Belated entry due to database Christmas gremlins.
Dec 22, 1882: Invention of Christmas lights: American inventor Edward H. Johnson, who was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, had the idea to use electric lights for Christmas decorations. He hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue light bulbs and wrapped them around a Christmas tree in his New York City home.
Aside from Christmas lights only for the super wealthy, there was also a common feeling of mistrust in electricity at the time akin to witchcraft, which didn’t help matters.
So early on, Christmas tree lights were only available to the wealthy. For example, in 1900 one had to pay out $12 for a string of 16 bulbs, which would be approximately 450 bucks today!!! So, the poor peasants had to continue with using candles which of course caused many fires. It wasn't until the 1930s when America was being run by corporate giant General Electric that Christmas tree lights became affordable to 'most' people, that would be those that were able to dodge the Great Depression era.
A Christmas Lights story
Early History of Electric Christmas Lighting in America
Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas (2003) By Ace Collins
James Newburn, 67, is the great-great grandson of Christmas tree light inventor Edward Johnson
Removal of the Bellamy salute occurred on December 22, 1942, when Congress amended the Flag Code language (due to resemblance of Nazi salute according to loud voices) first passed into law on June 22, 1942.
What event(s) happened between the time that the top (2) photograph's was taken and the bottom one?
December 22, 1962: The Tornados became the 1st UK pop group (and second British act) to gain a US #1 with their instrumental Telestar. The record was named after the Telstar communications satellite which was launched into orbit on 10 July 1962.
USA No.1 on this day in 1962: The Tornados - Telstar
December 22, 1965: An "experimental" speed limit of 70mph (112kmph) was introduced by outgoing Minister of Transport Tom Fraser on motorways in England. The experiment initially lasted four months, but the limit was made permanent in 1967 by incoming Transport Minister Barbara Castle. Like Income Tax Act in 1799 this was to be a temporary measure. It’s still in force.
New 70 mph speed limit on Britain's motorways – archive, 1965
A Brief History of the UK Speed Limit
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas." ... "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations." ... "There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it." - Wrote former president Harry Truman in an Op-ed entitled "Limit CIA Role to Intelligence" in the Washington Post on December 22, 1963.
It was published in the early morning edition and then immediately retracted. No doubt by order of Allen Dulles.
Truman's post in WaPo from Mae Brussell's website:
Context & additional details:
Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA? By Ray McGovern; December 29, 2009.
First flight of SR-71A Blackbird on December 22, 1964.
Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, CA
Pilot: Bob Gilliland, Lockheed
Super size SR-71 image
1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar rotting away at Roswell International Air Center, New Mexico.
Aircraft Serial No. 5016
FAA Registration No. N-20TF
Onboard television with RCA VCR player
Purchased by Elvis Presley on December 22, 1976 for $840,000
Sold at auction for $260,000 in 2023.
1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar
Asma: Not happy in Moscow.
Assad: Coming soon to a Moscow window.
I guess we're gonna do the Panama thing...
LOL. Air drop'em over Jackson Lake, Wyoming with cement shoes.
Dec 22, 1882: Invention of Christmas lights: American inventor Edward H. Johnson, who was vice president of the Edison Electric Light Company, had the idea to use electric lights for Christmas decorations. He hand-wired 80 red, white, and blue light bulbs and wrapped them around a Christmas tree in his New York City home.
Aside from Christmas lights only for the super wealthy, there was also a common feeling of mistrust in electricity at the time akin to witchcraft, which didn’t help matters.
So early on, Christmas tree lights were only available to the wealthy. For example, in 1900 one had to pay out $12 for a string of 16 bulbs, which would be approximately 450 bucks today!!! So, the poor peasants had to continue with using candles which of course caused many fires. It wasn't until the 1930s when America was being run by corporate giant General Electric that Christmas tree lights became affordable to 'most' people, that would be those that were able to dodge the Great Depression era.
A Christmas Lights story
Early History of Electric Christmas Lighting in America
Stories Behind the Great Traditions of Christmas (2003) By Ace Collins
James Newburn, 67, is the great-great grandson of Christmas tree light inventor Edward Johnson
Removal of the Bellamy salute occurred on December 22, 1942, when Congress amended the Flag Code language (due to resemblance of Nazi salute according to loud voices) first passed into law on June 22, 1942.
What event(s) happened between the time that the top (2) photograph's was taken and the bottom one?
December 22, 1962: The Tornados became the 1st UK pop group (and second British act) to gain a US #1 with their instrumental Telestar. The record was named after the Telstar communications satellite which was launched into orbit on 10 July 1962.
USA No.1 on this day in 1962: The Tornados - Telstar
December 22, 1965: An "experimental" speed limit of 70mph (112kmph) was introduced by outgoing Minister of Transport Tom Fraser on motorways in England. The experiment initially lasted four months, but the limit was made permanent in 1967 by incoming Transport Minister Barbara Castle. Like Income Tax Act in 1799 this was to be a temporary measure. It’s still in force.
New 70 mph speed limit on Britain's motorways – archive, 1965
A Brief History of the UK Speed Limit
“For some time I have been disturbed by the way CIA has been diverted from its original assignment. It has become an operational and at times a policy-making arm of the Government. This has led to trouble and may have compounded our difficulties in several explosive areas." ... "I never had any thought that when I set up the CIA that it would be injected into peacetime cloak and dagger operations." ... "There is something about the way the CIA has been functioning that is casting a shadow over our historic position and I feel that we need to correct it." - Wrote former president Harry Truman in an Op-ed entitled "Limit CIA Role to Intelligence" in the Washington Post on December 22, 1963.
It was published in the early morning edition and then immediately retracted. No doubt by order of Allen Dulles.
Truman's post in WaPo from Mae Brussell's website:
Context & additional details:
Are Presidents Afraid of the CIA? By Ray McGovern; December 29, 2009.
First flight of SR-71A Blackbird on December 22, 1964.
Air Force Plant 42, Palmdale, CA
Pilot: Bob Gilliland, Lockheed
Super size SR-71 image
1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar rotting away at Roswell International Air Center, New Mexico.
Aircraft Serial No. 5016
FAA Registration No. N-20TF
Onboard television with RCA VCR player
Purchased by Elvis Presley on December 22, 1976 for $840,000
Sold at auction for $260,000 in 2023.
1962 Lockheed 1329 JetStar
Asma: Not happy in Moscow.
Assad: Coming soon to a Moscow window.
I guess we're gonna do the Panama thing...
LOL. Air drop'em over Jackson Lake, Wyoming with cement shoes.
"It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong." – Thomas Sowell