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05
Nov
THE POLITICAL JOKE OF THE DAY!
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13
Oct
PAST EVENTS THAT MADE NEWS HISTORY
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Paul Simon was born in Newark, New Jersey. he is 84 today.
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02
Aug
A HERO WAS MADE ON THIS DATE IN 1943
PT-109 was a US Navy patrol torpedo boat commanded by
Lieutenant (junior grade) John F. Kennedy during World War
II in the Solomon Islands.
The boat was rammed and sunk by a Japanese destroyer on
August 2, 1943.Two crewmen were, in fact, killed, but 11
survived, including Lt. John F. Kennedy.
His actions in rescuing his crew after the sinking earned him
a Navy and Marine Corps Medal and contributed to his later
political career.
PT-109, a film dramatizing this story, starring Cliff
Robertson as Kennedy, opened in 1963.
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16
Feb
FIRST U.S. 9-1-1 CALL PLACED IN 1968
At 2:00 p.m. on Friday, February 16, 1968, history was
made. That’s when state Rep. Rankin Fite made the
first call to 911 in the nation.
U.S. Rep. Tom Bevill answers the first 911 call at the
Haleyville (Ala.) police station with “Hello.” Directly
behind him is Bull Connor, head of the state’s Public
Service Commission, and B.W. Gallagher, president
of the Alabama Telephone Co.
February 16, 1968 saw the first official "911" call placed in the
United States. Now taken for granted as first course of action
in the event of emergency by nearly all of the nation’s 327
million people, 911 is a relatively recent invention and was
still not standard across the United States for many years
after its adoption by Congress.
As telephones became common in U.S. households, fire
departments around the country recommended establishing
a single, simple number to be dialed in the event of a fire or
other emergency.
A similar system had been implemented in the United Kingdom
decades earlier, in 1936, when the code 999 was chosen for
emergency telegraph and phone communications.
The Federal Communications Commission decided to act in
1967, but the number itself came not from the government
but from AT&T.
The red phone used to make the first call to 911.
06
Feb
FUTURE U.S. PRESIDENT BORN ON THIS DAY
John and Nellie Reagan with their sons, Neil and Ronald.
During his WHO radio career, Reagan “announced” Chicago Cubs baseball games in the Des Moines studio by reading a pitch-by-pitch account off the wire as if he were actually at
the game. He was so skillful that some listeners believed he actually was at the game!
As the 40th president of the United States, the former movie star,
Ronald Reagan was called the “Great Communicator” for his
ability to get through to ordinary Americans and give them hope
and optimism for their own future and that of their country.
Despite his lifelong opposition to “big” government, Reagan
was credited with restoring faith in the U.S. government and
the presidency after a long era of disillusionment in the wake
of Nixon, Vietnam and economic hardship under Carter.
Before his years of Hollywood stardom, and long before
Washington, Ronald Reagan was born in a small town in
northwestern Illinois.
Reagan made the sobering announcement that he had
Alzheimer’s disease, which would end his public career.
He died on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93.
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