Today is Sunday, June 22, the 174th day of 2008. There are 192 days remaining in the year.
1908: The “cameraphone” was first exhibited in Denver at the Tabor Grande theater. The apparatus combined the moving picture effect with a phonograph with the speed of the moving picture machine, and the phonograph fixed at precisely the same degree creating a “perfect illusion” of sound and motion pictures.
1958: Colorado’s Capitol was the scene of a “human fly act” when the House of Representatives chief clerk inadvertently was locked out of the House bill room by the assistant chief clerk, who had taken the key home. Robert Eberhardt climbed out a second-story window of the statehouse and inched carefully along the 18-inch-wide ledge to the window of the bill room. He was 30 feet off the ground and commented, “The wind almost blew me off.”
Stan Oliner, Colorado Historical Society
