Surfin’ U.S.A. is the second studio album released by the Beach Boys. It
reached number two in the US, lasting 78 weeks on the albums chart,
eventually being certified gold by the RIAA.

RCA model CT-100

Mass production of the first RCA Victor television color sets (above) began
on March 25, 1954. The cost…$1,000. It featured a 15-inch tri-color picture 
tube.

Publicity photo of the CT-100 production line, RCA’s first consumer
color receiver.

President Coolidge (left) and his wife Grace are shown with Cuban
leader Gerardo Machado y Morales and his wife, Elvira Machado, in
Havana on January 19, 1928. (AP)

The last and only American president to visit Cuba while in office was Calvin
Coolidge, who traveled there in January 1928.

Coolidge traveled to Cuba to address the Sixth Annual International Conference
of American States in Havana. He rode a presidential rail car to Key West, Florida 
then boarded the U.S.S. Texas battleship for the overnight trip to Havana, Cuba 
100 miles away.

President Calvin Coolidge rides in a motorcade (far right) during his
visit to Havana, Cuba.

Bob Hope hosting the 25th Annual Academy Awards,

The 25th Academy Awards ceremony took place at the RKO Pantages Theatre
in Hollywood, California, and the NBC International Theatre in New York City.

It was the first Academy Awards ceremony to be televised, and the first ceremony
to be held in Hollywood and New York City simultaneously. It was also the only
year that the New York ceremonies were to be held in the NBC International
Theatre on Columbus Circle, which was shortly thereafter demolished and
replaced by the New York Coliseum convention center

Original air dates: March 15, 1977 – August 29, 1981.

The show was modeled on the life of syndicated newspaper columnist
Thomas Braden, a real-life parent with eight children, who wrote a book
by the same title.

Thomas Wardell Braden (February 22, 1917 – April 3, 2009)