10 Timeline Memories:
1.1896] A radiant discovery: Austrian Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the type of radiation that becomes known as the X-Ray. The public scoffs saying they can see right through this ruse…
2.1940] “One, one, one“: The first test of FM radio is heard by the FCC. It will be one year before radios with FM capability will give the public new static free signals…
3.1948] Stop and smell the roses: Warner Brothers-Pathe shows the first color newsreel which contains the Tournament of Roses Parade and highlights of the Rose Bowl Game. In the game Michigan crushed USC 49-0…
4.1957] Curtains: Jackie Robinson retires rather than play for the crosstown Giants, a team he was traded to by the Brooklyn Dodgers…
5.1972] Outta Space: President Richard Nixon orders development of the space shuttle…
6.1981] Ripper zipped: Police in England arrest Peter Sutcliffe, a truck driver later convicted of the “Yorkshire Ripper” murders of 13 women…
7.1993] Hang 'em high: The state of Washington executes Westley Allan Dodd, an admitted child sex killer in America’s first legal hanging since 1965…
8.1994] ‘Happy Trails’: Former House Speaker Thomas P. “Tip” O’Neill dies from colon cancer at 81…1998] Sonny Bono, pop-star turned politician is killed when he crashes into a tree while skiing in South Lake Tahoe (CA) at 62…
9.2000] Ellll-e-uhnnnn: INS Commissioner Doris Meissner rules that 6-year old Elian Gonzalez “belongs with his father” and must be returned to Cuba. Any day now Elian will be elected president of Cuba…
10.2004] I’m Confessin’: After 14 years of denials, Pete Rose publicly admits that he bet on baseball while manager of the Cincinnati Reds. The world is not shocked by this admission…For more on January 5:
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