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Old 07-07-2015, 11:52 AM   #582
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By popular definition, July 7 was the best day ever, since in 1928 sliced bread was invented. In 1930 construction began on the Hoover Dam. According to author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, today in 1852 Dr. John H. Watson was born. Strangely, Conan Doyle died on this same date in 1930. In 1941 the US moved closer to war with Nazi Germany as it took occupational control over Iceland, while in 1958 the US changed the status of its own territorial icebox when Pres. Eisenhower signed the Alaska Statehood Act. And again oddly, the US moved further away from war in 1969 with the first withdrawal of American troops from South Vietnam.

And in 1962 a throwaway piece of music composed by David Rose for an obscure TV show four years earlier hit #1 on the pop charts, and the tune which became known as The Stripper entered the American psyche.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YdMaZRVUU8
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