Steve “Snapper” Jones (Stephen Howard Jones)
(October 17, 1942 – November 25, 2017)

Jones, was an ABA and NBA player, who played with the Portland Trail Blazers from 1975 to 1976. He later became known for his local work
as a television analyst for the Blazers. He was the brother of Nick Jones, another former ABA and NBA player.

Walt Disney Productions (later The Walt Disney Company) has produced an
anthology television series under several different titles since 1954.

The original version of the series premiered on ABC on Wednesday, October
27, 1954. The show was broadcast weekly on one of the Big Three television
networks until 1990, a 36-year span with only a two-year hiatus from 1984 until
1985. The series was broadcast on Sunday for 25 of those years. From 1991
until 1997, the series aired infrequently and had only two hosts, Walt Disney
and Disney Chairman Michael Eisner. It is the second longest running prime-
time program on American television, behind rival film anthology, the Hallmark
Hall of Fame.

Film trade headline for January 11, 1954.

Walt Disney behind the camera.

SANDY KOZEL

From left: Naval aviators Floyd Bennett and Richard Byrd.

William Martin "Billy" Joel is 68 years old today.

Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter and pianist Billy Joel gained fame
for his song "Piano Man" and became the third best-selling solo artist in the
United States. From 1973 to 2013, he wrote 33 top forty hits, including "Just
the Way You Are," which hit #3 in 1977.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1865

Occurred on this day in 1912.

The Ampex Design Team with the first broadcast videotape
recorder on this day in 1956
.

The Ampex Mark IV prototype Quad Videotape Recorder is seen
here being demonstrated to CBS television network affiliate representatives.

Loretta Lynn (Webb) is 85 today.

Loretta Lynn released a new album called Full Circle on March 4,
2016, marking her first studio album in more than 10 years. 

Loretta focused on raising a family until receiving a guitar for an anniversary
gift. After teaching herself to play, she went on to play with the Pen Brothers’
band The Westerners.

ED DONAHUE

It was on this day in 1994 the civil war erupted in Rwanda.

Herbert Hoover, then Secretary of Commerce, is shown as he
took part in the first successful public demonstration of inter-
city television broadcasting on this day in 1927.

Henry Ford’s first car was the Quadricycle, seen here with Ford
in 1896.

It was on this day in 1947.

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947)

On this day in 1949.