10 Timeline Memories:
- 1842] Lifting the baton: The New York Philharmonic gives its first concert...
- 1941] The Day of Infamy: Japan attacks Pearl Harbor, putting us into WWII. Some 2,400 Americans are killed, 200 wounded. Much of our Pacific Fleet is destroyed along with more than 200 planes. FDR calls it “a day of infamy”…
- 1963] Let’s go to the videotape: Instant replay is used for the first time in a live sports telecast during the Army-Navy game on CBS. The BBC was experimenting with video tape in the 50’s…
- 1982] Death in vein: Convicted murderer Charlie Brooks becomes the first U.S. prisoner to be executed by injection at a Texas prison…
- 1988] The earth crumbles: An earthquake in northern Armenia claims an estimated 25,000 lives…
- 1993] The 5:33 from Hell: Colin Ferguson murders 6 and injures 19 others on the 5:33 p.m. Hicksville local of the LIRR. Ferguson is currently drawing on his Attica jail cell wall with crayons, something he will continue to do for the next 200 years…
- 1999] Napster snoozes: The Recording Industry Assoc. of America (RIAA) files a lawsuit against Napster which shuts down in 2001, pays $26 million in settlement money, goes back online and liquidates their assets in 2002…
- 2002] What WMD’s?: Iraq denies it has weapons of mass destruction in a declaration to the U.N...
- 2004] This I swear: Hamid Karzai is sworn in as Afghanistan’s first popularly elected president. He was recently re-elected…
- 2007] This I swear too: Baseball home run king Barry Bonds pleads not guilty to charges he lied to federal investigators about using performance-enhancing drugs...For more on December 7:
