“What Do Cheerleading, Twenty-One and Howard Hughes Have in Common?”

“What Do Cheerleading, Twenty-One and Howard Hughes Have in Common?”

By Michelle Carr Crowe, Silicon Valley REALTOR®

Do you know what Cheerleading, Twenty-One and Howard Hughes Have in Common?

All three share an important anniversary on November 2^nd.

Here are the more details on the notable anniversaries for Cheerleading, Twenty-One and Howard Hughes, along with other interesting trivia and facts that also occurred on November 2^nd.

1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with male cheerleader Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team. 

1920 – In the United States, radio station KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania begins broadcasting on the air waves as the first commercial radio station. The first KDKA feature story to be broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

1947 – In California, multi-millionaire playboy and plane designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose (AKA H-4 The Hercules). It is the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built that flew.

1959 – Twenty One, a popular television quiz show is smeared with scandal when long-time successful contestant and professor Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that program employees gave him both questions and answers in advance.

1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial of R v Penguin Books Ltd., AKA “the Lady Chatterley's Lover book case”.

1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.

While these interesting facts about Cheerleading, Twenty-One and Howard Hughes on November 2^nd, have nothing to do with my real estate business selling homes to families in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga in Silicon Valley, Calif., they sure do add fun and entertainment to life.

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Images courtesy of Michelle Carr-Crowe’s private collection, the public domain, the U.S. government or www.freedigitalphotos.net.Facts compiled from Wikipedia, Smithsonian, HistoryOrb and MentalFloss among other sources.

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