
 

Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first
Amendment
, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment
on December 5, 1933.

Prohibition, otherwise known as the Volstead Act or the Eighteenth Amendment, barred the ...


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The Building Blocks of Prohibition – Prohibition: An Interactive History

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