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MOMENTS IN TIME • On Aug. 31, 1888, Mary Ann Nichols, the first victim of London serial killer "Jack the Ripper," is found murdered. The police were at a complete loss for suspects. However, two letters alluded to facts known only to the police and the killer. These letters, signed "Jack the Ripper," gave rise to the serial killer's nickname.
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woman. His assailants -- the woman's husband and her brother -- were found "not guilty" by an all-white jury that deliberated for less than an hour.
• On Aug. 29, 1962, Robert Frost leaves for the Soviet Union on a goodwill tour sponsored by the U.S. State Department in an effort to thaw Cold War relations. Frost's poetry has es• On Aug. 27, 1937, George E.T. tablished his international reputation Eyston breaks his own automobile as American's unofficial poet laureate. land speed record at the Bonneville • On Aug. 30, 1974, a train enterSalt Flats in Utah, raising the mark ing a Zagreb, Yugoslavia, station to 345.49 mph. Eyston described derails, killing 153 people. The train his built-for-speed Thunderbolt as should have slowed to 30 mph as having two 2,000-horsepower Rolls it approached the station; howRoyce motors geared together. ever, the engineers not only failed • On Aug. 26, 1944, French Gen. to slow the train, but went through Charles de Gaulle enters Paris, a red signal at about 60 mph. which had been formally liber- • On Aug. 25, 1985, Samantha Smith, ated from the Germans the day the 13-year-old "ambassador" to the before. As he entered the Place Soviet Union, dies in a plane crash. de l'Hotel, French collaboration- Smith was best known for writing to ists took a few sniper shots at him. Soviet leader Yuri Andropov, who in• On Aug. 28, 1955, while vis- vited her to visit the Soviet Union. The iting family in Money, Missis- Russian government responded to her sippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, death by issuing a stamp in her honor a black from Chicago, is mur- and naming a mountain after her. dered for flirting with a white © 2014 King Features Synd., Inc.
QUICK QUIRK QUIZ: A FLASHLIGHT BATTERY • Russian immigrant Akiba Horowitz changed his name to Conrad Hubert when he came to America in 1891. He was fascinated by the invention of electricity. Hubert began to tinker. He invented a number of electrical novelties, such as a portable fan and an illuminated flower pot. He named his business the American Electrical Novelty and Manufacturing Company. • Then he hired an inventor name David Misell, who had invented the bicycle light. While working for Hubert, Misell invented the flashlight, assigning the patent to Hubert. It was called the flashlight because at first it would only light up for a moment or two before going out. Hubert tinkered with the invention, improved it, patented it in 1903, and handed out samples to New York City cops, who gave him rave reviews. Within a few years Hubert was a millionaire. • In 1914 the National Carbon Company (which supplied Hubert with his materials) bought half interest in the company, and the name of the firm was changed. Production of the batteries used in flashlights overtook production of flashlights. During the Great Depression, advertisements for the company consistently depicted a child, a pet, and a flashlight in various Norman Rockwell-like situations. One such ad showed a young girl checking on a litter of nine kittens using her flashlight. This image became so popular that thousands of posters were sold, giving the company a new icon: a cat with nine lives. What is the name of the company? (Answer at bottom of the page.) IT'S A FACT • When Commander Alan Bean walked on the moon, he tried to fix a TV camera that was not working by hitting it with a hammer. He failed. Answer: Eveready, now owned by Energizer
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