📜 January 5: On This Day in History |  | Curse of the Bambino |  Image: MLB | Each of the following events happened on January 5. Your challenge is to put them in the order in which they occurred by year, earliest to latest. Answers at the bottom! - A) The New York Yankees announce the purchase of heavy-hitting outfielder George Herman “Babe” Ruth from the Boston Red Sox for a sum of $125,000. The sale of Babe Ruth is followed by 86 years without a championship for the Red Sox, a drought known as the “Curse of the Bambino.”
- B) President Truman delivers his “Fair Deal” speech. In a reference to Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal policies, Truman announced his plans for domestic policy reforms including national health insurance, public housing, civil rights legislation, and federal aid to education.
- C) Richard Nixon signs a bill authorizing $5.5 million in funding to develop a space shuttle. The space shuttle, which was meant to be more of a reusable airplane than a one time rocket, represented a giant leap forward in the technology of space travel.
- D) Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers start excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.
Hint: Bridges connect two places |
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📜 Answers | | A, D, B, C - A) 1920 – The Yankees buy Babe Ruth’s contract from the Boston Red Sox. Ruth goes on to become a Hall of Famer and one of the Yankees greatest players ever.
- D) 1933 – Construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge. It measures 1.7 miles long, 90 feet wide, and features a 4,200-foot main span between the two towers.
- B) 1949 – President Truman delivers his “Fair Deal” speech. It almost doubles the minimum wage, from 40 cents to 75 cents an hour, and establishes the Housing Act, which provides 800,000 new houses for the poor.
- C) 1972 – President Nixon starts the space shuttle program at NASA. The first space shuttle, Columbia, would eventually be launched in 1981.
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