10 Timeline Memories:
1.1892] Jump it up: The first official basketball game is played at a YMCA court in Springfield (MA). The game is played using peach baskets with 9 players on each side. The game is invented by Dr. James Naismith, a phys-ed teacher at Springfield College…1968] In one of college basketball’s classic match-ups, Elvin Hayes and Lew Alcindor face off as #2 ranked Houston beats #1 UCLA 71-69. Hayes scores 39 for the winning Cougars…
2.1961] This I Swear: John F. Kennedy is sworn in as our 35th president…1989] George H.W. Bush becomes our 41st president…1993] Bill Clinton becomes #42…2001] George W. Bush becomes #43…2009] Barack Obama is sworn in as #44…
3.1961] “D-I-V-O-R-C-E”: Marilyn Monroe and Arthur Miller. They were married in June, 1956…
4.1965] “Happy Trails“: Fans mourn the death of Alan Freed who passes away from uremic poisoning at 43…1993] Audrey Hepburn dies from abdominal cancer at 63…2003] Caricaturist Al Hirschfeld dies in his sleep at 99…
5.1981] Free at last: Iran releases 52 American hostages held for 444 days. This happens minutes after Ronald Reagan is sworn in…
6.1985] Soopuh: The 49ers beat Miami 38-16 in Super Bowl XIX. President Ronald Reagan congratulates San Francisco coach Bill Walsh. For the first time TV commercials sell for a million a minute...
7.1986] Observed: The U.S. observes the first federal holiday in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr…
8.1987] Kidnapped: Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite disappears in Beirut while attempting to negotiate the release of western hostages. He will be released in 1991…
9.2008] We are the champions: The New York Giants and New England Patriots win their conference championships setting up a Patriots-Giants Super Bowl…
10.2009] Presidential history is made: Barack Obama becomes the first African-American U.S. president, the country’s 44th…For more on January 20:
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