The movie King Kong premiered in the Radio City Music Hall and
RKO Roxy in New York City on March 2, 1933. U. S. President
Franklin D. Roosevelt declared the four-day nationwide bank
holiday three days after the film’s premiere in New York City.
The film was a box-office success and during the opening
weekend earned an estimated $90,000.
Theatrical advertisement from 1933.
Pioneer 10, the world’s first outer-planetary probe, was launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on a mission to Jupiter, the solar
system’s largest planet.
In December 1973, after successfully negotiating the asteroid belt
and a distance of 620 million miles, Pioneer 10 reached Jupiter
and sent back to Earth the first close-up images of the spectacular
gas giant.
In June 1983, the NASA spacecraft left the solar system and the
next day radioed back the first scientific data on interstellar space.
NASA officially ended the Pioneer 10 project on March 31, 1997,
with the spacecraft having traveled a distance of some six billion
miles.
On March 2, 1807, the U.S. Congress passes an act to “prohibit
the importation of slaves into any port or place within the
jurisdiction of the United States…from any foreign kingdom,
place, or country.” It would go into effect at the start of the
following year.
Gene Hackman left home at age 16, lied about his age
to enlist in the United States Marine Corps, and served
four and a half years as a field-radio operator. He was
stationed in China.
(FOX NEWS) – A massive dinosaur footprint of the Iguanodon
species, which dates back over 100 million years, has been
found on a beach in England.
Paleontologist Joe Thompson (above) a fossil guide with Wight
Coast Fossils who unearthed the print, told Fox News Digital
that he made the discovery on the Isle of Wight as he set out
for the beach with the intention of finding some fossils.
Thompson said "This footprint was absolutely massive — just
under roughly 3 feet long. So a pretty huge Iguanodon, a lot
bigger than almost every other Iguanodon footprint found on
that section of the coast."
An Iguanodon skeleton is displayed at the Natural History Museum in London. The footprint that Thompson found
came from this species.
