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THURSDAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1929 – Commander Byrd makes the first flight over the South Pole 1947 – The United Nations voted to give Jewish people a homeland in Palestine
Read moreTODAY’S ‘PURE OPELKA’ PODCAST LISTEN TO THE TWO-MINUTE DRILL ON ‘GENDER REVEAL’ PARTIES THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1520 – Magellan makes it through the straits that would bear his name and to the Pacific
Read moreLISTEN TO TODAY’S ‘TWO-MINUTE DRILL’ THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1895 – Alfred Nobel writes his last will and testament and established the Nobel Prize 1910 – NYC’s Penn Station opened — the largest
Read moreTODAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1789 – New Jersey ratified the Bill of Rights — the first state to do so 1945 – The Nuremberg Trials of 24 Nazi leaders begins
Read moreMONDAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1863 – Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address (it’s worth the takes two minutes needed to read) 1959 – The last Edsel rolled off the assembly line at Ford
Read moreToday’s Two-Minute Drill People are calling 9-1-1 when Facebook crashed. THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1851 – “Call me Ishmael…” Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick” is published 1968 – Yale University announced a plan to go
Read moreTUESDAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1914 – Caresse Crosby received a patent for the brassiere 1927 – Connecting NY and NJ, the Holland Tunnel is opened 1940 – Disney’s “Fantasia”
Read moreMONDAY’S TWO-MINUTE DRILL — HONOR VETERANS THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1859 – The flying-trapeze act debuts at the Circus Napoleon, featuring Jules Leotard 1892 – The first professional football player — Pudge Heffelfinger accepts
Read moreToday’s Two-Minute Drill THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1799 – Napoleon is part of a coup in France and declares himself Emperor 1938 – ‘Kristallnacht’ — the Nazis burned temples and Jewish-owned businesses in Germany
Read moreLISTEN TO THE ANGIE AUSTIN AND MIKE OPELKA SHOW HERE THIS DAY IN HISTORY 1895 – Germany scientist Roentgen discovered X-rays – figured out they were able to penetrate human skin, but not bones
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