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Sept 30th - Charlie Bucket found the last golden ticket. The next day he went to Wonka’s factory.




Asheville North Carolina had devastating flooding like what we see on the TV news after the 1916 hurricane. If 2024 is climate change, what was 1916? Also a literal illustration of a hundred year flood.


Asheville's 1916 flood: See photos of the devastation (Lots of photos)

What is increasing is that more and more people are choosing to live in flood plains - which of course eventually flood.


"The people of North Carolina will not soon forget the Southern Railway Company's magnificent work in speedily restoring its lines of traffic which were badly damaged in many sections by the recent flood.  But longer than this will they remember the action of the Southern in agreeing to carry free of charge all shipments of supplies from the State Relief Committee to the people of the flood-stricken districts.  Although the Southern has been one of the heaviest losers in the flood, the manner in which it has met disaster and its generosity in helping to relieve those who are in distress have won for that company a warm place in the hearts of the people which will bring rich material returns in the end."

Newspaper Quotes from Asheville Citizen & others, July 1916 (w/photos)



September 30, 1938: at 2:00 AM, Britain (Chamberlain) France (Daladier) Germany (Hitler) and Italy (Mussolini) signed the Munich Agreement, which allowed Germany to occupy the Czech Sudetenland. Later same day British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain returned to Britain from Munich, and waved the worthless "Anglo-German peace agreement" in which Britain and Germany had promised "never to go to war with one another again." He later admitted it was a huge error.




September 30, 1939: Papers please. As part of war-time regulations, a system of Identity cards was introduced in Britain, with a legal requirement that every man, woman and child had to carry one, and if not, to produce it on demand or present it at a police station within 48 hours.




Sept 30, 1954: USS Nautilus (SSN-571) was commissioned, marking a new era in naval warfare. The world's first nuclear submarine could stay submerged longer while traveling farther, faster, and deeper than conventional subs. Nautilus would be the first to pass under the North Pole.
Service life ended in 1980.
Current status: Museum boat at Submarine Force Library and Museum, located on the Thames River in Groton, Connecticut. It is the only submarine museum managed exclusively by the Naval History & Heritage Command division of the US Navy.




Sept 30, 1966: Peaceful Atoms - the USSR detonated a 30-kiloton nuclear device 5,026 feet underground to successfully extinguish a natural gas fire that had raged out of control for nearly three years in the Urta-Bulak gas field in the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

KABOOM!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHXsv8zxgC8

The Soviet Union only publicly revealed the specific location and purpose of its first "peaceful nuclear explosion" (officially known as Nuclear Explosions for the National Economy) in an article in the Tashkent newspaper Pravda Vostoka on November 26, 1971.





In TV news: The Prisoner typeface is a modified version of Albertus. There are no dots above 'i' or 'j' and the 'e' is left open.



FUN ALBERTUS FACT!
1. The director John Carpenter uses Albertus in his credits.
2. There is a street in the City of London – totally unrelated to him – called John Carpenter Street.
3. The street signs in the City of London also use Albertus, so "his" street is in "his" font.

Albertus is a glyphic serif display typeface designed by Berthold Wolpe in the period 1932 to 1940 for the British branch of the printing company Monotype. Wolpe named the font after Albertus Magnus, the thirteenth-century German philosopher and theologian.




Sept 30, 1970: COLOSSUS: THE FORBIN PROJECT opened in New York City.


Universal initially released it as The Forbin Project (1969) and then re-released it about six months later renamed as Colossus: The Forbin Project.


Sept 30, 1975: the West Coast premiere of THREE DAYS OF THE CONDOR was held at Mann's Village Theatre in Westwood, Los Angeles. The screening benefited the ACLU Foundation.



Here’s the 2024 Election question:
Reagan-Carter Oct. 28, 1980 Debate - "Are You Better Off?"



Continued Reagan remarks:
"This country doesn't have to be in the shape that it is in. We do not have to go on sharing in scarcity, with the country getting worse off, with unemployment growing. We talk about the unemployment lines. If all of the unemployed today were in a single line allowing 2 feet for each one of them, that line would reach from New York City to Los Angeles, California. All of this can be cured, and all of it can be solved."
Transcript