I ran into my friend Kay the other day, who I hadn’t seen in some time, and we decided to catch up at a nearby Starbucks.
While drinking some kind of fancy coffee I don’t remember the name of, she told me she had been researching her grandmother Orena on Ancestry.com, which I found pretty interesting.
When she was 1, the first New Year’s Eve celebration was held in Times Square, while a German physicist named Einstein was working on a special theory of relativity, and the first forward pass was thrown in professional football. Also that year, Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer were banned from the Brooklyn Public Library, for setting a “bad example.”
When she was 8, the world’s largest passenger liner, the RMS Titanic, struck an iceberg in the northern Atlantic Ocean. Less than three hours later, she sunk, taking with her the lives of more than 1,500. At 14, The U.S. Congress established time zones, and the first Daylight Savings Time went into effect. When she was 16, Adolph Hitler made his first public political speech. At 18, Christian K. Nelson patented the Eskimo Pie; while in the Bronx, construction began on Yankee Stadium. Not far away, in Washington, D.C., the Lincoln Memorial was dedicated.
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