By REALTOR® Michelle Carr Crowe
“Nellie Bly, the BBC and U.S. Budget Crisis Have What in Common?”
You may be surprised to learn all three items share an important anniversary on November 14th.
Would you like to know more about Nellie Bly, the BBC and the U.S. Budget Crisis (of 1995)? Read below to learn about these three newsworthy items, as well as other interesting facts that happened on November 14th.
1533 – Conquistadors from Spain led by explorer Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, in the Inca Empire.
1770 – James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
1889 – 1889 – Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days (to beat the Jules Verne book of the same title), reporting on her journey for her newspaper, the New York World.
A competing paper, the Cosmopolitan, sponsored its own reporter, Elizabeth Bisland, to beat the time of both Phileas Fogg and Bly. Milestones of the trip were covered in newspapers internationally. Bly completed the trip in seventy-two days-a world record for anyone, male or female.
Bly came to fame for her in-depth undercover reporting of cruelty to the mentally ill at the Women's Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell's Island while working for Joseph Pulitzer's newspaper, the New York World.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman is given a patent for his ruby laser system, the world's first laser.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
1982 – Lech Wałęsa, leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months.
1995 – A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums. (Sounds like 2013.)
2008 – The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
2010 – Germany's Sebastian Vettel of Red Bull Racing wins Formula One's Drivers Championship to become the sport's youngest champion.
While these interesting facts about Nellie Bly, the BBC and the 1995 U.S. Budget Crisis on November 14th, 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.
Thank you for reading about these historical events of November 14th and “Nellie Bly, the BBC and 1995 U.S. Budget Crisis Have What in Common?”
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