10 Timeline Memories:
1.1817] Stocking up: The New York Stock Exchange is founded…
2.1965] Semper Fi: The United States lands about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam...
3.1971] A Sports trilogy begins: Muhammad Ali loses a decision to undefeated heavyweight champ Joe Frazier (3/8). This is the first of 3 fights between two of the best heavyweights ever. I saw this fight in a Boston theater with Sal Ingeme of Columbia Records…
4.1979] A new kind of CD: Philips demonstrates Compact Disc publicly for the first time…
5.1980] Soviet Woodstock: The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union. Unless you’ve heard of Vladimir Rubashevsky, you wouldn’t recognize any of the acts on the bill…
6.1983] The Evil Empire: It’s neither the Yankees or Red Sox, it’s the Soviet Union. President Ronald Reagan calls the USSR an “Evil Empire”…
7.1999] “Happy Trails“: Baseball Hall of Famer Joe DiMaggio, the ‘Yankee Clipper’ dies at 84 after never fully recovering from lung cancer surgery in the fall of 1998…
8.1999] Supes uphold convictions: The U.S. Supreme Court upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing…
9.2004] Justice for all: Abul Abbas, the Palestinian guerrilla leader who planned the hijacking of the Achille Lauro, dies while in custody…
10.2008] W vetoes bill: George W. Bush vetoes a bill that would have banned the CIA from using waterboarding and other coercive interrogation methods to gain information from suspected terrorists…For more on March 8:
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