9/9/2016 Friday Lunch Thread*

Late start for this



1906 Robert Turner invents the automatic typewriter return carriage.

1915 Germany begins a new offensive in Argonne on the Western Front.

1921 Margaret Gorman of Washington, D.C., is named the first Miss America.

1925 Germany is admitted into the League of Nations.

1935 Senator Huey Long of Louisiana is shot to death in the state capitol, allegedly by Dr. Carl Austin Weiss, Jr.

1944 Germany's V-2 offensive against England begins.

1945 Korea is partitioned by the Soviet Union and the United States.

1951 Japanese representatives sign a peace treaty in San Francisco.

1955 The United States, Australia, France, Great Britain, New Zealand, the Philippines, Pakistan, and Thailand sign the mutual defense treaty that established the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization (SEATO).

1960 Penguin Books in Britain is charged with obscenity for trying to publis
h the D.H. Lawrence novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

1960 President Dwight Eisenhower dedicates NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.

1971 The Kennedy Center opens in Washington, DC with a performance of Leonard Bernstein's Mass.

1974 President Gerald Ford pardons former President Richard M. Nixon for any crimes arising from the Watergate scandal he may have committed while in office.

1988 Wildfires in Yellowstone National Park in the US, the world's first national park, force evacuation of the historic Old Faithful Inn; visitors and employees evacuate but the inn is saved.

1991 Macedonian Independence Day; voters overwhelmingly approve referendum to form the Republic of Macedonia, independent of Yugoslavia.

1994 USAir Flight 427 crashes on approach to Pittsburgh International Airport, killing all 132 people aboard; subsequent investigation leads to changes in manufacturing practices and pilot training.