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On February 5, 1937, President Franklin D. Roosevelt announced a controversial plan to expand the
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Greenwich Time Signal (the "pips") first broadcast by the BBC
#OnThisDay#OTD 5 February 1924. Still a feature of British life today.
https://www.bbc.com/historyofthebbc/anniversaries/february/the-pips …pic.twitter.com/IOhcVRCftg
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#OTD in 1958, the Tybee Bomb incident... https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18587608 … -
#OTD 1924 The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p01rr9x3 … -
Flashback to the 1970s:
#OTD in 1974:#PattyHearst kidnapped in Berkeley by the#SymbioneseLiberationArmy (SLA).@BBC "Newspaper heiress kidnapped - The daughter of the millionaire American publisher, Randolph Hearst, has been kidnapped..." http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/5/newsid_2867000/2867727.stm …pic.twitter.com/jT4AOfyszB
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#OTD 1980:#Studio54 held an all-night closing party entitled "The End of Modern-day Gomorrah." https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/studio-54-10-wild-stories-from-clubs-debauched-heyday-198626/ …#Nightclub#NYCHistory#1970spic.twitter.com/n0FMz31Bs0
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#OTD George Washington elected 1st president: This Day in History https://fxn.ws/2GRI1Ys#FoxNews -
#OTD in 1881, the Heroine of Lime Rock rescued 2 soldiers near her lighthouse. Keeper Lewis is credited w/ saving over a dozen lives while serving at the Lime Rock Lighthouse. She is also the first woman to have a street named after her in @ArlingtonNat. https://wapo.st/2GYVBZW -
#OnThisDayInHistory: OJ Simpson is found liable in the 1997 wrongful death civil suit brought by the families of Ron Goldman and Nicole Brown. A jury awards the plaintiffs $8.5 million in damages: https://cnn.it/2vN2b3v#OTD pic.twitter.com/SUfBRhAQyT
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#OTD 1593: Death of island 'despot' Robert Stewart, 1st Earl of Orkney https://trib.al/cj1eB9d -
Rosa Parks was born
#OTD in 1913. The NEH-funded@PBS series “The African Americans” examines the pivotal role she played in catalyzing the civil rights movement.#BlackHistoryMonth
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/#642 …pic.twitter.com/sSlNDac8aB
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#GavinEwart born London#otd 1916. British poet - perhaps best noted for his witty, light verse which frequently deals with sexual themes. More at: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-gavin-ewart-1579164.html …@xoselbreapic.twitter.com/jxRZ7zKsO6
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The fifteenth amendment—prohibiting denial of the vote on the basis of race—was ratified 150 years ago, on February 3, 1870.
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S.J. Perelman, probably the funniest American writer of the 20th century, born
#OTD in 1904 (Brooklyn, N.Y.). He was a master of wordplay in books, movies, plays, essays, etc. Read more - via@nytimes
https://www.nytimes.com/1979/10/18/archives/sj-perelman-humorist-is-dead-sj-perelman-humorist-dead-at-75.html …
https://www.nytimes.com/1986/09/07/books/i-don-t-believe-in-kindly-humor.html …pic.twitter.com/bHPlDjXgTw
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Despite differences in nationality and gender, twenty-five thousand silk workers assembled on February 1, 1913 to strike for nearly five months and make labor history.
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#OTD in#SteelersHistory, we selected Franco Harris with the 13th overall pick in the 1972 NFL Draft. Last day to vote for the Immaculate Reception as the Greatest Moment in NFL History: https://bit.ly/2S7pI6Y pic.twitter.com/wqBU7RZCgf
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#OTD 1960, four African American men in Greensboro, NC sat and ordered coffee at a Woolworth. They were refused service, but they stayed all day and repeated this for multiple days, launching a series of sit-in protests across multiple southern states. http://ow.ly/xabX50wVInB pic.twitter.com/OCEw1D6h4V
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#OTD in#Physics - 2003 - Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere -http://bit.ly/2RLdQJd -
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#OTD 1965 - The State Funeral of Sir Winston Churchill https://buff.ly/2uP1I07 ]pic.twitter.com/zba01GaTC8
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"That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime—to set an example—and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history." 25th President, William McKinley was born on January 29, 1843 in Niles, Ohio.
#otd https://to.pbs.org/2GtzjPX
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