A postcard bearing an image that was printed in England from a colour photograph. The card was posted in Walton-on-the-Naze using a 3d. stamp on Friday the 19th. August 1966. It was sent to:
O. J. Robinson Esq., 'Ingleholme', 3, Bishopswood Road, Highgate, London N6.
The message on the divided back of the card, which was written in a childish hand, was as follows:
"19. 8. 1966. I hope you are quite well. We are having a lovely time with glorious weather. We have had lots of boating, bathing and cricket. With best wishes from Roger."
A Disastrous Earthquake in Turkey
So what else happened on the day that the card was posted?
Well, on the 19th. August 1966, an earthquake centered on Varto, Turkey, along with subsequent aftershocks, killed 2,394 people and injured more than 10,000.
The 6.7 magnitude tremor struck at 3:22 p.m. local time, and lasted for about 20 seconds.
The quakes destroyed eight villages in the Muş Province in eastern Turkey (including Varto) and 29 villages in the Erzurum Province.
They also caused heavy damage in the cities of Muş and Erzurum.
Ten days afterward, a reporter noted that none of the houses in the 785-person village of Sıra Söğütler remained standing, and that more than a fifth of the residents (160) had been killed.
The Time Machine
In fiction, the 19th. August 1966 is the date of a nuclear war in the 1960 film The Time Machine, an adaptation of the 1895 novel of the same name by H. G. Wells.
Remaining in London, the film's hero (played by Rod Taylor) departs from the 31st. December 1899, witnessing future wars as he stops at the 13th. September 1917, then the 19th. June 1940, until getting buried in lava in 1966.
Trapped, he has to move forward 800 millennia to the 12th. October in the year 802,701 before the stone has eroded.
The End of a Major Airline Strike
Also on the 19th. August 1966, the strike by 35,300 members of the International Association of Machinists against five major U.S. airlines (United, Northwest, TWA, Eastern and National), came to an end after more than six weeks.
IAM members had voted 17,727 to 8,235 to approve a new contract. Members began returning to work that evening, and the airline operations, which accounted for two-thirds of all flights, resumed the following day.
Lee Ann Womack
The day also marked the birth in Jacksonville, Texas of Lee Ann Womack.
Lee is an American country music singer, known for "I Hope You Dance." She is the winner of six Country Music Association Awards and one Grammy Award.
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