The radio annual (1955)

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ODD HOLIDAYS AND SPECIAL KVENTS ALMANAC n D D Gcmijnv dccljrcd wjr on England and Franct (1914). Columbut sjiicd from Spj n (H92L 4: ftttt of Sr Dominic. 5: litrlc of Mobile Bjy (1864) with Admiral Farraguf in command. Second Atomic Bomb dropped (1945) Hiroshima. 6: Feast of the Transfiguration. Westinghouse discloses Stratovision plan (1945). Emilic Dionnc. of the Dionne quintuplets, died 1954' 7: International Peace Bridge, dedicated (1927), commemorating more than 100 years of peace between the U. S. and Canada. Creation of War Department (1789). Society of Jesuits restored by Pope Pius VII 11814). 8: Charles A. Dana born (1819). Third Atomic Bomb dropped (1945) Nagasaki. 9: First Train Drawn in U. S. by Steam Locomotive (1831). Iiaak Walton born (1593). 10: Herbert Clark Hoover born (1874). Russia declared war against japan (1945). 11: The "Clermont" Fulton's steamboat made a successful run up the Hudson River (1807). First baseball game in color, Brooklyn Dodgers vs. Boston Braves at Ebbets Field < 1951 1. U.S. Army used portable television transmitters to direct infantry operations remotely. Demonstration was seen by coast-tocoast audience i 1954 L 14: V-l Day (1945). Atlantic Charter agreement between President F. D. Roosevelt and Prime Minister Winston Churchill (1941). 15: Panama Canal opened (1914). 16: Bennington Battle Day (Vermont). First transatlantic cable opened (1858). George Herman ("Babe") Ruth died (1948'. 18: Virginia Dare born (1587). 19: National Aviation Day. Orville Wright born (1871). 20: Benjamin Harrison born (1833). 21: Lincoln-Douglas debate began (1858). 22: Claude Debussy born (1862). 23: Oliver Hazard Perry born (1785). 24: British burn White House (1814). St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, France (1572). Festival of St. Bartholomew. 25: Edgar Wilson ("Bill") Nye born (1850). 26: Suffrage for Women— 19th Amendment '1920). 27; Drilling of first oil well completed in Western Pennsylvania by Col. Edwin Lourentine Drake (1859^. 28: Spanish landed at the site of St. Aufustinc. Fla. (1565). johann Wolfgang von Goethe born (1749). 29: Oliver Wendell Holmes born (1809). 30: Germany declared war on Poland (1939). Beginning of World War II. French fleet arrived in Chesapeake Bay to further the interest of American independence (1781). 1: Germany invaded Poland (1939). Official V-l Day (1945). (Surrender terms signed aboard U.S.S. Missouri.) Labor Day. Eugene Field born (1850). 3: First American Peace Treaty with England (1783). Allies invaded Italy (1943). 4: Henry Hudson discovered Manhattan Island (1609). First Electrical power station in world in New York (1882). First telecast coast-to-coast via coaxial cable and microwave relays. Occasion of Pres. Harry S. Truman opening Japanese Peace Treaty Conference (1951). 5: First Continental Congress (1774). 6: Lafayette Day. First Battle of the Marne (1914): 7: James Fenimore Cooper born (1789). Japanese Peace Treaty (WW II) signed (1951). 8: Dutch surrendered New Amsterdam (New York) to British (1664). Italy surrendered (1943). Crimean War ended (1855). 9: Admission Day (California — 1850). 10: Arthur Holly Compton born (1892). Rosh Hashonah. 1 1 : Harvest Festival. O. Henry (pen name William Sydney Porter) born (1862). Defender's Day (Maryland). 12: Battle of Lake Erie (1813). 13: Walter Reed born (1851). John Joseph Pershing born (1860). Battle of Quebec (1759). Battle of St. Mihiel (1918) First battle planned and carried out by American forces in World War I. 14: Great Britain and its colonies in America adopted the Georgian calendar (1752). "The Star Spangled Banner" written by Francis Scott Key (1814). 15: Independence Day of the Central American Republics (1821). William Howard Taft born (1857). 16: Russians burned Moscow (1812). 17: Constitution Day. 18: Cornerstone of U. S. Capitol laid In Washington, D. C. (1793). N. Y. Times established (1851) when its first issue appeared. Columbia Broadcasting System goes on air with basic network of 16 stations. Major J. Andrew White is president (1927). 792