10 Timeline Memories:
1.1854] Having a grand old time: The Republican Party is organized in Ripon (WI) when fifty opponents of slavery start the new political party (2/28)…
2.1930] Go at the green - not in between: New York City installs traffic lights. Prior to that New Yorkers start what’s commonly known as ‘flipping the bird’ (2/26)…
3.1955] The ‘45′ rules: Billboard Magazine reports that the 45 rpm single is outselling 78’s for the first time (2/26)…
4.1962] What should we call it?: WMGM in New York changes calls to WHN (2/28)…
5.1982] Guilty as charged: Wayne B. Williams is found guilty of murdering 2 of the 28 bodies found in the Atlanta area in a two-year period (2/27)…1990] The Exxon Corp. and Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts in reference to the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill (2/27)…
6.1983] M*A*S*Hing the competition: The final episode of “M*A*S*H” draws a household rating of 60.2% (2/28). Seen in over 50 million homes it was the highest rated show of all-time for nearly 27 years until Super Bowl XLIV drew a TV audience of 106.5 million on February 7, 2010. ”M*A*S*H” started in September, 1972…
7.1991] Saddam backs down: Iraq’s President Saddam Hussein orders his troops to withdraw from Kuwait (2/26)…
8.1993] The first WTC bombing: Six are killed and more than one thousand injured when a van explodes in the World Trade Center parking garage. An act of terrorism by Islamic extremists and a precursor to something far worse in 2001 (2/26)…
9.1993] Wacko in Waco: U.S. Federal agents raid the compound of the Branch Davidians, lead by David Koresh in Waco (TX). The fifty-one day standoff will result in the killing of 4 agents and 6 Davidians, including Koresh (2/28)…
10. 2008] “Happy Trails“: Mike Smith, lead singer of the Dave Clark Five dies at 64 from pneumonia (2/28), a complication from an earlier fall…2008] “Voice of the Pittsburgh Steelers” Myron Cope passes away from respiratory failure at 79 (2/27)…2008] Conservative author and commentator William F. Buckley Jr. is found slumped at his desk. His death at 82 is attributed to the results of emphysema and diabetes (2/27)…2009] Paul Harvey, one of the greatest communicators and commentators in radio history, passed away at 90 of natural causes (2/28)…For more on February 26 - 28:
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