Red_Dragon wrote:

 

1946 – A camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket takes the first photograph of earth from outer space.

Awesome...You pegged it... How ya been? It's been a very long time.
 

Wait , Wait...I got it! I got it!
I am so not wanting to be him when he realized what really happened.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 

2003 – The Steve Bartman Incident takes place at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Illinois

1982 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan proclaims a War on Drugs.

1979 – The first National March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights draws approximately 100,000 people.

1964 – Martin Luther King Jr. receives the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence.

1908 – The Chicago Cubs defeat the Detroit Tigers, 2–0, clinching the 1908 World Series; this would be their last until winning the 2016 World Series.

1773 – The first recorded ministry of education, the Commission of National Education, is formed in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

1998 – Matthew Shepard, a gay student at University of Wyoming, dies five days after he was beaten outside of Laramie.

 miamizsun wrote:
 

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 Red_Dragon wrote: 

and then what happened?

1996 – Fox News Channel begins broadcasting.

1967 – Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the first African-American justice of the United States Supreme Court.

1957 – The Kyshtym disaster is the third-worst nuclear accident ever recorded.

1928 – Alexander Fleming notices a bacteria-killing mold growing in his laboratory, discovering what later became known as penicillin.

 Red_Dragon wrote:
 
Some of you know I fish.   Once upon a time I wrote articles about fly fishing, recreational fishing management and environmental clean ups.

In the late 1970s, Canadian mining giant Cominco now known as Teck invested about C$12 million into a water treatment plant for the Sullivan Mine complex in Kimberley, British Columbia.  

There was very little public pressure on Cominco to do this.  The Rod & Gun columnist for the local newspaper might have written a few words but otherwise there was no campaign.  The effluent discharge was discolouring rocks in the lower St. Marys river but trout and other fish thrived and moreover the effluent contributed to increased fish carrying capacity of Kootenay Lake.

The folks I talked to at Cominco said that they had all read Silent Spring and were able to convince senior management to do this.  

I ran into this elsewhere too.  

To conclude, Silent Spring not only influenced a movement and the creation of environmental protection agencies, it directly impacted the behaviour of large corporations.  

1962 – Rachel Carson's book Silent Spring is published, inspiring an environmental movement and the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

1983 – Soviet Air Force officer Stanislav Petrov identifies a report of an incoming nuclear missile as a computer error and not an American first strike.