The Ramblin' Wreck is the official mascot of the student body at the Georgia Institute of Technology. The Ramblin' Wreck is a 1930 Ford Model A Sports coupe and it embodies the spirit, tradition, and passion of the Tech student body. The Wreck is present at all major sporting events and student body functions. Its most noticeable role is leading the football team onto Bobby Dodd Stadium at Historic Grant Field, a duty which the Wreck has performed since 1961. The Ramblin' Wreck is mechanically and financially maintained on campus by students in the Ramblin' Reck Club. The first mechanical Wreck was a 1914 Ford Model T owned by Dean Floyd Field. Until the current Wreck was donated to the school in 1961, most of the early Ramblin' Wrecks were owned by students, faculty or alumni. The modern Wreck has donned a number of different paint jobs and has had several restorations and modifications made to it. These changes were done by various individuals and organizations over the years, including Bobby Dodd and a Georgia Tech alum at the Ford plant in Hapeville, Georgia. The upkeep of the Wreck has been the sole responsibility of the Ramblin' Reck Club and the Wreck driver since 1987. The Ramblin' Wreck has been the target of a number of pranks perpetrated by rival schools; the University of Tennessee once provided the Wreck with an unsolicited new paint job, and the University of Georgia has kidnapped the Wreck on at least two occasions.
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1252:
Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull ad exstirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ad_exstirpanda
1602:
English explorer Bartholomew Gosnold became the first known European to discover Cape Cod. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Gosnold
1836:
English astronomer Francis Baily first observed "Baily's beads", a phenomenon during a solar eclipse in which the rugged lunar limb topography allows beads of sunlight to shine through . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Baily
1928:
Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their film debut in the animated cartoon Plane Crazy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Mouse
1932:
Japanese Prime Minister Inukai Tsuyoshi was assassinated in an attempted coup d'état by radical elements of the Imperial Japanese Navy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/May_15_incident
1955:
The Austrian State Treaty was signed in Vienna, re-establishing an independent Austria. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_State_Treaty
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