This day in history - March 25

[seamusTX]

1634 - British colonists landed in Maryland.

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1863 - The first Medal of Honor was presented to one Jacob Parrot. Five other men were honored that day.

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1911 - The Triangle Shirtwaist Co. fire in New York City killed 146 workers.

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This disaster was aggravated by unsafe practices, including locking the doors in a ten-story building. In its aftermath, workplace and fire safety regulations and inspections were increased, and the union movement in the textile industries got a boost.

1954 - RCA produced its first color TV set, priced at $1,000 -- the equivalent of about $8,000 today.

Those old enough to remember early vacuum-tube color TVs will recall that they exerted considerable suction.

TV sets are no longer manufactured in the country where they were invented.

1957 - The European Economic Community was established by the Treaty of Rome.

The members of the EEC, now the EU, have enjoyed more than a half-century of peace and growth on a continent that was at war for all of recorded history before 1945.

1965 - Martin Luther King, Jr. completed a march to the state capitol in Montgomery, Alabama.

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1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled poll taxes unconstitutional.

- Jim

[MTICop]

Can't begin to tell you how much I enjoy reading these. Thanks again for putting this out.

[seamusTX]

Thanks.

- Jim

[kd5zex]

Those old enough to remember early vacuum-tube color TVs will recall that they exerted considerable suction.

I am not old enough but am familiar with tubes however, I do not understand what this means.

[seamusTX]

I was trying to say in a polite way that did not violate the forum rules, that those early TV sets from the 1950s and 60s did not work well. They frequently made human faces look green and had other problems. People who owned them were always hitting them with a shoe or putting aluminum foil on the rabbit-ear antennas.

- Jim

[kd5zex]

Gotcha! I thought this was some technical description that went over my head...

[CainA]

1966 - The U.S. Supreme Court ruled poll taxes unconstitutional.

I take it that this is a different poll tax than the one that's been in the news lately about adult entertainment establishments? As in pole tax.

-Cain

[DoubleJ]

maybe that'd be a pole cat tax...