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June 30, 2007
Today in History: June 30th
The following information is from: Today in History: History.com:
1876: Soldiers are evacuated from the Little Big Horn by steamboat
After a slow two-day march, the wounded soldiers from the Battle of the Little Big Horn reach the steamboat Far West. Read the complete article.
Books and Video's in the GSU Library on Little Big Horn:
Title: Last stand at Little Big Horn [videorecording] / WGBH Educational Foundation and Thirteen/WNET
Call Number: FLM-VDO. E83.876.L37 X1993VIDEORECORD3040
Title: Custer Battlefield : a history and guide to the Battle of the Little Bighorn / by Robert M. Utley
Call Number: DOCS. I29.9/5:132/CORR.
1934: Night of the Long Knives
In Germany, Nazi leader Adolf Hitler orders a bloody purge of his own political party, assassinating hundreds of Nazis whom he believed had the potential to become political enemies in the future. The leadership of the Nazi Storm Troopers (SA), whose four million members had helped bring Hitler to power in the early 1930s, was especially targeted. Hitler feared that some of his followers had taken his early "National Socialism" propaganda too seriously and thus might compromise his plan to suppress workers' rights in exchange for German industry making the country war-ready. Read the complete article.
Books in the GSU Library about Night of the Long Knives:
Title: The hundred days to Hitler / by Roger Manvell and Heinrich Fraenkel.
Call Number: DD247.H5 M251974
Title: The night of long knives. Translated from the French by Lily Emmet.
Call Number: MAT-CTR. DD247.R56 G3131972
1936: Gone with the Wind is published
Margaret Mitchell's only novel, Gone with the Wind, is published on this day in 1936. The book will become one of the bestselling novels of all time, selling some 25 million copies. The book sold 1 million copies within six months, with as many as 50,000 copies being bought on a single day. Read the complete article.
Read the book:
Author: Mitchell, Margaret, 1900-1949.
Title: Gone with the wind / by Margaret Mitchell.
Call Number: PS3525.I972 G61964a
Watch the video:
Title: Gone with the wind [videorecording] / a Selznick International Picture, Selznick International in association with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by David O. Selznick ; screenplay by Sidney Howard ; directed by Victor Fleming.
Call Number: VIDEO. PS3525.I972 G622005
1953: First Corvette produced
The Chevy Corvette on the showroom floor in New York City, circa 1953The first Chevrolet Corvette, a white convertible roadster with a red interior, was produced in temporary facilities in Flint, Michigan. The Corvette was born as a dream car for the 1953 Motorama. The first all-fiberglass-bodied American sports car, the Vette turned heads with its release. The sleek lines of the 1953 edition are among the best produced by American car design. Read the complete article.
1969: Last Rambler rolls off line
The Chevy Corvette on the showroom floor in New York City, circa 1953The last of 4,204,925 Ramblers was produced, ringing in the final hour for the storied car line. The Nash Rambler had originally been developed by George Walter Mason after World War II. Mason realized before anyone else that the postwar "seller's market" would evaporate once the market was again saturated with cars. Read the complete story.
1981: A first-time offender ends up on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List
Glen Godwin, a young business owner, is convicted of murder in Riverside County, California, and sentenced to 26-years-to-life in prison. According to his roommate's testimony, Godwin stomped on, choked, and then stabbed Kim LeValley, an acquaintance and local drug dealer, 28 times before using homemade explosives to blow up his body in the desert near Palm Springs. Godwin, who had no previous record, eventually found his way onto the FBI's Ten Most Wanted List. Read the complete article.
Posted by d-nadler at June 30, 2007 12:42 PM