7/12/1925 - Swimmer Johnny Weissmuller set a world record in the 150-yard freestyle with a time of 1 minute, 25 and 2/5 seconds � in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. 7/12/1963 - Instant replay was used for the first time during the Army-Navy game this day. TV used the new video technique over and over and over and over and over again.
8/12/1962 - Striking workers of the International Typographical Union closed nine New York City newspapers this day. The strike lasted 114 days and didn�t end until April 1, 1963. A total of 5,700,000 readers were affected by the shutdown. It made people turn on radio and TV, of course...
8/12/1953 - Kim Basinger (actress: 9 1/2 Weeks; former town owner: Braselton, GA; Mrs. Alec Baldwin)
9/12/1884 - Levant Richardson of Chicago, patented the ball bearing roller-skate this day. His teeth chattered all the way to the post office box, downtown. The pavement was kind of rough on those early skates...
10/12/1964 - Rev. Martin Luther King became a recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace this day. He was the youngest person to have earned the award.
11/12/1919 - The kind citizens of Enterprise, Alabama dedicated the first known monument to ... an insect, this day! The town turned out to honor the boll weevil; the evil weevil that destroyed cotton plants. However, by forcing folks to diversify their crops, the farmers wound up tripling their income. Thus, the tribute to those bugs.
11/12/1946 - John D. Rockefeller, Jr. offered up a six-block area of land in New York City for use as world headquarters of the United Nations. The offer was accepted the following day. No one connected with the United Nations has been able to make a decision that quickly, since.
11/12/1918 - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (dissident Russian writer: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich)
12/12/1955 - The largest philanthropic act in the world was announced by the Ford Foundation which gave $500,000,000 to private hospitals, colleges and medical schools.
12/12/1980 - Oil tycoon Armand Hammer bought a notebook of writings by Leonardo da Vinci for $5.28 million at auction in London. It was the highest price ever paid for a manuscript. It was 36 pages long and dated back to 1508.
13/12/1913 - Leonardo da Vinci�s �La Gioconda� or, �Mona Lisa� for us art neophytes, was returned to the Louvre Museum in Paris after a two-year absence. The stolen painting was recovered and was valued at that time at $5,000,000. In 1962, appraisers set the value at one hundred million dollars. It is said that Mrs. Giocondo�s only payment for four years of modeling was free entertainment by jesters, players and singers.
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