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Las Vegas Strip, November 1959
Sahara’s first hotel tower under construction. Riviera’s first expansion underway. “Holiday In Japan” at New Frontier, Jimmy Durante at Desert Inn.
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Las Vegas Strip, November 1959
Sahara’s first hotel tower under construction. Riviera’s first expansion underway. “Holiday In Japan” at New Frontier, Jimmy Durante at Desert Inn.
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An ancient Scottish village is on sale for just $173000. the only catch is that the village is believed to be haunted!
The Old Village has 17th-century ruins, the House of Lawers, which may be a site that stands on the former home of the lady of Lawers, who is believed to haunt the village to this day.
As per the reports, just 17 people lived by the loch within the Old Village in an 1841 census, whereas by 1891, the amount decreased to only 7 people, and it had been abandoned completely by 1926.
The Old Village has 17th-century ruins, the House of Lawers, which may be a site that stands on the former home of the lady of Lawers, who is believed to haunt the village to this day.
As per the reports, just 17 people lived by the loch within the Old Village in an 1841 census, whereas by 1891, the amount decreased to only 7 people, and it had been abandoned completely by 1926.
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1776 – The United States Declaration of Independence is adopted by the Second Continental Congress.
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall, in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.
John Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which Congress would edit to produce the final version. The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
The day after the vote for independence, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America." But Independence Day is actually celebrated on July 4, the date that the Declaration of Independence was approved.
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
L to R: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson meet at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Coincidences:
• Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to later serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day – 4 July 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration.
• Although not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Monroe, another Founding Father who was elected as President, also died on 4 July, in 1831. He was the third President in a row who died on the anniversary of independence.
• Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, was born on 4 July 1872. So far he is the only U.S. President to have been born on Independence Day.
The Declaration of Independence is the statement adopted by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, Independence Hall, in Philadelphia on 4 July 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies, then at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain, regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer under British rule. Instead they formed a new nation—the United States of America.
John Adams persuaded the committee to select Thomas Jefferson to compose the original draft of the document, which Congress would edit to produce the final version. The Declaration was ultimately a formal explanation of why Congress had voted on July 2 to declare independence from Great Britain, more than a year after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War.
The day after the vote for independence, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail: "The Second Day of July 1776, will be the most memorable Epocha, in the History of America." But Independence Day is actually celebrated on July 4, the date that the Declaration of Independence was approved.
Writing the Declaration of Independence, 1776 by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris.
L to R: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson meet at Jefferson's lodgings, on the corner of Seventh and High streets in Philadelphia, to review a draft of the Declaration of Independence.
Coincidences:
• Both John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the only signers of the Declaration of Independence to later serve as Presidents of the United States, died on the same day – 4 July 1826, which was the 50th anniversary of the Declaration.
• Although not a signer of the Declaration of Independence, James Monroe, another Founding Father who was elected as President, also died on 4 July, in 1831. He was the third President in a row who died on the anniversary of independence.
• Calvin Coolidge, the 30th President, was born on 4 July 1872. So far he is the only U.S. President to have been born on Independence Day.
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More history you were never taught in school.
Battle of Bamber Bridge
Jun 24, 1943 – Jun 25, 1943
On this day in 1943 black American soldiers faced off with white American Military police during World War II on British soil. Yes you read correctly black American soldiers had to fight their own white American soldiers, while in England, where they were fighting for the world.
Why? Because the English town of Bamber Bridge in Lancashire was not segregated so they treated the black soldiers like all other races, aka blacks were free to eat, drink anywhere, BUT back in America segregation of blacks and whites still existed. So essentially the American army went to someone else’s country and demanded they adopted America’s racist practices
So when the American Military police found out that their own black American soldiers were drinking at the same pubs as white people they went in to arrest them. The people in the town got mad about the treatment of the black soldiers and decided to then turn their pubs into “BLACKS ONLY DRINKING PUBS” the very opposite of what was taking place in America with their WHITES ONLY businesses.
Of course this pissed off the American military so guns went blazing, and when word spread back at camp that black soldiers had been shot, scores of men formed a crowd, some carrying rifles and by midnight more American military police arrived with a machine gun-equipped vehicle, so the black soldiers had no choice but to get rifles from British stores while others barricaded themselves back on base, so now it was American white soldiers versus American black soldiers. This lead to the death of one solider, injury of 7, and 32 convictions.
Back in America the battle was hushed up because they didn’t want the country to find out that they were fighting their own soldiers which would anger the black population and weaken the morale in the country.
You may read about the ill treatment of black American soldiers by their own army in the book FORGOTTEN.
Battle of Bamber Bridge
Jun 24, 1943 – Jun 25, 1943
On this day in 1943 black American soldiers faced off with white American Military police during World War II on British soil. Yes you read correctly black American soldiers had to fight their own white American soldiers, while in England, where they were fighting for the world.
Why? Because the English town of Bamber Bridge in Lancashire was not segregated so they treated the black soldiers like all other races, aka blacks were free to eat, drink anywhere, BUT back in America segregation of blacks and whites still existed. So essentially the American army went to someone else’s country and demanded they adopted America’s racist practices
So when the American Military police found out that their own black American soldiers were drinking at the same pubs as white people they went in to arrest them. The people in the town got mad about the treatment of the black soldiers and decided to then turn their pubs into “BLACKS ONLY DRINKING PUBS” the very opposite of what was taking place in America with their WHITES ONLY businesses.
Of course this pissed off the American military so guns went blazing, and when word spread back at camp that black soldiers had been shot, scores of men formed a crowd, some carrying rifles and by midnight more American military police arrived with a machine gun-equipped vehicle, so the black soldiers had no choice but to get rifles from British stores while others barricaded themselves back on base, so now it was American white soldiers versus American black soldiers. This lead to the death of one solider, injury of 7, and 32 convictions.
Back in America the battle was hushed up because they didn’t want the country to find out that they were fighting their own soldiers which would anger the black population and weaken the morale in the country.
You may read about the ill treatment of black American soldiers by their own army in the book FORGOTTEN.
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Australian historian Ray Holyoak uncovers hidden documents which reveal African-American troops turned their guns on white officers while in North Queensland in 1942.
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5 July 1686 – Isaac Newton publishes Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published on 5 July 1686, laid the foundations of classical mechanics.
Sir Isaac Newton surrounded by symbols of some of his greatest findings. Illustration by Jean-Leon Huens, National Geographic.
Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.
Sir Isaac Newton PRS was an English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and a key figure in the scientific revolution. His book Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica, first published on 5 July 1686, laid the foundations of classical mechanics.
Sir Isaac Newton surrounded by symbols of some of his greatest findings. Illustration by Jean-Leon Huens, National Geographic.
Newton's Principia formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation that dominated scientists' view of the physical universe for the next three centuries.
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5 July 1809 – The largest battle of the Napoleonic Wars, the Battle of Wagram is fought between the French and Austrian Empires.
The Battle of Wagram, 5–6 July 1809, was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon’s French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen. The battle led to the breakup of the Fifth Coalition, the Austrian and British-led alliance against France.
Battle of Wagram, painting by Carle Vernet.
The Battle of Wagram had an unusually high casualty rate, due mainly to an unprecedented concentration of artillery with deadly roundshot on a flat battlefield. Each army fired at least 90,000 rounds during the two days of battle. On one day during a French cavalry charge one division alone lost 1,200 horses killed or wounded. With at least 72,000 human casualties on both sides, it was also the bloodiest military engagement of the entire Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars thus far.
The Battle of Wagram, 5–6 July 1809, was a military engagement of the Napoleonic Wars that ended in a decisive victory for Emperor Napoleon’s French and allied army against the Austrian army under the command of Archduke Charles of Austria-Teschen. The battle led to the breakup of the Fifth Coalition, the Austrian and British-led alliance against France.
Battle of Wagram, painting by Carle Vernet.
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5 July 1841 – Thomas Cook organises the first package excursion, from Leicester to Loughborough.
Thomas Cook (1808–1892) was an English businessman. He is best known for founding the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was brought up as a strict Baptist. In February 1826, Cook became a Baptist missionary, and toured the region as a village evangelist, distributing pamphlets and occasionally working as a cabinet maker to earn money. Cook's idea to offer excursions came to him while "walking from Market Harborough to Leicester to attend a meeting of the Temperance Society".
An illustration of Thomas Cook's first excursion on 5 July 1841. Thomas Cook archive.
By the end of 2017, the Thomas Cook Group was the second largest travel company in Europe and the UK with a joint fleet of 97 aircraft, 2,926 stores, 32,722 employees, and over 19.1 million annual customers. However by November 2018, questions were being raised about the group's financial health. The Thomas Cook Group ceased trading on 23 September 2019, over 178 years after their first excursion.
Thomas Cook (1808–1892) was an English businessman. He is best known for founding the travel agency Thomas Cook & Son. He was brought up as a strict Baptist. In February 1826, Cook became a Baptist missionary, and toured the region as a village evangelist, distributing pamphlets and occasionally working as a cabinet maker to earn money. Cook's idea to offer excursions came to him while "walking from Market Harborough to Leicester to attend a meeting of the Temperance Society".
An illustration of Thomas Cook's first excursion on 5 July 1841. Thomas Cook archive.
By the end of 2017, the Thomas Cook Group was the second largest travel company in Europe and the UK with a joint fleet of 97 aircraft, 2,926 stores, 32,722 employees, and over 19.1 million annual customers. However by November 2018, questions were being raised about the group's financial health. The Thomas Cook Group ceased trading on 23 September 2019, over 178 years after their first excursion.
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5 July 1948 – The National Health Service Acts create the national public health system in the United Kingdom.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom. Since 1948 it has been funded out of general taxation. It is made up of the four separate systems of the four countries of the UK: The National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. They were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following World War II.
The people behind the founding of the NHS.
On 5 July 2021, Queen Elizabeth awarded the NHS the George Cross for for seven decades of public service and battling COVID-19 during the current pandemic. The George Cross was instituted by King George VI on 24 September 1940 during the height of the Blitz, and is granted in recognition of 'acts of the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger'.
The National Health Service (NHS) is the umbrella term for the publicly-funded healthcare systems of the United Kingdom. Since 1948 it has been funded out of general taxation. It is made up of the four separate systems of the four countries of the UK: The National Health Service in England, NHS Scotland, NHS Wales, and Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland. They were established together in 1948 as one of the major social reforms following World War II.
The people behind the founding of the NHS.
On 5 July 2021, Queen Elizabeth awarded the NHS the George Cross for for seven decades of public service and battling COVID-19 during the current pandemic. The George Cross was instituted by King George VI on 24 September 1940 during the height of the Blitz, and is granted in recognition of 'acts of the greatest heroism or of the most courage in circumstances of extreme danger'.
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5 July 1996 – Dolly the sheep becomes the first mammal cloned from an adult cell.
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in partnership with the biotech company PPL Therapeutics. Dolly the sheep was born on 5 July 1996 and had three mothers (one provided the egg, another the DNA and a third carried the cloned embryo to term). Dolly died from a progressive lung disease five months before her seventh birthday.
Dolly in 1997 on the right with Polly, another sheep genetically engineered by the team at Roslin. John Chadwick, AP.
Dolly lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian. There she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and produced six lambs in total. Her first lamb, named Bonnie, was born in April 1998. The next year Dolly produced twin lambs Sally and Rosie, and she gave birth to triplets Lucy, Darcy and Cotton in 2000.
Dolly (5 July 1996 – 14 February 2003) was a female domestic sheep, and the first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell, using the process of nuclear transfer. Dolly was cloned by Ian Wilmut, Keith Campbell and colleagues at the Roslin Institute, at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland in partnership with the biotech company PPL Therapeutics. Dolly the sheep was born on 5 July 1996 and had three mothers (one provided the egg, another the DNA and a third carried the cloned embryo to term). Dolly died from a progressive lung disease five months before her seventh birthday.
Dolly in 1997 on the right with Polly, another sheep genetically engineered by the team at Roslin. John Chadwick, AP.
Dolly lived her entire life at the Roslin Institute in Midlothian. There she was bred with a Welsh Mountain ram and produced six lambs in total. Her first lamb, named Bonnie, was born in April 1998. The next year Dolly produced twin lambs Sally and Rosie, and she gave birth to triplets Lucy, Darcy and Cotton in 2000.
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A U.S. navy aircraft flies above a Soviet freighter carrying two bomber planes during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962
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5000 people waiting for the 1st McDonalds in USSR to open, 1990, Moscow
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6 July 1892 – John Simpson Kirkpatrick, the man with the donkey at Gallipoli born.
John (Jack) Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 1st Australian Division during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I.
Simpson landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 as part of the ANZAC forces. In the early hours of the following day, as he was bearing a wounded comrade on his shoulders, he spotted a donkey and quickly began making use of it to carry his fellow soldiers. He used at least five different donkeys, known as "Duffy No. 1", "Duffy No. 2", "Murphy", "Queen Elizabeth" and "Abdul" at Gallipoli; some of the donkeys were killed and/or wounded in action.
Simpson's statue by Peter Corlett located outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Simpson with his donkey, bearing a wounded soldier during the Battle of Gallipoli.
Contemporary accounts of Simpson at Gallipoli speak of his bravery and invaluable service in bringing wounded down from the heights above Anzac Cove through Shrapnel and Monash gullies.
On 19 May 1915 less than a month after arriving, during the Third attack on Anzac Cove, Simpson was struck by machine gun fire and died. He was buried at the Beach Cemetery, a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located at Hell Spit, at the southern end of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
John (Jack) Simpson Kirkpatrick (6 July 1892 – 19 May 1915), who served under the name John Simpson, was a stretcher bearer with the 1st Australian Division during the Gallipoli Campaign in World War I.
Simpson landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25 April 1915 as part of the ANZAC forces. In the early hours of the following day, as he was bearing a wounded comrade on his shoulders, he spotted a donkey and quickly began making use of it to carry his fellow soldiers. He used at least five different donkeys, known as "Duffy No. 1", "Duffy No. 2", "Murphy", "Queen Elizabeth" and "Abdul" at Gallipoli; some of the donkeys were killed and/or wounded in action.
Simpson's statue by Peter Corlett located outside the Australian War Memorial in Canberra. Simpson with his donkey, bearing a wounded soldier during the Battle of Gallipoli.
Contemporary accounts of Simpson at Gallipoli speak of his bravery and invaluable service in bringing wounded down from the heights above Anzac Cove through Shrapnel and Monash gullies.
On 19 May 1915 less than a month after arriving, during the Third attack on Anzac Cove, Simpson was struck by machine gun fire and died. He was buried at the Beach Cemetery, a small Commonwealth War Graves Commission cemetery located at Hell Spit, at the southern end of Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula.
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6 July 1947 – The AK-47 goes into production in the Soviet Union.
The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known, also known as the Kalashnikov, is a selective-fire (semi-automatic and automatic), gas-operated assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov rifle, or "AK”, family. Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941, while recuperating from a shoulder wound which he received during the Battle of Bryansk. Kalashnikov himself stated... "I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: ‘Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men, when the Germans have automatics?’ So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier.”
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47.
Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year of World War II, 1945. In 1946, the AK-47 was presented for official military trials, and in 1948, the fixed-stock version was introduced into active service with selected units of the Soviet Army. In the spring of 1949, the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact. Even after almost seven decades, the model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used assault rifles in the world because of their substantial reliability under harsh conditions and their relatively low production costs. The AK-47 has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces as well as irregular forces worldwide.
The AK-47, or AK as it is officially known, also known as the Kalashnikov, is a selective-fire (semi-automatic and automatic), gas-operated assault rifle, developed in the Soviet Union by Mikhail Kalashnikov. It is the originating firearm of the Kalashnikov rifle, or "AK”, family. Mikhail Kalashnikov began his career as a weapon designer in 1941, while recuperating from a shoulder wound which he received during the Battle of Bryansk. Kalashnikov himself stated... "I was in the hospital, and a soldier in the bed beside me asked: ‘Why do our soldiers have only one rifle for two or three of our men, when the Germans have automatics?’ So I designed one. I was a soldier, and I created a machine gun for a soldier.”
Mikhail Kalashnikov, designer of the AK-47.
Design work on the AK-47 began in the last year of World War II, 1945. In 1946, the AK-47 was presented for official military trials, and in 1948, the fixed-stock version was introduced into active service with selected units of the Soviet Army. In the spring of 1949, the AK-47 was officially accepted by the Soviet Armed Forces and used by the majority of the member states of the Warsaw Pact. Even after almost seven decades, the model and its variants remain the most popular and widely used assault rifles in the world because of their substantial reliability under harsh conditions and their relatively low production costs. The AK-47 has been manufactured in many countries and has seen service with armed forces as well as irregular forces worldwide.
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High school teacher John T. Scopes is brought to trial in Dayton, Tennessee for teaching the theory of evolution, which was prohibited under state law. July 10, 1925
John Thomas Scopes (August 3, 1900 – October 21, 1970) was a teacher in Dayton, Tennessee, who was charged on May 5, 1925, with violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which prohibited the teaching of human evolution in Tennessee schools. He was tried in a case known as the Scopes Trial, in which he was found guilty and fined $100 (equivalent to $1,476 in 2020).
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The photo on the left was taken in the 1870's, the right in 1901 after she was discovered
French woman Blanche Monnier and called "The Confined Woman of Poitiers" was secretly kept locked in a small room by her aristocratic mother for 25 years. She was eventually found by police, then middle-aged and in an emaciated and filthy condition; according to officials, Monnier had not seen any sunlight for her entire captivity.
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What a horrific story. Poor woman.
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7 July 1928 – Sliced bread is sold for the first time, on the inventor's 48th birthday, by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which sold their first slices on 7 July 1928. Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved a great success.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder and the "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread" announcement.
"Kleen Maid Sliced Bread" was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". This led to the popular phrase "greatest thing since sliced bread".
Otto Frederick Rohwedder of Davenport, Iowa, United States, invented the first loaf-at-a-time bread-slicing machine. A prototype he built in 1912 was destroyed in a fire and it was not until 1928 that Rohwedder had a fully working machine ready. The first commercial use of the machine was by the Chillicothe Baking Company of Chillicothe, Missouri, which sold their first slices on 7 July 1928. Their product, "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread", proved a great success.
Otto Frederick Rohwedder and the "Kleen Maid Sliced Bread" announcement.
"Kleen Maid Sliced Bread" was advertised as "the greatest forward step in the baking industry since bread was wrapped". This led to the popular phrase "greatest thing since sliced bread".
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8 July 1885 – Hugo Boss, German fashion designer and founder of Hugo Boss is born.
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German fashion designer and businessman and the founder of the clothing company Hugo Boss. He was an early and active member of the Nazi Party as early as 1931 and remained loyal to the Nazi Party ideology throughout the duration of the party's existence. Hugo Boss died of a tooth abscess on in 1948, aged 63.
Boss was born on 8 July 1885 in Metzingen, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg. He did an apprenticeship as a merchant, completed military service from 1903 to 1905 and worked in a weaving mill in Konstanz. He founded his own clothing company in Metzingen in 1923 and then a factory in 1924. The company produced shirts and jackets and then work clothing, sportswear and raincoats. In the 1930s, it produced uniforms for the SA, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the postal service, rail employees and later the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
On the 1st April 1931, Boss took the step of becoming a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party. It seems that his reasons for joining the Party were to help attract government contracts.
Hugo Ferdinand Boss was a German fashion designer and businessman and the founder of the clothing company Hugo Boss. He was an early and active member of the Nazi Party as early as 1931 and remained loyal to the Nazi Party ideology throughout the duration of the party's existence. Hugo Boss died of a tooth abscess on in 1948, aged 63.
Boss was born on 8 July 1885 in Metzingen, in the Kingdom of Wurttemberg. He did an apprenticeship as a merchant, completed military service from 1903 to 1905 and worked in a weaving mill in Konstanz. He founded his own clothing company in Metzingen in 1923 and then a factory in 1924. The company produced shirts and jackets and then work clothing, sportswear and raincoats. In the 1930s, it produced uniforms for the SA, the SS, the Hitler Youth, the postal service, rail employees and later the Wehrmacht, the armed forces of Nazi Germany.
On the 1st April 1931, Boss took the step of becoming a card-carrying member of the Nazi Party. It seems that his reasons for joining the Party were to help attract government contracts.
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8 July 1947 – Reports are broadcast that a UFO crash landed in Roswell, New Mexico in what became known as the Roswell UFO incident.
In mid-1947, a United States Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed, and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, who then engaged in a cover-up.
Roswell Daily Record, 8 July 1947, announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer".
In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist.
Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim in history”.
In mid-1947, a United States Air Force balloon crashed at a ranch near Roswell, New Mexico. Following wide initial interest in the crashed "flying disc", the US military stated that it was merely a conventional weather balloon. Interest subsequently waned until the late 1970s, when ufologists began promoting a variety of increasingly elaborate conspiracy theories, claiming that one or more alien spacecraft had crash-landed, and that the extraterrestrial occupants had been recovered by the military, who then engaged in a cover-up.
Roswell Daily Record, 8 July 1947, announcing the "capture" of a "flying saucer".
In the 1990s, the US military published two reports disclosing the true nature of the crashed object: a nuclear test surveillance balloon from Project Mogul. Nevertheless, the Roswell incident continues to be of interest in popular media, and conspiracy theories surrounding the event persist.
Roswell has been described as "the world's most famous, most exhaustively investigated, and most thoroughly debunked UFO claim in history”.
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Ralph Willet Dixey (Bannock) and Peter Jim (Shoshone) in an 1897 photograph wearing traditional beaded clothing. After the Indian Wars, native Americans were forbidden from using their native names by Congressional order.
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President Nixon dines with Chinese leaders in Beijing 1972
At a lavish banquet in Shanghai, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai (second from left) demonstrates the proper etiquette for using chopsticks, as US President Richard Nixon tries them for himself.
The meal came during a week-long summit, which Nixon described as “the week that changed the world”. It was the first official visit to the People’s Republic of China by a US President and made significant moves to thaw relations between the two nations after 25 years of division.
Plans for the trip began in the wake of ‘Ping Pong Diplomacy’, when US and Chinese table tennis teams extended the olive branch with invitations to each other’s country.
