Dorothy goes over the rainbow for a pot of gold...
Michele Kwan's departure from the Turin(o) Winter Olympics over the weekend is the biggest story so far since the games began on Friday. Emily Hughes gets a chance now to stun the figure skating world by pulling a major upset. Now, let's turn back the clock 30 years to the Winter Olympics on this date in Innsbruck and see what happened in women's figure skating...
There were no surprises on this date in 1976 when Dorothy Hamill won a gold medal by wowing the judges with her signature spin called the "Hamill Camel". All Dorothy did was capture the hearts of America with her youthful innocence, good looks, flawless style and oh yes, the hairstyle that Life magazine referred to as the "wedge", "one of the most important fashion statements of the last 50 years"...
Dorothy Hamill has had a great run since winning the Olympics, continues to make appearances and is currently one of the judges on Fox's "Skating With Celebrities" but she'll never have a bigger day than she did on February 13, 1976...
More February 13 Memories...
1566) St. Augustine, Florida is founded (it's the oldest city in the U.S.)
1635) Boston Public Latin opens as the 1st public school in the U.S...
1914) ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) is formed in New York City (it was founded to protect the copyrighted musical compositions of its members)...
1935) A Flemington, NJ jury finds Bruno Richard Hauptmann quilty of kidnapping and killing the infant son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh (Hauptmann was later executed for the crimes)...
1937) The Prince Valiant comic strip appears for the 1st time...
1937) The NFL's Boston Redskins move to Washington, D.C...
1954) 8 years before Wilt Chamberlain scores 100 points in an NBA game, Frank Selvy of Furman University scores 100 against Newberry College (both schools in South Carolina) in a 149-95 victory...
1967) "Penny Lane"/"Strawberry Fields Forever" by the Beatles is released...
1971) VP Spiro Agnew hits 3 spectators with his 1st 2 shots in the Bob Hope Desert Classic (1 woman is hospitalized)...
1976) Dorothy Hamill of Riverside, CT wins a gold medal in Innsbruck (feature story)...
1983) Marvin Gaye sings the national anthem at the NBA All-Star game...
1997) Discovery astronauts bring the Hubble Space Telescope aboard their space shuttle, repair it and send it back into space...
2001) A 6.6 magnitude earthquake kills at least 400 in El Salvador one month to the day another quake killed more than 800...
2002) Country singing legend Waylon Jennings dies at 64...
To ensure accuracy, multiple reference sources were used in the timeline...
Happy Birthday To...
1923) Test pilot Chuck Yeager...
1933) Kim Novak...
1934) George Segal...
1942) Carol Lynley...
1942) The Monkees' Peter Tork...
1944) Stockard Channing...
1944) Jerry Springer...
1947) Duke's basketball "Coach K" Mike Krzyzewski...
1950) Peter Gabriel...
Today is the 44th day of 2006 with 321 days remaining in the year, 35 days until Spring (as we were reminded during the 26.9" record breaking snowfall) and just 3 days until pitchers and catchers...
