1/ Florida East Coast Railroad tracks toward Grassy Key. 2/ Pine woods, Washington County. 3/ Everglades, Dade County. 4/ On the Ochlockonee River. 5/ Alligator. 6/ "Devil's Punch Bowl" natural spring, Miami. 7/ Sarasota. 8/ House on the Caloosahatchee River. 9/ Daytona.
2. 1950’s television premieres.
1/ I Love Lucy. 2/ The Honeymooners. 3/ Lassie. 4/ Perry Mason. 5/ The Roy Rogers Show. 6/ The Mickey Mouse Club. 7/ What's My Line? 8/ Father Knows Best. 9/ Dragnet.
3. Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Summer Olympic Games.
The 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin was Hitler’s opportunity to showcase Germany’s resurgence following WWI while promoting his theory of Aryan racial superiority. He ordered the construction of an elaborate Olympic venue that included a 100,000 seat track and field stadium and a large Olympic village, and issued prohibitions against Black and Jewish athlete participation. When an international boycott over his prohibitions threatened the Games, Hitler reversed course. The threatened boycott collapsed and the US sent 18 Black athletes along with 300 others to Berlin. Among them was track star Jesse Owens, who won four gold medals and equaled or broke many world records, a showing that refuted Hitler’s Aryan myth. Owens became an international sensation in Berlin and earned lasting fame and respect.
4. President Kennedy and Astronaut John Glenn, 1962.
On Feb. 20, 1962, John Glenn became the first US astronaut to orbit the Earth. His spacecraft was named the “Friendship 7,” signifying the bond among the men who were the first astronauts NASA selected. Three days after Glenn’s flight, he hosted President Kennedy on a tour of Cape Canaveral. Glenn and Kennedy became friends and Glenn later vacationed at the Kennedy home in Hyannis Port, MA.
5. Today’s odd lot, 1911, 1943 and 1886.
1911: NYC firemen exhausted from searching for bodies in the Triangle Shirtwaist fire; Children look at toys in Macy's Christmas window, NYC; Long Beach, CA, waterfront. 1943: US B-24 bomber over Nazi oil refineries in Ploiești, Romania; Betty Grable shows off her "Million Dollar Legs" and hides a baby bump; LT Jack Kennedy in the cockpit of the PT-109, Solomon Islands. 1886: Happy captive Jimmy McKinn poses with Apache boys in New Mexico Territory, a Buck Fly photo; Carl Benz receives a patent for the first practical automobile; Pres. Grover Cleveland, age 49, marries Frances Folsom, age 21, the daughter of his former law partner, in the White House Blue Room.
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