This day in...
1920:
It was reported on this day that thousands of families had written the U.S. Government requesting that their sons be allowed to join the army. Upon enlistment, they would receive the quality education they would not otherwise receive as a result of living in an underdeveloped area of the country.
1946:Winston Churchill delivers one of the first speeches condemning what he thought was a soviet Union bent on the expansion of communism in Europe and around the world, during the speech he coined the phrase "The Iron Curtain" which was then used by many future politicians.
1953:
Joseph Stalin, the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union and the supreme chief of the Communist Party died.
1960:
Elvis Presley completes his two-year stint and is discharged from the US Army.
1963:
The Hula-Hoop, first marketed by Wham-O in 1958, is patented by the company's co-founder, Arthur "Spud" Melin.
1991: Iraqis turn over 35 prisoners of war, including 15 Americans, to the Red Cross in Baghdad.
2004:
Martha Stewart is convicted of the felony of obstructing justice and lying about why she'd unloaded her Imclone Systems Inc. stock just before the price plummeted.
this day in 2011...i didn't do much other than take a picture of my pretty narcissus :)
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