November 2009 has a lot of interesting anniversaries.
Here are a few:
40 years ago Dave Thomas opened his 1st Wendy's restaurant in downtown Columbus, Ohio right across the street from the Ohio Secretary of State office. I know that location because I had to go to Columbus to get Ken Blackwell's seal on our adoption dossier paperwork in 2006. Anyhow, our recent economic downturn lead to this flagship restaurant's closing last year.
Sesame Street celebrated it's 40th anniversary this month with special guest First Lady Michelle Obama.
November 9th, 2009 was the 20th anniversary of the Berlin Wall coming down. I can not believe it has been 20 years. I was living in Dayton at the time of this event.
This black and white picture was taken on November 20, 1961 (exactly a year before I was born) and is of East German construction workers building the wall which started in June of that year.
The Berlin Wall coming down prompted the Velvet Revolution (November 16 - December 29, 1989) in Czechoslovakia which was a non-violent revolution that overthrew Communist government in that country. This picture shows protesters holding flowers up to the police.
A friend and I took a trip to Eastern Europe in November 1992. We stayed in Prague with a very sweet local woman. I remember how proud she was of her little (and immaculate) home, the strength of the dollar at the time and how much the locals liked Americans and despised Russia. The same was true in Hungary.
Unfortunately I lost my journal (along with the many addresses of some interesting people we met) on an overnight train on this trip.
A friend and I took a trip to Eastern Europe in November 1992. We stayed in Prague with a very sweet local woman. I remember how proud she was of her little (and immaculate) home, the strength of the dollar at the time and how much the locals liked Americans and despised Russia. The same was true in Hungary.
Unfortunately I lost my journal (along with the many addresses of some interesting people we met) on an overnight train on this trip.
50 years ago today the Sound of Music opened on Broadway. This was the first theatre movie and one of my all time favorites.
80 years ago the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened (building on the left behind the Plaza Hotel on the right) 9 days after the stock market crashed. The next picture shows the MoMA today.
100 years ago Orville (left) and Wilbur (below) Wright founded the Wright Company in Dayton to manufacture commercial aircraft. They moved their company to Columbus in 1910.
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