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NBTEL telephone company in 1900. At the switchboard sat a long row of operators dressed in
white shirtwaists, with balloon sleeves, and long black skirts.
Each operator wore a black satin prone at the rear, rather than the front: this was to protect the
skirt from becoming shiny on the leather seat of the chair.
How much have communication technology changed since!
First Flight on December 17, 1903
John Thayler witnessed the sinking from a lifeboat. “We could see groups of the almost fifteen
hundred people still aboard, clinging in clusters or bunches, like swarming bees; only to fall in
masses, pairs or singly, as the great after part of the ship, two hundred and fifty feet of it, rose into
the sky, till it reached a sixty-five or seventy degree angle”.
The great ship slowly slid beneath the waters two hours and forty minutes after the collision.
Assassination of Archduke of Austria-Este - 1914
The Panama Canal opened on August 15th 1914. Although opening-day festivities were overshadowed
by the beginning of war in Europe earlier that month, an international exposition in San Francisco the
next year celebrated the canal’s completion.
Today, after more than eight decades of efficient operation the Panama Canal remains a symbol of
human creativity, persistence and achievement.
Canal locks are like water-filled stairs that move ships across sloping terrain. After a ship enters a lock,
the gates are closed, isolating the chamber and its contents from the water around it.
The chamber is either filled or emptied, thus raising or lowering the water level as necessary. Transit
across Panama’s mountains was made possible by damming part of the Charges River to create Gatun
Lake and then building six 1.000-foot-long (305m), 80-foot-deep (24m) concrete lock chambers to
reach it. The lake fed water to the locks by means of gravity; electricity powered the gates.
Tsar Nicholas II of Russia - 1918
The Jazz Singer – 1927 – provides a glimpse of the film’s pioneering achievements in
filmography. Its experimental use of dialogue and synchronized score. It begins with
the first and most legendary words spoken by Jackie Rabinowiltz (Al Jolson).
“Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain’t heard nothin’ yet!” and ends with the finale
of “Toot Toot Tootsie” and “My Mammy” were the movie’s most popular songs.
The Great Depression 1930-1939
The famous picture of the airship Hindenburg as it exploded and crashed spectacularly while
docking at Lakehurst, NJ on May 6th 1937 and 35 people died.
Famous Photos
1940-1959
Pearl Harbor : December 7th, 1941
On D-Day, June 6th, 1944, 156.000 American, British and Canadian troops landed on
Normandy beaches to begin the liberation of Europe from its Nazi occupiers. It was
said to be the largest build-up and movement of soldiers in the history of mankind.
Flag on Iwo Jima - 1945
This photograph from the 1955 Seven Year Itch, starring Marilyn Monroe have since become
synonymous with image of Monroe. Even Barbie Doll offered fans a facsimile.
However, the photo on the left by photographer Bernard Brujo did not make the cut as director Billy
Wilder was fearful of having his movie censored.
Death of a Star : James Dean - 1955
On September 30, 1955 James Dean and his mechanic were driving his Porsche Spyder from
Hollywood to a sports car race in Salinas when, late in the afternoon around Cholame, a young
Cal-Poly student turned left in front of them on his way home to Freshno for the weekend. The
crash crumpled the Porsche and instantly killing Dean, with the mechanic (who survived) being
through out of the car.
Avid James Dean fans still speculate that his fatal car accident was never an accident but a self
destructive reaction to the pressures imposed by fame.
…when Elvis, shocked his audience - 1957
Elvis shocked his audience in a burst of high spirits rolling around on the stage with Nipper in a
highly provocative manner during a fast and furious rendition of Hound Dog at the 1957 California
Concert.
The LA Deputy Police Chief ordered the Vice Squad to instruct Elvis to eliminate any “sexy
overtones” from his performances or risk obscenity charges.
The Nipper Dog was given to Elvis Presley by RCA on the release of his hit Hound Dog. Elvis kept
the dog at Graceland for many years before he gave it as a gift to Paul Lickter.
A British fan bought it for 3.000 UK pounds in 1997.
Buddy Holly and his band - 1959
February 3, 1959 : The day the music died. On this day in 1959, rising American rock stars Buddy
Holly, Ritchi Valens and J.P.“The Big Bopper” Richardson are killed when their chartered Beechcraft
Bonanza plane crashes in Iowa a few minutes after takeoff from Mason City on a flight headed for
Moorehead, Minnesota. Investigators blamed the crash on bad weather and pilot error.
Holly and his band, the Crickets, had just scored a No.1 hit with “That’ll Be the Day”.
Famous Photos
1960-1979
“Dream Day” - 1963
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15,1929-April 4,1968) directed the peaceful march on Washington,
D.C. of 250.000 people to whom he delivered his address, “I Have a Dream” , he conferred with
President John F. Kennedy and campaigned for President Lyndon B. Johnson; he was awarded five
honorary degrees; was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 1963; and became not only the
symbolic leader of American blacks but also a world figure.
August 28, the anniversary of Dr. King’s 1963 I Have a Dream speech, is called “Dream Day”.
John F. Kennedy assassination - 1963
Three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. salutes his father’s casket in Washington three days after
the president was assassinated in Dallas on November 23, 1963.
Widow Jacqueline Kennedy, center, and daughter Caroline Kennedy are accompanied by the
late president’s brothers Sen. Edward Kennedy, left, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy.
Oswald is shot to death on live television - 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald according to US government was the assassin of President John F. Kennedy.
On November 22, 1963, Oswald was arrested by policeman J.D.Tippit. Oswald claimed he was a
“patsy” and denied involvement.
Two days later, Oswald was shot to death by Jack Ruby on live television.
Photographer Robert H. Jackson won the 1964 Pulitzer Prize for Photography for this photograph of
Jack Ruby shooting Lee Harvey Oswald, to whom Dallas detective Jim Leavelle (left) was
handcuffed.
Death of Che Guevara - 1967
October 25, 2007 – A lock of Che Guevara’s hair along with photos, documents, intelligence
intercepts, and original fingerprints relating execution of the Argentine-born revolutionary on
October 9, 1967 sold at auction for $100.000. The macabre collection of memorabilia purchased
by a lone bidder was compiled by a Cuban exile CIA operative named Gustavo Villoldo, who
helped capture Guevara. After his execution by the Bolivian military he was secretly bury him in
the middle of the night. Before Guevara’s hands were cut off, Villoldo helped fingerprint his
corpse, and a “death mask” was made as proof that Che ad been captured and killed. The covert
operative also clipped a portion of Che’s beard as a memento fo the CIA’s triumph over Latin
America’s most famous revolutionary.
Man on the Moon - 1969
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes the American flag planted on the lunar surface.
The date that made history was July 20, 1969.
Millions of Americans heard Neil Armstrong say : “That’s one small step for a man,
one giant leap for mankind”.
Elvis meet the President - 1970
On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White
Hose in Washington, D.C. The meeting was initiated by Presley, who wrote Nixon a six-page
letter requesting a visit with the President and suggesting that he be made a “Federal Agent-
at-Large” in the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs. The events leading up to and
after the meeting are detailed in the documentation and photographs included here, which
include Presley’s handwritten letter, memoranda from Nixon staff and aides, and the thank-
you note from Nixon for the gifts (including a Colt 45 pistol and family photos) that Presley
brought with him to the Oval Office.
Napalm attack - 1972
Nick Ut’s 1972 image of a naked girl fleeing her napalmed picture of Kim Phuc running from a Napalm
attack as a memorable picture vividly depicting the art of war. Photographer Huynh Cong Ut, known by
his colleagues as Nick, was working there as a photo journalist for Associated Press at the time and took
a number of photographs of the villagers trying to escape the napalm.
This one, epitomizing the savagery and tragedy of the conflict, won him the coveted Pulitzer Prize and
became one of the most published photos of the Vietnam war.
Elvis is dead - 1977
August 16, 1977 Elvis was found dead in his bathroom at Graceland in Memphis. This picture
was taken by Elvis’ cousin who was offer a deal by National Enquirer to photograph the body
of Elvis in his coffin. The payment was meager compared to the millions the Enquirer reaped
for the cover story, Story behind the picture.
Famous Photos
1980-1999
Challenger - 1986
28 January 1986. The American space shuttle, Challenger, has exploded killing all seven
astronauts on board. The five men and two women – including the firs teacher in space –
were just over a minute into their flight from Cape Canaveral in Florida when the Challenger
blew up.
The astronauts’ families, at the airbase, and millions of Americans witnessed the world’s worst
space disaster live on TV. The danger from falling debris prevented rescue boats reaching
the scene for more than an hour.
The fall of the Berlin Wall - 1989
The fall of the Berlin Wall 1989 At that time, the Cold War was still dominant. Hardly anybody
predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union until just before it happened in 1989, so most 1980
forecasts for the year 2000 retained the Cold War as the defining feature.
The fall of the Berlin Wall is a very visible sign of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Nobody
anticipated this dramatic change even a few years in advance.
Tiananmen Square - 1989
A hunger strike by 3,000 students in Beijing had grown to a protest of more than a million as the
injustices of a nation cried for reform. For seven weeks students of the People's Republic, protested
in Tiananmen Square with the government dispatched soldiers and tanks to curb the rally. As the
world waited as young man simply would not move, standing with his shopping bags before a line of
tanks, a hero was born. Today, this brave man is commonly reffered to as “The Tank Man”. His
true identity is still unknown. It is believed he will not reveal himself for fear of the long jail term.
Freedom for Nelson Mandela - 1990
11 February 1990 Freedom for Nelson Mandela Leading anti-apartheid campaigner Nelson Mandela has
been freed from prison in South Africa after 27 years. His release follows the relaxation of apartheid laws...
including lifting the ban on leading black rights party the African National Congress (ANC) by South African
President FW de Klerk. Mandela appeared at the gates of Victor-Verster Prison in Paarl at 1614 local time
- an hour late - with his wife Winnie.
Holding her hand and dressed in a light brown suit and tie he smiled at the ecstatic crowds and punched
the air in a victory salute before taking a silver BMW sedan to Cape Town, 40 miles away. People danced
in the streets across the country and thousands clamoured to see him at a rally in Cape Town
Leaning Tower of Pisa closed to public - 1990
Princess Diana died August 31, 1997. Her funeral September 6, 1997 saw seen by 33 million viewers
around the world. That day was at once sorrowful and uplifting as Diana, Princess of Wales, was
remembered as a woman of "natural nobility" whose life of compassion and style transcended sometimes
abusive press coverage. Diana was laid to rest on her family's estate. Diana's flag-draped coffin and
topped with three wreaths.
Carrying the simple notation "Mummy" from her son Harry. Her coffin was carried from the gates of
Kensington Palace through the streets of London in a solemn procession to the doors of Westminster
Abbey followed by Prince Charles, the Duke of Edinburgh, Lord Spencer, William and Harry.
The End.
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