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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
Ray Kroc Opens His First McDonald's Franchise (1955)
Brothers Dick and Mac McDonald opened their first restaurant in San Bernardino, California, in 1940 and introduced the "Speedee Service System," establishing the principles of the modern fast-food restaurant. Ray Kroc, a mixer salesman, recognized the idea's potential and partnered with the brothers. Kroc opened his first McDonald's franchise in Illinois in 1955 and later bought out the McDonald brothers. The company now has a global presence.

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The Virginia Tech Massacre (2007)
The Virginia Tech massacre was the deadliest peacetime shooting episode in US history by a single gunman. Seung-Hui Cho, the perpetrator, had a long history of mental illness when he enrolled at Virginia Tech University and was, in 2005, declared mentally ill by a Virginia court and ordered to seek treatment. Sixteen months later, Cho, in two separate attacks hours apart, shot and killed 32 people at the university and then himself.

Weird how memory plays tricks on you.  I'd have guessed this happened in the late summer, right before the start of season.  That fall, we played VT in the second game and there was a lot of tribute, moment of silence, etc. for that tragedy.  I do remember people saying maybe it would fall flat since VT had already played a game and would've gotten their emotions out of the way....obviously the week 2 game was on a lot more TVs and much higher profile, so both schools decided to recognize the tragedy there.  But I thought it had basically just happened right before the season, not 5 months earlier.  

THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 
US Federal Court Rules to Release Ezra Pound from Mental Hospital (1958)
An influential American poet and literary critic, Pound spent most of his life in Europe. At the end of WWII, he was arrested for treason by the US for making public broadcasts in Italy supporting anti-Semitism and Fascism. Judged insane, he was committed to a hospital in Washington, DC, until Ernest Hemingway and other friends secured his release 12 years later. In the early weeks of his incarceration, he began showing signs of a mental breakdown,

TODAY'S BIRTHDAY: 

Eliot Ness (1903)
Ness was 26 years old when he was hired as a special agent of the US Department of Justice to head its Chicago Prohibition bureau, with the express purpose of breaking up the bootlegging network of Al Capone. He formed a nine-man team of unbribable officers known as "the Untouchables." Numerous attempts were made on his life, and one of his friends was killed, but he eventually helped take down Capone, who was convicted on tax evasion charges.

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World's Fair Starts in Seattle, Washington (1962)
Hosted at the dawn of the Space Age, the 1962 World's Fair featured a glittering array of futuristic technology. Nearly 10 million people came to see the new cars and gadgets or ride to the top of the new Space Needle. While its technology was advanced, the fair anticipated none of the social changes soon to come—the society of the future looked like that of 1950s, but with gyrocopters. Why did US President John F. Kennedy lie, claiming to be too sick to attend the closing ceremony?

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