On this day in the year 1913 of the common era (CE) Josef Dzhugashvili, after using other pseudonyms over the years, signs his name as Josef Stalin for the first in a letter to the newspaper Social Democrat, given himself the nom de plume – The Man of Steel.
In the year 1957 CE the Southern Christian Leadership Council (SCLC) is founded with Martin Luther King Jr. as its leader and headquartered at Ebenezer Church in Atlanta, Georgia; fourteen years later the Congressional Black Caucus is organized. Twenty-four years after that James Orenthal Simpson goes on trial for the murder of his ex-wife, Nicole Brown and their friend Ronald Goldman in Los Angeles, California.
On this day in the year 1939 CE, Timely Comics (too becomes Marvel Comics) is founded by American publisher Martin Goodman in New York, New York; twenty-seven years later Batman, starring Adam West debuts on ABC
In the year 1967 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with the intent of future resuscitation; his remains are stored at the Alcor Life Extension Foundation in Scottsdale, Arizona. Since 1967 approximately two-hundred and fifty people have been frozen by Alcor, at a cost that ranges up to $220,000 dollars for whole body freezing (80,000 for just the head); no one has been successfully revived. Thirty-one years later, nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning, another popular scheme to preserve and prolong human life but with far more potentially helpful medical technologies being adapted from it; banned by nineteen countries in 1998, research into human cloning continues unabated.
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