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This feature is inspired by a daily item in the Boston Globe called This Day in History. It's possible that each day of the year has historical significance for one of us. Let's document that. Send your day to the Webmaster.
Today in History, as viewed by the Class of 1956
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January
- 1 - HAPPY NEW YEAR! ....Quick! How many since our graduation?
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February
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- 6 - The great Boston snow storm (1978)
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- 9 - First flight of Boeing 747, witnessed by Walter Frey as Project Manager
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March
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- 13 - Splashdown of Apollo 9, returning Rusty Schweickart to Earth. (1969)
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April
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- 15 - Taxes Due
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- 19 - Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building bombed in Oklahoma City (1995)
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- 22 - New York World's Fair opened: Martin Jacobs arrested with some 300 other members of the
Congress of Racial Equality ( my thanks to MIT, which assigned Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience"
in freshman Humanities! )
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May
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- 7 - Issue Date of
 Magazine featuring MIT Class of '56 (1956)
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- 12 - "Big Dig Bridge Walk" - Boston's Jakim Bridge opened to walkers for
just you and 200,000 of your closest friends. '56 was there! (2002)
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June
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- 17 - Five burglars arrested at Watergate (1972)
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July
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17 - On this day, I completed a distance flight in a  glider, qualifying for the International Silver 'C' Badge awarded by the F.A.I., and joining a select group of people I admire, Neil Armstrong and Wernher Von Braun among them. Guy Spencer (1974)
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I was teaching "Systems for non-systems Executives" at the American Airlines
Maintenance base in Tulsa, Oklahoma. At this session about 60 executives from
American as well as Boeing and other corporations were gathered - even though
it was not a normal work day. They had wheeled a large television into the
front of the room.
There was fidgeting, anticipation and an uncharacteristic, eerie silence as
eyes stared intently watching and listening to the television screen. Then we
heard the words: "Houston, Tranquility base here. The eagle has landed."
Apollo 11 had accomplished the first part of President Kennedy's vow . . . to
place a man on the moon.
The room erupted in cheers. Many, if not most, had tears in their eyes - of
joy, not sadness. Strangers (to me) hugged stranger and friend. From
somewhere a case of Champaign was opened (in a city where you could not buy a
drink at that time) - and toast upon toast took place.
From somewhere else, an AA executive presented me with a dozen, logoed
high-ball glasses from American's inaugural jet flight from New York to
Chicago - a gift I forever cherished as a reminder of the day in history when
man took its first small step on the moon.
We had another cheering television session without teaching four days later
when Apollo 11 completed the final part of President Kennedy's vow on July
24th when the spacecraft landed safely back on earth. But to me and many of
us, July 20th will forever live in history. (1969)
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to celebrate the Japanese surrender, ending WW2. (1945)
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September
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- 11 - WORLD TRADE CENTER (2001)
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October
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- Florida Marlins take Game 6 at Yankee Stadium to win World Series (2003)
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November
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December
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- 7 - We remember, Pearl Harbor. (1941)
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- 31 - New Year's Eve....
End of Year
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