Quarterman Dates

["John S. Quarterman" <jsq@quarterman.com>]

   [1]Tomorrow:
   May 11

   1774: Louis XVI, King of France

   1858: MN,

   1935: REA,
   [2]President  Roosevelt signed Executive Order 7037 creating the Rural
   Electrification  Administration,  an  action  prompted  by Roosevelt's
   frequent visits to the Little White House at Warm Springs, Georgia. On
   his  drives  through  the  countryside,  Roosevelt  saw  life in rural
   Georgia  without  electricity.  Of  course,  he had electricity at his
   residence -- but his electric power rate was almost four times what he
   paid  back at Hyde Park, New York. As a result, Roosevelt later noted,
   "So it can be said that a little cottage at Warm Springs, Georgia, was
   the birthplace of the Rural Electrification Administration."

References

   1. http://www.quarterman.org/q/timeline.html
   2. http://www.cviog.uga.edu/Projects/gainfo/tdgh-may/may11.htm
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