Thursday, February 5, 2009

Thursday, February 5, 2009...

10 Timeline Memories:
  1. 1921] It's read all over: Reader's Digest hits the newsstands for the first time...
  2. 1921] The house that Ruth built: The Yankees purchase 20 acres in the Bronx to build Yankee Stadium. The stadium goes up 2 years later in 1923. Eighty-six years later, the new stadium is about to open in April...
  3. 1967] Smothered: "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour" premieres on CBS-TV. It will switch to NBC and finally ABC before ending in May of 1975...
  4. 1990] The color of money: Notre Dame becomes the first major college football team to sell its home games to a major TV network - NBC, where it still resides...
  5. 1994] Guilty as charged: White separatist Byron De La Beckwith is convicted in Jackson (MS) of murdering civil rights leader Medgar Evers in 1963. De La Beckwith is sentenced to life in prison...1999] Mike Tyson is sentenced to one year in prison for assaulting two people after a car accident in 1998. He's also fined $5,000 and serves two years of probation and community service upon release...2002] A federal grand jury indicts John Walker Lindh on 10 charges, alleging he was trained by Osama bin Laden's network and conspired with the Taliban to kill Americans...
  6. 1997] Wedding Bells: Investment banker Morgan Stanley announces a $10 billion merger with Dean Witter...
  7. 2001] Regis gets ripped: Kelly Ripa is announced as Regis Philbin's new co-host. The show is renamed "Live! with Regis and Kelly". Ripa replaces Kathie Lee Gifford...
  8. 2001] This cruise is over: Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman announce their separation...
  9. 2003] WMD alert: Secretary of State Colin Powell urges the U.N. Security Council to move against Iraq, saying that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and was harboring terrorists, claims that later turned out to be false...
  10. 2006] Super Bowl Sunday: The Pittsburgh Steelers win a record-tying 5th Super Bowl (they tie San Francisco) with a 21-10 win over Seattle and now they're known as the 'Sixburgh Steelers'...For more on February 5th: CLICK: http://melphillipsnowandthen.com

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