A Brief History Comedy sports fans who are college students, here is your chance to be among the first in Cleveland, Ohio to see Champions on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 at 7:00PM at Cinemark At Valley View and XD, 6001 Canal Rd., Valley View, OH 44125! For your chance to get a pass, please log on to https://focusfeaturesscreenings.com/CHAMPHHVV8. Passes are first-come, first-serve. The theater is overbooked slightly to ensure a full audience. Therefore, seating is not guaranteed. So, please arrive early! Saving seats for other parties is prohibited. Digging Deeper Some fun activities at the screening include a DJ from…
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A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 29th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 29, 1940, for her portrayal of Mammy in the classic motion picture, Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel became the first African American to win an Academy Award, better known as an Oscar. On February 29, 1992, American Idol Season 13 finalist Majesty Rose was born. On February 29, 2020, the American Trump administration and the Afghan Islamist group known…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 28th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 28, 1844, a steam powered, sail and propeller (screw) driven US Navy corvette, the USS Princeton, one of the newest and most modern ships in America’s fleet, was sailing on the Potomac River with a large retinue of US Government officials aboard including the President of the United States when she experienced one of those terrible maritime experiences we at…
A Brief History On February 28, 1959, a Thor-Agena A rocket was launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, carrying a spy satellite designated Discoverer 1, the first in a spy satellite program of the American military and intelligence network. Digging Deeper Discoverer 1 was intended as the first ever satellite to orbit the Earth via the poles rather than on an equatorial orbit, and was part of the CORONA program. Actually a testbed, Discoverer 1 was not equipped with the camera and film that later satellites of the KH-1 type would carry. Unfortunately, the star-crossed spacecraft failed in…
A Brief History This article presents a chronological list of notable events that happened on February 27th. For each date below, please click on the date to be taken to an article covering that date’s event. Digging Deeper On February 27, 1807, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Maine, going on to a career in education and especially poetry, becoming the most prominent American poet of his day. On February 27, 1902, a British firing squad carried out the execution of convicted war criminal, Australian Lt. Harry “Breaker” Morant. On February 27, 1943, a most unusual event took place in…