- 1863] Down the Tube: Britain's Prime Minister Gladstone opens the first section of the London Underground Railway (1/10)...
- 1903] SOLD to the highest bidder: New York businessman Frank Farrell and Bill Devery buy the Baltimore Orioles franchise of the American League for $18,000 and move the team to upper Manhattan where the team finishes 4th as the Highlanders. In 1913 the team is renamed the Yankees (1/9)...
- 1922] Birth of a station: KQV Pittsburgh is licensed and launched and I am proud to be one of the former program directors of the legendary station 51 years later (1/9)...
- 1937] Premiered on this date: LOOK Magazine. Within a month, LOOK becomes a bi-weekly until 1971. There have been attempts to resurrect the famous magazine but to no avail (1/9)...1956] Abigail Van Buren's 'Dear Abby' first appears in newspapers (1/9)...1959] "Rawhide" starring Clint Eastwood joins about 30 westerns during the '59-'60 TV season (1/9)...
- 1970] Super Sunday: Hank Stram's Kansas City Chiefs win Super Bowl IV with a 23-7 victory over Minnesota (1/11)...1981] The Oakland Raiduhs become the first Wild Card team to win the Super Bowl with a win over Philadelphia (1/11)...
- 1972] One big floating grill: The Queen Elizabeth ocean liner is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong Harbor (1/9)...
- 1982] The Catch: Joe Montana hits Dwight Clark in the end zone for "The Catch" that gives the San Francisco 49ers a 28-27 comeback win over Dallas and puts them in the Super Bowl against Cincinnati the following week (1/10)...
- 1989] Going to Hall: Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Bench are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (1/9)...2000] Carlton Fisk who caught for the Red Sox for 11 seasons and the White Sox for 13, is elected to the Hall of Fame with Tony Perez of the Reds (1/11)...
- 2003] 'Happy Trails': Boston Globe sportswriter Will McDonough dies of a heart attack at 67 (1/9)...2004] Actor-writer Spalding Gray, 62, vanishes from his Manhattan apartment (1/10). Two months later his body is found floating in the East River, an apparent suicide...2007] Italian producer Carlo Ponti dies from natural causes at 94 (1/10)...
- 2003] Curtains: Thomas D. Mottola is out at SONY Records after 14 years at the helm (1/10). One voluptuous singer with a five-octave range throws a party...2005] CBS issues a damning independent review of mistakes relating to a "60 Minutes Wednesday" report of President Bush's National Guard service. Three news executives and a producer are fired for their "myopic zeal" in rushing it to air. One myopic network news anchor starts backing up the truck to his office (1/10)...For more on January 9 -11: CLICK:
Friday, January 9, 2009
(Weekend Edition) January 9 - 11, 2009
10 Timeline Memories:
