The Final Cigarette Ad: When 13 Things Happened For The Last Time

people come and go leaving behind them a legacy of Firsts lasts and every milestone in between the very Innovations we swear are topof the- line will be obsolete in fewer years than we think going from a regular occurrence to a distant memory in a weird history video but the last time someone rented a video from Blockbuster doesn't have to be Bittersweet narrowing down the last event can be helpful in understanding why and how a historical phenomenon came to an end so today we're running out the clock on some surprising historical final events but before we reach the end why don't you reach for that subscribe button then let us know in the comments what other historical Hallmarks you want to know about okay last one ends a rotten [Music] egg in 1936 when she was just 17 years old Helen Viola Jackson married Civil War veteran James Bolan and with the war of the Rebellion ending some seven decades before it made for quite the ageg Gap discourse Jackson met the 93-year-old Bolan smack dab in the middle of the Great Depression when times were tough for everyone but especially a 17-year-old struggling to survive so the two wed more out of respect and convenience rather than traditional romantic love and Bolan promised Jackson she could have his pension after he passed away not one to look like an opportunist Jackson never remarried nor applied to collect bolan's pension when he died in 1939 and then in December 2020 Jackson the last Widow of a Civil War veteran passed away at the age of 101 in the 18th century if royalty got a bit too comfortable it was customary to wheel out the old Guillotine and relieve them of their crowns it's easy for us to Picture This method of execution during medieval times it's less easy to picture the blade of a guillotine meeting a criminal's neck at a high speed the very same year Star Wars premiered in theaters but that's EX actly what happened to Tunisian immigrant Hamida janubi who was convicted of murder and executed by guillotine in Marseilles France in 1977 the national razor has been Gathering dust ever since while animal species get all the Press when it comes to being endangered many languages have also drifted out of existence one such cultic language Ms was spoken in remote British areas until 1974 and Edward Ned madrell an Isis of man resident is listed as the final Ms speaker madrell born in 1877 learned Ms as a boy spent most of his life as a fisherman and passed away late in 1974 he did make recordings of himself speaking Ms before his death and many have attempted to revitalize the language on the aisle of man using these recordings Ms a lot Ned Western Union stop got into telegram Game Stop way back in 1851 stop they uh stopped after 155 years of faithful service in 2006 but while that was the last major carrier of telegram service the conclusion of the telegram itself happened on July 14th 2013 in India the government run Barett SAR Nigam limited telegram service shut down due to the rise of SMS and smartphones making a telegram redundant today the only time you get to repeatedly text stop is when you're opting out of mobile notifications from a bill collector the Tower of London started out as a royal residence and was never intended to be a prison but anywhere can be a prison if you're steadfast enough and eventually the tower would house famous prisoners such as Elizabeth tutor and Guy Fox a pair of brothers hold the distinction of being the last prisoners held in the tower in 1952 Ronnie and Reggie cray which sound like a pair of henchmen from a Disney film were members of an organized crime outfit in London's East End but the criminal past had nothing to do with their stint in the tower they just failed to report for military duty while the cray CRS were in and out of jail for the rest of their lives the tower retired from prison Services thereafter becoming a repository of documents and Royal artifacts clerical celibacy goes back to at least the fifth century however marriage didn't become forbidden fruit until the 12th century the pope was bound by these same rules though most candidates were either widowers or had renounced their their married lives once they started sitting in the big chair Pope Adrien II also called hadrien II refused to give up his wife and daughter when he became Pope in 867 ad he was already 75 years old when elected and didn't actually want the role having turned it down twice before as a grim reminder of the importance of these rules Adrien II's family was kidnapped and killed by Alf Theos the relative of a rival Bishop huh maybe this guy shouldn't have been the pope Adrien II himself would pass away in 872 and with his death would rise the age of the bachelor [Music] Pope Ellis Island opened its ports as an immigration station in 1892 the very first immigrant anymore passed through Ellis Island at just 15 years old and for decades after millions of immigrants would pass through hoping for a new life and a Starbucks on every street corner but US immigration policy changes in the 1920s would see less and less usage of the island and in a massive 180 Ellis became a detention and deportation center before becoming a hospital and at times a training center for the Coast Guard in November 1954 a Norwegian man named ARA peten became the final immigrant to leave Ellis Island after outstaying his Shore leave he was sent back to Norway upon release and the island now mainly functions as a [Music] museum despite its adorable name there was nothing small about small PX the disease spanned three centuries and ended the lives of millions of people eventually through variolation which basically means giving individuals minute amounts of small pox As a treat a vaccine was developed during the late 18th century and by the early 20th century vaccination had so sufficiently laid the smackdown on small pox that talk of eliminating the disease entirely began to seem like a reality the last time smallpox reared its ugly rashy head was in 1977 in Somalia with the last noted fat in 1978 Janet Parker was a medical photographer in a building where a small pox lab was held and she unfortunately caught the last nasty case of it 2 years later in 1980 the CDC announced that small pox was totally wiped out making it the only human disease to be completely eradicated since their invention in the 1970s VHS tapes dominated the Home Video Market just so long as you were kind and remembered to rewind however the end of the 1990s saw the rise of a shiny new competitor the DVD by 2001 DVD sales were fast forwarding past VHS at Breakneck speed outnumbering them completely in 2003 by 2005 VHS sales were essentially non-existent the same year though unrelated vgo mortensson starred in the David Cronenberg Neo Noir film a history of violence and one year later the film was released on DVD as well as VHS this VHS would Mark the the last time a major Hollywood movie would be made available on tape a history of violence and home media technology what can't vgod [Music] do by the 1960s everyone had pretty much figured out that cigarettes were the healthiest things you could be sucking into your lungs medical professionals presented more and more evidence that smoking was causing serious health problems and made calls to lower smoking rates in the US the Federal Trade Commission got involved and in 1964 forced advertisers to start warning consumers of the dangers of smoking then in 1970 Congress passed the cigarette labeling and advertising act mandating that all cigarette companies must include warnings on their packaging and as an added Twist of the tobacco knife it gave a date of January 2nd 1971 as the last time television or radio ads were allowed to advertise cigarettes cigarette ads took their final exhale on January 1st 1971 with Virginia Slims getting the final piece of paganda on the airw [Music] waves the last known slave ship arrived in the United States in 1860 about 50 years after Congress had banned the importation of slaves the ship named the clotilda transferred roughly 110 enslaved Africans to Alabama Matilda mccre a member of the Yura people was on the clotilda at just 2 years old initially accompanied by her mother and three sisters mccre was able to stay with her mother Grace and one of her sisters Sally but she never saw her other two siblings again mccre who passed away in 1940 was the last survivor from that transatlantic Journey the Alcatraz Island became a federal penitentiary in 1934 and for the next 29 years became one of the most notorious prisons in the world home to only the worst of the worst criminals the US had to offer Alcatraz housed Infamous gangster El Capone bird keeper Robert Stroud and Machine Gun Kelly the gangster not the rapper by the end of the 1950s an island Fortress housing the world's super villains was just too expensive to operate and maintain the government closed in and removed the final inmates in 1963 the last criminal relocated was convicted robber Frank weatherman he boarded a boat with the last of the guards and set upon his exit Alcatraz never was good for anybody to be clear when we discussed the last flight of the Concord not talking about the final episode of the HBO musical comedy show though that last episode aired March 22nd 2009 in case you were wondering we're talking about the superson Sonic passenger aircraft that could get you across the ocean in 3 hours but could it make the Castle Run in less than 12 Parx developed with cooperation between British and French Engineers the Concord was designed to fly at Mach 2 or 1,350 m per hour getting you from Europe to the United States in about 3 and 1/2 hours by all accounts it was pretty bit starting in 1976 Concords flew from London to New York and to airports such as Paris and Edinburgh the aircraft was prohibitively expensive causing only 20 to ever be built but passengers who could afford it were treated to the most luxurious service the sky had to offer while you're ripping through it at the speed of Miracles a July 2000 crash slowed down the Concord but the supersonic aircraft continued to be in service until October 2003 just in time for everyone to realize how impractical they were hey audacity is rarely practical that's what makes it Bodacious so what do you think which of these historic curtain calls surprised you the most let us know in the comments below and while you're at it check out some of these other videos from our weird history

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Length: 11min 13sec (673 seconds)

Published: Fri Mar 15 2024