1775
The U.S. Marine Corps was organized under authority of the Continental Congress
SEMPER FI!
1951
Direct-Dial, Coast-To-Coast Telephone Service began
The mayor of Englewood, New Jersey called the mayor of Alameda, California
1969
Sesame Street debuted!
The next five seasons aired on HBO first, and then aired for free on PBS nine months later
Can you tell me how to get … how to get to Sesame Street?
1975
The worst Great Lakes shipwreck of the time, the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald, occurred
It was a cold and stormy Lake Superior that took the lives of 29 crew members of the ore carrier
The event has been forever immortalized by Gordon Lightfoot:
1982
The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was opened in Washington, D.C.
In 1981, at the age age 21, Maya Lin won a public design competition for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, beating 1,441 other competition submissions
1995
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls opened!
It brought in $108,360,000 in the U.S.
ALLLRIGHTY then…
And then lastly…
2001
The first iPod went on sale!
Almost 1.5 billion iPods have been sold since
-Tyler Jackson