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1583 Gilbert claims Newfoundland (1st English colony in North America) 1772 1st partition of Poland, between Austria, Prussia & Russia 1775 1st Spanish ship, San Carlos, enters SF Bay 1837 1st ascent of Mt Marcy (5,344') highest in Adirondack, NY 1846 Oregon country divided between US & Britain at 49th parallel 1858 Cyrus W Field completes 1st transatlantic telegraph cable 1861 US Army abolishes flogging 1861 US levies its 1st Income Tax (3% of incomes over $800) 1864 Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala; Adm David Farragut orders "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" 1884 Cornerstone for Statue of Liberty laid on Bedloe's Island (NYC) 1914 1st traffic light installed (Euclid Ave. & E. 105th St, Cleveland) 1914 US, Nicaragua sign treaty granting canal rights to US 1924 Comic strip "Little Orphan Annie," by Harold Gray, debuts 1926 Houdini stays in a coffin under water for 1« hrs 1945 Atom Bomb dropped on Hiroshima (Aug 6th in Japan) 1953 Operation "Big Switch" Korean War prisoner exchanged at Panmunjom 1960 Upper Volta (Burkina Faso) gains independence from France 1962 1st quasar located by radio 1962 Marilyn Monroe found dead of apparent self-inflicted drug overdose 1962 Nelson Mandela arrested for incitement & illeagally leaving S Africa 1963 Britain, US & USSR sign nuclear test ban treaty 1964 US begins bombing North Vietnam 1969 Mariner 7 flies past Mars 1973 USSR launches Mars 6 1981 Pres Regan fires 11,500 air traffic controllers who struck 2 days ago 1985 Flexible-wing glider altitude record (214,250') set by Larry Tudor 1986 It's revealed Andrew Wyeth had, secretly created 240 drawings & paintings of his neighbor Helga 1988 Mario Biaggi (Rep-D-NY) convicted of racketeering resigns seat
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Today's Featured Article - An Old-Time Tractor Demonstration - by Kim Pratt. Sam was born in rural Kansas in 1926. His dad was a hard-working farmer and the children worked hard everyday to help ends meet. In the rural area he grew up in, the highlight of the week was Saturday when many people took a break from their work to go to town. It was on one such Saturday in the early 1940's when Sam was 16 years old that he ended up in Dennison, Kansas to watch a demonstration of a new tractor being put on by a local dealer. It was an Allis-Chalmers tractor dealership,
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