27 Aug 1942: USS Iowa (BB 61) launched at New York Navy Yard

USS Iowa (BB-61). Fires a full broadside of nine 16"/50 and six 5"/38 guns during a target exercise near Vieques Island, Puerto Rico, 1 July 1984. Photographed by PHAN J. Alan Elliott. Note concussion effects on the water surface, and 16-inch gun barrels in varying degrees of recoil. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, from the the Department of Defense Still Media Collection, DN-ST-85-05379 (Color).

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World's Oldest Person, Besse Cooper, Turns 116

It's difficult enough to fit 16 candles on a birthday cake, but trying squeezing 116 on one.
But Besse Cooper, the world's oldest person according to the Guinness World Records, chose to use numbers instead of actual candles when she celebrated her 116 th birthday Sunday. Guinness claims Cooper is one of only eight people who have reached 116.

In honor of Cooper's achievement, a bridge was named after her in Monroe, Ga., where she lives by the Walton County Board of Commissioners, according to the Walton Tribune. A ribbon cutting ceremony was held Friday, Aug. 24 for the bridge opening.

"The older she has gotten the more wittier she has gotten," her son, Sidney Cooper, told the Walton Tribune. He also relayed a message from Cooper, who was unable to attend the ceremony, who said, "I'm glad I gave them a reason to name it."

Cooper was certified as the world's oldest person by Guinness World Records in January 2011, although she briefly had to give up her title when it was discovered that Brazilian-born Maria Gomes Valentin was 48 days older. But when Valentin died six months later, Cooper was reinstated as the world's oldest person.
Cooper was born in Sullivan, Tenn., in 1896, according to the Walton Tribune. She moved to Monroe during World War I to become a teacher. In 1924, she married her husband Luther and the couple had four children. Today, Cooper has 12 grandchildren and many great-grandchildren and great-great grandchildren, according to the Guinness World Records.

Cooper has a secret to achieving 116 years of life.
"I mind my own business," she told the Guinness World Records. "And I don't eat junk food."

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Jennifer Tran, Wears Dress Made Of Newspapers To Newseum

When 15-year-old Jennifer Tran recently visited the Newseum, she decided that she wasn't just going to look at the news -- she was going to make headlines herself. In a homemade fitted dress with a full skirt made entirely out of newspapers, the artistic teen made a big statement.


The Virginia teen originally created the recyclable dress in fall 2011 as a Halloween costume. Recently, she wore her eco-friendly creation to the Newseum, a museum of news and media in Washington, DC, and posed in front of the "Front Page Gallery."

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Nick Vallenda Walk Over Niagara Falls

The famous American tightrope walker Nick Vallenda went over Niagara Falls on the rope, stretched at a height of 50 meters. One end of the rope was secured to the United States, the other – in Canada. Kanatahodtsu had to overcome on the path of the raging waters of a length of 550 meters, that it took him almost half an hour.


The authorities of both countries were allowed to violate the ban, which exists to carry out these tricks over Niagara Falls for hereditary, who got six times in the Guinness Book of Records. Thus, Nick Vallenda became the first man in 128 years to cross the waterfall in so risky way.

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