7 Odd Ticker-Tape Parades That Happened Before The USWNT
By Ty Duffy
Ticker-tape parades haven’t really been a thing since the 1960s. Mostly, they have been for visiting dignitaries and politicians, war heroes and astronauts. This was the first parade that wasn’t for a NYC-based championship team since 1998. For some context, here are seven of the odder parades from years past.
June 18, 1910: Former president Theodore Roosevelt returned home from his African safari. He was not one to take an issue with a fuss being made over him.
September 10, 1926: Amelia Gade Corson received a ticker-tape parade for becoming the second woman to swim across the English channel. This came a mere two weeks after the parade for Gertrude Ederele, the first woman to do so. Gade Corson was the first mother to do so, though.
August 5, 1938: Douglas “Wrong Way” Corrigan. He turned, you guessed it, the wrong way flying to California from Brooklyn and ended up in Ireland.
April 26, 1954: Lieutenant Geneviève de Galard-Terraube, a nurse during the French Wars in Indochina known as “The Angel of Dien Bien Phu,” was feted with ticker-tape.
August 11, 1955: The Order of the Knights of Pythias, a fraternal organization. Not a gambler or alcohol purveyor among them.
April 12, 1962: The New York Mets received a ticker-tape parade, for coming into existence. Yay Mets!
October 17, 1998: Sammy Sosa. This capped a three-day Sammy Sosa love fest for his 66 home runs and his hurricane relief efforts.
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