10 Timeline Memories:
1.1882] Wives 2 - 10 get pink slips: Congress outlaws polygamy but not everywhere…
2.1895] Pass the popcorn: Auguste and Louis Lumiere project a movie on a screen. This is believed to be a public first…
3.1933] Watered down booze: During prohibition, FDR signs a measure to make wine and beer containing up to 3.2 percent alcohol legal…
4.1972] Equal Rights: Congress sends the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution to the states for ratification. It falls short of the three-fourths approval needed…
5.1978] “Happy Trails“: Karl Wallenda, 73-year old patriarch of The Flying Wallendas, falls to his death while attempting to walk a cable extended between two hotels in San Juan (PR)…
6.1987] Garbarge: A barge loaded with 3,200 tons of garbage leaves Islip (NY) on a six-month journey in search of a place to unload. The barge is turned away by several states and three countries before space is found back in Islip…
7.1990] Busted: A jury in Anchorage, Alaska, found former tanker captain Joseph Hazelwood innocent in connection with the Exxon Valdez oil spill, but convicted him of a minor charge of negligent discharge of oil…
8.1991] Not too: High school instructor Pamela Smart, accused of manipulating her student-lover into killing her husband, is convicted in Exeter (NH) of murder-conspiracy…
9.1995] Guilty as charged: Colin Ferguson is sentenced to life for the LIRR massacre in which he killed 6 people in 1993. He is serving his sentence at Attica Prison…
10.1997] Baby skates: Tara Lipinski of the US becomes the youngest women’s world figure skating champion at age 14 years, 10 months…For more on March 22:
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