TIME TRAVELING, MAY 31 1859 The famous tower clock known as Big Ben atop St. Stephen’s Tower at the Palace of Westminster in London, strikes its first chimes. 1870 E.J. DeSmedt, a Belgian chemist, places the first asphalt pavement in the U.S., on a street in Newark, N.J., using natural asphalt from the asphalt lake in Trinidad 1879 New Yorks Madison Square Garden opens. 1884 Dr. John Harvey Kellogg patents flaked cereal. 1889 More than 2,200 people die in Johnstown, Pa., after the South Fork Dam collapses. 1907 The first taxis in the U.S. hit the streets in New York City. 1909 The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) holds its first conference. 1913 The 17th Amendment goes into effect providing for popular election of U.S. senators. 1927 After a production run of 15,007,003 units, the last Ford Model T, or Tin Lizzie, comes off the assembly line as Ford begins production of the Model A. 1941 The first issue of Parade: The Weekly Picture Newspaper goes on sale. 1955 The U.S. Supreme Court orders that all states must end racial segregation with all deliberate speed. 1961 Musician Jimi Hendrix enlists in the U.S. Army. 1962 Adolf Eichmann, the Nazi SS officer who organized Adolf Hitler’s “final solution for the Jewish question,” is hanged for his crimes against humanity near Tel Aviv, Israel. 1970 An earthquake in Peru kills tens of thousands of people. 1977 The trans-Alaska oil pipeline is finished after three years of construction. 1994 The U.S. announces it is no longer aiming long-range nuclear missiles at targets in the former Soviet Union. 2003 Eric Robert Rudolph, who had been on the FBIs 10 Most Wanted list for five years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing, is captured in North Carolina. 2005 W. Mark Felt’s family ends 30 years of speculation, identifying Felt, the former assistant director of the FBI, as “Deep Throat,” the secret source who helped “Washington Post” reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein unravel the Watergate scandal. The reporters had promised to keep the identity of “Deep Throat” a secret until after his death, and did. Felt died on December 18, 2008, at the age of 95.
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