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News

• Today, on 1920 men are off at war, leading to not having enough men to build families. Moreover, Middle aged women and teens would be left to just themselves. With men off at war, and the Spanish Flu just ending it makes them think that they don’t have to have a "boring typical life.’’, they say that life is short and we should be enjoying it. These women are starting to be known as "Flappers". The literal definition behind this word is, birds flapping their wings. But in Northern England they refer to it as a women who bobbs their hair, wears short skirts or dramatic dresses, listens to Jazz, smokes and drinks specially during prohibition,, rides in an automobile,, bound their chests, and wear high heels. They engage to city life, and are the ones to experiment with sex. Many of them celebrate the age of the flappers as the female Declaration of Independence. They choose activities that please them instead of the typical women that pleases their husband or children. Now off to you, Nancy….

Sports

• On this day in 1920 New York Yankees major league baseball club announces its purchase of the heavy-hitting outfielder George Herman, also known as “Babe” Ruth. Ruth played 6 seasons with the Red Sox, leading them to 3 world series. On the mound Ruth set a new league record that is said to stand for many years. Having broken the major league home run record with 29 and led the American League with 114 runs-batted-in and In addition to playing more than 100 games in left field, he also went 9-5 as a pitcher. After the sale, the Yankees took over Ruth’s contract, which called for a salary of $10,000 per year. Aware of his value, Ruth had demanded a salary raise, and New York agreed to negotiate a new contract with terms that would satisfy their new slugger. With his amazing hitting, pitching and fielding skills, Ruth had surpassed the great Ty Cobb as baseball’s biggest attraction.

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V2

In the early 1930s, the German military began seeking out new weapons, which would not violate the terms of the Treaty of Versailles. Assigned to aid in this cause, Captain Walter Dornberger, an artilleryman by trade, was ordered to investigate the feasibility of rockets. Contacting the Verein fur Raumschiffarht (German Rocket Society), he soon came in contact with a young engineer named Wernher von Braun. Impressed with the VfR's work, Dornberger recruited von Braun to aid in developing liquid-fueled rockets for the military in August 1932. He created the A-4, later called the V-2, was a single-stage rocket fueled by alcohol and liquid oxygen. It stood 46.1 feet high and had a thrust of 56,000 pounds. The A-4 had a payload capacity of 2,200 pounds and could reach a velocity of 3,500 miles per hour.  On October 3, 1942 the A-4 was first launched from Peenemunde. Breaking the sound barrier, it reached an altitude of sixty miles. It was the world's first launch of a ballistic missile and the first rocket ever to go into the fringes of space. In 1943 Hitler decided to use the A-4 as a "vengeance weapon," and the group found themselves developing the A-4 to rain explosives on London. Fourteen months after Hitler ordered it into production, the first combat A-4, now called the V-2, was launched toward western Europe on September 7, 1944. Highly interested in the weapon, both American and Soviet forces scrambled to capture existing V-2 rockets and parts at the end of the war. In the conflict's final days, von Braun and Dornberger surrendered to American troops and assisted in further testing the missile before coming to the United States. While American V-2s were tested at the White Sands Proving Ground, Soviet V-2s were taken to Kapustin Yar. Working to develop more advanced rockets, von Braun's team at White Sands used variants of the V-2 up until 1952. The world's first successful large, liquid-fueled rocket, the V-2 broke new ground and was the basis for the rockets later used in the American and Soviet space programs. 

Sources:
- http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blrocketv2.htm
- http://militaryhistory.about.com/od/artillerysiegeweapons/p/v2rocket.htm