10 Timeline Memories:
1.1901] Nice in Nice: The Mercedes is introduced by Daimler at the “Week of Nice” in Nice, France…
2.1911] Up in flames: 146 women are killed at the “Triangle Shirtwaist Company” in New York City. The owners of the company are charged with manslaughter when it’s discovered that the factory doors were locked. In 1914 they are forced to pay damages to all the victim’s families…1990] Fire races through an illegal social club (”Happy Land“) in Manhattan, killing 87, mostly Honduran and Dominican immigrants…
3.1913] Playing the Palace: The Palace Theatre, home of vaudeville, opens on Broadway…
4.1965] Marching along: Martin Luther King Jr. leads a group of 25,000 to the state capitol in Montgomery (AL) to protest the denial of voting rights to blacks…
5.1975] ‘Happy Trails’: King Faisal of Saudi Arabia is shot to death by a deranged nephew who will be beheaded the following June. Faisal was 72…2006] Legendary Country artist and radio station owner, Buck Owens dies in his sleep from an apparent heart attack at 76…
6.1988] Guilty as charged: Robert E. Chambers Jr. pleads guilty to 1st-degree manslaughter in the death of 18-year old Jennifer Levin in Manhattan’s so-called ‘Preppy Murder Case’. Chambers is now serving a 19-year sentence for selling drugs in 2008…2003] Philip Giordano, former mayor of Waterbury (CT) is convicted of violating the civil rights of two pre-teen girls by sexually abusing them…
7.1995] Free as a bird: Mike Tyson is released from jail after serving three years…
8.1996] Monopoly money: The redesigned $100 bill goes into circulation…
9.1997] ‘Geroni-mohhhhhhhhhhhh’: Former President George H.W. Bush parachutes from a plane over the Arizona desert as #41 celebrates his 73rd birthday 3 months earlier…
10.2004] Fetus law: Congress passes a law making it a separate offense to harm a fetus during a violent federal crime…For more on March 25:
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