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On this day, February 14th in 1912, Arizona became the 48th state admitted to the U.S. and last of the contiguous states to be admitted.  On the same day, George W. P. Hunt (pictured above) was sworn in as the first governor of Arizona, serving a total of seven terms and was also President of the...
02/14/2019
  On this day, February 13th in 1920, Andrew “Rube” Foster (pictured below), owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, led the establishment of the National Negro League, the first long-lasting African-American professional baseball league.  Foster was also generally considered to be one ...
02/13/2019
On this day, February 12th in 1878, Frederick W. Thayer, captain of the Harvard Baseball team patented his “catcher’s mask”. Before then, catchers didn’t wear any equipment and Thayer needed to find a way to protect their catcher, James Tyng’s face and head from life-long injuries from foul tips....
02/12/2019
On this day, February 11th in 1812, Eldridge Gerry, then governor of Massachussetts, signed into law a redistricting plan designed to keep his political party in power for the upcoming election. When the law passed, reportedly the editor of the Boston Gazette, compared the shape of Gerry’s distri...
02/11/2019
On this day, February 10th in 1863, Charles Sherwood Stratton, better known by his stage name "General Tom Thumb" (height 2 ft. 11 in.), married Lavinia Warren (height 2 ft. 8 in.) in New York City (pictured above). The couple met and gained great fame while employed as performers under circus pi...
02/10/2019
On this day, February 9th in 1895, the first volleyball game was played at a YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.  The inventor of the game was the YMCA athletic director, William G. Morgan (pictured above) who originally called the game “Mintonette” due to its similarity to badminton.  Many of the me...
02/09/2019
On this day, February 8th in 1910, William D. Boyce (pictured above) a wealthy Chicago publisher incorporated the Boy Scouts of America.  Boyce was a multi-millionaire by the early 1900s and he insisted on looking after the welfare of about 30,000 newspaper delivery boys who were key to his succe...
02/08/2019
On this day, February 7th in 1893, Elisha Gray (pictured above) patented the telautograph, a machine that could remotely transmit handwriting through a telegraph system.  This device was a precursor to the modern fax machine. Gray was awarded over 70 patents for his inventions, including one for ...
02/07/2019
On this day, Feb. 6th in 1815, the state of New Jersey issued the first American railroad charter to John Stevens.  At the age of 27 he was appointed the rank of Captain in Washington’s army during the War of Independence and then became Treasurer of New Jersey.  Stevens turned from law and polit...
02/06/2019
On this day, Feb. 5th in 1931, Maxine Dunlap (pictured above) became the first woman to receive a glider pilot’s license of any kind and she was only 18 years old.  Even though Dunlap was only airborne for one minute, she successfully executed two ‘S’ curves and a most important, a landing.  Maxi...
02/05/2019
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