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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, March 28, 2024 1881 The Barnum & Bailey Circus is formed when P.T. Barnum combined his circus with the Cooper and Bailey Circus. It was initially named “P.T. Barnum’s Greatest Show

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds, March 27, 2024 1860 A Patent for the sewing machine was granted to M.L. Byrn of New York City. 1886 Apache Indian Chief Geronimo was captured by General George Crook

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WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 1872 The first practical fire extinguisher was patented by African American inventor Thomas J. Martin. It provided a way to quickly attach a pump to a body of water

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, March 25, 2024 1882 The first demonstration of pancake making at a department store in New York 1954 RCA manufactured the first ‘color’ television. 1968, The 58th and FINAL episode

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday. March 22, 2024 1933, FDR legalized the Sale of Beer and Wine, which had been outlawed since 1919.  Hard liquor was still illegal though.  Prohibition officially came to an end when the 21st Amendment passed that

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, March 21, 2024 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King led 3,000 Civil Rights demonstrators in a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand voting rights for blacks.  By the end of

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Mar. 20, 2024 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published in book form. It became the first American novel to sell 1,000,000 copies. It had previously been

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WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, March 19, 2024 1918 The first national U.S. Daylight savings time was passed by Congress. 1931 Nevada legalized gambling. It was intended to be a short term fix to help the ailing

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, March 15, 2024 44 B.C. Julius Caesar was assassinated on the Ides of March by a group of conspirators. According to history, a fortune teller warned Caesar, “beware the Ides

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., March 14, 2024 In 1968, after three seasons of greatness, ABC aired the final episode of “Batman”, starring the one true batman, Adam West. 50 years ago – In 1972,

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., March 13, 2024 1930 The discovery of the planet Pluto was announced; it had been discovered from pictures taken by the Lowell Observatory in Arizona. 1934 The birthday of the

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WAY BACK WHEN for Tuesday, March 12, 2024 1933 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first “Fireside Chat” radio broadcast, just eight days after taking office. Roosevelt felt that the fledgling new medium of radio would

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 11, 2024 1809 Robert Fulton patented the steamboat. 1953 Walt Disney’s “Peter Pan” premiered. 1938 BBC TV aired television’s first science fiction program. A 35-minute adaptation of a play

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Mar. 8, 2024 1948, the Supreme Court ruled that it was unconstitutional to teach religion in public schools. It was decided in the landmark case of McCollum vs. the Board

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Mar. 7, 2023 1876 Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone. 1917 The Original Dixieland Jazz Band released Livery Stable Blues. It sold a million copies. 1939: Guy

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., March 6, 2024 1836 The Fall of the Alamo as Mexican forces led by Santa Anna defeat the 187 Texans – including Davie Crockett, who had declared their independence to

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Mar. 5, 2024 1946 Winston Churchill remarked, “An iron curtain has descended across the continent” referring to the Russian threat. The term “The Iron Curtain” would become synonymous with the boundary

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Mar. 4, 2024 1634 Samuel Cole opens the first official tavern and house of entertainment in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, called Cole’s Inn. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow referenced it in his play John

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Feb. 29, 2024 1288 Leap Day was established. Also known as Bachelor’s Day. In 1288, Scotland enacted a law allowing women to propose marriage on Leap Day; the man was

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Mar. 1, 2024 1872 Yellowstone National Park was established by the U.S. Congress. It was the first national park in the U.S. and is also considered the first national park

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 28, 2024 1849 The first prospectors for the Gold Rush of ’49 arrive in San Francisco. Gold was discovered by James Marshall on Sutter’s Mill the previous year. Over 300,000 people,

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  Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2024 1922 The Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. 1964 The New York Yankees signed Mickey Mantle to a contract for

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 26, 2024 1869 The 15th amendment is passed by the U.S. Congress, giving African Americans the right to vote. “The right of citizens of the United States to vote

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 23, 2024 1874 The game of Tennis was patented by its inventor Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of Great Britain. 1945 The famous raising of the flag on Mt. Suribachi,

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday. Feb. 22, 2024 1878 F.W. Woolworth opened his first Woolworth’s store. Located in Utica, New York, he named it “Woolworth’s Great Five Cent Store”. It failed three months later, so he

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 21, 2024 1968 An agreement between baseball players and club owners increased the minimum salary for major league players to $10,000 a year. 1975 Former Attorney General John Mitchell and former

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 20, 2024 1942 Edward “Butch O’Hare” single-handedly attacked nine Japanese bombers, shooting down five, saving the USS Lexington from certain destruction. These actions made him the U.S. Navy’s first flying ace, and

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 19, 2024 1878 Thomas Edison received a patent for the first phonograph. 1945 U.S. troops land on Iwo Jima. With more than 7,000 U.S. troops killed, it was one of

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 16, 2024 1868 Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks was organized. 1937 Nylon was patented, by Dr. Wallace Carothers of the du Pont Co. Its first commercial use was in

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Feb. 15, 2024 1856 American naval officer David Dixon Porter left Turkey with a shipload of 33 camels. Congress had appropriated $30,000 for the camel acquisition to be used in