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Joe's Daily U.S. History Lesson -- June 30
Category: Education
Duration: 00:06:05
Publish Date: 2018-06-19 12:23:25
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JUNE 30 -- 1970 Congress restricts deployment of troops to Vietnam; 1985 James Dewar, inventor of Twinkie, dies; 1900 -- Hoboken Dock Fire; 1968 Happy Birthday Phil Anselmo, metal screamer; 1962 Koufax throws first no-hitter; 1985 Happy birthday Michael Phelps, Olympic swimmer

 

JUNE 30 1970 – The Cooper-Church Amendment is passed in the Senate. ...The bill marked the first time that Congress had restricted the deployment of troops during a war against the intentions of the president. The amendment barred funds to retain US troops in Cambodia after July 1 or to supply military advisers, mercenaries, or to conduct any combat activity in the air above Cambodia in direct support of Cambodian forces without the approval of Congress. According to David Schmitz in The United States and Right wing dictatorships 1965-1989, the amendment was a landmark in the history of opposition to the war, congressional initiatives to bring the fighting to an end, and efforts to control executive power in foreign policy’s 1985 – We lose a great American man. James Alexander Dewar, …a baker for the Continental Baking Company. The company went through several mergers before winding up with Hostess. Dewar invented the Twinkie! He came up with the name from a billboard in St. Louis for Twinkie Toe Shoes. The reason why he came up with the Twinkie was because he noticed that machines used to make cream-filled strawberry shortcakes for the Schiller Park bakery were idle when strawberries weren’t in season.

So Dewar came up with a pound cake filled with banana cream. But during WWII bananas were rationed and the company had to switch to vanilla cream. Paula Dean has a yummy Twinkie pie recipe by the way.

The shelf life for a Twinkie, despite urban legend, actually only has a shelf life of 45 days, instead of 45 years. James Alexander Dewar, who was born on February 5, 1897, became VP of Hostess and held that position until 1972, then died at age 88 on June 30, 1985. 1900 – Hoboken Docks fire. On June 30, a fire began on the New Jersey at the foot of 3rd and 4th streets in Hoboken, across the north side of the Hudson River. The fire began when cotton bales stored on the Nordeutscher Lloyd sipping company’s southernmost wharf caught fire, and winds blew it in the direction of some flammable liquids.

The whole area was 90% wood. It is estimated that some 360 people died that day, many of them caught in lower decks, unable to escape through portholes only 9 inches wide. All ships after the fire were required to have portholes at least 11x13 inches.

1968 – Happy birthday Phil Anselmo! …One of the original cowboys from hell. Phil was lead singer of Pantera and currently the singer of Down. 1962 – Sandy Koufax strikes out 13 batters …and walks five to lead the Brooklyn Dodgers to victory over the New York Mets 5-0 with his first career no-hitter. That was his first of three no hitters for his career.

1985 – Happy Birthday Michael Phelps, …American swimmer from Baltimore Maryland, regardless of what you may think about his personal life, he does have 16 more Olympic medals than all of us combined
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