Gator Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Huh, I was thinkin it was "KILROY" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Texan_Til_I_Die Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 January 1952 Monday 14: The Today show premieres on NBC. Sunday 20: Edgar Faure becomes Prime Minister of France. Tuesday 22: The first commercial jet plane, the BOAC's Comet, is put into service. Thursday 24: Vincent Massey sworn in as first Canada-born Governor-General of Canada. February 1952 Sunday 03: The earliest known tropical storm makes landfall in South Florida. Thursday 14: 1952 Winter Olympic Games open in Oslo, Norway. Thursday 21: Churchill government in the UK abolishes Identity Cards to "set the people free". Thursday 28: End of 8th Winter Olympic Games in Oslo. Friday 29: The island of Heligoland is restored to German authority. March 1952 Saturday 08: Antoine Pinay becomes Prime Minister of France Monday 10: Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba Thursday 20: The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. Friday 21: Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio Thursday 27: Sun Records begins operations. April 1952 Tuesday 08: In a radio address to the nation from the White House, President Harry S. Truman calls for the seizure of all steel mills in the United States in order to prevent a nationwide strike. Monday 21: Secretaries Day (now Administrative Professionals' Day) is first celebrated. Monday 28: Occupied Japan: The United States occupation of Japan ends. May 1952 Saturday 03: U.S. lieutenant colonels Joseph O. Fletcher and William P. Benedict land a plane at the geographic North Pole. Wednesday 07: The concept for the integrated circuit, the basis for all modern computers, is first published by Geoffrey W.A. Dummer. Monday 12: Gaj Singh crowned Maharaja of Jodhpur. Saturday 31: Dwight D. Eisenhower retires from active service in the United States Army. June 1952 Friday 13: Catalina affair, a Swedish Douglas DC-3 was shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 fighter. Saturday 14: The keel is laid for the nuclear submarine USS Nautilus. July 1952 Thursday 03: Puerto Rico's Constitution is approved by the Congress of the United States. Sunday 20: The 15th Olympic Games begin in Helsinki, Finland. Wednesday 23: The overthrow of King Farouk of Egypt. Friday 25: Puerto Rico becomes a self-governing commonwealth of the United States. August 1952 Monday 11: Hussein proclaimed king of Jordan Tuesday 12: Prominent Jewish intellectuals were murdered in Moscow. Saturday 23: The Arab League goes into effect. Wednesday 27: Reparation negotiations between West Germany and Israel end in Luxembourg; West Germany to pay 3 billion Deutschmarks. Friday 29: Premiere of John Cage's 4'33" in Woodstock, New York. September 1952 Monday 15: United Nations gives Eritrea to Ethiopia. Friday 19: The US bars Charlie Chaplin from reentering the country after a trip to England Tuesday 23: Richard Nixon makes his "Checkers speech". October 1952 Friday 03: United Kingdom successfully tests a nuclear weapon. November 1952 Saturday 01: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike" , at Eniwetok island in the Bikini atoll located in the Pacific Ocean. Tuesday 04: U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson. Friday 14: 1952 - First UK chart published by the New Musical Express Tuesday 25: Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London, still the longest continuously running play in history). Saturday 29: Korean War: US president-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. December 1952 Monday 01: The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation. Thursday 04: Great Smog of 1952: A "killer fog" descends on London ("Smog" for "smoke" and "fog" becomes a word). Friday 05: The Abbott and Costello Show starring comedians Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, debuts. Saturday 20: United States Air Force C-124 crashes and burns in Moses Lake, Washington killing 87 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted March 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 And here I was getting packed and ready to go to the Cabbage Factory...... Oh you can still come. We can concider it a consolation prize. You can come see the largest producer of sauerkraut in Chenago County. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 I'll just take the $500 gift certificate......... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BowJoe Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 I'll go ahead and say that I thought Uncle Sam was used in promotional posters for "The Great War" and WWII as well. Not to steal Andrea's little rain cloud or anything either. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted March 13, 2008 Author Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 I'll just take the $500 gift certificate......... You can have $500 worth of kraut. Let me see..... that does not include shipping...hmmmm *clicking calculator* that is $96.32 to get that to you. We can do priority for $152.98! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Andrea Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh, never mind. Just send me a brochure from the factory. Maybe a hat. LOL:D:D:D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 hmm, not to be "that guy" but I think he was around before that. From what I could find, the I want you uncle sam poster first appeared in 1917 5th or 6th paragraph down: http://www.kshs.org/cool2/unclesam.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Sam Yeah, I thought Uncle Sam was used for recruiting purposes in WWI:confused: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tominator Posted March 13, 2008 Report Share Posted March 13, 2008 Don't worry. It's not half as bad as someone saying that they met Froggy off of Little Rascals, only to have Tominator google it and find out that he's dead.:D But I didn't listen to the TV....listened to my wife's grandfather.:D Dang. Let it go man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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