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The Hollywood sign officially turns 100!Original lights are lit up to celebrate the occasion at an iconic Los Angeles landmark
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December 9, 2023
The iconic Hollywood sign in Los Angeles is 100 years old today and will be lit up with its original lights to commemorate the occasion. The sign, which read 'Hollywoodland,' was first illuminated in 1923 to advertise an upscale residential real estate development in the Hollywood hills, and the word 'Hollywood' was shortened to 'Hollywood' in the 1940s. The sign will be illuminated once more tonight with some of the original lights from 1923, and two smaller replicas will recreate how it once appeared in the night as 'Hollywoodland,' KTLA reported. The Hollywood Sign Trust, a non-profit group, helped the landmark keep its paint fresh for the big day. Up to 400 gallons of white paint were used on the birthday makeover.
As the battleship goes up in flames, the last survivor of Pearl Harbor's USS Arizona recalls the 'awful devastation' of a Japanese assault that killed 1,177 of his shipmates
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December 7, 2023
On December 7, 1941, Louis A. Conter, now 102, was just 20 years old when Japan's warplanes touched the skies over the US naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii. 'Aloha.' You've got one thing you've got to remember, and that's to remember Pearl Harbor,' he said on Thursday in a taped message used to commemorate the 'Day of Infamy's' anniversary.' In a nationwide tragedy, more than 2,400 people were killed.