10 Timeline Memories:
1.1653] Start spreading the news: New Amsterdam, now known as New York City is incorporated…
2.1790] Supes on: The U.S. Supreme Court convenes for the first time…
3.1876] Senior circuit: Baseball’s National League is formed in New York with these original franchises: New York, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Hartford, Louisville, Philadelphia and St. Louis…
4.1887] They say we’re young and we don’t know: The first ‘Groundhog Day’ is celebrated in Punxsutawney (PA). The 1993 movie starring Bill Murray immortalizes the day and Sonny & Cher’s “I Got You Babe” wakes Murray up 33 times…
5.1946] Debuted on this date: Mutual Broadcasting airs “Twenty Questions” for the first time on radio. The show moves to TV three years later…
6.1967] Jump it up: The American Basketball Association is formed…
7.1972] Bloody Sunday aftermath: The British embassy in Dublin is destroyed in protest over Bloody Sunday…
8.1979] “Happy Trails”: Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols dies from a drug overdose at 21, less than 4 months after fatally stabbing girlfriend Nancy Spungen at the Chelsea Hotel…1996] The legendary Gene Kelly passes away after suffering two strokes…
9.1990] Free Mandela: F.W. de Klerk, allows the African National Congress to legally function and promises to release Nelson Mandela…
10.2007] And somewhere Al Gore smiles: The world’s leading climate scientists and government officials say that global warming is so severe, it would “continue for centuries” and humans were to blame…For more on February 2:
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