The History Huntsman

Washington attends the circus

1970s-After stickups and a gunfight while delivering in , Richard Davis invents body armor,(the first concealed vest to use ). He takes newly developed kevlar and binds sheets together to make a vest. Demonstrations included    himself

August 24- in

79 AD- , violently erupts. A deadly rises to a height of 21 miles(33km), ejecting molten and hot at 1.5 million tons per second, ultimately releasing 100,000 times the of the bombs of .

August 23- in

1966– The Orbiter 1 takes the first photograph of from orbit around the . It was also the first to the moon.

1952- turns down the opportunity to be the 2nd of the of after President Chaim Weizmann passes away. In a ,he states the only reason for not is that he could not deal properly with people and duties of the office.

1918- FFA receives a to rename “ .” Farmers and grocers point to the steep decline in consumption since the start of the . They state that in order to reestablish the popularity, it needed a name that would be proud to use

1849 –The raid in history. launches pilotless balloons against the city of . Lieutenant Franz von Uchatius comes up with the idea of attaching bombs to unmanned and letting the wind carry them into .

1904- William James "Count" Basie is born today in Red Bank, . He was an , , , and who introduced several generations of to the Big sound.

Sergeant Stubby was a dog and the unofficial of the U.S. 102nd Infantry Regiment. He has been called the most decorated dog of and the only dog to be nominated and promoted to sergeant through combat.Stubby's remains are in the Institution

1496- When returns to the Ferdinand II, he bring him a . This kicks off an era as pineapples being a symbol lasting until the 1800’s. The pineapple became a of the right of kings.

Nat Turner leads and blacks in a rebellion in Southampton County, Virginia. The starts after Turner says he receives a vision from . It will claim the lives of 55 to 65 whites and about twice that number of blacks.

You think you hard? Russia ran out of vodka celebrating the end of . When the ended, massive street parties took over the Soviet Union, that is until all of the nation’s reserves ran out a mere 22 hours after the started.