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2012 Bradley Wiggins Wins Tour de France
https://www.bbc.com/sport/cycling/18946960
1933 U.S.A. Wiley Post
https://www.wired.com/2010/07/0722wiley-post-completes-circumnavigation/
1934 U.S.A. John Dillinger Shot
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Hello and welcome to the this happen today in History Podcast I am your host Mr Miller this podcast will cover a number of topics that happened on this date in history please visit the podcast web page at this happen today. buzzsprout.com there you can download the notes page which will help you
Organize the information as well as develop your own ideas on how these events change the world around us if you’re interested in hearing more please consider subscribing so you will not miss out on what happens tomorrow in history today is July 22nd in 2012 Bradley Wiggins won the
Tour to France Wiggins 32 finished with a winning margin of 3 minutes and 21 seconds after ending Sunday’s race around the streets of Paris in the pelaton fellow Brit and team Sky teammate Chris FR Consolidated second place with Italy’s venzo nabali third Cavendish won the traditional Sprint
Down the Champs ulyses with some ease the 27-year-old from the ISA man is unbeaten in Paris having also won on his three previous tour finishes in 2009 10 and 11 he began his Sprint early and held off the challenge of faster finishing Peter Sean of Slovakia with Australia’s Matthew gross third it
Lifted his tally of tour to France stage wins to 23 to surpass seven-time tour winner Lance Armstrong and Frenchman Andre darar and move into the fourth in the overall stage one standings 11 short of Belgian Eddie M’s record of 34 but the day belonged to Wiggins who safely n
Navigated and negotiated himself around the streets of Paris to complete the formalities after Saturday’s stunning time trial Victory gave him an almost unassailable lead the three-time Olympic track Champion crossed the line arms raised having helped set up cavendish’s Sprint victory in front of thousands of British fans on the Champs elses who had
Come to witness history being made and winning this year’s tour Wiggins not only fulfilled a lifelong ambition but also sealed his place in the pantheon of cycling Gra I don’t know what to say I’ve had 24 hours for it to soak in said Wiggins I’m still buzzing from the Champs alyses the
Laps go so quick we had a mission with Cav and we did it what a way to finish it off I’ve got to get used to that being a legend in the spotlight it’s going to take a while I’m just trying to soak it all in you never imagine it will
Happen to you but it’s amazing in three demanding weeks he toiled over the Alps and the Pyrenees to complete a mammoth 20 stage 2,173 mile race which was in its 99th Edition during his stunning transition from track to road racing Wiggins finished fourth in the tour in 2009 equaling Robert malar’s 1984 British
Best before crashing out with a broken collarbone went among the favorites in 2011 but having worn the yellow Jersey for 13 consecutive stages Wiggins showed why team skyp principal Dave bford has placed so much faith in his man as he accumulated a winning margin in more than three minutes the margin of Megan’s
Victory also answered many of those who questioned why FR who appeared marginally stronger in the mountains was not a team Sky tour leader team Sky themselves achieved a rare feat of a onew on the podium the first since 1996 when danne bjn re finished the head of his German teammate at Telecom Yan
O it is also the first time compatriots have taken the first two places since Francis LNA figon finished a ahead of five-time winner Bernard hanal in the 1984 Edition Frenchman Thomas voer of Europe car won the polka dot jersey for the Race’s best climber it was Sean in
The liquid gas team easily securing the green jersey for the points competition American TJ vardan made up for The BMC team leader cadel Evans disastrous title defense by winning the Race’s white jersey for the best placed Rider age 25 and under Evans who made history by becoming Australia’s first
Champion in 2011 finished nearly 16 minutes behind Wiggins although he did suffer with stomach problems during the final week in a 1933 pilot Wy post returned to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn New York 7 days 18 hours and 49 minutes after leaving aided by a new technology his flight is the first solo
Circumnavigation by air and it is also the fastest ever Around the World trip born in Texas Post wanted to be a pilot after seeing his first airplane at a county fair at the age of 15 he got his break at age 24 when a Barm Stormer leted him fill in for his injured
Skydiver post performed several jumps but always wanted to be the pilot not the sky diver his dream was almost ruined while working in the oil fields to earn money for an airplane he lost his left eye in an accident despite the lack of depth of perception post was able to earn his
Pilot’s license and with his workers compensation checks bought his first airplane post quickly Advanced his flying skills and became the personal pilot for wealthy oilman FC Hall his boss encouraged post to use the plane when it wasn’t needed for business and then now 32-year-old pilot promptly went
Out and won a prestigious air race from Los Angeles to Chicago with a success Hall allowed post to use the Sleek Lockheed Vega aircraft named Winnie May after Hall’s daughter to pursue any air records he wished post wasted no time but in 1931 he and Navigator Harold
Gaddy broke the around theor record that had been held by an Airship the graph Zeppelin their 15,000 M flight lasted 8 Days 15 hours 51 minutes and include 13 refueling stops the winning may had slashed more than 11 days off the previous record after several people suggested Gaddy was the brains behind
The effort post set out to disprove his critics the very next year by making a solo trip he equipped the Vega with two significant pieces of new technology A Primitive autopilot from sper gyroscope and a radio direction finder for navigation the trip would be the first significant flight where new navigation
Technology would replace a human Navigator the early autopilot proved to be problematic at times though it did help solo pilot stand as his desired course aided by the radio direction finder that allowed post to navigate to any radio station’s transmitter the Winnie May stayed on a record pace
Through the early part of the flight after several unscheduled stops in the Soviet Union in the need to fix a bent propeller post was able to make it back to North America still ahead of schedule fighting faue in the fatigue in the final hours post developed a very simple
Piece of technology to keep from falling asleep at the cockpit a former mechanic tied one end to of a string to a wrench and the other into a finger he would simply hold the wrench while he flew if he fell asleep the wrench would fall tugging on his finger waking him up the
The cluggy wrench alarm worked and the as the clock approached midnight post landed back at Floyd Benfield in front of thousands of Spectators who had come to greet him he credited the autopilot and radio direction finder for making the record setting flight possible he had beaten his previous record by 21
Hours post would later go on to develop a pressure suit allowing him to set more records by flying at altitudes as high as 40,000 ft in 1935 the record setting pilot set off in a flight with his good friend Will Rogers the famous humorist had hired post to fly him around Alaska
In search of new material for his newspaper column post ended up settling for some pontoon floats that were too big for the modified lock heed when they were flying on the trip Boston Rogers took off from a lake in northern Alaska on August 15th and the engine quit the
Airplane was too difficult to control with the oversized floats and it crashed into a lake killing both on board Rogers of 55 post was 36 John Dillinger was born in Indianapolis Indiana in 1903 a juvenile delinquent he was arrested in 1924 after a botched mugging he pleaded guilty
Hoping for clemency but was sentenced to 10 to 20 years at pendon Reformatory while in prison he made several failed escapes and was adopted by a group of professional bank robbers led by Harry pureo who taught him the ways of their trade when his friends were transferred to Indiana’s tough Michigan City PR
Prison he requested to be transferred there too in May of 1933 Dillinger was paroled and he met up with accomplices of pure Pont Dillinger’s plan was to raise enough funds to finance a Prison Break by Pier Pont and the others who would then take him on as a member of
Their Elite robbery gang in four months Dinger and his gang robbed four Indiana and Ohio Banks two grocery stores and a drug store for the total of more than $40,000 he gained notoriety as a sharply dressed an athletic gunman who at One bank leftt over the high teller railing
Into the Vault with the help of two of P pont’s women friends Dillinger set up the jailbreak guns were brought bought and arranged to be smuggled into the mid Michigan City prison prison workers were bribed and a safe house was set up on September 22nd however just days before the jailbreak
Was scheduled to occur Dillinger was arrested in Dayton Ohio 4 days later P Pont and nine others broke out of Michigan City P pont’s gang robbed a bank in Ohio for $11,000 on October 12th came to Ohio to free Dillinger from the Lima City Jail the Lima Sheriff was
Killed during during the successful breakout and October 30th the gang robbed a police Arsenal acquiring weapons ammunition and bulletproof vests the P Pont Dillinger gang Robb banks in Indiana Wisconsin and Chicago for more than $130,000 a great fortune in the depression area and it eluded the police in several Close Encounters in January
1934 the gang headed to Tucson Arizona to lay low by this time four police officers had been killed and two wounded and the Chicago Police had established an Elite Squad to track down fugitives they were recognized in Tucson and on January 25th captured without Bloodshed Dillinger was extradited to Indiana
Arraigned for his January 15th murder of Indianapolis Police or Indiana Police Officer William Patrick om Ali and held at Crownpoint prison on March 3rd while still awaiting trial he executed his most celebrated Escape that morning he brandished the gun and methodically began locking up the prison officials
The legend is that the weapon was a wooden gun carved by Dillinger and blackened with shoe polish but it may have have also been a real gun smuggled into the prison by an associate whatever the C case Dillinger raided the prison Arsenal where he found two submachine
Guns and then Enlisted the aid of another prisoner an African-American named Herbert Youngblood Dillinger and Youngblood then made their way to the prison garage where they stole a sheriff’s car and calmly drove off after pulling the ignition wires from all the other vehicles parked there parting ways with young boy Dillinger traveled to
Chicago and formed a new Gang featuring Babyface Nelson a psychopathic killer who used to work for Al Capone the new Dillinger gang banks in South Dakota and Iowa netting $11,500 and wounding two more police officers the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI joined the man hunt for Dillinger after he escaped from
Crown Point and on March 31st two FBI agents closed in on him in an apartment in St Paul Minnesota Dillinger and an accomplice shot their way out in April the Dillinger gang went on to Hideout at a resort in Wisconsin but the FBI was tipped off on April 22nd the
FBI stormed the report and in a disastrous operation three civilians were mistakenly shot by the FBI one of whom died Babyface Nelson killed one agent shot another and critically wounded a police officer the entire Dillinger gang escaped with the two other gang me Members Dillinger traveled to Chicago surviving a shootout with Minnesota
Police along the way in Chicago he lived in a safe house and got a facelift to conceal his identity at some point he also used acid to burn off his fingerprints on June 30th he participated in his last robbery in South Bend Indiana the gang got away
With about $30,000 at the cost of one officer killed four civilian shot and one gang member shot in July an a sage a Romani Romanian born brothel Madam in Chicago and friend of dillingers agreed to cooperate with the FBI in exchange for leniency in an upcoming dep deportation
Hearing she also hoped to cash in on the $110,000 Bounty that had been put on his head on July 22nd s and Dillinger went to see the gangster movie Manhattan melodrama at the Biograph Theater around the corner from her house 20 FBI agents and police officers staked out the
Theater and waited for him to emerge with sage who would be wearing an orange dress to identify herself at 10:40 Dillinger came out Sage’s orange dress looked red under the Biograph lights which had earn her the nickname the lady in red Dillinger was ordered to surrender but he took off
Running he made it as far as an alley at the end of the block before he was gunned down allegedly because he pulled a gun two bystanders were wounded in the gunfire Public Enemy Number One as FBI director Jay Edgar Hoover had deemed him was dead some researchers have claimed
That another man not Dillinger was killed outside the Biograph citing autopsy findings on the corpse that allegedly contradict Dillinger’s known medical Record you have been listening to that this happened today in History Podcast I thank you for listening and I hope that you have enjoyed learning about historical events from the past thank you to the following websites for their information regarding today’s topics the peoplehistory decom Bradley wiggin wins tour to France
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