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

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