Wednesday, July 16, 2008

10 Timeline Memories:

1. 1935] Time's up: The 1st parking meters are installed in Oklahoma City. Lovely Rita, meter maid, is hired...
2. 1945] A-Bomb era begins: The U.S. explodes its first experimental atomic bomb in the desert near Alamogordo, NM...
3. 1951] Debuted on this date: The J.D. Salinger novel "Catcher In The Rye" is published...
4. 1957] Record setting John Glenn: Marine Major John Glenn sets a transcontinental speed record, flying a jet from California to New York in 3 hours, 23 minutes and 8 seconds...
5. 1969] To the Moon Alice: Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy to begin its journey to the moon and the 1st landing made by man on that surface...
6. 1973] There goes the secret: Former White House aide Alexander P. Butterfield publicly reveals the existence of President Richard Nixon's secret taping system during the Senate Watergate hearings...
7. 1979] Are we having fun yet?: Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq after forcing Hasan al-Bakr to resign...
8. 1981] LIE tragedy: Harry Chapin is killed on the Long Island Expressway on his way to a benefit concert. Chapin was 38...
9. 1999] Vineyard tragedy: Another day ends in tragedy for the Kennedy's as John F. Kennedy Jr.'s plane crashes off the coast of Martha's Vineyard. Carolyn Bessette Kennedy, John's wife and Carolyn's sister Lauren Bessette was also aboard. All the bodies are found on July 21...
10. 2004] Not a good thing: Martha Stewart is sentenced to 5 months in prison for lying about a stock sale...

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