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The Daily Shirt dedicates today's edition to movement of all kinds. On this date in 1925 Arthur Heinman coins the term motel (motor hotel) and opens the first — the Motel Inn, in San Luis Obispo, California. More transportation news, out of the Going from Point A to Point B (in this case to Point #26) Department, today in 1988 the New York City subway system adds a new network of stations, the Z line. We also mark the 1913 birthdate of African-American track star Jesse Owens, who spoils Mr. Hitler's "Aryan"-centric 1936 Berlin Olympics by winning four gold medals. In other sport velocity news on this day in 1949 baseball's American League owners reject a rule that would have legalized the "spitball" pitch. Finally, in movement of a different, more invisible sort, today in 1901 Guglielmo Marconi receives the first transatlantic radio signal — Cornwall, England to Newfoundland, Canada. The distance between the two points is about 3,500 kilometers (2,100 miles). The transmission consists of the three dots of the Morse code letter S sent repeatedly.

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