June 28, 1975 Police are called to the home of Jim and Naomi Olive in Terra Linda, California, after Jim Olive’s business partner reports that the couple has not been seen in a week. The house in disarray, officers found no sign of either the Olives or their adopted teenage daughter Marlene. However, Marlene turned upContinue reading “Crime: A teenage girl’s boyfriend murders her parents”
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Treaty of Versailles
The treaty of Versailles was signed in 1919. The peace treaty to formally end the war between Germany and the Allies was signed in the Hall of Mirrors in the Palace of Versailles on the outskirts of Paris in 1919. Treaty negotiations were dominated by the ‘big four’ French Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau, Italian PrimeContinue reading “Treaty of Versailles”
U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell
History Fact by https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-air-force-reports-on-roswell On June 24, 1997, U.S. Air Force officials release a 231-page report dismissing long-standing claims of an alien spacecraft crash in Roswell, New Mexico, almost exactly 50 years earlier. Public interest in Unidentified Flying Objects, or UFOs, began to flourish in the 1940s, when developments in space travel and the dawn of the atomicContinue reading “U.S. Air Force reports on Roswell”
First Birth Control Pill Available For Purchase
Carl Djerassi Profession: Chemist Nationality: Biography: Carl Djerassi was a scientist, chemist and author, born in Austria, setting in the US in 1939, to escape Nazi persecution in Europe. Djerassi is most famous for creating the first synthesis of an oral contraceptive pill in 1951, while working for Syntex. A discovery that was to have widespread socialContinue reading “First Birth Control Pill Available For Purchase”
Vintage Dava 