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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- June 27
Category: Education
Duration: 00:06:30
Publish Date: 2018-06-18 15:55:38
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JUNE 27 -- 1985 Route 66 decertified; 1948 Happy Anniverssary Jack Kilby (integrated circuit)/Barbara Annegers; 1778 Liberty Bell Moved to Philly; 1939 Frankly My Dear Clark Gable line filmed; 1880 Happy Birthday Helen Keller; 1988 Tyson KOs Spinks in 91 seconds

 

JUNE 27 1985 – Get your kicks on Route 66 … is decertified. Or as the song says, over 2000 miles all the way. America’s main street, as route 66 was nicknamed, ran through eight states from Chicago to Santa Monica. You can still use 85% of it, by the way, if you want to experience American culture. Throughout the Great Depression, farm families everywhere were displaced from the Dust Bowl and used Route 66 to head west. This was actually written about in Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath. From the ndustrial Rust Belt to the So-Cal Sun Belt.

According to roadtripusa.com, though it is no longer a main route across the country, Route 66 has retained its mystique in part due to the very same effective hype, hucksterism, and boosterism that animated it through its half-century heyday. It was a Route 66 sight, the marvelous Meramec Caverns, that gave the world the bumper sticker, and it was here that the American art of driving tour as first flourished.

Billboards and giant statues along the highway still hawk a baffling array of roadside attractions, tempting passing travelers to swim alongside giant blue whales, to see live rattlesnakes and other wild creatures on display in n roadside menageries, or to stay at Tucumcari Tonight – 2000 Rooms!

1948 – Happy anniversary Jack Kilby and Barbara Annegers. …Jack was an American electrical engineer who helped to create the first integrated circuit. Ah yes, the chip that Hack built. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in physics in December 2000. 1778 – Liberty Bell moves to Philadelphia. …Proclaim Liberty Throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof. That inscription is taken from Leviticus 25:10 in the Old Testament. It was used to call lawmakers to their meetings and the townspeople together to hear the reading of the news of the day. This was before email. folks. And no, I don’t know how it got cracked. But if you do, please let me know. 1939 – Frankly My Dear …The scene featuring those famous words spoken by Clark Gable to Vivien Leigh was filmed on June 27, 1939. It shocked America.

For one thing, after watching four hours of Gone with the Wind, we find that Rhett Butler is finally done with Scarlett O’Hara. Second, the word Damn was too vulgar of a word to use back then. In fact the censors approved the movie but producer David Selznick was fined $5000 for it. On an interesting side note, the book didn’t include the word Frankly. The American Film Institute voted that line the number one movie line of all time in 2005.

1880 – Happy birthday Helen Keller. …Knock it off with the Helen Keller jokes, people, I don’t know how many fingers you’re holding up and I don’t care. It’s old, tired, and not funny. Stop it. For someone who had no sight, hearing or speech, she had more sense than most people.

1988 – Mike Tyson Kos Michael Spinks …in 91 seconds in Atlantic City. Nine years and one day later, he’ll bite Evander Holyfield’s ear. Strange.

 

 
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