Tuesday, April 28, 2009...

10 Timeline Memories:

1. 1789] Mutiny on the Bounty: The crew of the British ship Bounty set Captain William Bligh and 18 sailors adrift in a launch in the South Pacific…
2. 1914] Cooool: Willis H. Carrier patents the design for his air conditioner…
3. 1947] No termites allowed: A six-man expedition sails from Peru aboard a balsa wood raft named Kon-Tiki on a 101-day journey across the Pacific to Polynesia…
4. 1959] Fade to black: "Arthur Godfrey and his Friends" says ‘sayonara‘ after a run of 10 seasons…
5. 1965] Dropping the second “A": The "My Name Is Barbra" special scores huge numbers for CBS-TV…
6. 1965] Higher and higher: Lindsey Nelson does the Mets game from a gondola, suspended 208 feet above the Houston Astrodome field…
7. 1975] Two Beatles on the tube: Ringo Starr guests on “The Smothers Brothers” and John Lennon on “The Tonight Show”…
8. 1985] Billy’s back: Billy Martin becomes Yankee manager for the 4th time. Do you see a pattern developing???
9. 1994] Guilty as charged: Former CIA operative Aldrich Ames, a double-spy for the Soviets is sentenced to life in prison without parole…
10. 2004] A boo-boo Ghraib: The first photos of Abu Ghraib are shown on “60 Minutes"…For more on April 28th:

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