Archive for October, 2016

FIRST MANNED FLIGHT ON THIS DAY IN 1968

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Left to right: Don Fulton Eisele (senior pilot/navigator), Wally Schirra
(commander), and R. Walter Cunningham (pilot/systems engineer.

Apollo 7 was the first manned Apollo mission and the first in which live television broadcasts were received from orbit.

             

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A REVIEW OF PAST WORLD EVENTS

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TIM MAGUIRE

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George Orson Welles
 (May 6, 1915 – October 10, 1985)

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RECORDED ON THIS DAY IN 1958

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The song "C’mon Everybody" got to No. 35 on the Billboard Hot
100
and is ranked No. 403 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list
of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

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Edward Raymond "Eddie" Cochran
(October 3, 1938 – April 17, 1960)

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RADIO SERIES BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1943

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Land of the Lost
was a radio fantasy adventure, written and narrated by Isabel
Manning Hewson. It was broadcast Saturday mornings at 11:30 am on the ABC
Blue network until September 22, 1945. In 1944, it also was on ABC Tuesdays
at 7:00pm from July 4 until October 3. On October 14, 1945, the series moved
to Mutual, where it was heard until July 6, 1946 (Sundays at 3:30 until mid-
January and then Saturdays at 11:30am). Sponsored by Bosco, Land of the
Lost
aired on ABC from October 11, 1947 until the end of the run on July 3,
1948.

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Isabel Manning Hewson was a native of
Baltimore. MD.

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FROM PDX RETRO ~

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