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On This Day…..
Gateway Arch…… February 12, 1963…… Construction on the Gateway Arch begins. It is a 630-foot-tall (192 m) monument in St. Louis, Missouri, United States. Built in the form of a weighted catenary arch, it is the world’s tallest arch. It was completed in 1965 at a cost of $13 million.
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Whitney Houston Drowns In Bathtub…… February 11, 2012…… American singer Whitney Houston is found submerged and unconscious in her hotel bathtub. She was pronounced dead a short while later after unsuccessful attempts at CPR by paramedics. The coroner ruled Houston’s death an accident and reported that her death was caused by drowning and the “effects of atherosclerotic…
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Duck Tape Invented….. February 10, 1943…… While working at an ordnance plant during World War II, Vesta Stoudt noticed that the way ammunition boxes were sealed made them difficult to open quickly and this could cost soldiers precious time in battle. So, she developed a waterproof, tearable cloth tape to solve the problem. Her bosses at the plant…
This Weekend In History…..
Mississippi Finally Abolishes Slavery (in 2013)….. February 7, 2013…… Mississippi had finally ratified the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery in 1995. However, they never officially notified the U.S. Archivist, therefore, the ratification was not official. This was corrected in 2013. The 13th Amendment received the necessary ¾ of U.S. state ratifications needed to pass in 1865, with the remaining states…