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23
Feb
U.S. FLAG RAISED ON IWO JIMA IN 1945
Six United States Marines raised the American flag atop Mount
Suribachi amid horrific combat on Iwo Jima, the intense wartime
scene captured in perfect angle and frame by photographer
Joseph Rosenthal, on this day in history, Feb. 23, 1945.
Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006)
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21
Nov
AN INVENTION FOR SOUND REPRODUCTION
Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph
in 1877.
Edison stumbled on one of his great inventions—the phonograph—
while working on a way to record telephone communication at his laboratory in Menlo Park, New Jersey. His work led him to
experiment with a stylus on a tinfoil cylinder, which, to his
surprise, played back the short song he had recorded, “MARY
HAD A LITTLE LAMB”. Public demonstrations of the phonograph
made the Yankee inventor world famous, and he was dubbed the
“Wizard of Menlo Park.”
Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)
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03
Sep
IT WAS AN ELECTRIFYING MOMENT IN 1968
( From HistoricTalk)
One can never know when those CPR skills will be needed! This incredible photo, entitled "Kiss of Life", features two coworkers,
Randall G. Champion and J.D. Thomspon, utility workers out
performing maintenance on electricity lines in 1967. Champion accidentally brushed against a low voltage line and went
unconscious. His harness kept him from falling off the pole,
while his quick-thinking coworker below him climbed up and
gave him mouth-to-mouth. It was the photographer, Rocco
Marabito who had been driving past, who called for an
ambulance!
Thompson saved Champion’s life that day, and Rocco Morabito
won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Kiss
of Life” in 1968. Champion lived another 35 years, surviving
another electrical shock along the way, before dying of heart
failure in 2002.
J.D. Thompson holds a copy of the photo that captured him saving a fellow electrical lineman’s life.
Retired photographer Rocco Morabito
23
Jul
FORMER PRESIDENT DIED ON THIS DAY IN 1885
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War hero
and former president Ulysses S. Grant dies of throat cancer. He
served as the 18th president of the United States from 1869 to 1877.
General Grant reading in a colorized photo. Grant was
appointed General of the Army (4 Stars) after the Civil
War on July 25, 1866.
Julius Henry "Groucho" Marx
(October 2, 1890 – August 19, 1977)
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