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Day in history for August 16, 2000

1875 -- 125 years ago: A total of 350 marble gravestones will be placed in the National Cemetery at Rock Island Arsenal.
1900 -- 100 years ago: Charles Fiebig of Rock Island and James Stewart of Taylor Ridge are building a gasoline launch on the Mississippi River below Andalusia.
1925 -- 75 years ago: Rock Island steeple jacks risked their lives in repairing the steeple on First Baptist Church, which was damaged by lightning.
1950 -- 50 years ago: A wage increase proposal by International Harvester Company was turned down today by unions representing workers at the Farmall and East Moline Works, and negotiations in Chicago went into the second round. The union statement from Chicago said that the company had offered a 7-cent-per-hour general wage increase plus equity adjustments for day work employes.
1975 -- 25 years ago: Six area men were awarded the China War Memorial Medal at the recent 30th annual reunion of the China-Burma-India Hump Pilots Association in Miami Beach. The order for the medal was lost at the end of World War II and only recently found. Cited were Bernard Young, Rock Island; Thurman Lanham, Cambridge; J.S. Kemmel Jr., and Gordon Fowler, both of Davenport; Harold Penrose, Maquoketa; William Voss, Bettendorf.

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Today is Tuesday, May 21, the 141st day of 2013. There are 224 days left in the year.
1863 -- 150 years ago: On Monday the 11th inst. on Center Ridge in Mercer County,some citizens got out their cannon to celebrate the taking of Richmond. The gun wasoverloaded and burst. No one was injured, but one 30-pound piece went though thesecond story of a house.
1888 -- 125 years ago: The old folks concert at the Harper Theater last night to benefit St.Luke's Cottage Hospital, attracted a large audience.
1913 -- 100 years ago: Unless depredation by vandals in Rock Island parks is halted,special policemen will be assigned to night duty to protect the flowers and other property.
1938 -- 75 years ago: Station WHBF has received a special citation from Washington forits participation in Air Mail Week, which was observed this week throughout the nation.
1963 -- 50 years ago: A 10-year high in employment in the Quad-City area was reachedat the end of the last quarter, according to an industrial employment barometer releasedtoday.
1988 -- 25 years ago: Pee Wee teams will be able to play baseball and softball as usualon Diamond Three at Dorrance Park this summer, but after that, the ball field is doomed.County crews have put the diamond back in shape after heavy trucks marred the playingfield earlier this spring. Illinois Department of Transportation crews drove onto it to makeborings for the relocation of the junction of Illinois 84 and the Port Byron-Hillsdale road.

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