Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)
TIME FOR A LAUGH FROM THE RETRO BLOG
FIRST SOLO FLIGHT ACROSS THE PACIFIC
In the first flight of its kind, American aviatrix Amelia Earhart
departed Wheeler Field in Honolulu, Hawaii, on a solo flight
to North America. Hawaiian commercial interests offered a
$10,000 award to whoever accomplished the flight first.
The next day, after traveling 2,400 miles in 18 hours, she
safely landed at Oakland Airport in Oakland, California.
THE FIRST HUMAN RECEIVES TREATMENT
On January 11, 1922, 14-year-old Leonard Thompson became
the first person to receive an injection of the hormone insulin
for Type-1 diabetes—a disease that for millennia had been
considered a death sentence for anyone who developed it.
The breakthrough would be one of the most consequential in
medical history, saving millions of lives.
Canadian scientists Frederick Banting (right) and Charles
Best circa 1924, three years after they successfully isolated insulin for the first time.
Laboratory on the University of Toronto campus where
Banting and Best carried out some of their research on
insulin.
FIRST MEETING OF THE UNITED NATIONS
The first General Assembly of the United Nations, comprising
51 nations, convened at Westminster Central Hall in London,
England on this day in 1946.
One week later, the U.N. Security Council met for the first time
and established its rules of procedure.
Then, on January 24, the General Assembly adopted its first
resolution, a measure calling for the peaceful uses of atomic
energy and the elimination of atomic and other weapons of
mass destruction.
REQUEST FOR MORE FUNDING OF THE WAR
On January 10, 1967, during his State of the Union speech,
President Lyndon B. Johnson asked Congress for more
money to support the Vietnam War.
Lyndon’s War, a war he actually inherited from President
John F. Kennedy, had achieved nothing by 1967. The North
Vietnamese use of guerrilla warfare tactics resulted in
approximately 14,000 American troops killed in action by
early 1967.
Hundreds of U.S. planes had been shot down, leaving Air
Force personnel in enemy POW camps. Although the enemy
also suffered heavy casualties, they did not show any signs
of giving up.
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)
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