PORTLAND, Ore. — This Sunday is the 118th birthday of Oaks
Park in Portland, Oregon.

Oaks Park is one of the oldest continually operating amusement
parks in America.

To celebrate 118 years, they are hosting a birthday party from
noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.

In 1985 the Bollinger Family donated Oaks Amusement Park to
the non-profit Oaks Park Association, which continues to
operate the park to this day.

Oaks Park Roller Rink is not only the oldest in the country,
but one of the largest.

On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H.
White II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of
the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk in
space. Attached to the craft by a 25-foot tether and controlling
his movements with a hand-held oxygen jet-propulsion gun,
White remained outside the capsule for just over 20 minutes. 

(WCYB) — Country music legend Dolly Parton has three new
awards to add to her lengthy list.

Parton, 77, was awarded with three new Guinness World
Records on Wednesday. Here are the new awards she
received:

• Longest span of No. 1 hits on the US Top Country Albums
  chart (female)
• Most studio albums released by a female country singer
• Most Top 10 entries on the US Top Country Albums chart
  (female)

Parton already had won seven Guinness World Records
previously. Those awards are:

• Most decades with a Top 20 hit on the US Hot Country
  Songs chart
• Most No.1 hits on the US Hot Country Songs chart by
  a female artist
• Most decades on the US Hot Country Songs chart
  (female)
• Most hits on the US Hot Country Songs chart by a
  female artist
• Longest span of No.1 hits on the US Hot Country Songs
  chart
• First country singer to be nominated for the EGOT
• Most Grammy nominations for a female country artist

Parton was quoted as saying…“I am humbled every time
I receive a new Guinness World Record title.”

Timothy James McVeigh  (April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)

Timothy McVeigh, a former U.S. Army soldier, was convicted
on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the
1995 terrorist bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building
in Oklahoma City.

On April 19, 1995, just after 9 a.m., a massive truck bomb
exploded outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building.

Oklahoma City firefighter Chris Fields holds
Baylee Almon on April 19, 1995.

Mugshot of McVeigh taken after
his arrest.

The 8-track tape technology was popular from the mid-1960s to
the early 1980s.

Inventor George Eash invented a design in 1953, called the
Fidelipac cartridge, also called the NAB cartridge.    

The Lear Jet Stereo 8 cartridge was designed by Richard Kraus
while working for the Lear Jet Corporation.

George Eash (1927 – 2006)