Friday, March 12, 2010

(Weekend Edition) March 12 - 14, 2010...

10 Timeline Memories:


1.1912] Order your cookies: Juliette Gordon Low founds the “Girl Guides” which will become the ‘Girl Scouts of America’ (3/12)…
2.1964] Guilty as charged: A Dallas jury finds Jack Ruby guilty of murdering Lee Harvey Oswald (3/14). The shooting was seen live by about 50 million people on November 24, 1963…
3.1964] Screams? What screams?: Thirty-eight neighbors ignore the screams of 28-year old Kitty Genovese being stabbed to death in a Queens neighborhood (3/13)…
4.1967] WRKO is born: WNAC changes call letters to WRKO and switches format. Boston’s new new top 40 giant replaces the Yankee Network Flagship personality/talk/news station (3/13). WRKO - The Launch containing the history of the launch is available by going to Latest Postings on my MPN&T home page and clicking WRKO - The Launch
5.1980] Guilty as charged: A jury finds John Wayne Gacy Jr. guilty of murdering 33 men and boys. Gacy will be executed in May of 1994 (3/12)…1997] LAPD arrest Mikail Markhasev in the shooting death of 27-year old Ennis Cosby, Bill Cosby’s son. Markhasev is serving life with no parole (3/12)…
6.1991] Pretty slick: Exxon pays $1 billion in fines for the clean-up of the Alaskan oil spill they caused (3/13)…
7.2002] In living color: Homeland security chief Tom Ridge unveils a color-coded system for terror warnings. If you’re color-blind, you’re out of luck (3/12)…
8.2003] Getting Smart: Elizabeth Smart is reunited with her family 9 months after being abducted from her home. She was kidnapped in June of 2002 by a drifter who had previously done work at her family’s home (3/12)…
9.2008] Client #9: New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer resigns two days after reports surface that he was a client (#9) of a prostitution ring (3/12)…
10.2009] Scammer slammed: Former NASDAQ chairman Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to 11 felonies and admits operating what’s called the largest investor fraud ever committed by an individual. In June he’s sentenced to 150 years in prison and ordered to pay restitution of $170 billion (3/12)…For more on March 12 - 14:



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