NOVEL PUBLISHED ON THIS DAY IN 1936

Gone with the Wind - Margaret Mitchell - First Edition, with “Published May, 1936” on the ...

Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, one of the best-
selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster
1939 movie, was published on June 30, 1936.

In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter
at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical
injuries. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon
grew restless. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift
from her second husband, John R. Marsh, in their cramped 
one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story
of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara.

Literary South: Margaret Mitchell - This Is My South
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
(November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949
)



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RARE STAMP IS SELLING FOR BIG MONEY

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1947 JUDY GARLAND 1/1 PSA 9 MINT **RARE** (STARSTAMPS) *SCARCE* (HIGHEST GRADE)
$1,500.00 (US)

Judy Garland earns first Billboard top 10 since 1945 - ICYMI: The week in music news for Dec. 15 ...
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Judy Garland was an award winning actress,
singer, dancer and vaudevillian. While critically
acclaimed for many different roles throughout
her career, she is widely known for playing the
part of
Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).

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LAST LIVING MLK SIBLING HAS DIED AT 95

Christine King Farris '44 - These Halls Can Talk®

Birth of a King: Life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.(part 1) - Nashville PRIDE, Inc.
Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr.

ATLANTA (AP) — Christine King Farris, the last living sibling
of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died.

Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved
aunt” died Thursday.


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LARGEST MAN-MADE SATELLITE IN 1995

Today in History, June 29: U.S. Space Shuttle Docks With Russian Space Station

On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docked
with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-
made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.

This historic moment of cooperation between former rival
space programs was also the 100th human space mission
in American history.

U.S. space shuttle docks with Russian space station – Bowie News
Autonomous Systems Lab

  

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NIXON MADE ANNOUNCEMENT ON THIS DAY

Nixon announces no more draftees would be sent to Vietnam, June 28, 1972 - POLITICO
Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

On June 28, 1972, President Nixon (above) announced that no
more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer
for such duty. He also announced that a force of 10,000 troops
would be withdrawn by September 1, which would leave a
total of 39,000 in Vietnam.

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