- 1916] No joke Johnny: The Professional Golfers Association (PGA) is formed in New York City and an endless amount of un-funny golf jokes follow (1/17)...
- 1929] Debuted on this date: Popeye makes his first appearance in the comic strip "Thimble Theater" (1/17)...
- 1948] Round & round she goes: The precursor of "American Idol", "The Original Amateur Hour", hosted by Ted Mack moves from radio to television where it runs until 1960 (1/18)...
- 1950] On the brink: A million and a quarter in cash and over $1.5 million in checks, money orders and securities is stolen in the Great Brink's Bank Robbery from the Brinks Building in Boston (1/17)...
- 1964] Premiered on this date: "Hello Dolly" starring Carol Channing opens at the St. James Theatre on Broadway (1/16)...1974] "Jaws" by Peter Benchley is published and quickly becomes a best seller with plans in the works for a movie (1/16)...1976] "The Donny & Marie Show" starts a 3-year run with "A little bit Country, A little bit Rock & Roll" (1/16)...
- 1970] "Happy Trails": Singer Billy Stewart and 3 band members are killed when their car goes out of control and off a bridge in North Carolina. Stewart was just 32 (1/17)...2007] Humorist and author Art Buchwald is a victim of kidney failure at 81 (1/17)...2008] Controversial and eccentric chess icon Bobby Fischer is dead at 64 from degenerative renal failure (1/17)...
- 1971] Super Sunday: The Colts' Jim O'Brien boots a 32-yard field goal with 5 seconds remaining to give Baltimore a 16-13 win over Dallas in Super Bowl V, considered the sloppiest of all SB games with a record 11 turnovers (1/17)...1976] The Pittsburgh Steelers win their second consecutive Super Bowl on the last play in an exciting 21-17 win over Dallas (1/18)...
- 1973] Curtains: "Bonanza" airs its last episode (1/16). It debuted on September 12, 1959...
- 1988] Jimmy the Geek: CBS-TV fires Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder one day after his racial comment that during slavery, "blacks had been bred to produce stronger offspring" (1/16)...
- 1994] Quake, quake: The Northridge (CA) earthquake rocks Los Angeles, registering a 6.7 on the Richter Scale. At least 61 are killed with damage estimated at $20 billion (1/17)...1995] A magnitude 7.2 earthquake devastates the city of Kobe, Japan (1/17). More than 6,000 are killed...For more on January 16 -18: C L I C K:
Friday, January 16, 2009
(Weekend Edition) January 16 - 18, 2009
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