February 28

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 28

 

 

 1923 - Charles Durning, born, Highland Falls NY, actor (Fury, Sting, Tootsie), (February 28, 1923 – December 24, 2012)

 1925- "Tea For Two" by Marion Harris hit #1

 1925 - Congress authorizes a special handling stamp
 1929 - Chic Black Hawks lose record NHL 15th straight game at home
 1931 - Gavin MacLeod, Mt Kisco NY, actor (Murray-Mary Tyler Moore, Love Boat) born

 1933 - 1st female in cabinet: Francis Perkins appointed Secretary of Labor

 1933 - German Pres Von Hindenburg abolishes free expression of opinion
 1933 - Hitler disallows German communist party (KPD)
 1935 - Wallace Carothers manufactures 1st nylon polymer

 1939 - The erroneous word "Dord" is discovered in the Webster's New Int Dictionary, Second  Edition, prompting an investigation.

 1940 - 1st televised basketball game (U of Pitts beats Fordham U, 50-37)

 1940 - Richard Wright's "Native Son" published
 1940 - US population at 131,669,275 (12,865,518 blacks (9.8%))
 1941 - 39 U Boats (197,000 ton) sunk this month
 1942 - Brian Jones, [Lewis Brian Hopkins Jones], English rock guitarist (Rolling Stones) born

 1942 - The Disney, Pluto short "Pluto, Junior", is released.

 1943 - "Porgy & Bess" opens on Broadway with Anne Brown & Todd Duncan

 1948 - Bernadette Peters, [Lazzara], Queens NY, actress (Jerk)
 1950 - "Alive & Kicking" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 46 perfs
 1956 - 13 die in a train crash in Swampscott Mass
 1956 - Forrester issued a patent for computer core memory
 1957 - Jockey Johnny Longden's 5,000th career victory

 1957 - Cindy Wilson, Athens Georgia, rock vocalist (B-52's-Love Shack) born

 1957 - Disney's series Mickey Mouse Club is among the Golden Globe winners for Best TV Show.

 1958 - West Indies 1-504 in reply to Pakistan 328, day 3 of 3rd Test Cricket

 1959 - "Goldilocks" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 161 perfs
 1959 - Ice Dance Championship at Colo Springs USA won by Denny & Jones of GRB
 1959 - Ice Pairs Championship at Colorado Springs won by Wagner & Paul of CAN
 1959 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by Carol Heiss USA
 1959 - Launch of Discoverer 1 (WTR)-1st polar orbit
 1959 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Colo Spr won by David Jenkins USA
 1959 - NFL trade, Chicago Cards trade Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players

 1960 - Dorothy Stratten, Vancouver BC, playmate (August, 1979) (Galixina) born

 1960 - 8th winter Olympic games close at Squaw Valley, Colo

 1960 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tampa Golf Open
 1960 - US wins Olympic hockey gold medal by defeating Canada
 1966 - Cavern Club (Beatles hangout) in Liverpool closes

 1966 - Sandy Koufax & Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against Dodgers

 1967 - Wilt Chamberlain sinks NBA record 35th consecutive field goal
 1970 - "Georgy" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 4 performances
 1970 - Bicycles permitted to cross Golden Gate Bridge
 1970 - Caroline Walker runs world female record marathon (3:02:53)
 1971 - 53rd PGA Championship: Jack Nicklaus shoots a 281 at PGA Natl FL
 1972 - George Harrison is involved in a minor car accident
 1974 - Bobby Bloom shot himself to death at the age of 28.

 1976 - 18th Grammy Awards: Love Will Keep Us Together, Natalie Cole wins

 1977 - Ray Charles was attacked by an audience member onstage.
 1977 - 1st killer whale born in captivity (Marineland, LA California)
 1979 - Ernest Thompson's "On Golden Pond," premieres in NYC

 1979 - Mr. Ed, the talking horse, dies.

 1980 - "The Well-Tuned Piano" by La Monte Young premieres (takes 4 h 12 m)

 1981 - Calvin Murphy (Hou), sets NBA record with 78 consecutive free throws
 1982 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
 1982 - FALN (PR Nationalist Group) bombs Wall Street

 1983 - Final TV episode of "M*A*S*H" airs (CBS); record 125 million watch

 1984 - 26th Grammy Awards: Beat It, Michael Jackson wins 8

 1988 - The Perry Mason TV movie "The Case of the Avenging Ace" aires.
 1988 - 15th Winter Olympic games close at Calgary, Canada
 1989 - Gretchen Polhemus, 23, (Texas), crowned 38th Miss USA
 1989 - Memo by Brian Gumbel criticizing Today Show co-workers becomes public
 1989 - Red Schoendienst & Al Barlick elected to baseball's Hall of Fame
 1990 - US 65th manned space mission STS 36 (Atlantis 6) launches into orbit
 1991 - "Speed of Darkness" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 36 performances
 1991 - Don Mattingly named 10th NY Yankee Captain
 1991 - Noureddine Morceli runs world record 1500m indoor (3:34:16)
 1991 - US & allied forces grant Iraq a cease fire

 2009 - Paul Harvey, radio personality dies (September 04, 1918 - February 28, 2009)

 

Pinups

 

Pinup models that inspired the artwork.  The following are the actual models used in this vintage erotica and the finished drawings.  Ooh la la....

 

 

 

February 27

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 27

 

 

1902 - John Steinbeck born, Salinas California, author (Grapes of Wrath-Nobel 1962)
1930 - Joanne Woodward, Actress ("The Three Faces of Eve") born
1932 - Elizabeth Taylor, Actress ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?") born
1932 - Explosion in coal mine Boissevain, Virginia, USA (38 dead)
 1933 - Jean Genet's "Intermezzo," premieres in Paris
 1933 - Nazis set fire to German parliament, blame it on Communists

 1934 - Van Williams, American actor, born
 1939 - English Spook house Borley Rectory destroyed in a fire
 1939 - Supreme Court outlaws sit-down strikes

 1940 - Howard Hesseman, Actor ("WKRP in Cincinnati") born

 1940 - Martin Kamen and Sam Ruben discover carbon-14

 1942 - 1st transport of French Jews to nazi-Germany
 1942 - Battle of Java Sea began 13 US warships sunk-2 Japanese
 1942 - J S Hey discovers radio emissions from Sun
 1943 - The Smith Mine #3 in Bearcreek, Montana, explodes, killing 74 men.
 1943 - The Rosenstrasse protest starts in Berlin
 1945 - Battle of US 94 Infantry
 1947 - Paul-Emile Victor French polar expeditions organized
 1949 - Debra Monk, Actress born
 1951 - 22nd amendment ratified, limiting president to 2 terms
 1955 - Betty Jameson wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
 1956 - Elvis Presley's releases "Heartbreak Hotel"

 1956 - Specialty Records releases Little Richard's "Slippin' and Slidin'."

 1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
 1959 - Chicago Cards trade running back Ollie Matson to LA Rams for 9 players

 1960 - The Miracles make their first TV appearance on "American Bandstand."
 1960 - US Olympic Ice Hockey Team beats USSR 3-2 en route to gold medal
 1962 - Adam Baldwin, actor (Full Metal Jacket, My Bodyguard)
 1963 - Mickey Mantle of NY Yankees sign a baseball contract worth $100,000

 1964 - "What Makes Sammy Run?" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 540 perfs

 1964 - The government of Italy asks for help to keep the Leaning Tower of Pisa from toppling over.
 1965 - "High Spirits" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 375 performances
 1965 - France performs Underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
 1966 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Peggy Fleming of US

 1966 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Davos won by Emmerich Danzer AUT

 1967 - Pink Floyd records their first single, "Arnold Layne."
 1970 - NY Times (falsely) reports US army has ended domestic surveillance

 1970 - Jefferson Airplane fined $1,000 for using profanity during a concert in Oklahoma City

 1973 - American Indian Movement occupy Wounded Knee in South Dakota

 1973 - Dick Allen signs a record $675,000 3-yr contract with White Sox
 1974 - "People" magazine begins sales
 1974 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1975 - House of Reps pass $21.3 billion anti-recession tax-cut bill

 1975 - Dana Marie Lane born, Cheyenne Wyoming, Miss America-Wyoming (1996)

 1977 - Judy Rankin wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
 1977 - Keith Richards gets suspended sentence for heroin possession, Canada
 1978 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 1980 - 22nd Grammy Awards: What a Fool Believe, Streisand-Diamond duet
 1981 - Josh Groban, American singer, born
 1981 - Greatest passenger load on a commercial airliner-610 on Boeing 747
 1981 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder record "Ebony & Ivory"

 1982 - Dan Issel (NBA-Nuggets), hits on 63rd consecutive free throw

 1982 - Earl Anthony becomes 1st pro bowler to win more than $1 million
 1982 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
 1984 - Carl Lewis jumps world record indoor (8,675 m)
 1986 - The United States Senate allows its debates to be televised on a trial basis.
 1987 - Mike Conley triple jumps world indoor record (17.76m)
 1987 - NCAA cancels SMU's entire 1987 football schedule for gross violations of NCAA rules regarding athletic corruption
 1988 - Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA Orient Leasing Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open
 1988 - Bonnie Blair (US) wins Olympic 500m speed skating in record 39.1
 1988 - Gulfstream G-IV goes around the world 36:08:34
 1988 - Katarina Witt (GDR) wins 2nd consecutive Olympic figure skating
 1989 - German war criminals Aus der Funten/Fischer, freed in Holland
 1990 - Exxon Corp & Exxon Shipping are indicted on 5 criminal counts (Valdez)

 1990 - Milli Vanilli's Rob Pilatus shares his perspective on life with Time magazine. In the interview he says, "Musically, we're more talented than any Bob Dylan or Paul McCartney. Mick Jagger can't produce a sound. I'm the new Elvis." The rest is history....

 1991 - Ben Elton's "Silly Cow," premieres in London

 1991 - James Brown paroled from prison after serving two years. He had been sentenced to six years in prison after leading police on an interstate car chase
 1991 - Gulf War ends after Iraqi troops retreated & Kuwait is re-taken by the US
 1991 - US led allied 6 week war with Iraq ends
 

Pop Shoppe

Did you have a Pop Shoppe nearby?

 The Pop Shoppe began creating their own soda line back in 1969. They survived until the mid '80s when grocery stores began selling their own brands of soda at a discounted price. This began the infamous soda wars and The Pop Shoppe died. But, it is beginning to make a resurrection. Production resumed in 2004. They no longer refill the bottles for you as they once did. And, they are now using cane sugar rather than corn syrup.

 

 

 

1978 Pop Shoppe Commercial

 

There's one!  Just past the Wiener King and Arthur Treacher's....

February 26

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 26

 

 

 1928 - Fats Domino is born

 

 

 

 

 1929 - Pres Calvin Coolidge establishes Grand Teton National Park
 1930 - "Green Pastures" opens at Mansfield Theater
 1930 - 1st red & green traffic lights installed (Manhattan NYC)
 1930 - West Indies make 1st Test Cricket win, by 289 runs over England

 1932 - Johnny Cash is born, Kingsland Ark, country singer

 

 1933 - Golden Gate Bridge ground-breaking ceremony held at Crissy Field
 1933 - Marinus van der Lubbe kept overnight in a police cell
 1935 - Germany begin Luftwaffe operation, under Reichsmarshall H Goering
 1935 - NY Yankees release Babe Ruth, he signs with Boston Braves
 1935 - RADAR-Radio Detection & Ranging 1st demonstrated (Robert Watson-Watt)
 1935 - The Luftwaffe is re-formed.
 1936 - Hitler introduces Ferdinand Porsche's "Volkswagen"
 1936 - Military coup in Japan
 1937 - C Isherwood/WH Auden's "Ascent of F6," premieres in London
 1938 - 1st passenger ship equipped with radar
 1938 - Rie Van Veen swims world record 200m free style (2:24.6)
 1938 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Joan Tozzer

 

 1938 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Robin Lee
 1940 - US Air Defense Command forms at Mitchel Field, LI, NY
 1941 - 2 fighters unable to continued slugfest, referee declares double KO
 1941 - Cowboys' Amateur Association of America organized (California)
 1941 - Utrecht & Zaandam strike against raid on Jews
 1941 - Vichy-France makes religious education in school mandatory
 1942 - German battle cruiser Gneisenau deactivated by bomb
 1942 - Radio Orange calls for March 1 day of prayer in Dutch Indies
 1942 - WW II Navy flier Don Mason sends message "Sighted sub sank same"
 1942 - Werner Heisenberger informs nazis about uranium project "Wunderwaffen"
 1943 - German assault moves to Beja North Tunisia
 1944 - 1st female US navy captain, Sue Dauser of nurse corps, appointed
 1945 - Very heavy bombing on Berlin by 8th US Air Force

 

 1946 - 2 killed & 10 wounded in race riot in Columbia Tenn
 1949 - USAF plane began 1st nonstop around-the-world flight
 1950 - Leonard Bernstein's "Age of Anxiety," premieres in NYC
 1951 - Bread rationing in Czechoslovakia
 1952 - Neth-Indonesian Unity conference
 1952 - PM Winston Churchill announces Britain has its own atomic bomb
 1953 - Allen W Dulles, promoted from deputy to 5th director of CIA

 1953 - Michael Bolton, Ct, rock vocalist

 

 1954 - 1st typesetting machine (photo engraving) used, Quincy Mass
 1954 - Michigan rep Ruth Thompson (R) introduces legislation to ban mailing "obscene, lewd, lascivious or filthy" phonograph (rock & roll) records

 

 1955 - "Peter Pan" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 149 performances
 1955 - 1st aviator to bail out at supersonic speed-GF Smith
 1956 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Sarasota Golf Open
 1956 - Writers Sylvia Plath & Ted Hughes meet at a party in Cambridge
 1960 - Soviet premier Khrushchev voices support for Indonesia
 1960 - USA's David Jenkins wins Olympic Gold for men's figure skating
 1960 - Verne Gagne beats Doctor X in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
 1962 - Arthur Kopit's "Oh, Dad, Poor Dad . . .," premieres in NYC
 1962 - US Supreme court disallows race separation on public transportation
 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA Phila Warriors scores 67 points vs NY
 1965 - Dutch government of Marijnen falls
 1965 - West Germany ceases military aid to Tanzania
 1966 - KBIM TV channel 10 in Roswell, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting

 1966 - Jennifer Grant, actress (Celeste-Beverly Hills 90210)

 

 1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 1967 - Verne Gagne beats Mad Dog Vachon in St Paul, to become NWA champ
 1968 - Clandestine Radio Voice of Iraqi People (Communist) final transmission
 1970 - "Georgy" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 4 performances
 1970 - Beatles release "Beatles Again" aka "Hey Jude" album

 

 1971 - Secretary-General U Thant signs United Nations proclamation of the vernal equinox as Earth Day.
 1972 - Dam break in WV kills 107
 1972 - Slag heap dam collapses above Buffalo Creek WV, kills 125
 1973 - Triple Crown horse Secretariat bought for a record $5.7m
 1974 - Gold hits record $188 an ounce in Paris
 1975 - "Night... Made America Famous" opens at Barrymore NYC for 75 perfs
 1975 - 1st televised kidney transplant (Today Show)
 1976 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1977 - 1st flight of Space Shuttle (atop a Boeing 747)
 1978 - Ira Levin's "Deathtrap," premieres in NYC
 1979 - Last total eclipse of Sun in 20th century for continental US
 1980 - Egypt & Israel exchange ambassadors for 1st time
 1981 - 3 Anglican missionaries detained in Iran since Aug 1980 are released
 1983 - Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album goes to #1 & stays #1 for 37 weeks

 

 1983 - Shortwave pirate Radio USA (Wellsville, NY) begins transmission
 1984 - Last US marines in multinatl peacekeeping force in Lebanon left Beirut
 1984 - Rev Jesse Jackson acknowledges that he called NYC, "Hymietown"
 1984 - Robert Penn Warren, Pulitzer Prize winner, named 1st US poet laureate
 1985 - 27th Grammy Awards: Whats Love Got to Do With It, Cyndi Lauper wins

 

 1986 - Evert van Benthem wins 14th Frisian 11-Cities skating race (6:55:16)
 1986 - People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
 1987 - 1st release of Beatles compact discs
 1987 - NASA launches GEOS-H
 1987 - NBA's Michael Jordan's 58 points is a Chicago Bull record
 1987 - Tower Commission probes Iran-Contra affair
 1987 - USSR resumes nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
 1987 - Wash blocks 20 Indiana shots tying NBA regulation game record
 1988 - Christa Rotherburger (GDR) skates ladies world record 1000m (1:17.65)
 1989 - "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 634 perfs
 1989 - NY Yankees announce that Tom Seaver is their new TV sportscaster
 1989 - California court throws out most of Margo Adams's $12 million breach-of- contract suit against Red Sox third baseman Wade Boggs
 1990 - USSR agrees to withdraw all 73,500 troops from Czech by July, 1991
  1991 - Bill Veeck & Tony Lazzeri elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
 1991 - Kuwaiti resistance leaders declare they have control of their capital
 

Donald Duck Soda

Do you remember the Donald Duck Sodas?

Donald Duck soft drinks were the first sodas to be produced by General Beverages, Inc. of Chattanooga, Tennessee. They were licensed by the Double Cola Company to produce the Donald Duck line.



The sodas were introduced in the 1940s and included flavors such as Lemon Lime, Grape, Orange, Strawberry, Black Cherry, Root Beer, Cola and Ginger Ale.

Donald Duck Soda was released in both bottles and cone-top cans, and later, punch-tab cans. The brand was discontinued in the late 1950s.

February 25

 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 25

 1932 - Immigrant Adolf Hitler gets German citizenship

 1933 - 1st genuine aircraft carrier christened, USS Ranger
 1933 - Major NFL rule changes (hash mark 10 yds in, posts on goal line)
 1933 - Thomas Yawkey purchases Boston Red Sox
 1938 - British Lord Halifax becomes Foreign Minister
 1939 - 1st Anderson bomb shelter in Britain erected in an Islington garden
 1940 - 1st televised (W2XBS, NYC) hockey game (Rangers vs Canadians)
 1941 - Boston Bruins set NHL record of 23-game unbeaten streak (15-0-8)
 1941 - February strike against persecution of Jews, in Amsterdam
 1943 - Vietminh forms Indo Chinese Democratic Front
 1944 - US 1st Army completes invasion plan
 1945 - US aircraft carriers attack Tokyo
 1945 - World War II: Turkey declares war on Germany.
 1948 - Communists seize Czechoslovakia/C Gottwald becomes premier
 1949 - WAC Corporal rocket achieves height of 400k (record)
 1950 - "Your Show of Shows" with Sid Caesar & Imogene Coca premieres on NBC Writers include Mel Brooks, Neil Simon & Woody Allen

 1951 - "Michael Todd's Peep Show" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 278 perf
 1951 - 1st Pan American Games opens (Buenos Aires Argentina)
 1951 - Babe Didrikson-Zaharias wins Orlando Florida 2 Ball Golf Tournament
 1952 - 6th Winter Olympic games close at Oslo, Norway
 1953 - "Wonderful Town" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 559 perfs
 1954 - Abdul Nasser appointed Egyptian premier
 1956 - Khrushchev denounces Stalin at 20th Soviet Party Conference
 1957 - Buddy Holly & Crickets record "That'll Be the Day"

 1957 - Supreme Court decides 6-3, baseball is only antitrust exempt pro sport
 1960 - John Cage's "Music for Amplified Toy Pianos," premieres
 1960 - Lillian Hellman's "Toys in the Attic," premieres in NYC
 1961 - Niagara ends St Bonaventura's 99-game home basketball win streak
 1961 - Paul Bikle in glider climbs from 1208 m at release to record 14,10
 1962 - India Congress Party wins elections
 1962 - Mike O'Hara completes record 97th marathon
 1962 - Robert Kennedy visits Netherlands
 1963 - Beatles release their 1st single in US "Please Please Me"

 1964 - Austrian chancellor Alfons Gorbach resigns
 1964 - Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay) TKOs Sonny Liston in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
 1966 - Syrian military coup under Hafiz al-Assad
 1968 - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
 1968 - Makarios re-elected president of Cyprus
 1969 - Beatles begin recording Abbey Road album
 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

 1969 - Pension plan for baseball is agreed to
 1969 - Germany gives $5 million to an Arab terrorist as ransom for the passengers and crew of a hijacked jumbo jet.
 1971 - "Oh! Calcutta!" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 1,316 performances
 1971 - P Zindel's "And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little," premieres in NYC
 1972 - Lopsided trade, Cards trade Steve Carlton to Phillies for Rick Wise
 1972 - Paul McCartney releases "Give Ireland back to the Irish" single
 1973 - "Little Night Music" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 601 performances

 1973 - Juan Corona sentenced to 25 life sentences for 25 murders
 1974 - Veronica & Colin Scargill (England) begin tandem bicycle ride a record 18,020 miles around the world, completed on August 27, 1975
 1975 - Ewen Chatfield flattened by Peter Lever & seriously injured
 1977 - New Orleans' Pete Maravich sets NBA record for a guard with 68 pts
 1977 - Oil tanker explosion west of Honolulu spills 31 million gallons
 1977 - Soyuz 24 returns to Earth
 1978 - Botham scores 1st Test Cricket century, 103 v NZ Christchurch
 1979 - Jane Blalock wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
 1979 - Soyuz 32 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station is launched
 1980 - Coup ousts PM Henck Arron of Suriname
 1981 - 23rd Grammy Awards: Sailing, Christopher Cross, Billy Joel wins

 1981 - Calgary Flames scored 11 goals against the Islanders
 1981 - Exec Board of Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29
 1981 - L Calvo Sotelo elected premier of Spain
 1981 - NHL most penalized game; Bruins vs Northstars, 84 penalties (392 mins)
 1981 - NY Islanders give up their most goals (11) vs Calgary Flames
 1981 - Rita Jenrette (wife of Abscam congressman) appears on Donahue
 1981 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1981 - Exec Board of Baseball Players' Association votes unanimously to strike on May 29 if the issue of free-agent compensation remains unresolved
 1982 - Final episode of "The Lawrence Welk Show" airs

 1982 - Record speed for a snowmobile (239 kph)
 1986 - 28th Grammy Awards: We Are the World, Sade, Phil Collins wins
 1986 - Corazon Aquino becomes president of Philippines, Marcos flees
 1986 - Iran conquerors Iraq peninsula Fao
 1986 - Thousands of Egyptian military police riot, destroy 2 luxury hotel
 1987 - LaMarr Hoyt is banned from baseball for 1987, due to drug abuse
 1987 - Michael Jordan, scores Chicago Bull record 58 points in a game
 1987 - US Supreme Court upholds (5-4) affirmative action
 1988 - Bruce Springsteen "Tunnel of Love Tour," begins in Worcester Mass
 1989 - Dallas Cowboys fire coach Tom Landry after a 29-year career
 1989 - Dallas Cowboys' new owner fires 29-year coach Tom Landry
 1989 - Mike Tyson TKOs Frank Bruno in 5 for heavyweight boxing title
 1990 - Australia beat Pakistan 2-0 to win the Cricket World Series Cup
 1990 - Nicaraguans votes out Sandinistas
 1990 - On a BBC taped interview, rock star Stevie Nicks breaks down, saying that she will never have children & no man can stand her for long

Karen Grassle/Caroline Ingalls

Happy Birthday to Karen Grassle (Feb. 25, 1944), best known for her role as Caroline Ingalls in the NBC series,

 Little House on the Prairie.

 

 

 

Now I have to watch the rest of it....

This is a scene from Little House, season 3, "Bully Boys".

 

Don Knotts

Remembering Jesse Donald "Don" Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006).
Some fun facts for ya: In 1996, TV Guide ranked him number 27 on its 50 Greatest TV Stars of All Time list.
 Knotts is a sixth cousin of Ron Howard, a co-star on the Andy Griffith Show.
An urban legend claims that Knotts served in the United States Marine Corps during World War II, serving as a drill instructor at Parris Island. In reality, Knotts enlisted in the United States Army after graduating from Morgantown High School and spent most of his service entertaining troops.

Don Knotts as The Incredible Mr. Limpet

February 24

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 24

 1933 - League of Nations tells Japanese to pull out of Manchuria
 1937 - 1st US group hospital-medical cooperative authorized, Wash, DC
 1938 - Du Pont begins commercial production of nylon toothbrush bristles
 1939 - Roy Harris' 3rd Symphony, premieres in Boston
 1940 - Frances Langford records "When You Wish Upon a Star"
 1941 - Anti nazi meeting at Noordermarkt Amsterdam
 1942 - Voice of America begins broadcasting (in German)
 1942 - The "Battle of Los Angeles" takes place, lasting until the next day.
 1943 - Gen-major Bradley flies to Algiers
 1943 - Texas League announces it will quit for the duration of WW II
 1944 - Argentina coup by Juan Peron minister of war
 1945 - Egypt & Syria declares war on nazi-Germany
 1945 - Manila freed from Japanese
 1945 - Nazi occupiers begin state of siege
 1945 - Egyptian Premier Ahmed Maher Pasha is killed in Parliament after reading a decree.
 1946 - Juan Peron elected President of Argentina
 1948 - Communist Party seizes complete control of Czechoslovakia
 1949 - Israel & Egypt sign an armistice agreement
 1949 - V-2/WAC-Corporal 1st rocket to outer space, White Sands, NM, 400 km
 1950 - Labour wins British parliamentary election
 1951 - "Bless You All" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 84 perfs
 1951 - Ice Pairs Championship at Milan won by Ria Baran & Paul Falk of GER
 1951 - Ladies Figure Skating Champion in Milan won by Jeanette Altwegg of GRB
 1951 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Milan won by Richard Button USA
 1952 - Betty MacKinnon & Sam Snead wins LPGA Orlando Mixed Golf Tournament
 1955 - "Silk Stockings" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 461 performances
 1955 - Pact of Baghdad between Iraq & Turkey signed
 1960 - Italian government of Segni falls
 1960 - US beats Germany in Olympic hockey finals round, 9-1
 1961 - Explorer (10) fails to reach Earth orbit
 1962 - "New Faces of '62" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 28 performances
 1962 - "Sail Away" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 167 performances
 1962 - General mobilization in Indonesia over New-Guinea
 1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1965 - Beatles begin filming "Help" in Bahamas
 1965 - East German president Ulbricht visits Egypt

 1965 - The Beach Boys record "Help Me Rhonda"

 1966 - Coup ousts Pres Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana
 1966 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1968 - "Darling of the Day" closes at George Abbott NYC after 31 perfs
 1968 - 1st pulsar discovered (CP 1919 by Jocelyn Burnell at Cambridge)
 1968 - Discovery of 1st pulsar announced
 1968 - Gary Unger begins NHL consecutive game record of 914 games
 1968 - Jocelyn Bell discovers 1st pulsar
 1968 - US troops reconquer Hue Vietnam
 1969 - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby

 1969 - The Jimi Hendrix Experience played its last British concert before breaking up

 1970 - 29 Swiss Army officers die in avalanche (Reckingen, Switzerland)
 1970 - Heintje Simons (14) wins 7 gold records
 1970 - KVDO TV channel 3 in Salem, OR (IND) begins broadcasting
 1971 - Algeria nationalizes French oil companies
 1974 - Atje Keulen-Deelstra becomes world champ all-round skater
 1974 - Pakistan officially recognizes Bangladesh
 1976 - Cuba adopts its constitution
 1976 - Jules Feiffer's "Knock Knock," premieres in NYC
 1976 - Leonid Brezhnev opens 25th congress of CPSU
 1977 - Pres Carter announces US foreign aid will consider human rights
 1978 - Kevin Porter, NJ, sets NBA record with 29 assists in a game
 1979 - Highest price ever paid for a pig, $42,500, Stamford, Texas

 1979 - "Roxanne" released by The Police

 1979 - War between North & South Yemen begins
 1980 - "Canterbury Tales" closes at Rialto Theater NYC after 16 performances
 1980 - Joanne Carner Ladies wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
 1980 - Rangers score 5 power-play goals against Islanders
 1980 - USA Olympic hockey team defeated Finland, 4-2, to win the gold medal
 1981 - Boston Celtics begin 18 NBA game win streak
 1981 - Britain's Prince Charles announces engagement to Lady Diana Spencer
 1981 - Jean Harris is convicted of murdering Scarsdale diet doctor Tarnower
 1981 - An earthquake registering 6.7 on the Richter scale hits Athens, killing 16 people and destroying buildings in several towns west of the city.
 1982 - 24th Grammy Awards: Betty Davis Eyes, Double Fantasy wins
 1982 - Wayne Gretzky scores NHL-record 78th goal of season en route to 92

 1983 - Dow Jones closes above 1100 mark for 1st time
 1983 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
 1983 - A special commission of the U.S. Congress releases a report that condemns the practice of Japanese internment during World War II.
 1984 - Iraq resumes air attack on Iran
 1985 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Circle K Golf Open Tucson
 1985 - Birendra, Bir Bikram Shah Dev crowned King of Nepal
 1985 - Jim Kelly (Houston USFL) passes for pro football record 574 yds
 1985 - Yul Brynner reprised his role in "The King & I"
 1986 - Texas Air buys Eastern Airlines for $676 million
 1986 - Voyager 2, 1st Uranus flyby
 1987 - 29th Grammy Awards: Higher Love, Graceland, Bruce Hornsby wins

 1987 - Fats Domino receives a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 29th annual Grammy Awards

 1987 - LA Laker Kareem Abdul-Jabbar scores his 36,000th NBA point
 1987 - Radio personality Larry King suffers a heart attack
 1988 - Matti Nykanen becomes winter olympics 1st triple gold medalist
 1988 - South African apartheid regime bans the UDF
 1988 - Supreme Ct votes 8-0 Jerry Falwell cannot collect for Hustler parody

 1988 - Alice Cooper announces he will run for Governor of Arizona as a member of the "Wild Party"

 1989 - 150-million-year-old fossil egg (oldest dinosaur embryo) found
 1989 - Harold E Ballard sells CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats to David Braley
 1989 - Margaret Ray found in David Letterman's home, claims to be his wife
 1989 - US Boeing 747 loses parts of roof over Pacific, 9 die
 1989 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
 1989 - Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini offers $1M-$3M bounty on Salman Rushdie's death due to his novel, "Satanic Verses"
 1991 - "Those Were The Days" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 126 perfs
 1991 - End of World League of American Football's (WLAF) 1st draft
 1991 - US & allies begin a ground war assault on Iraqi troops
 1993 - 35th Grammy Awards: Tears in Heaven, Eric Clapton wins

 

February 23

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 23

1927 - Pres Calvin Coolidge creates Federal Radio Commission (FCC)
1934 - Casey Stengel becomes manager of Brooklyn Dodgers
1934 - Coronation of King Leopold III of Belgium
1936 - 1st rocket air mail flight, Greenwood Lake, NY
1938 - Joe Louis KOs Nathan Mann in 3 for heavyweight boxing title
1939 - Lou Thesz beats E Marshall in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1940 - Russian troops conquer Lasi Island
1940 - Walt Disney's animated movie "Pinocchio," released

1941 - Plutonium was first produced and isolated by Dr. Glenn T. Seaborg.
1942 - Japanese sub fires on oil refinery in Ellwood, Calif
1943 - Gen-Maj Bradley arrives in Dakar & Marrakesh
1943 - German troops pull back through Kasserine-pass Tunisia
1944 - Forced deportation of the Chechen and Ingush people to Central Asia.
1945 - 2nd Dutch government of Gerbrandy forms in London
1945 - Canadian troops occupy Kalkar
1945 - Operation Grenade: Gen Simpsons 9th Army crosses Ruhr
1945 - US Marines raise flag on Iwo Jima, famous photo & statue

1947 - Gen Eisenhower opens drive to raise $170M in aid for European Jews
1954 - 1st mass inoculation with Salk vaccine (Pittsburgh)
1954 - Syrian army drives out president Adib el-Shishakli
1955 - Edgar Faure forms French government
1956 - 20th Congress of CPSU closes in Moscow
1956 - Russian party leader Khrushchev attacks memory of Stalin
1957 - "Mr Wonderful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 383 performances
1957 - The founding congress of the Senegalese Popular Bloc is opened in Dakar.
1958 - 5-time world driving champion Juan Fangio kidnapped by Cuban rebels
1958 - Arturo Frondizi elected president of Argentina
1958 - Last Municipal arc light, Mission & 25th removed (installed in 1913)
1958 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1959 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1959 - KVIE TV channel 6 in Sacramento-Stockton, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1960 - Demolition begins on Brooklyn's Ebbets Field (opened in 1913)
1962 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - Charlie Finley signs a 4 year lease to keep A's in Kansas City
1965 - Constance Baker Motley elected Manhattan Borough president

1965 - Stan Laurel, comedian (Laurel & Hardy), dies of heart attack at 74

1966 - Aldo Moro forms Italian government
1966 - Military coup in Syria ends Bitar government
1966 - Premier Obote grabs power in Uganda
1967 - 25th amendment (presidential succession) declared ratified
1967 - John Herbert's "Fortune & Men's Eyes," premieres in NYC
1967 - Ted Workman replaces Senator Keith Davey as CFL commissioner
1967 - US troops begin largest offensive of Vietnam War
1968 - Wilt Chamberlain becomes 1st NBAer to score 25,000 points
1969 - Nayif Hawatimah forms Dem People's Front for Liberation of Palestine
1969 - WWVU (now WNPB) TV channel 24 in Morgantown, WV (PBS) 1st broadcast
1970 - Guyana becomes a republic (National Day)
1970 - Holy Eucharist given by women for 1st time in Roman Catholic service
1971 - Boston Bruins begin 13 NHL game win streak
1971 - George Harrison is fined & his driving license is suspended for 1 year
1971 - Lt Calley confessed & implicates Captain Medina
1973 - Gold goes up $10 overnight to record $95 an ounce in London
1974 - Patty Hearst, daughter of publisher Randolph Hearst, kidnapped by SLA

1974 - Teri Garr appears on Bob Newhart Show in "Confessions of an Orth"
1975 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Orange Blossom Golf Classic
1975 - In response to the energy crisis, daylight saving time commences nearly two months early in the United States.
1976 - Owners announce spring training won't open without a labor contract
1978 - 20th Grammy Awards: Hotel California, Fleetwood Mac, Debbie Boone wins
1979 - "Sarava" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 140 performances
1979 - Frank Peterson Jr named 1st black general in Marine Corps
1979 - George Harrison releases "George Harrison" album
1980 - 13th Winter Olympic games close at Lake Placid, NY
1980 - Eric Heiden wins all 5 speed skating golds at Lake Placid Olympics
1980 - France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 - Oil tanker explosion off Pilos, Greece, causes 37-mil-gallon spill
1981 - People mag features drug ordeal of Mackenzie & Papa John Phillips
1981 - Spanish coup under lt-col Antonio Tejero Molina fails
1982 - Michael Frayn's "Noises Off," premieres in London
1983 - 25th Grammy Awards: Roxanna, Toto IV, Men at Work wins
1983 - USFL NJ Generals sign Heisman winner Herschel Walker (3 years-$5 mil)
1983 - The Spanish Socialist government of Felipe González and Miguel Boyer nationalizes Rumasa, a holding of José María Ruiz Mateos.
1983 - The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces its intent to buy out and evacuate the dioxin-contaminated community of Times Beach, Missouri.
1985 - Indiana basketball coach Bobby Knight throws a chair during a game
1985 - US Senate confirms Edwin Meese III as attorney general
1986 - Despite losing, Red Sox Wade Boggs gets largest arbitration ($1.35M)
1986 - Mary Beth Zimmerman wins LPGA Standard Register/Samaritan Golf Classic
1986 - Nelli Fiere-Cooman runs world record 60 m indoor (7.00 sec)

February 22

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 22

 

 

 

 1933 - Goering forms SA/SS-police, shoots 40-50
 1934 - "It Happened One Night," opens at NY's Radio City Music Hall
 1935 - Airplanes are no longer permitted to fly over the White House
 1936 - Construction on Ypenburg Neth airport begins
 1939 - Netherlands recognizes Franco-regime in Spain
 1940 - Finnish troops vacate Koivisto island
 1940 - German air force sinks 2 German destroyers, killing 578
 1941 - Arthur T "Bomber" Harris becomes British Air Marshal
 1941 - German assault on El Agheila Libya
 1941 - IG Farben decides building Buna-Werke in Auschwitz Concentration Camp
 1941 - Nazi SS begin rounding up Jews of Amsterdam

 

 1941 - Paul Creston's 1st Symphony, premieres
 1941 - Roy Harris' "Ballad of a Railroad Man," premieres
 32nd US President Franklin Roosevelt 1942 - World War II: President Franklin Roosevelt orders General Douglas MacArthur out of the Philippines as American defenses collapse
 1943 - Members of White Rose are executed in Nazi Germany.
 1944 - US 8th Air Force bombs Enschede, Arnhem & Nijmegen by mistake/800+ die
 1945 - Arab League froms (Cairo)
 1945 - British troops take Ramree Island, Burma
 1945 - Canadian 3rd Division occupies Moyland
 1948 - Arabs bomb attack in Jerusalem, 50 die
 1950 - Brockway & Weinstock publish "Men of Music" (rev ed)
 1955 - British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sets sail
 1956 - 1st British soccer match at Kunstlicht: Portsmouth vs Newcastle United
 1956 - Elvis Presley's 1st hit in Billboard's top 10: "Heartbreak Hotel"

 

 1957 - Jockey Ted Atkinson, 3,500th win
 1957 - Walter O'Malley says Dodgers may play 10 exhibitions in California in 1958
 1958 - "Portotino" closes at Adelphi Theater NYC after 3 performances
 1958 - Australian swimmer Jon Konrads sets 6 world records in 2 days
 Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley 1958 - Egypt & Syria form United Arab Republic (UAR)
 1958 - Indonesian air force bombs Padang, Sumatra/Menado, Celebes
 1959 - 1st Daytona 500 auto race-Lee Petty wins (135.521 MPH)
 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain sets NBA record with 34 free throw attempts

 

 1963 - Beatles begin their own music publishing company (Northern Songs)
 1964 - Beatles arrive back in England after their 1st US visit
 1965 - USSR launches Kosmos 57 into earth orbit (Voskhod Test)
 1966 - Soviets launch Kosmos 110 with Veterok & Ugolek, 1st 2-dog crew
 1967 - Barbara Garson's "MacBird," premieres in NYC
 1967 - Sling-shot goal post & 6' wide border around field are standard in NFL
 1967 - 25,000 US & S Vietnamese troops launched Operation Junction City, offensive to smash Viet Cong stronghold near Cambodian border
 1968 - Rock group Genesis release their 1st record "Silent Sun"
 1969 - Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st female jockey to win at a major US track

 

 1970 - "Charles Aznavour" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 23 perfs
 1971 - Lt Gen Hafiz al-Assad becomes President of Syria
 1972 - Khalifa bin Hamad Al Thani becomes Amir & Prime Minister of Qatar
 1972 - President Nixon, meets with Chinese Premier Chou En-Lai in Beijing
 1973 - US & China agree to establish liaison offices in Beijing & Wash DC
 1974 - Ethiopian police shoot at demonstrators

 1975 -  Actress Drew Barrymore is born

 

 

  1976 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Bent Tree Golf Classic
 1978 - 2 tankers with propane gas explode killing 15 at Waverly, Tenn
 1979 - Billy Martin named manager of Oakland A's

 

 1979 - Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Primate & Cat Building is dedicated
 1979 - St Lucia gains independence from Britain
 1980 - Afghanistan declares martial law
 1980 - USA beats USSR in Olympic hockey 4-3 en route to a gold medal
 1981 - Amy Alcott wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
 1982 - NYC Mayor Koch announces he will run for NY governor (unsuccessful)
 1983 - Vladimir Salnikov (USSR) sets 1500m free style swimming record
 1984 - Brothers Anton & Peter Stastny score 8 pts each for NHL Quebec
 1986 - Start of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines.
 1987 - Bruno Marie-Rose runs world record 200m indoor (20.36 sec)
 1988 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500m (39.10 sec)

 

 1989 - Fins ministry of Public health installs sex vacation to thwart stress
 1989 - NY Lotto pays $26.9 million to one winner (#s are 1-5-12-19-44-50)
 1989 - UK physicist Stephen Hawking calls Star Wars a "deliberate fraud"
 1989 - US authors demonstrate against Iranian death treats against Salman Rushdee, author of "Satanic Rituals"
 1989 - 31st Grammy Awards: Don't Worry Be Happy, Faith, Tracy Chapman
 1989 - 1st Spanish commercial on network TV (Pepsi-Cola-CBS Grammy Award)
 1990 - 1st day India v NZ cricket at Auckland NZ 5-78 at lunch, 9-387 stumps
 1991 - Bush & US Gulf War allies give Iraq 24 hrs to begin Kuwait withdrawal

TV Dinners

Mmm...Salisbury Steak, creamy mashed potatoes

and mixed veggies.

And, we get to eat in front of the TV!

 

Swanson Turkey TV Dinner 1950's

 

February 21

ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY ~ FEBRUARY 21

1925 - 1st issue of "New Yorker" magazine published

1925 - Mass meeting of SPD's Reichsbanner Black-Red-Gold in Magdeburg
1927 - Franz Lehr's opera "Zarewitsch," premieres
1930 - Marc Connelly's "Green Pastures," premieres in NYC
1931 - Alka Seltzer introduced
1931 - Chicago White Sox & NY Giants play 1st exhibition night game
1932 - Andre Tardieu becomes premier of France
1932 - Camera exposure meter patented, WN Goodwin
1934 - Nicaraguan patriot Augusto Cesar Sandino assassinated by Natl Guard
1937 - Initial flight of the first successful flying car, Waldo Waterman's Arrowbile.
1937 - The League of Nations bans foreign national "volunteers" in the Spanish Civil War.
1939 - Belgian government of Pierlot forms
1941 - Omar Bradley is promoted to the rank of brigadier general
1942 - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jane Vaughn
1942 - US male Figure Skating championship won by Bobby Specht
1943 - Dutch RC bishops protest against persecution of Jews
1943 - German offensive at Western Dorsalgebergte Tunisia
1944 - "War As It Happens" news show premieres on NBC TV (NYC only)
1945 - Archbishop De Jong calls for help with war casualties
1945 - British Army captures Goch
1945 - US 10th Armour division overthrows Orscholz line
1946 - Anti-British demonstrations in Egypt
1947 - 1st broadcast of 1st US TV soap opera "A Woman to Remember"

1947 - 1st instant developing camera demonstrated in NYC, by E H Land
1947 - Whipper Billy Watson beats Bill Longson, to become wrestling champ
1948 - NASCAR is incorporated.
1950 - WOI TV channel 5 in Ames-Des Moines, IA (ABC/PBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - SC House urges "Shoeless Joe" Jackson be reinstated
1952 - Bangladesh Martyrs Day (martyrs of Bengali Language Movement)
1952 - Dick Button performs 1st figure skating triple jump in competition
1953 - "Maggie" closes at National Theater NYC after 5 performances
1953 - F Crick & J Watson discover structure of DNA-molecule
1953 - Longest collegiate basketball game (6 OTs) Niagara beats Siena 88-81
1957 - Dodgers (Fort Worth) & Cubs (LA) "trade" minor league franchises
1958 - "Portotino" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 3 performances
1958 - Egypt-Syria as UAR elect Nasser president (99.9% vote)
1960 - Fay Crocker wins LPGA Lake Worth Golf Open
1961 - Friedrich Durrenmatt's "Die Physiker," premieres in Zurich
1961 - Gabon adopts constitution
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 2 reentry Test reaches 172 km
1962 - Minister De Pous confirms natural gas reserves in Groningen Neth
1963 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 - UK flies 24,000 rolls of Beatle wallpaper to US
1966 - Indonesia's president Sukarno fires General Nasution
1968 - 150,000 demonstrate against leftist students in West-Berlin
1968 - Baseball announces a minimum annual salary of $10,000
1969 - 1st launching of heavy N-1 rocket at Baikonur Kazachstan (explodes)
1969 - Ted Williams signs 5-year contract to manage Wash Senators
1970 - Jackson 5 make TV debut on "American Bandstand"

1970 - Pathet Lao conquerors Xieng Khuang & Muong Suy
1971 - Ruth Jessen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1971 - Series of tornadoes cuts through Miss & La killing 117
1971 - The Convention on Psychotropic Substances is signed at Vienna.
1972 - Michael Weller's "Moonchildren," premieres in NYC
37th US President Richard Nixon 1972 - Richard Nixon becomes 1st US president to visit China
1973 - Chicago Black Hawks, record 262nd NHL game without being shut-out
1973 - Israeli fighters shoot Libyan aircraft down, killing 108
1974 - Israeli forces leave western Suez
1974 - Silver hits record $5.96½ an ounce in London
1974 - Yugoslavia adopts constitution
1975 - John Lennon releases "Rock 'n' Roll" album

1975 - John Mitchell, HR Haldeman & John D Ehrlichman sentenced to 2½-8 yrs
1976 - "Rockabye Hamlet" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 7 perfs
1976 - Cardinal Willebrands installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1977 - 74 Unification Church couples wed in NYC
1979 - Japan launches Hakucho x-ray satellite & Corsa-B (550/580 km)
1979 - 2 Iowa girls HS basketball teams play 4 scoreless quarters game was won 4-2 in 4th overtime period
1980 - Eric Heiden skates Olympic record 1500m in 1:55.44
1980 - Hanni Wenzel is 1st Liechtensteiner to win Olymp gold (giant slalom)
Rocker/Beatle John Lennon

1981 - "Yorkshire Ripper" Peter Sutcliffe, murderer of 13 women, captured
1981 - Charles Rocket clearly says "fuck" on Saturday Night Live
1981 - Japan launches Hinotori satellite to study solar flares (580/640 k)
1981 - NASA launches Comstar D-4
1982 - "Ain't Misbehavin'" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 1604 perfs
1982 - "Little Me" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater NYC after 36 performances
1982 - Beth Daniel wins LPGA Bent Tree Ladies Golf Classic
1983 - Donald Davis runs 1 mile backwards in 6 m 7.1 s
1983 - NBA San Diego Clippers begin a 29 game road losing streak
1985 - Evert van Benthem wins 13th Friese 11 city skateing race
1985 - Largest NBA crowd to date 44,970 (Atlanta at Detroit)
1985 - Tim Raines is awarded a $12 million salary for 1985 by arbitrator
1986 - AIDS patient Ryan White returns to classes at Western Middle School
1986 - Tennis star Jimmy Connors fined $20,000 & suspended for 10 weeks
1987 - Cindy Rarick wins LPGA Tsumura Hawaiian Ladies Golf Open

1987 - Syrian army marches into Beirut
1988 - Gustafson skates world record 10km (13:48.20)
1988 - Televangelist Jimmy Swaggert confesses his sins to his congregation
1989 - Pete Rose meets with Commissioner Ueberroth to discuss his gambling
1989 - US bust Chinese ring, capture record 820 lbs heroin ($1B st value)
1989 - US capture record 820 lbs of heroin ($1 B street value)[dup]
1990 - 32nd Grammy Awards: Wind Beneath My Wings, Nick of Time wins
1991 - "Lost in Yonkers" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC for 780 perfs
1991 - Neil Simon's "Lost in Yonkers," premieres in NYC