1926
The first underwater color photographs appeared in National Geographic magazine.
lliam Longley and National Geographic staff photographer Charles Martin got this shot of a hogfish off the Florida Keys in the Gulf of Mexico
1935
Oklahoma City became the first city in the United States to install parking meters.
The first parking meters appeared on the corner of 1st Street and Robinson Ave in Downtown Oklahoma City
It cost the low, low price of just a nickel per hour!
1950
The largest crowd in sporting history — 199,854 — watched the World Cup soccer finals in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-1
199,000 people though…!!
1986
Columbia Records announced that after 28 years with the label, the contract of Johnny Cash would not be renewed.
Cash’s biggest hit for Columbia was A Boy Named Sue in 1969
1994
26-year-old Anna Nicole Smith wed 89-year-old billionaire J. Howard Marshall II
If they were still around today, she’d be 48, and he would be 110!
1999
John F. Kennedy Jr.’s plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard,Massachusetts, killing him, his wife, Carolyn, and his sister-in-law, Lauren.
The three had been en route to a Kennedy family wedding
2005
The sixth installment in the series, J.K. Rowling’s book Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince was released
The book sold 6.9 million copies on its first day of release.
It later became a movie
and then lastly…
2009
In Chicago, the Sears Tower was renamed Willis Tower
-Tyler Jackson
