Today in History: Corvettes!

A 1953 Corvette

On June 28th, 1953, the first Corvette was assembled at a Chevrolet factory in Flint Michigan. The completed car came off the production line just two days later, being the first of the 300 made in 1953. Today, the Corvette is known as an American icon. After six Corvette generations and over 60 years, Chevrolet introduced that the Corvette C7 (seventh generation) will be released in 2014. 

Yucca Lanes Bowling Center was heavily damaged
by the quake

On this day in 1972, addressing the Vietnam War, United States President Richard Nixon announces that he will pull 10,000 troops from Vietnam, leaving 39,000 in the country. Nixon also announced that draftees would not be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer to do so. 

In 1992, nearly three years after the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Northern California, two of the strongest California earthquakes ever struck a desert area near Los Angeles. One 7.3 magnitue quake shook Landers, California, in the early Sunday morning, just before 5 am. Damage was relatively minor, as the population in Landers was sparse, but the shock could be felt as far as Boise, Idaho. 

Shortly later that day near Big Bear, California, a 6.3 magnitude quake struck. The quake, costing $92 million in damage, inured 400 people and killed 3. This quake also resulted in the largest landslide in California since the large 1906 San Francisco earthquake.