Through storytelling & sharing who these people really were, we unlock meaningful connections with people today, and the potential of new discoveries tomorrow. It is up to each and every one of us to share our memories & family stories of those people important to us. AncientFaces is Where We Remember Over the last 20 years we've seen tens of millions of people show that they agree that Everyone Deserves to be Remembered (EDtbR). We all Deserve to be Remembered, and it is up to us, the people that knew them, to show & tell their stories before our memories get lost in history. How our loved ones and ancestors lived their lives, what they did with their time, and who they impacted - is important. How in the world is it that when our loved ones die we have only their social media accounts to remember them by? Why is it all that’s left online is a memorial page consisting of a tombstone and an obituary, and if you’re fortunate enough to have a writer in the family, MAYBE there is an obituary consisting of three paragraphs about who the person was? People are important in life and in death. Louise was conceived through IVF (in vitro fertilization), a controversial and experimental procedure at the time. In 1978, by the time he was 40 years old, on July 25th, Louise Brown, the first "test-tube baby", was born at Oldham Hospital in London. He was the second man to go into space, the first was Yuri Gagarin - a Soviet cosmonaut. Shepard, Jr., made the first manned Project Mercury flight, MR-3, in a spacecraft he named Freedom 7. In 1961, he was 23 years old when on May 5th, Navy Cmdr. The Soviet Union and China backed North Korea and the U.N., primarily the United States backed South Korea. In 1950, at the age of just 12 years old, John was alive when on June 25th, the Korean War began when North Korean Communist forces crossed the 38th parallel. The next day, newspapers, in writing about the event, first used the word "telethon." It raised $1,100,000 for cancer research and lasted 16 hours.
In 1949, when he was merely 11 years old, comedian Milton Berle hosted the first telethon show. Although the current story is that many were fooled and panicked, in reality very few people were fooled.
Because of the realistic nature of the "news," there was a public outcry the next day, calling for regulation by the FCC. Wells' novel, the show began with simulated "breaking news" of an invasion by Martians.
In 1938, in the year that John D Phelps was born, on October 30th, a Sunday, The Mercury Theatre on the Air broadcast Orson Welles' special Halloween show The War of the World's. Refresh this page to see various historical events that occurred during John's lifetime.
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