Archive for February 14th, 2026
14
Feb
THE FINAL KEEP TIME SHOW ON THIS DAY
Barney Keep with Bob Hazen of The Benj. Franklin Savings
& Loan Association who also had a radio show on KEX.
On February 14, 1979 BARNEY KEEP, KEX Morning Radio icon
broadcast his last KEEP TIME show, from Portland’s Civic
Theater. The last TODAY’S CHUCKLE that morning…”Old
disc jockeys never retire , They just go off the record."
Byron George “Barney” Keep (1917 – 2021)
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14
Feb
MEMORABLE PHOTO TAKEN ON THIS DAY
On Valentine’s Day, 1990, 3.7 billion miles away from the sun,
the Voyager 1 spacecraft took a photograph of Earth.
The picture, known as Pale Blue Dot, depicts our planet as a
nearly indiscernible speck roughly the size of a pixel.
Launched on September 5, 1977, Voyagers 1 and 2 were
charged with exploring the outer reaches of our solar
system.
It passed by Jupiter in March of 1979 and Saturn the following
year. The gaps between the outer planets are so vast that it
was another decade before it passed by Neptune and arrived
at the spot where it was to take a series of images of the
planets, known as the "Family Portrait" of our solar system.
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