DB Cooper hijacked a plane and parachuted with $200,000 USD in 1971, while the smog in New York City killed 400 people in 1966. Lee Harvey Oswald’s assassin was shot on live TV in 1963, while 650 American soldiers were killed by the Japanese in 1943. The Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers betting scandal occurred in 1906, and Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species was published in 1859. The autobahn had a speed limit for the first time in 1973, and the FBI crime laboratory opened in 1932. The Hollywood 10 were sued for contempt in 1947, and “Lucy,” an ancestral species of modern humans, was found in Ethiopia in 1974.
A man hijacked a plane, parachuted in with $200,000 US Dollars (USD) and was never seen again. (1971) DB Cooper hijacked an Orient Northwest passenger plane and ransomed it for $200,000 USD. Once he received the money, he parachuted into the state of Washington in the United States. He was never seen again and his remains were never found. However, a young boy found nearly $6,000 USD of ransom money in 1980 outside Vancouver, Washington.
The most smoggy day in New York City history occurred, killing an estimated 400 people. (1966) Dense smog settled in the city, causing deaths from heart attacks and respiratory failure.
The man who assassinated US President John F. Kennedy two days earlier was assassinated on live TV. (1963) Television news stations broadcast live the move of Lee Harvey Oswald from police headquarters in Dallas, Texas to a county jail. During the transport, and as the cameras rolled and broadcast live, Jack Rush shot and killed Oswald. The murder was watched by millions of viewers.
The Japanese Army shot and killed 650 American soldiers in the first US offensive launched in the central Pacific region during WWII. (1943) During ‘Operation Galvanic’, also known as the ‘Battle of Tarawa’, USS Liscome Bay was sunk by one torpedo, killing all aboard her. This was also the first time the Japanese had launched a major strike against a US amphibious attack during the war.
It was known that for the first time an American professional sporting event had been “fixed”. (1906) Dubbed the Canton Bulldogs-Massillon Tigers betting scandal, Canton coach Blondy Wallace and a Tigers team player were accused of fixing a two-game football series, in which he won one game each time, forcing a third tiebreaker game. Both sides have denied involvement. The allegations were never proven, but the reputation was tarnished for several years.
The Origin of Species was published in England. (1859) Charles Darwin’s work, fully entitled On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life, first introduced the concepts of evolutionary biology and natural selection.
German authorities have set a speed limit on the autobahn for the first time. (1973) The limit was set in response to the 1973 oil crisis. Four months later, the limit was removed. The highway is well known for its lack of speed limits. There are, however, recommended safe speed limits on the highway.
He opened the crime laboratory of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) of the United States. (1932) The first FBI laboratory had rather poor beginnings. Its location, in Washington DC, was chosen based on whether it had a proper sink. He started operations with a full-time agent, named Charles Appel, who set up the lab with a microscope he had borrowed.
The US Congress has sued “Hollywood 10” on charges of contempt. (1947) The Top 10 Film Industry Professionals included producers, directors, and writers. Citing the First Amendment, they refused to answer congressional questions regarding their political affiliations, communist or otherwise, and were sentenced to spend a year in prison. Appeals were filed, but the ruling was upheld by the US Supreme Court. The fallout led to Hollywood’s famous “blacklist,” which was a list of film industry professionals suspected of being communists themselves or of supporting communist activities.
The remains of an extinct hominid of a skeleton called “Lucy” have been found. (1974) “Lucy” was found by Tom Gray and Donald Johanson in Ethiopia. Its remains, classified in the species Australopithecus afarensis, are more than three million years old. The find was important, as the remains are believed to belong to an ancestral species of modern humans. The scientist named the skeleton “Lucy” after the famous Beatles tune, Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.
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