The Alaska Pipeline, Dostoyevsky and the Vacuum Tube share what in common? All three share an important newsworthy anniversary on November 16, along with four other events.
Curious to learn more about the Alaska Pipeline, Dostoyevsky and the Vacuum Tube? Read to find out about these and other interesting eventss that also happened on November 16th.
1822 – Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail.
1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group. He was sentencedto death but received a stay of execution from the Tsar, reducing his sentence to four years of hard labor. His famous works include Crime and Punishment, The Idiot, and The Brothers Karamazov.
1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (AKA the vacuum tube).
1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens.
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline.
While these interesting facts about the Alaska Pipeline, Dostoyevsky and the Vacuum Tube on November 16th have nothing to do with my real estate business selling homes to families in San Jose, Cupertino and Saratoga in Silicon Valley, Calif., they add fun and entertainment to life.
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