10 Timeline Memories:
1.1903] SOLD to the highest bidder: New York businessman Frank Farrell and Bill Devery buy the Baltimore Orioles franchise of the American League for $18,000 and move the team to upper Manhattan where the team finishes 4th as the Highlanders. In 1913 the team is renamed the Yankees (1/9)…
2.1922] Birth of a station: KQV Pittsburgh is licensed and launched and I am proud to be one of the former program directors of the legendary station (1/9)…
3.1956] Premiered on this date: Abigail Van Buren’s ‘Dear Abby’ first appears in newspapers (1/9)…1959] “Rawhide” starring Clint Eastwood joins about 30 westerns during the ‘59-’60 TV season (1/9)…
4.1972] One big floating grill: The Queen Elizabeth ocean liner is destroyed by fire in Hong Kong Harbor (1/9). Here’s the QE in happier times…
5.1982] The Catch: Joe Montana hits Dwight Clark in the end zone for “The Catch” that gives the San Francisco 49ers a 28-27 comeback win over Dallas and puts them in the Super Bowl against Cincinnati the following week (1/10)…
6.1982] Ring my bell: American Telephone & Telegraph settles the Justice Department’s antitrust lawsuit against it by agreeing to divest itself of the 22 Bell System companies. They were broken into ‘baby’ Bell’s (1/8)…
7.1989] Going to Hall: Carl Yastrzemski and Johnny Bench are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame (1/9)…
8.1994] Guilty as charged: Tonya Harding wins the U.S. Lady’s Figure Skating Championship in Detroit but is stripped of the title for involvement in the Nancy Kerrigan knee bashing (1/8)…1998] Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life without parole for his role in masterminding the first WTC bombing in New York. Yousef is now making license plates in a Colorado maximum security prison (1/8)…
9.2003] Curtains: Thomas D. Mottola is out at SONY Records after 14 years at the helm (1/10). One voluptuous singer with a five-octave range throws a party…2005] CBS issues a damning independent review of mistakes relating to a “60 Minutes Wednesday” report of President Bush’s National Guard service. Three news executives and a producer are fired for their “myopic zeal” in rushing it to air. One myopic network news anchor starts backing up the truck to his office (1/10)…
10.2008] New Jersey apologizes for being New Jersey: The Garden State officially apologizes for slavery, becoming the first Northern state to do so (1/8) Here’s a clip of famous people from New Jersey…For more on January 8 - January 10:
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