FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
The 1967 International and Universal Exposition, commonly known as Expo 67, was a general exhibition from April 27 to October 29, 1967. It was a category One World’s Fair held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is considered to be one of the most successful World’s Fairs of the 20th century with the most attendees to that date and 62 nations participating. It also set the single-day attendance record for a world’s fair, with 569,500 visitors on its third day.
Expo 67 was Canada’s main celebration during its centennial year. The fair had been intended to be held in Moscow, to help the Soviet Union celebrate the Russian Revolution‘s 50th anniversary; however, for various reasons, the Soviets decided to cancel, and Canada was awarded it in late 1962.
The project was not well supported in Canada at first. It took the determination of Montreal’s mayor, Jean Drapeau, and a new team of managers to guide it past political, physical and temporal hurdles. Defying a computer analysis that said it could not be done, the fair opened on time.
After Expo 67 ended in October 1967, the site and most of the pavilions continued on as an exhibition called Man and His World, open during the summer months from 1968 until 1984. By that time, most of the buildings—which had not been designed to last beyond the original exhibition—had deteriorated and were dismantled. Today, the islands that hosted the world exhibition are mainly used as parkland and for recreational use, with only a few remaining structures from Expo 67 to show that the event was held there.
TODAY’S ALMANAC
Question of the Day
When something is done in secret or on the sly, it is said to be done “on the Q.T.” Where did this originate, and what does Q.T. mean?
It’s simply an abbreviation of the word quiet. In the late 1800s, quiet came to mean “clandestine,” or “secretive” (e.g., “I’d like to have a word with you on the quiet.”). Sometime later, it was reduced to the slang “Q.T.”
Advice of the Day
To help you have more energy, wear red.
Home Hint of the Day
In the spring, give your lawn a good brisk raking, then reseed any bare spots. Lightly mulch reseeded areas with peat moss or grass clippings.
Word of the Day
Staunch
Strong and tight; sound; firm; as, a stanch ship.
Puzzle of the Day
What do frogs eat with their hamburgers?
French flies.
Died
- Ferdinand Magellan (explorer) – 1521
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (poet) – 1882
- Julius Sterling Morton (Arbor Day founder) – 1902
- Edward R. Murrow (broadcast journalist) – 1965
- Ruth Handler (co-founded Mattel and created Barbie) – 2002
Born
- Samuel Morse (inventor) – 1791
- Ulysses S. Grant (18th U.S. president) – 1822
- Rogers Hornsby (baseball player) – 1896
- Coretta Scott King (civil rights leader) – 1927
- Sheena Easton (singer) – 1959
- Chris Carpenter (baseball player) – 1975
- William Moseley (actor) – 1987
Events
- Astronomer John Russell Hind discovered a new variable star in Ophiuchus – 1848
- Steamboat Sultana exploded on the Mississippi River near Memphis, Tennessee– 1865
- A hearing aid was patented by F. D. Clarke and M. G. Foster– 1880
- Fourth modern Olympic games opened in London, England– 1908
- U.S. Soil Conservation Service established by Congress– 1935
- Babe Ruth Day– 1947
- Expo ‘67 was officially opened in Montreal, Quebec, by Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson– 1967
- L. Patrick Gray resigns as acting director of the FBI due to the Watergate fiasco– 1973
- Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger plane, successfully took off on its maiden flight– 2005
- Oh Eun-sun from South Korea became the first woman to scale the world’s 14 highest mountains– 2010
- An odd green light shot across the night sky in southern California. Experts concluded that it likely was a meteor.– 2016
Weather
- The temperature in New York City reached 92 degrees F– 1915
- Pahala, Hawaii, reached 100F (37.8C), which, at the time, was the highest temperature ever recorded for the state– 1931
- Ninety-four degrees F, Hartford, CT– 1962
- 27 inches of snow fell in a 24-hours in Minot, North Dakota– 1984
- Downtown Los Angeles hit 102 degrees F, shattering the April 27 mark of 94 degrees F set in 1881– 2004
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