>>> 100 years ago    (Tues., Dec. 29, 1908)

         Patent granted for a 4-wheel automobile brake,  Clintonville, WI.

>>>Fifty years ago     (Thur., Dec 18, 1958)

         1st voice from space:  a recorded Christmas message by President Eisenhower

>>> 100 years ago   (Wec. Dec. 16, 1908)

         1st Credit Union in US forms (Manchester NH)

>>> 25 years ago:    (Mon., Dec. 12, 1983)

         A truck bomb explodes at the US Embassy in Kuwait

>>> Fifty years ago    (Wed., Dec. 10, 1958)

         1st domestic (New York - Miami) passenger jet flight - National 707 flew 111

>>> 100 years ago   (Saturday, Dec. 5, 1908) 

         1st football uniform numerals used (University of Pittsburgh)

>>> Fifty years ago  (Sun. Nov. 30, 1958) 

         1st guided missile destroyer launched, Dewey, Bath, Maine

>>> Fifty years ago  (Friday, Nov. 28, 1958)

          US reports 1st full-range firing of an ICBM 

>>> Twenty-Five years ago  (Fri. Nov. 25)

          World's greatest robbery  $38.7 million worth of gold, Heathrow, England

>>> Twenty-Five years ago  (Wed. Nov. 23, 1983)

         Soyuz T-9 lands

         USSR leave weapon disarmament talks

 >>> Twenty-Five years ago (Monday, Nov. 14, 1983)   

          1st Cruise Missle Placed (Greenham Common, England) 

>>> 100 years ago:  (Sat, Nov. 14, 1908)   

          Albert Einstein presents quantum theory of light

>>> 100 years ago:  (Tue, Nov. 10, 1908)  

          1st Gideon Bible was put in a hotel room

>>> Twenty-Five years ago (Tuesday, November 1, 1983)   

          Pres. Ronald Reagan established Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. 

>>> Fifty years ago (Wednesday, October 29, 1958)    

          Dr. F. Mason Sones was the first doctor to perform a coronary angiogram. 

>>> Fifty years ago (Sunday, October 26, 1958)    

          PanAm flew the First transatlantic jet trip from New York to Paris.