Nine men have climbed a pole to get a good view of the World Series game between Pittsburgh and Detroit, October 1909.
… fatality in the crash of a powered airplane occurred on September 17, 1908, when Orville Wright’s plane crashed during a military demonstration at Fort Myer, Virginia, injuring Wright and killing his passenger, Lt. Thomas Selfridge.
Wall Street, 1865.
Civil engineer George Ferris designed a 264-foot high amusement ride — the Ferris Wheel — for the 1893 Chicago world’s fair.
Humphrey Bogart and James Cagney in Angels With Dirty Faces (1938).
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What earthly good is it for me to teach that honesty is the best policy when all around [my boys] see that dishonesty is a better policy?
That the hoodlum and the gangster is looked up to with the same respect as the successful businessman or the popular hero? 
On this date in 1942, US Marines invaded the Japanese-held island of Guadalcanal, in the Solomon Island chain of the South Pacific.
The amphibious assault was the first Allied land offensive against Japanese forces.
Willem de Kooning, Untitled XI, 1975.
Top left: Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Sr., announces the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., to an Indianapolis rally crowd on April 4, 1968. Indiana Historical Society photo.
Right: Civil disturbances broke out in Washington, D.C., and more than one hundred other US cities following the King assassination. Library of Congress photo.
Bottom left: US Marines rest at Vandergrift Combat Base, a Marine base located ten miles south of the Vietnamese demilitarized zone. 2LT Robert Mueller, a twenty-four-year-old rifle platoon leader in charge of a group of about forty men, was based here in December 1968. DOD photo.
Right: NASA launched the Apollo 8 into space to conduct the first manned lunar orbit. The crew’s picture of the Earth rising above the lunar horizon became one of the most famous photographs in history.
August 7, 1940: An Italian assault force of 250,000 has attacked British positions in Egypt.
Berlin authorities claim efforts to enforce a naval blockade on Britain have ‘strangled’ British trade and communications with the outside world.
Eight million people in Belgium are said to be at risk of starvation this winter.
Berlin has ordered all Jewish residents of Cracow, Poland, to leave the city.
The US Secretary of State urged the American people to “be ready and willing for real sacrifice of time and of substance, and for hard personal service.”
The House has passed and sent to the Senate a bill which would allow the FBI to wiretap communications in combating sabotage, treason or espionage.
The Red Cross announced plans to create four national blood banks for the use of the Army in the event of war.
Yesterday, the Governor of Hawaii said the completion next year of the $50 million military expansion plan for the Hawaiian Islands will render Hawaii “impregnable from attack by any power.”
A permanent white “X” marks the spot on Elm Street in Dallas where President Kennedy was shot as he rode in an open car on November 22, 1963.
The assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, fired from the sixth floor of the red brick Texas School Book Depository building, which now houses a museum chronicling the event.
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When the night has come
And the land is dark
And the moon is the only light we'll see,
No I won't be afraid
Oh, I won't be afraid
Just as long as you stand, stand by me.
-- Ben E. King, 1962I’ll see you on Monday.
— Brenda
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