1. Born 110 years
ago, Red Grange carries the ball in his professional debut for the
Chicago Bears
in front of 39,000 people on
Thanksgiving Day 1925. (average game attendance was about 5,000 up
to that time).
2. The face of
an NHL goalie before masks became standard
equipment.
Terry Sawchuk,
Detroit Red Wings goalie. NHL Hall of Fame retired by
Detroit.
3. The first ever
team photo in baseball history, 1858.
4. Members of the
Stealth Bomber football squad at Gallaudet University, 1920. It was
the first university for the deaf and they
started the concept of the football huddle so other teams couldn't
see their signs.
5. U.S. chess
prodigy, Bobby Fisher, playing 50 opponents simultaneously at
his Hollywood hotel on 12 April
1964. He won 47, lost 1 and drew
2.
6. The very first
Rockefeller Center Christmas tree, 1931.
7. Old Cincinnati
Library, looking at one of the large cast-iron book alcoves that
lined the Main Reading Hall, circa 1900.
8. The Hindenburg
successfully landed in Lakehurst, New Jersey, May,
1936.
9. This is what
Mount Rushmore was supposed to look like if they
hadn't run out
of funding in
1941.
10. Last public
execution in USA, 1936.
12. Suburbia:
move-in day 1950.
13. Children in an
iron lung before the advent of the polio
vaccination.
Many children lived
for months in these machines, though not all survived, 1937.
14.
Andr�oussimoff (Later
known as the Giant) Cannes, France, 1967.
15. An aerial view
of Hiroshima, Japan, one year after the atomic bomb detonation,
taken July 20, 1946.
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