Monthly Archives: August 2012
2012 London Olympic Games- Television Schedule Sunday August 5th
1968 Mexico City Olympics- Tommie Smith and John Carlos-American Heroes
1968 was a violent, nasty and very political year. America was having a nervous breakdown. Assassinations, the cities were burning, an increasingly unpopular war was going on in Vietnam. […]
1964 Tokyo Olympic Games- The Press Sisters…Or Was It The Press Brothers?
In the 1960 and 1964 Olympic Games the Soviet Union’s Press Sisters- Irina and Tamara Press were outstanding, dominating. Irina won gold in the 1960 Rome Games in the 80 […]
Lizzie Borden Took An Axe…. This Day in 1892.
Lizzie Borden took an axe And Gave her mother forty whacks. When she saw what she had done She gave her father forty-one. On this day in 1892 […]
Satchmo-Louis”Pops” Armstrong Born On This Day 1901
The great Louis Armstrong, if he wasn’t the most influential musician of the 20th Century he surely was on the short list- easily top 5ive as both a trumpeter […]
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