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Dan Gall
Jul 10, 2017, 7:49:45 AM7/10/17
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July 10, 1962
The United States Patent Office issues the Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin
a patent for his three-point automobile safety belt “for use in
vehicles, especially road vehicles” on this day in 1962.
July 10, 1985
In Auckland harbor in New Zealand, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sinks
after French agents in diving gear plant a bomb on the hull of the
vessel. One person, Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira, was killed. The
Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of international conservation group
Greenpeace, had been preparing for a protest voyage to a French nuclear
test site in the South Pacific.
July 10, 1990
In a vindication of his sweeping economic and political reforms, Mikhail
Gorbachev withstands severe criticisms from his opponents and is
re-elected head of the Soviet Communist Party by an overwhelming margin.
Gorbachev’s victory was short-lived, however, as the Soviet Union
collapsed in late 1991.
*****
Thought of the Day
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
*****
Question of the Day
What is the most common name for American cities with a total of 66 of them?
Yesterdays Question
Where did farmers first domesticate bananas?
Answer
In Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea
The United States Patent Office issues the Swedish engineer Nils Bohlin
a patent for his three-point automobile safety belt “for use in
vehicles, especially road vehicles” on this day in 1962.
July 10, 1985
In Auckland harbor in New Zealand, Greenpeace’s Rainbow Warrior sinks
after French agents in diving gear plant a bomb on the hull of the
vessel. One person, Dutch photographer Fernando Pereira, was killed. The
Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of international conservation group
Greenpeace, had been preparing for a protest voyage to a French nuclear
test site in the South Pacific.
July 10, 1990
In a vindication of his sweeping economic and political reforms, Mikhail
Gorbachev withstands severe criticisms from his opponents and is
re-elected head of the Soviet Communist Party by an overwhelming margin.
Gorbachev’s victory was short-lived, however, as the Soviet Union
collapsed in late 1991.
*****
Thought of the Day
Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
*****
Question of the Day
What is the most common name for American cities with a total of 66 of them?
Yesterdays Question
Where did farmers first domesticate bananas?
Answer
In Southeast Asia and Papua New Guinea
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