b'100 Years: 1921-2022 This Quarter in Historycontinued. November, December and January Events to Remember(Dec 6) The first known reference to the sport of1974 led to the films frequent runs on television, turning ittwo assistants found a poorwill in a wheelchair basketball was published in the Framingham,into one of the most popular Christmas films ever. crevice in the Chuckwalla Mountains of Massachusetts News, in a story entitled Cushing Wins Over(Dec 23) A record was set for the most persons to rideCalifornia. The discovery wasnt entirely Celtics In Wheel-Chair Basketball. The demonstration tookthe New York City Subway in a single day, with almostnew. The traditional Hopi Indian name place at the Boston Garden, with players from the Cushingnine million (8,872,244) persons passing through thefor the bird was holchko, the sleeping one.Veterans Hospital going up against the Boston Celtics, whoturnstilesa number, notes one author, not likely ever to1947 (Jan 1) In college bowl games across the U.S.: the were sitting in wheelchairs as well.be broken, by New York or any other city. Illinois Fighting Illini beat the UCLA Bruins 45-14 in the (Dec 7) Facing a huge fine for contempt of court, United(Dec 26) The Pink Flamingo Hotel and Casino opened onRose Bowl; the Rice Owls shut out the Tennessee Volunteers Mine Workers President John L. Lewis called an end to athe Las Vegas Strip, the first of a new type of luxurious8-0 in the Orange Bowl; the Cincinnati Bearcats defeated strike of 400,000 coal miners that he called to walkout onthe Virginia Tech Hokies 18-6 in the Sun Bowl; and the November 20. Georgia Bulldogs beat the North Carolina Tar Heels 20-10 in (Dec 9) The Nuremberg Doctors Trial opened (The doctorsthe Sugar Bowl; while the Cotton Bowl Classic between the trial was the first of 12 trials for war crimes of high-rankingArkansas Razorbacks and the LSU Tigers ended in a 0-0 tie.German officials and industrialists that the U.S. authorities(Jan 3) The 80th U.S. Congress first met. Proceedings of held in their occupation zone in Nuremberg, Germany, aftergambling resort that would transform Las Vegas. Congress were televised for the first time when cameras the end of World War II), with 23 defendants, 16 of whomMobster Bugsy Siegel, who went millions of dollars overwere allowed into the House Chamber to broadcast the would be convicted. budget on money borrowed from other organized criminalsopening address of House Speaker Joe Martin.(Dec 20) Frank Caprasin building the Flamingo, scheduled the opening for the(Jan 6) U.S. President Its a Wonderful Life,day after Christmas, but most of the hotel rooms wereHarry S. Trumans with Jimmy Stewart,not ready to be occupied, and most of the celebrities,State of the Union was released in Newscheduled to fly in for the inaugural event, were kept awayaddress told the new York. Despite the filmsby rainstorms in Los Angeles. During the first few weeks,Republican-dominated Christmas setting, it wasthe casino lost $300,000 more than it took in. Siegel, whoCongress that they not released until had already offended many of his fellow mobsters, waswould have to work with him for the common good. It was January 7, and wasmurdered less than six months later. the first State of the Union address to be televised live.a money loser in its(Dec 29) Ornithologist Edmund Jaeger discovered that the(Jan 14) The Western film California starring Ray Milland, theatrical release. A failurecommon poorwill (Phalaenoptilus nuttallii) hibernatedBarbara Stanwyck and Barry Fitzgerald premiered into renew the copyright inin the winter, the only species of bird to do so. 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