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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, March 21, 2022 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 Thurs. March 17, 2022 461, St. Patrick died. The patron saint of Ireland wasn’t even born Irish.  He was actually a kidnapped slave from Britain.  And the first Saint Patrick’s Day parade

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds. March 16, 2022 1802, the U.S. military academy at West Point was established. 1850, Nathaniel Hawthorne published his classic tale “The Scarlet Letter”. 1964 Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor got

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, March 15, 2022 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 of

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, March 14, 2022 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, Burt

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., Mar. 10, 2022 1810, French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte married his second wife, Marie Louise, the 19-year-old daughter of the Emperor of Austria. Napoleon had a STAND-IN at the wedding ceremony in Austria,

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., Mar. 10, 2022 1849, an Illinois attorney filed a patent for an inflatable airbag to lift grounded boats off sandbars.  However, the inventor . . . one Abe Lincoln . . . was

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Mar. 9, 2022 1832, an Illinois lawyer ran for his first political office, but lost. He later lost four more times while running for Congress and the Senate. This loser,

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Mar. 8, 2022 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 Monday, Mar. 7, 2022 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 Lombardo and

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Mar. 2, 2022 1750 Benjamin Franklin proposed the use of lightning rods to protect houses in a letter to his colleague Peter Collinson. 1933 The movie King Kong, about a giant ape

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Mar. 1, 2022 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 Monday, Feb. 28, 2022 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 Fri. Feb. 25, 2022 1913 The 16th amendment went into effect, giving the U.S. Congress the power to collect income taxes. 1964 The late boxing legend Muhammed Ali won his first of

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs. Feb. 24, 2022 1938 The E.I. du Pont Co. begins the first commercial production of nylon, manufacturing it for toothbrush bristles. Nylon Stockings went on sale in 1939.  1949 The first

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds. Feb. 23, 2022  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 Tues. Feb. 22, 2022  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 Monday, Feb. 21, 2022 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 Friday, Feb. 18, 2022 1908 The first postage stamps were issued in rolls. They were designed for use in vending machines. 1930 The dwarf planet Pluto is discovered by Clyde Tombaugh at

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., Feb. 17, 2022 1873 The first gaslight streetlights were lit in Baltimore Maryland, the first city to be lit by gaslight at night. 1933 The Blaine Act was passed by

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 15, 2022 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

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 14, 2022 1876 Alexander Graham Bell and Elisha Gray both filed patents for the telephone on the same day. A long legal battle ensued which Bell ultimately won. 1929 The

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 11, 2022 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 Wednesday, Feb. 9, 2022 1864 U.S. President Abraham Lincoln posed for the picture that now appears on the U.S. $5 bill. 1870 Congress established The National Weather Service, a division of the

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 8, 2022 1910 The Boys Scouts of America is founded, by William Boyce. Boyce had been lost in the fog while visiting London and encountered a boy who guided

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 7, 2022 1778 Daniel Boone was captured by Indians. But he managed to escape into the woods. 1940 Walt Disney’s “Pinocchio” was released. 1988 The crime show “America’s Most

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Feb. 4, 2022 1789 George Washington was elected president with 100% of the electoral vote. He was the first and only president to do so. 1962 St. Jude Children’s Hospital

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., Feb. 3, 2022 1870 The 15th amendment was ratified, giving African Americans the right to vote. 1913 The 16th amendment was ratified, giving the U.S. Congress the power to collect

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Weds., Feb. 2, 2022 Groundhog Day! 1913 Grand Central Station opened in New York City. More than 100,000 people visited on its opening day. 1914 The first Cub Scout pack was

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2022 1524 London astrologers predicted the world would end on that day. 20,000 Londoners fled their homes in anticipation of the event. It didn’t happen. So they recalculated