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The Birmingham Electric Company (BECo), operated from 1921 to 1951, generating electricity for Birmingham, Alabama and providing transit service for the area.
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Street cars idled during a 1946 strike.
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Colorful livery on newer PCC cars in 1950. Transit fares were finally raised to 10 cents after 30 years at the same fare.
Alabama Power Company purchased the company in 1951, but government made the transit business be sold to a third party.
 
logandsawman said:
I have been wanting to share a little of this WW II history, and after reviewing some of my documents find that this first 48 day journey of the 743 Tank Battalion, as depicted in this flyer, would have ended approximately today (7/18). They landed on Omaha Beach on June 5 1944 which would make today about the 79th year anniversary of the end of this initial part of the invasion.

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I know this is hard to read but this depicts the first 48 days of the invasion (above). At least the pictoral is there. I have an original copy thanks to my Dad and Great Uncle;

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Here is one of the pics in the group, and one of their tanks;

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Some of the men and where they are from

another interesting photo:

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These are familiar locations for some. Makes the problems of today look pretty small.


Dave LASM
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Interestingly the 743rd Tk Btn. were one of the few units not to lose any tanks on the way in to the landing zone. The Bn. Commander ordered the LCT's to land the tanks ashore due to rough sea's, and not offshore and let them "swim" in, as was originally planned.

In all, 27 Dual-drive (DD) Sherman Tanks sank on the D-Day landing's due to the rough sea's, this led to some infantry units ashore, having no tank support whatsoever, making breaching the German defensive positions extremely difficult.
 
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July 15, 1960: Brooks Robinson goes 5-for-5 and becomes the first Oriole to hit for the cycle (Single, Double, Triple, and Home Run), and drives in three runs in a 5-2 win over Chicago in Comiskey Park.
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July 19, 1910, Cy Young, gets his 500th win! Pitching for the Cleveland Naps he pitches all 11 innings of a complete game victory vs. the Washington Senators!
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Cy would go on to win a total of 511 games, still the MLB record. He pitched from 1890-1911 for seven teams.
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July 20th

1969 Apollo 11 lands on the Moon
Carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, who would become the first humans to walk on the Moon, the spacecraft safely landed on the Sea of Tranquility on the Moon.


1976 Viking I lands on Mars​

  • Part of the Viking program, Viking I became the first American spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and to complete its mission.

David
 
Bruette said:
July 19, 1910, Cy Young, gets his 500th win! Pitching for the Cleveland Naps he pitches all 11 innings of a complete game victory vs. the Washington Senators!

Cy would go on to win a total of 511 games, still the MLB record. He pitched from 1890-1911 for seven teams.

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Cy Young - Wikipedia

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Not that I really know anything or really care about baseball, but for some reason I know that Ty Cobb used to be able to get hits off Cy Young. The story goes that Ty knew that Cy (interesting correspondence of names there) was really concerned about hitting the batter with his fast ball. So Ty would crowd the plate even to the point that his toes were touching the edge of it. Ty would throw further and further outside. Cy knew it would be outside and could get the hit.
 
skyliner said:
No, George Gay flew for TWA after the war, spending over 30 years with that airline. And he flew a Douglas TBD Devastator at Midway, not an Avenger. There's an interview with him in the clip below, where the interview was conducted between flights in an airport, still wearing his captain's uniform. He passed away in 1994.

Gay appears at about 4 minutes into the clip:

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I stand corrected on which airline he flew. Nonetheless, his story is one of the classics of the Battle of Midway. I guess he didn't let his "swim" take the desire to fly out of him. There were, of course, others who took down the three Japanese carriers, and changed the course of the Pacific war. We read about the dive bomber crews doing that job, but a lot more of them paid the ultimate sacrifice than most accounts relate. God Bless them all!
 
Admiral Nelson's flagship, HMS Victory, covered in snow at its berth in Portsmouth Dockyard
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Admiral Lord Nelson's flagship HMS Victory stands in dry dock at Portsmouth Naval base on June 10, 2005, in Portsmouth, England.
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July 22nd

1894 World's first competitive motor race
The Paris–Rouen, Le Petit Journal Competition for Horseless Carriages was the world's first city to city motoring competition. Staring in Paris and ending in Rouen, the race was organized by the newspaper Le Petit Journal.


1933 American aviator Wiley Post becomes the first person to fly solo around the Earth​

Post landed on Floyd Bennett Field in New York 7 days after he departed alone from the same airfield in a Lockheed Vega aircraft known as Winnie Mae.

David
 
July 24th

1911 Rediscovery of Machu Picchu​

The 15th century, largely forgotten Inca site in Peru was rediscovered by American Hiram Bingham III.


1923 The Treaty of Lausanne is signed between Turkey and the countries that formed the Allied Powers in the First World War​

Under the treaty,Turkey had to give up all the territorial claims made by the Ottoman Empire and agree to new borders.


David
 
Caddy Shack was released on this day, 1980. Also on the same day, AC/DC's "Back in Black" album is released.

Imagine going to the mall... watching Caddy Shack for the first time, then picking up a new album.
 


JeffH said:
Caddy Shack was released on this day, 1980. Also on the same day, AC/DC's "Back in Black" album is released.

Imagine going to the mall... watching Caddy Shack for the first time, then picking up a new album.
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Who ever thought Albums would make a comeback... and record players?

Wait a minute, I think there are a bunch of 8-track cassettes in my old chevy Vega 😁
 
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