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Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott may have
played his last game in a Cowboys uniform on Sunday.
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY WISH TO A TRUE HERO
Chesley Burnett "Sully" Sullenberger III is 73 years old today.
Sully is a retired Air Force fighter pilot, diplomat, and airline
pilot best known for his heroism as captain of US Airways
Flight 1549 that he ditched in the Hudson River in 2009 after
both engines were disabled by a bird strike. All those aboard
the aircraft survived the ordeal.
Passengers stand on the wings of a US Airways Flight 1549
after it landed in the Hudson River, New York, January 15,
2009.
TOY WAS INTRODUCED ON THIS DAY IN 1957
Wham-O Manufacturing Co. of California began producing the
Pluto Platter — soon renamed the Frisbee.
"The Frisbee started off as nothing more than a container that
carried pies," reported University of Southern California online engineering publication Illumin Magazine, which analyzed the
physics and history of the toy.
"However, through the ingenuity of some college students, the inventiveness of Fred Morrison, and the marketing savvy of the
Wham-O Manufacturing Company, it eventually became an
immensely popular and internationally recognized toy."
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Walter Frederick Morrison
(January 23, 1920 – February 9, 2010)
KACZYNSKI PLEADS GUILTY ON THIS DAY
In a Sacramento, California, courtroom on January 22, 1998,
Theodore J. Kaczynski (above) pleaded guilty to all federal
charges against him, acknowledging his responsibility
for a 17-year campaign of package bombings attributed
to the “Unabomber.”
Kaczynski accepted a sentence of life in prison without the
possibility of parole in return for a plea of guilty to all federal
charges; he also gave up the right to appeal any rulings in
the case. Though Kaczynski later attempted to withdraw his
guilty plea, arguing that it had been involuntary, Judge Burrell
denied the request, and a federal appeals court upheld the
ruling. Kaczynski was remanded to a maximum-security
prison in Colorado, where he is serving his life sentence.
Police sketch of the Unabomber
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