- 1950] Premiered on this date: Charles M. Schulz' "Peanuts" comic strip is born...1953] Edward R. Murrow's "Person to Person" begins an 8-year run...1955] "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" debuts and runs on and off until 1986...1959] "The Twilight Zone" starts a 5-year run...1961] "Ben Casey" begins a 5-season run...
- 1967] Thurgood joins the 'Supes': Thurgood Marshall is sworn in as the 1st black Supreme Court Justice...
- 1968] 17K: Bob Gibson strikes out a World Series record 17 batters as the Cardinals beat the Tigers in game one of the WS...
- 1970] Team Tragedy: A plane carrying 30 members of the Wichita State football team crashes. All 30 are killed...
- 1978] Bucky "Bleepin'" Dent: Yankee shortstop Bucky Dent's 7th inning home run at Fenway Park leads the Yankees to a one-game playoff victory over the Boston Red Sox. The Yankees win the AL pennant...
- 1980] Holmes sweet Holmes: 30-year old heavyweight champ Larry Holmes defends his title with an 11th round TKO of 38-year old Muhammad Ali...
- 1985] "Happy Trails": 1985] Rock Hudson dies from AIDS at 59...1998] Gene Autry, Hollywood's "Singing Cowboy" dies from lymphoma at 91...
- 1994] Father and Son: For the first time in NFL history, father and son coaches face each other with Papa Don Shula's Miami Dolphins beating his sons' Cincinnati Bengals...
- 2002] Sniper rampage begins: A man is shot and killed in a grocery store parking lot in Wheaton (MD), the 1st victim in a series of sniper attacks in the DC area that will leave 10 dead...
- 2006] Amish massacre: A 32-year old milk truck driver kills 5 Amish girls and then turns the gun on himself in Nickel Mines, Bart Township in Lancaster County (PA)...
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