Proclivities wrote: 


Mine was like this, but I think it was AM only. I still remember the smell of its leather case.
I liked to listen to "Lee Alan On the Horn", a very popular Detroit show that came on as I had to go to bed.
I'd listen under the covers using its single ear piece.

("Two speakers? Why would anyone want that?" asked the Fab Four when told about stereo.)

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Say what you whale about the book (based on a true account Melville only "happened" across), but this show is fascinating:

The Regency TR-1 - the world's first transistor radio - is introduced, 1954.

 oldslabsides wrote: 



and it almost took me that much time to read it.

 oldslabsides wrote: 

He piled upon the whale’s white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart’s shell upon it.

1851: Herman Melville's Moby Dick is published for the first time.

 Proclivities wrote: 
It's easy to see why she graced WWII bombers and her pics were in barracks everywhere.

October 17, 1918, Margarita Carmen Cansino (later known as Rita Hayworth) born.

1091 - London is stuck by a tornado

Today in 1977, NASA unveils a photo from the Viking probe, sent to Mars (and famously including a lander that photographed the surface landscape of Mars) to do intensive surveying.
 Obviously looking at this photo it’s easy to see why this attracted so many people’s attention, considering there’s a face right there!
The image is certainly compelling, and some people, such as Richard Hoagland  appear to have based most of their careers off of
promoting this image as evidence of life on Mars.  Who’s to say, really, although later and better photos seem to conclusively show
that this is a natural rock formation that only coincidentally appears to be a face.  

p.s if  Mr. Hoagland  would have only taken this shot 100 km to the west
 he would have "snapped" my Jr. High School! 
Better luck next time, I guess.  

JFK first learned that Russian nukes were in Cuba.

 oldslabsides wrote: 
Was that the same Prince Ludwig who assembled the first drum kit?

 oldslabsides wrote: 
lots of beer, pork and cabbage?

i'm in

1810: First Oktoberfest is held when Bavarian royalty invites the citizens of Munich to join the celebration of the marriage of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria to Princess Therese von Sachsen-Hildburghausen.

 bokey wrote: 
Federal employees work on flex time, which means they can start and finish their 8 hour day at the time they choose. My daughter works for the gov, and as far as I can tell, she works a full day, from 7:30-4(:30?) 

 hippiechick wrote: 
That was the year Joe DiMaggio debuted. Timing is everything. Maybe if FDR had run in 1946 Joe's Day would be a Federal Holiday.

Well, actually everyday is a Holiday for Federal workers. Those brutal 30 hour work weeks take their toll. In DC the traffic is gridlocked by 2PM on Fridays due to all the Feds sneaking out of work.
 

Great Chicago Fire 1871: The Second City Goes Up In Flames, 141 Years Ago (PHOTOS)

 hippiechick wrote: 
Right.... and it also came to pass that we don't live in Vespucciland.

Today we honor a man who ruthlessly murdered 1000s of indigenous people because in 1936 FDR needed to give Italian-Americans a reason to vote for him.