What Do Football, Nuclear Power and the Chevy Camaro Have in Common?

What Do Football, Nuclear Power and the Chevy Camaro Have in Common?

Nine Newsworthy Notes That Happened on September 29

by Silicon Valley’s Michelle Carr Crowe, Cupertino real estate agent selling San Jose homes

What Do Football, Nuclear Power and the Chevy Camaro have in common? All three share an important anniversary on September 29.

1789 – The United States Department of War first establishes a regular army with a strength of several hundred men, and The First United States Congress adjourns.

1885 – The first practical public electric tramway in the world is opened in Blackpool, England.

1907 – The cornerstone is laid for building the Washington National Cathedral in the U.S. capital of Washington, DC. Eighty-three years later in 1990 construction of the Washington National Cathedral is completed.

1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.

1954 – It’s a big anniversary for nuclear power. The convention establishing CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research) is signed.  Three years later, in 1957 – 20 MCi (740 petabecquerels) of radioactive material is released in an explosion at the Soviet Mayak nuclear plant at Chelyabinsk. In another 50 years, Calder Hall, the world's first commercial nuclear power station, is demolished in a controlled explosion.

1966 – The Chevrolet Camaro, originally named Panther, is introduced.

1975 – WGPR in Detroit, Michigan, becomes the world's first black-owned-and-operated television station.

1979 – Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope to set foot on Irish soil with his pastoral visit to the Republic of Ireland.

2008 – Following the bankruptcies of Lehman Brothers and Washington Mutual, The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 777.68 points, the largest single-day point loss in its history.

While these nine newsworthy events have no relationship to my real estate business of helping happy families buy and sell Silicon Valley homes, writing blog posts about happenings like these just adds spice to life.

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