Today in History -
January 3, 1870 -
The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge begins.
January 3, 1951 -
The ominous, four-note introduction to the brass and tympani theme music, then the staccato voice over intones, Ladies and gentlemen: the story you are about to hear is true.
Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent, for the first time on television.
January 3, 1953 -
Frances Bolton and her son, Oliver from Ohio, become the first mother and son to serve simultaneously in the U.S. Congress.
January 3, 1962 -
Pope John XXIII excommunicated Fidel Castro.
January 3, 1967 -
Jack Ruby dead of natural causes at Parkland Hospital, where Lee Harvey Oswald had died and President Kennedy had been pronounced dead after his assassination.
January 3, 1969 -
In New Jersey, 30,000 copies of John and Yoko's album "Two Virgins" are confiscated because the cover is deemed obscene. There is nothing more shocking than two naked multimillionaires on the cover of your Rock and Roll Album.
January 3, 1987 -
Four non-cancerous polyps are removed from President Ronald Reagan's colon.
And so it goes.
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