10 Timeline Memories:
1.1932] Kidnapped: The 22-month old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh is kidnapped from the family house near Hopewell (NJ). The baby’s lifeless body will be found in May…
2.1953] What should we call it?: WJZ-AM becomes WABC in New York City…
3.1954] Shoot-out in the gallery: Puerto Rican nationalists open fire from the gallery of the U.S. House of Representives, wounding 5 congressmen…
4.1961] Spreading peace: President John F. Kennedy establishes the Peace Corps…
5.1962] Flight 1 is down: American Airlines Flight 1 scheduled for Los Angeles, goes down in Jamaica Bay after take-off from New York’s Idlewild Airport (pre-JFK). 87 passengers and a crew of 8 are all lost…
6.1968] Hotter than a pepper sprout: Johnny Cash and June Carter are married…
7.1969] Curtains: Mickey Mantle tells the Yankees: “I can’t hit anymore” and with that, retires. Number 7 will return in June for “Mickey Mantle Day” at Yankee Stadium. The Mick will be inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974 with 88% of the votes…
8.1974] Watergate busts: Former Nixon White House aides H.R. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman and former Attorney General John Mitchell are indicted on obstruction of justice charges related to the Watergate break-in…
9.1981] Fatal hunger strike: Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins a hunger strike in a Northern Ireland prison. He dies 65 days later…
10.2003] Gotcha: Suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed is captured by CIA and Pakistani agents…For more on March 1:
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