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Chicago Tribune
4 days ago
- General
- Chicago Tribune
Today in History: First Little League Baseball game played
Today is Friday, June 6, the 157th day of 2025. There are 208 days left in the year. Today in history: On June 6, 1939, the first Little League Baseball game was played as Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy 23-8 in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Also on this date: In 1844, the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) was founded in London. In 1889, an industrial accident sparked a devastating fire in Seattle, Washington, destroying 120 acres of the city center, including the majority of the city's commercial district and waterfront. In 1912, Novarupta, a volcano on the Alaska peninsula, began a three-day eruption, sending ash nearly 19 miles high; it was the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century and the largest ever recorded in North America. In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, New Jersey. In 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day as they launched Operation Overlord to liberate German-occupied Western Europe. More than 4,400 Allied troops were killed on D-Day, including 2,501 Americans. In 1966, civil rights activist James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper on the second day of Meredith's march from Memphis, Tennessee, to Jackson, Mississippi, which he began to raise awareness of ongoing racial oppression in the South. (Meredith would recover from his injuries and was able to rejoin the march, which had grown from a small group of supporters to 15,000 marchers, the day before the group arrived in Jackson.) In 2015, American Pharoah became the first horse in 37 years to claim horse racing's Triple Crown, winning the Belmont Stakes by 5 ½ lengths. Today's Birthdays: Singer-songwriter Gary U.S. Bonds is 86. Civil rights activist Marian Wright Edelman is 86. Country musician Joe Stampley is 82. Olympic track & field gold medalist Tommie Smith is 81. Actor Robert Englund is 78. Folk singer Holly Near is 76. Sen. Sandra Bernhard is 70. Tennis Hall of Famer Bjorn Borg is 69. Comedian Colin Quinn is 66. Music producer Jimmy Jam is 66. Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda is 63. Actor Jason Isaacs is 62. Actor Paul Giamatti is 58. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth is 45. Actor Aubrey Anderson-Emmons (TV: 'Modern Family') is 18.
Boston Globe
4 days ago
- Entertainment
- Boston Globe
Today in History: June 6, Allies land in Normandy on D-Day
In 1889, an industrial accident sparked a devastating fire in Seattle, Wash., destroying 120 acres of the city center, including the majority of the city's commercial district and waterfront. In 1912, Novarupta, a volcano on the Alaska peninsula, began a three-day eruption, sending ash nearly 19 miles high; it was the most powerful volcanic eruption of the 20th century and the largest ever recorded in North America. Advertisement In 1933, the first drive-in movie theater opened, in Camden, N.J. In 1939, the first Little League Baseball game was played as Lundy Lumber defeated Lycoming Dairy 23-8 in Williamsport, Pa. In 1944, during World War II, nearly 160,000 Allied troops landed in Normandy, France, on D-Day as they launched Operation Overlord to liberate German-occupied Western Europe. More than 4,400 Allied troops were killed on D-Day, including 2,501 Americans. In 1966, civil rights activist James Meredith was shot and wounded by a sniper on the second day of Meredith's march from Memphis, Tenn., to Jackson, Miss., which he began to raise awareness of ongoing racial oppression in the South. (Meredith would recover from his injuries and was able to rejoin the march, which had grown from a small group of supporters to 15,000 marchers, the day before the group arrived in Jackson.) Advertisement In 2015, American Pharoah became the first horse in 37 years to claim horse racing's Triple Crown, winning the Belmont Stakes by 5 ½ lengths.
Yahoo
04-03-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Meet the Jackson Mayoral Candidates: Delano Funches
JACKSON, Miss. (WJTV) – Mississippi's Municipal Primary Election Day will be held on April 1, 2025. Delano Funches (D) is running to be the next mayor of Jackson. Here's his message to voters: I'm Attorney Delano Funches, and I'm running for mayor of the City of Jackson. I'm a lifelong resident of the City of Jackson, having graduated from the Jackson Public Schools' Jim Hill High School. From there, I went to Jackson State University, and from there to Southern University. Upon leaving Southern University, I came back to Jackson, and I started working at Jackson State University as an adjunct professor, teaching business law and intro to the legal aspects of business. I've been practicing law in the city for over 30 years. Ten years ago, I was complaining, Mr. James Meredith looked me in the face and said I was a problem with Jackson because I wasn't doing anything. Then I, along with Dr. Hilliard Lackey and others began working with our youth in an attempt to reduce crime and change their minds. And after 10 years of continuous efforts, it's been working. I've rehabbed over eight properties in this city in an attempt to clean this city up and make it attractive to industry. We all know the problem that we have with potholes. The problem is the water lines under the streets have been compromised. I promise to work with our state, local and federal officials to get this done. This election is about trust. You can trust a person who is already working on something as opposed to those whose plans haven't made it to their hands. I'm asking you to give me your support, and vote for Delano Funches for mayor. Remember your Jackson is my Jackson, and my Jackson is yours. Delano Funches, (D) Jackson Mayoral Candidate Close Thanks for signing up! Watch for us in your inbox. Subscribe Now Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
30-01-2025
- Automotive
- Yahoo
Poop-Powered Racer Could Clean Up Motorsport
The world needs to clean up how it gets around in a big way if we want any hope of leaving a planet for our kids to inherit. This sadly means that motorsport is in the cross hairs of environmentalists looking for activities that should be scrapped in order to cut emissions and reduce our reliance on fossil fuels. Help may be on the horizon for race fans, as a team of researchers in the UK has created a clean new racer that runs on a byproduct from the sewage industry. From the outside, the Warwick Manufacturing Group's LMP3 racer looks like any other LMP3 racer that you might see at events like the European Le Mans Series. Under the hood, however, the concept racer is a very different beast. That's because this endurance racer runs on waste from the sewage industry, reports BBC Sport. To do this, the car isn't packed full of raw sewage and sent out on track, instead it's been converted to run on hydrogen and uses gas created as a byproduct of sewage treatment to power it on track To do this, a team that includes students from the University of Warwick in the UK investigated the way sewage breaks down in water treatment plants around the world. During this process, hydrogen gas is released by microbes that break down organic compounds in the waste, which WMG then collects, condenses and fills the tanks on its race car with, as the BBC explains: They believe the car could be out in the mainstream in as little as five years, though they acknowledge there are still significant hurdles to overcome. 'There's been a real push for electric vehicles and it's fairly clear that there has to be other sort of energy in the mix as well, so hydrogen has a part to play,' Dr James Meredith, chief engineer at WMG, told BBC Sport. 'It comes from a long period of research. A microbial electrolysis cell is essentially a device used to clean water and microbes grow on recycled carbon fiber, eating the sewage. During that process, they produce hydrogen as a by-product.' The hydrogen won't be fed into a fuel cell that creates electricity to power a motor, as you find in something like a Toyota Mirai. Instead, a supercharged V6 engine from Revolution Cars has been converted to burn the hydrogen and run like a normal internal-combustion engine. This means that race fans will still be treated to the roar of a motor rather than the hum of an EV. What's more, the LMP3 racer uses a slew of other eco-minded parts in its construction, such as recycled carbon fiber, plant-based composites and reclaimed car batteries, reports Autosport: 'The carbon fiber, that would normally end up being in landfill, the natural fibers, then end up being composted, or animal feed or something like that. So doing something like this is so much greater for those materials and showing off what you can do with it,' added [professor Kerry Kirwan, chair of sustainable materials and manufacturing at WMG]. 'The batteries are recovered from wrecks, the whole thing is made of stuff that would have ended up going down different routes that would have been nowhere near as good as this, and that was the idea, just show potential.' The team is hoping to prove the concept's worth with a run at a handful of land speed records, including fastest standing and flying starts over a mile and a kilometer. If it works out, the project will follow the launch of Extreme H in bringing hydrogen power to the world of motorsport after electric off-road series Extreme E rebranded ahead of the new season. For the latest news, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
BBC News
28-01-2025
- Automotive
- BBC News
Could sewage-powered car be motorsport's sustainability solution?
As motorsport attempts to reduce carbon emissions and become more environmentally sustainable, a group of engineers may have come up with a novel solution - and it's found in human have developed a prototype race car made from sustainable materials, that is powered by... rather, sewage treatment technology which involves microbes feeding on waste producing hydrogen as a by-product - and it is this hydrogen which produces fuel for the Warwick Manufacturing Group (WMG), which includes students at the University of Warwick, is behind the prototype, working with sewage treatment technology being trialled at Severn Trent believe the car could be out in the mainstream in as little as five years, though they acknowledge there are still significant hurdles to overcome."There's been a real push for electric vehicles and it's fairly clear that there has to be other sort of energy in the mix as well, so hydrogen has a part to play," Dr James Meredith, chief engineer at WMG, told BBC Sport."It comes from a long period of research. A microbial electrolysis cell is essentially a device used to clean water and microbes grow on recycled carbon fibre, eating the sewage. During that process, they produce hydrogen as a by-product."WMG will use the car to try to break several land speed records, including fastest standing and flying starts over a mile and a Meredith hopes the hydrogen technology will produce the same amount of power as petrol. But the challenge, particularly when developing a car suitable for racing, is reducing the size of the storage tanks."Hydrogen is a good fuel. It's clean burning," he said. "We're starting to scale up the process and seeing just what we can do on an industrial scale. So, then in terms of actually running the car on hydrogen in a race, the biggest challenge with hydrogen is the shape of the storage tanks and how much volume it takes up." Formula 1 has made steps to make the sport more sustainable in recent years, after announcing in 2019 that it hopes to become carbon neutral by includes more efficient engines and tweaks to the calendar to reduce the distance freight travels by 2026 new regulations will be introduced, which include smaller, nimbler cars and 100% sustainable April, the electric car racing series Extreme E will switch from electric to hydrogen-powered cars, renaming itself Extreme manufacturer BMW has announced plans to put a hydrogen car for domestic use on sale from 2028.
