10 Timeline Memories:
- 44BC] Beware the Ides of March: Roman dictator Julius Caesar is assassinated by a group of nobles that include Brutus and Cassius (3/15)...
- 1954] Debuted on this date: CBS-TV debuts its "Morning Show" and any day now viewers will discover it (3/15)...
- 1964] Guilty as charged: A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvard Oswald (3/14). The shooting was seen live by about 50 million people on November 24, 1963...
- 1964] Wedding Bells: Richard Burton becomes victim number five for Elizabeth Taylor (3/15). These two lovebirds are married for 10 years from 1964 to 1974 and then for an additional year in 1975 before finally calling it quits...
- 1964] Screams? What screams?: Thirty-eight neighbors ignore the screams of 28-year old Kitty Genovese being stabbed to death in a Queens neighborhood (3/13)...
- 1967] WRKO is born: WNAC changes call letters and formats to WRKO. Boston's new top 40 giant replaces the Yankee Network Flagship personality/talk/news station (3/13)...Click on: http://melphillipsnowandthen.com to read about the launch of WRKO
- 1975] "Happy Trails": Aristotle Onasis, husband of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, dies of bronchial pneumonia at 69 (3/15)...1998] Child care expert Dr. Benjamin Spock dies at 94 from natural causes (3/15)...
- 1991] Pretty slick: Exxon pays $1 billion in fines for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill they caused (3/13)...
- 2000] Curtains: Dan Marino, the NFLs most prolific passer gives his farewell speech after 17 years with the Miami Dolphins (3/13). In 2005, Marino is inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in Canton (OH)...
- 2002] Celebrity boxing: Tonya Harding finds a new calling in the ring where she beats up Paula Jones. On the same card, Barry Williams loses to Danny Bonaduce and Todd Bridges defeats Vanilla Ice on 'Celebrity Boxing'. TV hits an all-time low (3/13)...
