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Leaders of Allied forces met in Tehran to discuss strategies for ending World War II, including “Operation Overlord”. The US national speed limit of 55mph ended in 1995. The first car race in the USA took place in 1895. The Grand Ole Opry debuted its radio show in 1925. The Times was first printed on a steam-powered press in 1814. Mariner 4 successfully completed the first flyby of Mars in 1964. The deadliest nightclub fire in US history occurred at the Cocoanut Grove club in Boston in 1942. Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in prison in 1994. Hawaii’s independence was recognized by France and the UK in 1843, but it was later annexed by the US and became a state in 1959.
The key leaders of the Allied forces during World War II met for the first time in Tehran, Iran. (1943) The Tehran Conference was a meeting between Allied leaders, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet leader Josef Stalin and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill to discuss strategies for ending the war with Nazi Germany and the Axis powers. It was the first of only two times that the three leaders would meet during the war: the second would be in Yalta in 1945. The meeting, among other things, established the details for “Operation Overlord”, which was a Allied military operation to invade Western Europe.
The national speed limit of 55 miles per hour (about 88 kilometers per hour) in the United States has ended. (1995) US President Bill Clinton signed into law a bill that repealed the National Maximum Speed Act that limited highway speeds at the federal level; The bill returned statewide speeding regulations.
The first car race in the USA took place. (1895) The course of the race was originally planned to be about 92 miles (148 kilometers) from Chicago to Waukegan, Illinois, but a blizzard forced a shorter course: 50 miles (about 80 kilometers) round trip between Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea won the race in a gas-powered carriage that he had built with his brother; he completed the race in about 10 hours and won $2,000 US dollars.
The Grand Ole Opry debuted its radio show in its first ever broadcast. (1925) The show that is now heard around the world on radio and Internet broadcasts, was originally called WSM Barn Dance. It originally aired on Nashville station WSM. It is one of the longest running radio shows in US history and is largely credited with making country music as popular as it is today.
The London newspaper The Times was first printed on a steam-powered press. (1814) The revolutionary press, created by Andreas Friedrich Bauer and Friedrich Koenig in Germany, was a product of the Industrial Revolution. It made it possible for the first time to mass-produce newspapers.
NASA launched the Mariner 4 space probe. (1964) The probe’s mission was to make the first flyby of Mars, which it completed successfully. It also sent the first photos of the planet’s surface, which were also the first photos successfully taken in deep space.
The deadliest nightclub fire in US history occurred at the Cocoanut Grove club in Boston. (1942) Fire started in fake palm tree near stage and spread quickly. There were approximately 1,000 people in the club that night, more than double the number allowed by fire safety capacity regulations. The ensuing panic and the fact that the club had a revolving door prevented people from escaping, and nearly 500 people were killed.
The US soap operas The Edge of Night and As The World Turns were shown live for the last time. (1975) The two shows were against converting to taped broadcasts and were the last soap operas to switch to the new format.
US serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer was murdered in prison. (1994) Dahmer had been sentenced to 15 consecutive life sentences for murder. He was beaten to death by another inmate who was also in prison for murder. The inmate claimed he killed Dahmer as part of God’s work.
The independence of the Kingdom of Hawaii was recognized by France and the United Kingdom. (1843) Hawaii remained independent until its government was overthrown in 1893; it was finally annexed by the United States in 1898, in what some call the first case of American imperialism. Hawaii became a US state in 1959.
