10 Timeline Memories:
1.1822] Please come to Boston: The city of Boston is incorporated…
2.1836] Remember the Alamo: The siege of the Alamo begins in San Antonio (TX)…
3.1896] Rockin’ the Tootsie Roll: The Tootsie Roll is introduced by transplanted European Leo Hirshfield. The Tootsie Pop came along in 1931. Tell me there’s anything better than cherry TPs…
4.1927] Let the fun begin: President Calvin Coolidge signs a bill creating the Federal Radio Commission. On July 1, 1934 the name will be changed to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)…
5.1945] Raising the flag: U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima capture Mount Suribachi and raise the American Flag…
6.1954] Salkin’ it to ya: The first mass inoculation of children against polio using the Salk vaccine begins in Pittsburgh…
7.1965] “Happy Trails“: Stan Laurel (Laurel & Hardy) dies in his sleep following a heart attack at 74…1995] Melvin Franklin, bass singer of the Temptations dies from heart failure at 52…
8.1983] Big Bucks for a Bulldog: Junior running back Herschel Walker of Georgia becomes the highest paid player in football history when he signs a $1.5 million a year contract with Donald Trump’s New Jersey Generals of the USFL…
9.1997] Madman goes berserk: A Palestinian madman opens fire on the observation deck of the Empire State Building, killing one person and wounding six before taking his own life. A classmate of my son Robert, Matt Gross was shot in the head and suffered permanent brain damage. Matt’s brother Daniel started a successful anti-violence group…
10.1999] Guilty as charged: A jury in Jasper (TX) convicts white supremacist John William King of murder in the dragging death of a black man - James Byrd Jr…For more on February 23:
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