Spacetime for the week of 1/31/07
Wednesday, January 31, 2007
By Ed Bushnell
January 31
1851 – Gail Borden invents evaporated milk.
1905 – An automobile reaches and surpasses 100 mph for the first time, in Daytona Beach.
1928 – Scotch Tape is introduced.
February 1
1810 – The population of the U.S. is estimated to be 7,239,881, 19 percent of which is black.
1982 – “Late Night with David Letterman” premieres.
1985 – The temperature plunges to -69 degrees F at Peter’s Sink, Utah.
February 2
1964 – GI Joe is first introduced.
1974 – Babs gets her first #1 with “The Way We Were.”
1972 – Willie Nelson settles with the IRS by agreeing to pay $9 million
of the $16.7 million he owes in back taxes and penalties.
February 3
1913 – The 16th Amendment, providing for a Federal Income Tax, is
ratified. 1941 – The Supreme Court establishes and sets a minimum
wage. Someday maybe it will go up.
1967 – Jimi Hendrix records
“Purple Haze.”
February 4
1977 – Fleetwood Mac releases “Rumors.”
1987 – President Reagan’s veto of the Clean Water Act is overridden by Congress.
1998 – Someone throws a pie in Bill Gates’ face in Belgium.
February 5
1846 – The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper published on the West Coast.
1922 – Reader’s Digest is published for the first time.
1937 – FDR attempts to pack the Supreme Court with liberals by raising the number of sitting justices. The proposition fails.
February 6
1933 – The temperature hits -90 degrees F in Oymyakon, USSR, an Asian record. 1943 – Frank Sinatra debuts on the radio.
1968 – Former President Dwight Eisenhower shoots a hole-in-one.
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