- 1896] His honor: Swedish chemist Alfred Bernhard Nobel, who invented dynamite, dies in Italy. The Nobel Prize was instituted in his honor…
- 1939] Hitting the million mark: The NFL’s attendance exceeds 1 million in a season for the first time…
- 1953] Published on this date: Hugh Hefner publishes the first Playboy (featuring a photo of Marilyn Monroe) with an initial investment of $7,600…
- 1958] The first commercial jet: 111 passengers fly from New York to Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707…
- 1962] Cover boy: Frank Gifford of the New York Giants is featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated…
- 1967] “Happy Trails“: 26-year old Otis Redding is killed along with most of the Bar-Kays in a small plane crash in Wisconsin…1996] Country music star Faron Young dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 64…1999] Rick Danko of The Band dies in his sleep at 56…2005] Richard Pryor dies from cardiac arrest at 65…2005] Former Senator Eugene McCarthy passes away from natural causes at 89…
- 1971] Worst baseball trade: That’s what Joseph (N.Y.Times) Durso calls it. The Mets send Nolan Ryan to the Angels for Jim Fregosi. Ryan pitches his way into the Baseball Hall of Fame with 7 no-hitters and the strikeout record while Fregosi hits .232 in his brief career with Mets…
- 1983] Jetting away: The Steelers beat the Jets 34-7 in the last NFL game played at Shea Stadium. The final baseball game was played by the Mets at the end of the 2008 season. The Mets will open the 2009 season at Citi Field…
- 1991] The end of a radio era: WNEW-AM signs off at 1130 on the dial, becoming Bloomberg business radio WBBR. Knowing this is coming, WQXR earlier adapts a similar WNEW style format as WQEW on December 2, 1991…
- 1998] Up, Up and Away: Six astronauts open the doors to the new international space station 250 miles above the Earth’s surface…For more on
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Thursday, December 10, 2009
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