On This Day

In 1956, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Jerry Lee Lewis and Carl Perkins, dubbed the “Million Dollar Quartet,” gathered for the first and only time for a jam session at Sun Records in Memphis.

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The signatures on that magazine could be worth a million bucks today.
 
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in the inaugural NFL championship football game, the Chicago Bears defeated the New York Giants, 23-21.
 
Exedon said:
Today first powered flight 1903
Wright brothers at Kitty hawk lasted 12 seconds and covered 120ft.
Click to expand...

And someone old enough at that time to remember witnessing it all their life could easily have lived to see man walk on the moon.
 
On this day in 1892, Tchaikovsky’s ballet “The Nutcracker” publicly premiered in St. Petersburg; although now considered a classic, it received a generally negative reception from critics.

Often the way with new works that confound the expectations of critics. Bizet's 'Carmen' and Stravinsky's 'Rite of Spring' are among the works panned by 'experts' who didn't really know what they were listening to at the time.
 
In 1972, Apollo 17 splashed down in the Pacific, concluding the Apollo program of crewed lunar landings.

 
In 1941, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, in his State of the Union address, outlined a goal of “Four Freedoms” for the world: freedom of speech and expression, the freedom of people to worship God in their own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

On Jan. 6, 2021, supporters of President Donald Trump, fueled by his false claims of a stolen election, assaulted police and smashed their way into the Capitol to interrupt the certification of Democrat Joe Biden’s victory, forcing lawmakers into hiding; most of the rioters had come from a nearby rally where Trump urged them to “fight like hell.”
 
In 1964, President Lyndon B. Johnson, in his State of the Union address, declared an “unconditional war on poverty in America.”

(Which is going as well as their 'War on Drugs'; 'War on Terror' or any other war they've gotten into since then.)
 
In 1982, San Francisco 49ers receiver Dwight Clark caught a touchdown pass from Joe Montana with 58 seconds left in the NFC Championship Game; one of the most famous plays in NFL history, “The Catch” led the 49ers to a 28-27 victory over the Dallas Cowboys and a berth in Super Bowl XVI, where they defeated the Cincinnati Bengals for their first Super Bowl victory.

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