Good morning and welcome to another edition of Throwback
Thursday! Here’s what happened on this day in history:
• 1946: The Exchange National Bank of Chicago, Illinois,
institutes the first drive in banking service in America.
• 1954: Ellis Island in New York closes after providing the
gateway for 12 million immigrants from 1892 - 1924. From 1924 to 1954 it was mostly
used as a detention and deportation center for illegal immigrants.
• 1955: Chuck Berry – popular for such hits as “Johnny B.
Goode” and “Roll Over Beethoven” – is named by a Billboard poll as the most
promising R&B artist of the year. He proved the pollsters right by becoming
a huge success in more than one genre of music.
• 1970: The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a
rotting eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon with half a ton of
dynamite, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident. The explosion
caused large pieces of blubber to land some distance away from the beach and
left much of the whale intact.
• 2004: A jury in Redwood City, Calif., convicted Scott
Peterson of murdering his pregnant wife, Laci, and dumping her body in San
Francisco Bay. On March 16, 2005, Peterson was sentenced to death and currently
resides on death row in San Quentin State Prison.
• 2013: The newly built One World Trade Center in New York
City is the tallest building in the United States after a Height Committee
ruled that the 408-foot needle at the top of the tower counted towards the
height. The building that had previously occupied that place was the Willis
Tower in Chicago.
Have a fangtastic day! <3 Brock V"""V
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