old stuff

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1871 World's 1st cat show (Crystal Palace, London)

1900 Carrie Nation's 1st public smashing of a bar (Carey Hotel, Wichita KS)

1927 Jerome Kern/Oscar Hammerstein II's "Show Boat," premieres in NYC

1932 Radio City Music Hall opens

1937 Mae West performs Adam & Eve skit that gets her banned from NBC radio

1947 1st "Howdy Doody Show," (Puppet Playhouse), telecast on NBC

1979, Soviet forces seized control of Afghanistan.

1985 Naturalist Dian Fossey, who had studied gorillas in the wild, was found hacked to death at a research station in Rwanda.

1987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass


2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a bomb and shooting attack as she left an election rally in Rawalpindi.


 
 
987 Steve Largent sets all-time NFL record for career catches when he catches his 752nd pass

1991 "Carol Burnett Show" last airs on CBS-TV