10 Timeline Memories:
1.1759] Wedding Bells: George Washington marries Martha Dandridge Custis and instead of cutting into a wedding cake, it’s a cherry pie baked by the new bride…1945] Future President George H.W. Bush and Barbara Pierce tie the knot in Rye (NY)…
2.1936] Debuted on this date: Porky Pig debuts in the WB cartoon “Gold Diggers of ‘49“. One year later Mel Blanc starts voicing Porky, Bugs, Daffy, Sylvester and Tweety…1975] “Wheel of Fortune” debuts on NBC-TV with Chuck Woolery hosting…
3.1942] Clipper landing: The Pan American Airways Pacific Clipper arrives in New York after making the first round-the-world trip by a commercial airliner…
4.1982] Freeway of death: Truck driver William G. Bonin is convicted in Los Angeles of being the “freeway killer” who had murdered 14 young men and boys. Boldin will be executed in 1996…
5.1987] What’s the word? Thunderbird!: After a 29-year lapse, the Ford Thunderbird is presented with the Motor Trend Car of the Year Award. It’s the first repeat winner of the award…
6.1993] “Happy Trails“: Ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev succumbs to AIDS at 54…1993] Jazz great Dizzy Gillespie is a victim of pancreatic cancer at 75…
7.1994] “Why? Why?”: Jeff Gillooly goon Shane Stant makes a pinata out of glamour skater Nancy Kerrigan’s leg. Olympic skating rival Tonya Harding sets the whole thing up and is banned from competition. Gillooly and the late Stant do time for the crime…
8.1999] Impeachment set: The 106th U.S. Congress opens with impeachment proceedings of President Bill Clinton as the first item on its agenda. The trial is set for January 7th…
9.2001] Congress certification: With the recently defeated Al Gore presiding, Congress certifies George W. Bush the winner of the 2000 presidential election…
10.2005] KKK leader turns in his white hood: Former Ku Klux Klan leader Edgar Ray Killen is arrested 41 years after three civil rights workers were slain in Mississippi. Killen is later convicted of manslaughter. Killen appeals but his punishment of 3 times 20 years in prison is upheld by the Mississippi Supreme Court in January, 2007…For more on January 6:
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