Pleasant Hill Junior Academy - Torch Yearbook (Pleasant Hill, CA)

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Blick Rodgers' Davy Crockett Jim Thorpe Johnny Appleseed ,loe Louis Martin Luther King John Glenn Dick Tracy .lohn Brown Little Orphan Annie Humphrey Bogart Tarian Clntrles Lincllveralz Wild Bill Hickocli Tom Swift Sltirley Temple To in Sawyer The Lone Ranger The Uncle Sam Chronicles S if it l.. I l iii . al' l '- fi' fi Cv X - 'F 693 '!' M Q5 1839. First baseball game played at Cooperstown, New York. 1839. Charles Goodyear vulcanizes rubber. July 8, 1839. John D. Rockefeller born. 1840. 2,816 miles of railway are in operation in the United States. August 30, 1842. Congress levies a tax of 75 cents a pound on opium. It had previously been duty-free. Fw December, 1842. Dr. Crawford Williamson Long of Jefferson, Georgia, uses anesthesia in an operation, removing a tnmor from the back of James M. Venable. The bill' for the operation was 52.25, including 25 cents for the anesthetic. November 23, 1844. James Polk defeats Henry Clay for the Presidency by 170 electoral votes to 105. ' March 4, 1845. Texas is annexed, triggering the Mexican-American war. .lean Harlow Jessie Owens Gibson Girl Kate Smith .S'upern1an Rudolph Valentino Clark Gable Paul Bunyan Annie Oakley Sergeant York Audie llluiplzy Babe Ruth Uncle Sam Sam Houston Kit Carson Charlie Chaplin Howrlv Doodv Pecos Bill Dea r Abby Gary Cooper Neil Armstrong Marcus Garvey Daniel Webster John Paul Jones Robert E. Lee Mickey Mouse Will Rogers ,Pocohontas Lassie Andrew Jackson Billy The Kia' Betty Boop John HEHIZI' Charlie Parker Mr. Natural Louis Armstrong Elvis Presley Billy Jean King llflarilvn Monroe Daniel Boone 1, 1845. David Levi Yulee of Florida becomes the nation's first Jewish senator. June, 1846. Brigham Young and the Mormons leave Nauvoo City on their way to the Great Salt Lake. June 14, 1846. 49th Parallel is established as the boundary between Oregon Territory and Canada. December 28, 1846. Iowa becomes a state. 1847. The Mormons found Salt Lake City. February 11, 1847. Thomas Alva Edison born. March 3, 1847. Alexander Graham Bell born. 1848. Tom Hyer becomes the first American Q boxing champion. 1848. The firstchewing gum is manufactured by John Curtis on his Franklin stove. He called it The State of Maine Pure Spruce Gum, but it didn't sell, so he doubled his pleasure, doubled his fun and came out with some new flavors: Licorice Lulu, Yankee Spruce, and 200 Lump Spruce.

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The Uncle Sam Chronicles 'Y' 'ite 1799. Jonathan Grout invents and installs a 90-mile semaphore signal system between Boston and Martha's Vineyard. A message and reply took ten minutes, but Grout kept getting a busy signal. March 4, 1801. Thomas Jefferson becomes president. April 3, 1803. United States purchases Louisiana Territory from France for S15 million. May 14, 1804. Lewis and Clark leave St. Louis for the Pacific Coast. July 4th, 1804. Nathaniel Hawthorne born. 1807. First soda pop. Townsend Speakman, great grandfather of the Pepsi generation, adds fruit juice to soda water and sells it as medicine. ' 4 February 27, 1807. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow born. August 7, 1807. Robert Fulton's steamboat Clermont makes its first run on the Hudson River. June 18, 1812. United States declares war on Great Britain. August 19, 1812. First woman marine, Ruth Streeter fought aboard the U.S'..S'. Constitution. If anybody knew she was a woman at that time, he wouldn't admit it. December 1, 1813. British forces burn the city of Buffalo. August 24, 1814. British burn Washington, D.C. and the White House. December 24, 1814. The Treaty of Ghent concludes the War of 1812. The United States Army recorded 531,622 enlistments, but some militiamen enlisted as many as ten times. There was a bonus for enlistment. ' .Ianu 8 1815 British defeated at New Orleans . , ary . The war liad been over for more than three weeks but neither side had heard the news. March 4, 1817. James Monroe becomes fifth president. July 12, 1817. Henry David Thoreau bom. August 29, 1809. Oliver Wendell Holmes born. December 13, 1809. Dr. Ephraim McDowell performs the first abdominal operation on Mrs. Jane Todd. She was 45 and lived to be 78. 1811. An anonymous taxpayer returns 55 to the government. which he said he had defrauded. In 1916 the government received an anonymous payment of S54,923.15. I x May 12, 1820. Florence Nightingale born. 0ctober.24, 1820. Spain cedes Florida to the United States. April 27, 1822. Ulysses S. Grant born. December 2, 1823. Monroe Doctrine closes the Americas to foreign colonization. 1824. Natural gas is used to illuminate Freedonia, New York. r .Ianua 19, 1825. Ezra Daggett and Thomas Keffseft invent the tin can. 1826. The Last of the Mohicans by James Fenimore Cooper is published. July 4, 1826. Thomas Jefferson dies. v 1827. Harrison Gray Byar builds a two-mile ' telegraph system at Long Island City 65 years before Edison's patent. 1834. The New York Sun announces that an astronomer has sighted men on the moon. They are described as being four feet high and able to fly with their own wings. Shortly afterwards, the story was admitted to be a hoax. Circulation continued to increase after the admission. 1834. Friction matches are manufacturedin Springfield, Massachusetts. November 30, 1835. Samuel Langhorne Clemens fMark Twainl born. November 25, 1817. Senaa Samma of Madras swallows a sword at Washington Hall. New York, manufactured for him by William Pye. May 21, 1819. The first bicycle is ridden in New York City. Two months later. the city bans them on sidewalks, streets, and in public places. August 2, 1819. Charles Guiee makes the first parachute jump. Ascending in a balloon, he plummets 300 feet before his umbrella-like chute opens, then is put in a holding pattern by the LaGuardia tower but is blown four miles out of New York. In its mythology is the true measure of o notion's strength. For what is notional character if not the sum ofthe people's hopes ond dreams, foilures ond triumphs? Whot does it mutter. recilly, if Johnny Appleseed lived or did not live. Today, in the collective mind of the A ' I , he is mericon peop e every bit os reol ond A os human os Teddy Roosevelt, Charles Lindbergh, or Donold Duck. N x x 1836. Texas declares itself independent of Mexico. February 25, 1836. Samuel Colt invents 1 t r. April 16, 1836. Massachusetts passes the first child labor law, requiring all children to attend school at least three months a year. Six yearslater, children under 12 are prohibited from working more than ten hours a day. 1838. Pierre Maspero, a New Orleans - saloonkeeper offers the country's first recorded free lunch. I

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1 8 0 0 J I ' ' TheUncle SamChronicles 1 Tzf- l' V , A' M Vi., I - , ' .ji i'-,111 X ,JN gif, R, 'ff' .-7 g1.i,Q..-1 5 . ' 1848. All or parts of New Mexico, Texas, California, Nfeiiada, Utah, Arizortat' Plifyjoriting, 'and'Co1oradijjareEaoquired from Mexico. ' January 24, 1848. James W. Marshall .discovers gtfldnat fSujtter's Creelg, ii J ' 1 July 19, 1848. Amelia Jenks Bloomer introduces bloomeriiiglifie first wovrnerfs rights' Falls, New York. l October 7, 1849. Edgar Allen Poe dies. Octolggrrggi, 1849. Firstiirecoriied .exhibition offaftattooed rriang New York 1850. Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter is publishetlg' :f septemner-to, 1850, sa stare. .., - ,. - lv. , t i 0. -f W t-pf . september, 1851. New York Times begins publicatiopg , - 6Q,i.gt2HlSiqi1ait.8ghtt- rstvwomn, ,sitgi-F . -Ti ' , ' Y .,,. E ' fi' L t- l ,'-, , fi. V. ., Wifi? Afsf.-, 2 V - ' , F' i March 13, 18523 The first newspaper cartoon .depicting UnGl6l?Sarn'isjpi1b1isliEdi t5:wW .15-F,f,iI.1 A. ,D Y 1 Y - : ,g- 1,7 -x-1' I ,gg 1' .. 4, .,.-Q Z Y . ..' V Marcb'20, 1854. The Republican Party is christened .by Alclaii'Eagle'1iovay - -V x Y .51 ,L July 25, 1854. Walter Hunt invents the paper collar. ibctober 15,-118541 John November 5, 1855. Eugene Debs borng November 28, 1856.,5WoodrowiWi16Sii,lflgir5gEf ..: A 1857. Joseph C. Gayetty of New York rnercharidises. the first icornmercifliitoiletl for ,500 sheets, it claims to, assist in the preventioit of piles., A : 1. K 1859. George Huntington Hartford adds teal togthisflhidd, and leather:-btisi:r1ess1 fri' 'img first link in what-'was toibecome' the largest superrnarilfgt world, ,'.' A The Great Atlantic and ,Pacific Teaqgortipanyg-.or the,f2Sx8ZPQ . . ft - F -1.41 V '--i'.. February 14, 1859. Oregon becomes a state! ' 'I 'fi' 'V I ' Q ' ' ,- August 17, 1859. The first airmail is 'cari'ietil'entitogtexfrom . Lafayette.1Iir1di't1na. ' if to New York in a balloon piloted by John Wise, ythogtlanlotit of hotair 27 miles -sotithpf his takeoff point. Wise later became the first aerial'boi1L1liai'tgliEir4,'pdihonstrating 'a newtorm of warfare by tossing dynamite sticks out of a dirigiblieit' 'r11,QQ'-'.- 7, e' ' ' 1860. The United stares has 30.000 miles ofrzii'iway'trackS.1 1 1 November 6, 1860. Abraham Lincoln elected President. ' - v , I December 20, 1860. South Carolina secedes from the-Union. ' Al i ' February 4, 1861. Eleven Southern states convene at the Congress of Mrsntgdmery ag under Jefferson Davis. February 5, 1861. Samuel D. Goodale patents the first peepshow machine, naming it the Mutoscope. April 12, 1861. 75 year-old Edmond Ruffin fires the first shot in the Civil War at Fort Sumter. South Carolina. I June 18, 1861. The first flycasting contest. held at Utica, New Yorkl is won by George Lennebacker. 1862. The first organized football team is formed at Oneida. New York. They defeat every opponent from 1862 through 1865, and never allow an opposing team to cross their goal line. February 3, 1862. Thomas Alva Edison publishes a newspaper on a train and distributes it to towns between Port Huron and Detroit, Michigan. March 9, 1862. Monitor defeats Merr1'nmc. July 1, 1862. The first income tax is imposed. lt is rescinded in 1872. September 22, 1862. The Emancipation Proclamation declares that slaves are to be free on January l. 1863. February 17, 1864. The Hunley becomes the first submarine to sink a warship in combat. dispatching the U.S.S. Husatonic to a watery grave with a torpedo. The wave generated by the explosion swamps and sinks the submarine, killing its crew. The hand-cranked craft makes four miles an hour and has no provisions for air. The Hunley sinks four different times, killing its crew on each occasion. April 7, 1864. First camel race in America held at Agricultural Park A in Sacramento. California. May 19, 1864. Nathaniel Hawthorne dies at 59. April 9, 1865. Robert E. Lee capitulates at Appomattox. April 14, 1865. Abraham Lincoln assassinated September 25, 1865. Langdon W. Moore. the first of the big time bank robbers, sticks up a bank in Concord, Massachusetts, and escapes with S310,000. November 2, 1865. Warren Harding born. 1866. Arthur Cummings introduces the curve ball to baseball. December 26, 1865. James H. Mason patents the coffee percolator. September 12, 1866. The first burlesque show, Black Crook , opens in New York and runs for 475 performances. 1867. William E. Lincoln of Providence, Rhode Island, patents the first moving picture projector. M, 1867. William Seward purchases Alaska from Russia for 37.2 million. 1868. The Cincinnati Red Stockings become the first professional baseball club. 1868. P.D. Armour's meat packing house opens in Chicago.