10 Timeline Memories:
1.1930] TV to follow: Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick-freezing food. It will be known as the TV dinner (3/6)…
2.1963] ‘Happy Trails’: Legendary Country artist Patsy Cline dies in a small plane crash in Camden (TN) returning from a Kansas City benefit for the widow of a local disc jockey. Cowboy Copas, Hawkshaw Hawkins and Patsy’s pilot/manager were also killed (3/5)…1982] John Belushi dies of a drug overdose in a Hollywood hotel room. Belushi was just 33 (3/5)…
3.1969] Creem rises: Creem Magazine is published for the first time, aimed at competing with Rolling Stone Magazine. They fail to do so (3/5)…
4.1973] Wife swap: Yankees pitchers Fritz Peterson and Mike Kekich arrive at spring training and announce that they have swapped wives, children and dogs. Within two years both players are gone from baseball. Had Fox been around, this would have been the first reality series (3/5)…
5.1978] Gunned down: Hustler publisher Larry Flynt is shot and paralyzed permanently by a sniper in Georgia who objected to an interracial couple appearing in the magazine (3/6)...
6.1981] ‘And that’s the way it is’: The words of Walter Cronkite who does his final “CBS Evening News” report which started on April 16, 1962 (3/6)…
7.1993] Neighborhood crime: A woman is gang-raped on a pool table in a New Bedford (MA) tavern. Four men are later convicted in a case that rocks the nation (3/6). Jodie Foster starred in “The Accused” which was based on this case…2000] Three white NYPD officers are convicted of a cover-up in a police station attack on Haitian immigrant Abner Louima (3/6)…
8.2002] This Ozzy is not a Nelson: MTV begins airing “The Osbournes.” TV goes downhill from there (3/5)…
9.2004] Not a good thing: Martha Stewart is convicted of obstructing justice and lying to the government about why she unloaded Imclone stocks just before the price dropped. Bernie Madoff takes notes (3/5)…
10.2006] Patent no longer pending: Apple Inc. is granted the patent to the iPod (3/7)…For more on March 5 - 7:
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