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Tuesday, September 22, 2009

On this day in...


On this day in...
1692 – Last people hanged for witchcraft in the United States.
1888 – The first issue of National Geographic Magazine is published.
1896 – Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the longest reigning monarch in British history.
1951 – The first live sporting event seen coast-to-coast in the United States, a college football game between Duke and the University of Pittsburgh, is televised on NBC.
1975 – Sara Jane Moore tries to assassinate U.S. President Gerald Ford, but is foiled by Oliver Sipple.
1980 – Iraq invades Iran.
1991 – The Dead Sea Scrolls are made available to the public for the first time by the Huntington Library.

Births
1927 – Tommy Lasorda, American baseball manager
1934 – Lute Olson, American basketball coach
1943 – Toni Basil, American singer
1958 – Joan Jett, American rock-and-roll singer
1961 – Scott Baio, American actor
1961 – Bonnie Hunt, American actress
1970 – Mystikal, American rapper
1974 – Bob Sapp, American boxer and kickboxer

A pretty good day with the first football game of all-time being broadcast. Also, who would've guessed that Bonnie Hunt was the same age as Scott Baio. I know Baio is no spring chicken but I think of Bonnie Hunt as a grandma. Maybe that's unfair. I don't know. But I do know what video we're playing today.

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