Bruce's Twisted History
For Jun 5: Top News of the Day:
In 1964 - DSV Alvin is commissioned. ~ The other chipmunks,
Theodore and Simon, were not given ships.
In 1989 - The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for
over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989. ~ There is no
reliable information about the identity or fate of the tank man. I've always wondered.
This man had guts.
In Other News:
In 1851 - Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or
Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
In 1883 - The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris. ~ Istanbul was considered the Orient.
In 1933 - The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold
standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right
of creditors to demand payment in gold. ~ Money becomes a total fiat currency.
In 1947 - Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States
Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
~ The US could not afford to take care of domestic issues but could spend $13
billion ($148 bilion in 2013 dollars) in foreign aid.
In 1956 - Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton
Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
In 1967 - The Six-Day War begins: Israel launches surprise strikes against
Egyptian air-fields in response to the mobilization of Egyptian forces on the Israeli border.
In 1968 - Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador
Hotel in Los Angeles, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
