- 1951] In living color: The first network football game televised in color was the University of California vs. Penn on CBS-TV...
- 1953] Premiered on this date: "Make Room For Daddy" starring Danny Thomas runs for 18 seasons...1960] "My Three Sons" starring Fred MacMurray runs for 12 seasons...1963] "My Favorite Martian" starring Ray Walston has a short 3 season run but it should have lasted longer...1971] "McMillan And Wife" starring Rock Hudson and Susan Saint James has a 6-season run...1985] "MacGyver" starring Richard Dean Anderson debuts for a 7-year run...1986] "Designing Women" lasts 7 seasons...1987] "Thirtysomething" runs 4 years...
- 1954] Greatest catch: There have been better catches since but Willie Mays makes what's considered the greatest catch of all-time against Cleveland's Vic Wertz in game one of the World Series. The Giants not only win that game, they sweep the Indians in 4...
- 1957] Back to the Polo Grounds: The Giants play their last game in New York, losing to the Pirates 9-1 in front of 11,606 either crazy or diehard fans...
- 1974] The Beatle and The Professor: John Lennon sits in as a guest disc jockey on WNEW-FM. I believe this was on Scott Muni's show...
- 1976] It's time for a change: Tommy Lasorda replaces Walter Alston as Dodger manager. Alston was mgr. for 22 years, Lasorda rings up 20...
- 1978] 'Happy Trails': After serving barely over a month, Pope John Paul I is found dead of a heart attack. Some question whether or not the Pope was poisoned. The Pope was 66...
- 1982] Tainted Tylenol: Seven people die in Chicago after taking capsules of Extra-Strength Tylenol that had been laced with cyanide. 264,000 bottles are recalled...
- 1986] Mom always liked you better: For the first time in baseball history 2 brothers who are both rookies, pitch against each other in a game. Greg Maddux defeats brother Mike. Greg will waltz into the Hall of Fame 5 years after he retires while the closest Mike will get is by buying a ticket to get in...
- 1989] Vhat? I did not do that: Zsa Zsa Gabor is convicted of battery for slapping a Beverly Hills police officer who had pulled her and her Rolls-Royce over for expired plates...
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