Hoffa: You know the name

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JULY MOMENT IN HISTORY
A LOOK BACK AT MEMORABLE EVENTS IN YOUR LIFE
“
Our cars were bombed out. Three different times, someone broke into the office
and destroyed our furniture. Cars would crowd us off the streets. Then it got worse.
... Your life was in your hands every day. There was only one way to survive ... fight
back. And we used to slug it out on the streets. They found out we didn't scare.”
— JIMMY HOFFA
J ULY 3 0, 1975
Hoffa: You know the name
What’s your history IQ?
1
Which president enacted the first income
tax, signed into law in the month of July and
imposed the following month?
a. George Washington
b. Thomas Jefferson
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. Franklin D. Roosevelt
2
President Grover Cleveland had secret
cancer surgery in July 1893. Where did
Cleveland have cancer?
a. skin
b. nose
c. lung
d. jaw
3
On July 3, 1976, Israeli forces raided an
airport in what African nation to rescue
hostages on a hijacked Air France airliner?
a. Libya
b. Egypt
c. Uganda
d. Nigeria
4
Born July 5, 1801, this man grew up to
utter this famous, now oft-repeated
phrase during the Civil War: "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead."
a. Wilhelm Keitel
b. Alfred Jodl
c. Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg
d. Erwin Rommel
5
On July 6, 1885, the first successful antirabies vaccination was given to a boy bitten by a dog. Who helped develop the shot?
a. Joseph Veterinarian
b. Louis Pasteur
c. Charles Horace Mayo
d. Jonas Salk
6
President William McKinley annexed this
territory on July 7, 1898, but it wouldn't
become a state for more than five decades.
a. Alaska
b. Arizona
c. Puerto Rico
d. Hawaii
7
— BY DENNIS ROBAUGH | GHNS
8
On July 16, 1945, America dropped its first
atomic bomb. Where did it land?
a. Hiroshima
b. New Mexico
c. Nagasaki
d. Arizonas
9
This man, dubbed "Public Enemy No. 1"
by the FBI, was shot dead in Chicago on
July 22, 1934.
a. John Dillinger
b. Al Capone
c. Bugs Moran
d. Frank Nitti
10
Released in the U.S. on July 1969, this
movie was directed by and starred the
late Dennis Hopper.
a. The Wild Ones
b. Easy Rider
c. Hells Angels
d. Midnight Cowboy
ANSWERS 1. c, 2. d, 3. c, 4. b, 5. b, 6. d, 7. c, 8.
b. 9. a, 10. b.
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or decades, the name Hoffa was synonymous with the Teamsters. For 14 years, James Riddle
Hoffa ran the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, from 1957 to 1971.
In truth, the Teamsters were Hoffa's long before he became the top dog. Hoffa built the
Teamsters with his fists, fury and a single-minded dedication to the working man.
Born in 1913, the son of an Indiana coal miner, the Hoffas moved to Detroit in 1924 after
Jimmy's father died. He dropped out of ninth grade and lied about his age to get a job at the Kroger
Grocery and Baking Co. unloading fruits and vegetables from railroad cars.
In 1931, at 18, he led his first strike after two fellow workers were fired for taking their midnight dinner break. A few years later, he became an organizer for the Teamsters. As the union grew, so did Hoffa's power and connections. Teamsters influenced nearly every aspect of American commerce. With
power came strong enemies, namely Robert and John F. Kennedy, who took a dim view of Hoffa's admitted connections to organized crime figures in Detroit and across the country.
He went to prison in 1967 on charges he abused the union pension fund, but he kept control of the
Teamsters until 1971, when he gave up his hold on the presidency in exchange for a pardon from President Richard Nixon. Bombastic and strong-willed to the end, Hoffa plotted to take back the union. He
disappeared July 30, 1975, last seen at the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Township, Mich.,
where he planned to meet a known mobster.
Many believe the Mafia killed Hoffa to prevent him from regaining control of the Teamsters. For
decades, his body was believed to have been buried beneath the end zone at Meadowlands Stadium in
New Jersey.
Hoffa was declared dead in 1982, and on July 31, 1995, his children conducted a memorial service for
their lost father, according to the Detroit News. More than 2,000 people attended.
Elected in July 1991, he was the first
Russian leader chosen by the people
after a thousand years of autocratic or communist rule.
a. Mikhail Gorbachev
b. Alexander Solzhenitsyn
c. Boris Yeltsin
d. Yuri Andropov