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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- March 8
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Publish Date: 2018-03-07 23:50:00
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MARCH 8 1950 – the Kombi goes into production, and what a long strange trip it’s been. This sugar magnolia originally a concept from the Netherlands had the Eyes of the World on itas it went Truckin down Shakedown Street. It was generally blue and white but some hippies would paint a Touch of Grey on it, among other pretty colors. Friend of the Devil Adolf Hitler and Austrian born engineer Ferdinand Porsche met up and Porchse was tasked to design it. The Estimated Prophet Hitler may have went to Hell In a Bucket but at least he was enjoying the ride. The bus wasn’t the most popular car when it was first introduced to America due to its prior Nazi connections, but by the 1960s America warmed up to it like a Fire on the Mountain and it went Truckin’. Pretty soon American hippies were trying to fit Uncle John’s Band and Tennessee Jed in the VW bus to go to their rock concerts and anti-war rallies. Better watch your speed, Casey Jones! In 1993 when Jerry Garcia died, Volkswagon ran an ad featuring a drawing of the front of a bus with a tear streaming down it. 1862 – CSS Virginia reaks havoc on the Union Navy. Originally called the U.S.S. Merrimack, in 1861, this massive 40-gun hulk was sunk by the Federals before they evacuated the Norfolk Navy Yard. The Confederates began rebuilding it using ironclad. This was a new concept in naval ship construction and would prove invulnerable to regular ammunition. On March 8 she sailed into the mouth of the James River at Hampton Roads and unleashed fury, ramming into the Cumberland and sinking it, destroyed the USS Congress and ran the USS Minnesota aground. There was sheer panic in Washington DC because of this beat down. But the next day came the USS Monitor, another ironclad ship, and the two giants went at it and fought to a draw. More on that later. 1951 – The Lonely Hearts Killers fry in the electric chair. Martha Beck and Raymond Martinez Fernandez from New York City may have killed as many as 20 people according to some sources. When Fernandez completed an unrelated jail sentence, he went after people who placed personal ads in newspapers. He would gain their trust, steal their money and disappear. That’s how he met Martha Beck, who showed up at his door with two kids. He agreed to go along with her as long as she ditched the kids, and she placed them right away at the Salvation Army. The two began to fall in love and she went with him on his scam routines. But she was unstable and her jealousy got to the better of her, so they started killing their victims. The last one was in Michigan when they were caught. They wrote a 73 page confession and were hoping to avoid execution, which was illegal in the state of Michigan. But they wound up getting extradited to New York, where the electric chair was an option, and on March 8 1951, they to a seat for the last time. Their story is told in the 2006 movie Lonely Hearts starring John Travolta and Selma Hayek and Jared Leto. 2006 LA Lakers play New Orleans in the first professional sports game since Katrina 1999 Joe DiMaggio died at age 84 – won 9 World Series, in 1941 had 56 games hitting streak, career: .325 average, 361 HRs, 1,537 RBI, 3 time MVP1930 Babe Ruth signs 2 year $160,000 deal – when told he made more than the President his reply was “I had a better year”
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