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Rockefeller Foundation Established (1913)
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On this Date in History
1841 First emigrant wagon train to reach California leaves Independence, Missouri, on a 1,730-mile journey over the Sierra Nevada

1862 Confederate ship Alabama launched as the Enrica at Birkenhead, England, where she had been built in secret. British bastages

1862 Major General Benjamin Butler issues General Order No. 28 (New Orleans) that Confederate women abusing Union soldiers be treated as whores

1912 Ty Cobb rushes a heckler at a NY Highlander game & is suspended

1918 Washington Senator Walter Johnson pitches 1-0, 18 inning game

1929 Fire in X-ray film stock kills 125 at Crile Clinic (Cleveland, Ohio)

1934 US Department of Justice offers $25,000 reward for John Dillinger, dead or alive

1941 New York Yankees Joe DiMaggio starts 56-game hitting streak, with the only RBI, in a 13-1 loss to visiting Chicago White Sox

1945 World War II: The final skirmish in Europe is fought near Prevalje, Slovenia

1951 AT&T becomes the first US corporation to have a million stockholders after young car salesman Brady Denton purchases seven shares worth $1,078

1958 USSR launches Sputnik III

1972 Assassination attempt on US Governor George Wallace of Alabama by Arthur Bremer in Laurel, Maryland

1972 The island of Okinawa, under U.S. military governance since its conquest in 1945, reverts to Japanese control.

1973 California Angel Nolan Ryan's 1st no-hitter beats KC Royals, 3-0

1981 Len Barker of Cleveland pitches perfect game vs Toronto - (I was there 😎)

2019 Baseball pitcher Edwin Jackson takes the mound for the Toronto Blue Jays, his record setting 14th MLB team, earns no decision in 4-3 loss to the Giants at Oracle Park in San Francisco

2022 MLB Pirates win 1-0 over Cincinnati Reds, despite getting no hits, in Pittsburgh

2023 Martha Stewart is Sports Illustrated oldest-ever cover model at 81, appearing as part of its swimsuit issue

1952, the "downtown connector" in ATL.  It ended at this point, the curve bypassing downtown wasn't finished until 1964.  This "freeway" completely lacked acceleration lanes.  I guess it was built for a time like this with almost no traffic.

Makes me wonder how they got that shot in an era before drones.  No telling how much it was zoomed, but at a glance it doesn't seem like there'd be anything high there for a photographer to take the pic.  Looks like the road would be underneath.  But I don't know anything about photography even in the modern era, let alone 1952.  

Yeah, the photo would have been taken off the North Avernue Bridge.  This is from recent times:




There are proposals extant to cap parts of this freeway with a park, which would be awesome I think, but the funding part is onerous.  Maybe a piece of it will happen.  This is a couple miles south of us.

I hate tunnels.