10 Timeline Memories:
1.1885] Scalpel!: Dr. William Grant performs the first successful appendectomy on Mary Gartside, only to discover that her gall bladder was supposed to be removed…
2.1951]Seoulful: North Korean and Communist Chinese forces capture the city of Seoul during the Korean War…
3.1965] A great society: President Lyndon B. Johnson outlines the goals of his “Great Society” in his State of the Union Address…
4.1965] ‘Happy Trails’: Poet T.S. Eliot dies at age 76…
5.1974] Tapes, what tapes?: President Richard Nixon refuses to hand over tape recordings and documents subpoenaed by the Senate Watergate Committee…
6.1990] Suspect jumps: Charles Stuart, who claimed that a gunman killed his pregnant wife, leaps to his death after he becomes a suspect…
7.1995] Eye of Newt: Newt Gingrich is elected speaker of the Republican-held House…
8.1999] This I swear: Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is sworn in as governor of Minnesota. Ventura, Frankin, you see a pattern here???
9.2006] Stroked: Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon suffers a stroke and his powers are transferred to his deputy Ehud Olmert…
10. 2007] I am woman hear me roar: Nancy Pelosi is the first female elected to the post of Speaker of the House. Somewhere, Tip O’Neill gets stinking rotten drunk…For more on January 4:
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