Buddy Holly‘s "It Doesn’t Matter Anymore" hit #13 on the Billboard Hot
100 on April 4,1959, It was his first posthumous hit following his tragic
death in a plane crash on February 3. The single was a double- sided
hit, backed with “Raining in My Heart”.
High School yearbook, junior year, 1982
Robert Downey Jr. is a talented actor who overcame drug
addiction to come back and star in the 2008 film “Iron Man”.
He began his acting career at the age of five in one of his
father’s films.
2009
Dr. Martin Cooper, one of the inventors of the first cell phone
NEW YORK (AP) — A cell phone was first used exactly 40 years ago.
On April 3, 1973, the first handheld portable phone was demonstrated
for reporters by Motorola executive Martin Cooper (pictured) on a New
York City street corner.
Cooper contacted Joel S. Engel, of Bell Labs, using a Motorola device
that looked like "a small, domesticated version of military walkie-talkies,"
according to an Associated Press report at the time.
The device weighed just under three pounds. The iPhone 5 weighs just
under 4 ounces.
The Motorola DynaTAC and a current Samsung Galaxy S3.
Sandy Kozel
The Ewing’s
Dallas premiered as a five-part miniseries on CBS, followed by a thirteen season
run until May 3, 1991. The prime time soap was included in Time magazine’s
2007 list of “100 Best TV Shows of All Time”.
