TIM MAGUIRE                     

Shortly after midnight on August 13, 1961, East German soldiers
began laying down barbed wire and bricks as a barrier between
Soviet-controlled East Berlin and the democratic western section
of the city.

In July 1956, DJ Dick Clark inherited WFIL-TV’s Bandstand
from scandal-tainted Bob Horn and revamped it.

On August 5, 1957, TV’s "American Bandstand" began
broadcasting nationally beaming images of clean-cut,
average teenagers dancing to 67 ABC affiliates across
the nation.

The show would become an iconic expression of American 
teen culture.

Dick Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)

        
       
        
        
        
        
       
The first-place prize of 5,000 francs—a value of around
$40,000 today—was shared equally between the French
manufacturers Panhard & Levassor and Les Fils de
Peugeot frères for hewing closest to the competition’s
ideals.

The real winner of the Paris-Rouen Trial, however, was
the automotive industry itself.

Honda introduces its first Civic, a new breed of subcompact,
fuel-saving car. It arrives just in time for the energy crisis of
1973, which brought higher gas prices, long lines and
occasional fistfights at the pump.