10 Timeline Memories:
1.1940] Freeway of love: California opens its first freeway, the Arroyo Seco Parkway… 2.1948] Kiss me I’m Kate: The Cole Porter musical, “Kiss Me Kate” opens at the New Century Theatre on Broadway and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award...
3.1953] Color TV arrives: The first color (RCA) TV sets go on sale for $1,175. How many would you like???
4.1954] Beat the clock: The 24-second clock is used for the first time in the NBA in the Celtics-Rochester game…
5.1972] Bombing halt: The U.S. halts its heavy bombing of North Vietnam…
6.1978] Canned Buckeye: Ohio State University fires Woody Hayes as its football coach, one day after Hayes punched a Clemson player during a bowl game…
7.1993] How do you do: Israel and the Vatican agree to recognize one another…
8.1999] Beatle power: Former Beatle George Harrison fights off a knife-wielding intruder who breaks into his mansion west of London and stabs him in the chest…
9.2003] Banned in the U.S.A.: The federal government announces a ban on ephedra, linked to 155 deaths and dozens of heart attacks and strokes…
10.2006] Hung out to dry: Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging…For more on December 30:
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