♂ Verner Harley Day

1904 - 1981

Verner Harley Day
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Helen Rose McGinnis
Helen Rose McGinnis
1916 - 1994

1904


Aug 25

1941


Feb 22
Age: 36y
1941 • The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).

1942


Feb 4
Age: 37y
1942 • WWII: Mexico declares war on Germany, Italy and Japan.

1944


May 12
Age: 39y
1944 • WWII: At Camp Hood, Texas, future baseball star and 1st Lt. Jackie Robinson is arrested and later court-martialed for refusing to move to the back of a segregated U.S. Army bus. He is eventually acquitted.

1946


Mar 16
Age: 41y
1946 • Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini becomes the first American saint to be canonized.

1948


Apr 11
Age: 43y
1948 HUAC subpoenas and retrieves the "Pumpkin Papers" from the farm of Whittaker Chambers

1958


May 14
Age: 53y
1958 The Beatles, at this time The Quarrymen, pay 17 shillings and 6 pence to have their first recording session where they record That'll Be The Day by Buddy Holly and In Spite Of All The Danger by Paul McCartney and George Harrison.

1960


May 17
Age: 55y
1960 • The countries of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela form OPEC.

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