Today In Time

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1692 - Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne and black slave Tituba arrested for witchcraft in Salem.

1873 - E. Remington and Sons of Ilion, NY began the manufacturing of the first practical typewriter. The strong as steel, heavy black clunkers became instant fixtures in offices across the country. It would be another half-century before electric typewriters made their appearance.

1888 - Post Office starts first parcel post service between Canada and the US.

1912 - Captain Albert Berry of the Jefferson Barracks in St. Louis, MO made the first parachute jump from a moving airplane. He jumped from an altitude of 1,500 feet at a speed of 50 mph.

1932 - Radio’s greatest effort of on-the-spot news coverage began as NBC and CBS radio rushed to Hopewell, NJ to cover the kidnapping of the Charles and Anne Lindbergh baby.

1968 - Country music stars Johnny Cash and June Carter got married on this day. Johnny walked down the aisle knowing that his 1956 hit, Folsom Prison Blues, was about to be redone for a June release.

1974 - US grand jury issues indictments against seven of President Richard Nixon's top aides, including John Ehrlichman, in the Watergate case.

1989 - Track coach Charlie Francis tells Dubin Inquiry that his pupil Ben Johnson and other athletes knowingly took banned steroids; testifies Johnson started using steroids in 1981; Johnson also admits guilt in testimony that June.

1999 - Some 130 nations agreed to a United Nations Treaty banning land mines which went into effect this day. The U.S., Russia and China did not sign the treaty.

BIRTHDAYS
1904 - Glenn Miller - bandleader: Moonlight Serenade, In the Mood, Little Brown Jug, Chattanooga Choo-Choo, String of Pearls, Tuxedo Junction, Perfidia; led WWII U.S. Army Air Force Band; presumed dead after his plane disappeared over the English Channel Dec 15, 1944

1910 - (James) David (Graham) Niven - Academy Award-winning actor: Separate Tables [1958], The Moon is Blue, Paper Tiger, The Pink Panther, The Guns of Navarone, Around the World in 80 Days, Casino Royale; died July 29, 1983

1914 - Ralph Waldo Ellison - author: Invisible Man; essayist: Shadow and Act, Going to the Territory; died Apr 16, 1994

1927 - Harry Belafonte - singer: The Banana Boat Song, Jamaica Farewell, Mary’s Boy Child; actor: Island in the Sun, Buck and the Preacher; UNICEF goodwill ambassador;

1947 - Alan Thicke - actor: Hope & Gloria, Growing Pains, Not Quite Human series; TV host: Thicke of the Night, Animal Crack-Ups

1954 - Ron Howard - Emmy Award-winning producer: From the Earth to the Moon [1998]; actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13

[observer]

1974 - US grand jury issues indictments against seven of President Richard Nixon's top aides, including John Ehrlichman, in the Watergate case.

And almost 30 years later, references are being made in CANADIAN parliament comparing some activities to those of that Nixon administration.

[observer]

1954 - Ron Howard - Emmy Award-winning producer: From the Earth to the Moon [1998]; actor: The Andy Griffith Show, Happy Days, American Graffiti; director: Night Shift, Splash, Cocoon, Backdraft, Apollo 13

Didn't he come a long way from that little kid - what was his name? Obie? - on the Andy Griffith show?

One of the movies that he directed that I REALLY enjoyed was Cocoon. Does anyone remember seeing that?

[Slowfood]

Cocoon and the sequel were both on TV recently. Never watched them the whole way through before.
I liked Night Shift too.
Let's just say he does excellent work.

[observer]

Hey slowfood - just had a good look at your avatar - that doesn't look a great deal like "slow food" - looks good enough, but not the image of healthy, slow food!

[Slowfood]

It actually looks like me a bit. I am moustachioed, and have been since I was 16.

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