Afternoon Phoenix – it’s time once again for Throwback
Thursday. Here’s what happened on this day in history:
• 1871: The Great Chicago Fire started on Sunday, October 8,
and burned for three days before it finally burned itself out Tuesday, October
10, 1871.
• 1952: A woman is suing her local drive-in movie theatre in
Supreme Court for $13,000 in damages after she complained that the fog
prevented her from watching the movie and the manager refused to refund her
money, she then told the manager to do a fog check and the theatre manager
struck her.
• 1965: London's Post Office Tower which at 581 ft. tall is
officially opened by the then Prime Minister, Harold Wilson as the tallest
building in Britain at the time. Its main purpose was to support microwave
aerials used to carry telecommunications traffic from London to the rest of the
country.
• 1969: The Weather Underground (Weatherman) has the first
of The Days of Rage riots in Chicago, Illinois. The Weatherman were an American
radical left organization which were involved in bombings, riots, and a
jailbreak including the bombing of United States Capitol, The Pentagon and the
Harry S Truman Building which houses the United States Department of State.
• 1973: Britain's first commercial independent radio station
begins broadcasting LBC (London Broadcasting Company) on VHF and medium wave.
• 1987: A group of scientists armed with the latest in boats
and underwater technology will carry out a full survey of Loch Ness hoping to
find proof that Nessie exists. This has proved a great draw to Loch Ness in
Scotland as hundreds of journalists from all over the world will watch and
report anything and everything to do with this legendary sea monster that has
attracted media attention since the 1930's when an English surgeon, R.K.
Wilson, claimed to have taken a photo of Nessie.
• 1998: The U.S. House of Representatives votes to proceed
toward impeaching President Bill Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction
of justice in cases concerning Arkansas real estate deals.
• 2004: Martha Stewart is sentenced to five months in prison
and five months of home confinement in addition to a $30,000 fine and was sent
to the minimum-security facility in West Virginia—known as “Camp Cupcake”.
The answer to yesterday's last riddle of the day: Astronaut!
Tammera Uren got it right! (although, I guess the other answers could have
worked too, but an astronaut would likely die faster due to depressurization of
his space suit)
Have a fangtastic day!
<3 Brock V"""V
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