Thursday, June 25, 2009

Thursday, June 25, 2009...

10 Timeline Memories:
  1. 1876] Curtains: Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and the U.S. 7th Cavalry are wiped out by Sioux and Cheyenne Indians at Little Big Horn (MT). And yes, this was known as “Custer’s Last Stand"…
  2. 1950] War…what is it good for? Absolutely nothing: War breaks out on the Korean peninsula as forces from the communist North invade the South…
  3. 1968] Talkin’ Baseball: Bobby Bonds (father of Barry) becomes the first major leaguer to debut with a grand-slam home run…
  4. 1970] Beep It!: The FCC makes it illegal for radio stations to put telephone callers on the air without the permission of the person being called. A beep was then installed on the phone for that purpose…
  5. 1973] Ratted out: White House Counsel John Dean admits that President Nixon took part in the Watergate cover-up…
  6. 1985] Two and a half men: ABC-TV’s "Monday Night Football" announces a new line-up in the booth: Frank Gifford, Joe Namath and O.J. Simpson. The worst play-by-pay team ever…
  7. 1993] TV curtains: The last original “Late Night With David Letterman” airs on NBC-TV with guest Tom Hanks. Re-runs will follow until September. On August 30th, Letterman takes his show to CBS-TV where it still resides…
  8. 1996] Death in the desert: A truck bomb kills 19 Americans and injures hundreds at a U.S. military housing complex in Saudi Arabia…
  9. 1997] “Happy Trails": Oceanographer Jacques-Yves Cousteau dies of a heart attack at 87…
  10. 2005] Trouble in Tehran: Hardline Tehran Mayor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is declared the winner of Iran’s presidential runoff election. Sound familiar??? For more on June 25th:

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