Friday, November 7, 2008

(Weekend Edition) November 7 - 9, 2008

10 Timeline Memories:
  1. 1938] Kristallnacht: Nazi troops and sympathizers destroy and loot Jewish buinesses, burn synagogues and kill 91 Jews. They also round up 25,000 in an event known as 'Kristallnacht' or 'Night of Broken Glass' (11/9)...
  2. 1944] FDR IV: Franklin D. Roosevelt wins an unprecedented 4th term as president (11/7)...
  3. 1953] Supes Rule: Somehow the Supreme Court upholds a 1922 ruling that major league baseball does not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws (11/9). Were there 9 justices named Ito???
  4. 1960] Election daze: Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy defeats Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. The age of 'Camelot' dawns (11/8)...1962] Nixon who fails in his bid to become Governor of California, tells reporters, "You won't have me to kick around anymore." (11/7)...1967] Carl Stokes becomes the first black mayor of a major city (Cleveland) (11/7)...2000] Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the first first lady to win public office by winning a Senate seat from NY (11/7)...
  5. 1962] "Happy Trails": Former 'first lady' Eleanor Roosevelt dies of bone marrow tuberculosis at 78 (11/7)...1980] Steve McQueen dies at 50 from a heart attack following cancer surgery (11/7)...2003] Veteran actor Art Carney passes away from natural causes at 85 (11/9)...2006] "60 Minutes" reporter Ed Bradley is a victim of leukemia at 65 (11/9)...
  6. 1965] Premiered on this date: The Pillsbury Dough Boy...1965] "Days Of Our Lives" debuts on NBC-TV (11/8)...
  7. 1965] Lights out: The great northeast blackout turns the lights out in 9 states and two provinces of Canada. It affects 25 million people for more than 13 hours (11/9)...
  8. 1968] 'D-I-V-O-R-C-E': Cynthia Powell Lennon is granted a divorce from John Lennon after 6 years of marriage (11/8)...1982] Liz Taylor chalks up divorce number 7. John Warner is the latest victim (11/7)...
  9. 1970] Record breaker: New Orleans placekicker Tom Dempsey, born without toes on his kicking foot, kicks a record setting 63-yard field goal (11/8). In 1998 Jason Elam of the Denver Broncos ties Dempsey with his 63-yard boot, no doubt aided by Denver's mile-high altitude...
  10. 1989] Wall? What wall?: Happy Germans dance on top of the Berlin Wall as Communist East Germany opens its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the west (11/9)...For more on November 7 - 9:

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