10 Timeline Memories:
1.1865] Free at last: Slavery is abolished with the ratification of the 13th amendment which will go into effect on February 1, 1865…
2.1913] All aboard: Grand Central Station opens in New York City. The largest train station in the world is still beautiful…
3.1960] Sitting in: Four black college students begin a sit-in protest at a lunch counter where they’d been refused service…
4.1968] The shot seen round the world: Saigon’s police chief executes a Viet Cong officer with a pistol shot to the head…
5.1979] Patty departs: Newspaper heiress Patty Hearst leaves a federal prison near San Francisco after her sentence was commuted by Jimmy Carter…
6.1982] Debuted on this date: David Letterman debuts on NBC-TV with his own show. His first guest is Bill Murray. Letterman may have made his network debut in 1971 covering the Indy 500…
7.1999] A little bit of Monica: Monica Lewinsky gives a videotaped despostion to senators weighing impeachment charges against President Bill Clinton…
8.2003] Space tragedy: The space shuttle Columbia explodes during re-entry, killing all 7 astronauts on board…
9.2004] Nipplegate: Janet Jackson’s breast is briefly exposed during a duet with Justin Timberlake at the Super Bowl halftime show. If like I, you were at the game, no one even noticed. All I cared about was that my Patriots won…2009] No “wardrobe malfunctions” last year when the Pittsburgh Steelers beat the Arizona Cardinals 27-23 to become the only NFL team to win 6 Super Bowls…
10.2008] Terrorists take out 100: Remote-controlled explosives strapped to two women kill nearly 100 people in Baghdad…For more on February 1:
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