- 1865] Ratifying: The 13th amendment is ratified, abolishing slavery (12/6)...
- 1908] Numb3rs: The University of Pittsburgh Panthers are the first college football team to put numbers on their jerseys (12/5). When I was program director at KQV, I could see the Pittsburgh U. tower through my apartment window. The school is located in a section called Oakland...
- 1923] On the Radio: Calvin Coolidge becomes the first president to deliver a radio address. Cal addressed a joint session of Congress (12/6)...
- 1941] The Day of Infamy: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, putting us into WWII. Some 2,400 Americans are killed, 200 wounded. Much of our Pacific Fleet is destroyed along with more than 200 planes. FDR calls it "a day of infamy" (12/7)...
- 1988] "Happy Trails": Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer Roy Orbison dies from a heart attack while visiting his mother near Nashville. Orbison was 52 (12/6)...
- 1991] Bad timing: Richard Speck who murdered 8 student nurses in Chicago in 1966, dies from a heart attack in prison at 50 (12/5). Why couldn't this have happened in 1965???
- 1993] The 5:33 from Hell: Colin Ferguson murders 6 and injures 19 others on the 5:33 p.m. Hicksville local of the LIRR. Ferguson is currently drawing on his Attica jail cell wall with crayons, something he will continue to do for the next 200 years (12/7)...
- 1996] Greenspanning and spinning: Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan sends everyone scratching their heads after his famous "irriational exuberance" speech about the stock market and whether or not it was overvalued (12/5). Greenspan turns out to be overvalued...
- 2002] Sticky fingers: Actress Winona Ryder is sentenced to community service for stealing more than $5,500 worth of merchandise from Saks Fifth Avenue in Beverly Hills (12/6)...
- 2006] Trans fixed: New York becomes the first city in the nation to ban artery clogging trans fats at restaurants (12/5)...For more on December 5 -7: C L I C K:
Friday, December 5, 2008
(Weekend Edition) December 5 - 7, 2008
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