Archive for February 13th, 2013

Feb

TV HOME GAME AD FROM 1964 ~

Show host Hugh Downs

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Feb

NOTED TEST PILOT IS 90 TODAY!

Chuck Yeager and his Bell X-1 experimental supersonic plane, named
after his wife.

Charles Elwood "Chuck" Yeager is a retired major general in the
United States Air Force and former test pilot. He was the first pilot
to travel faster than sound in 1947.

Nov.-Dec. 2010

Yeager is depicted by actor Sam Shepard in the 1983 film "The Right Stuff".

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Feb

NEWS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

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COMIC STRIP DEBUTED ON THIS DAY IN 1937

First Strip

Prince Valiant in the Days of King Arthur, or simply Prince Valiant, is a long-
run comic strip created by Harold Foster in 1937. The strip currently appears
weekly in more than 300 newspapers, according to its to its distributor, King Features Syndicate.