Edith Houghton, former baseball prodigy and MLB’s first female scout, dies at 100 Houghton was only ten years old when she joined The Philadelphia Bobbies [our favorite baseball team ever, obviously!!] – a factory team made […]
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December 5, 1933 – Prohibition ends with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment DRINK UP!
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December 2, 1927 – following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile above – the four Raymo […]
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Celia Cooney, The Bobbed-Haired Bandit she’s probably the coolest named bandit in the history of bandits!
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chicagohistorymuseum: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Keohane feeding Tunney, a bear cub c. 1927. Photo from the Chicago Daily News. Want a copy of this photo? > Visit our Rights and Reproductions […]
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Philo T Farnsworth (August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971) and Mable Bernstein inspect one of his first portable television cameras, built in 1934 thank you PTF!!!!
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August 6, 1926 – Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel
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July 24, 1935 – The Dust Bowl heat wave reaches its peak, sending temperatures to 109°F (43°C) in Chicago, Illinois and 104°F (40°C) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin above – Dust Masks Worn […]
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contestants Miss Atlantic City, Miss Philadelphia, and Miss Washington, at the first Miss America Pageant, 1921
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July 13, 1923 – The Hollywood Sign is officially dedicated in the hills above Hollywood, Los Angeles, California. It originally reads ‘Hollywoodland’ but the four last letters are dropped after […]