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On This Day in History ....

1965 - The TV show My Mother the Car premiered.

1975 - Pope Paul the Sixth declared Mother Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton the first U.S.-born saint.

1982 - Fifty-two-year-old Princess Grace -- Grace Kelly of Monaco -- died of injuries she received after her car ran off a 45-foot embankment in France.

1985 - The Golden Girls debuted on NBC.

1994 - Acting Major League Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig canceled the 1994 season on the 34th day of the players strike.

2001 - The FBI released the names of the 19 suspected hijackers who had taken part in the September 11th terror attacks on the U.S.

2009 - Dirty Dancing and Ghost star Patrick Swayze died from pancreatic cancer. He was 57.

2013 - NBA player LeBron James married longtime girlfriend Savannah Brinson in San Diego, California.

2015 - Former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star Kim Richards was sentenced to three years' probation. She pleaded no contest to resisting arrest after she was kicked out of a Beverly Hills restaurant in April.

2020 - Astronomers reported possible signs of life on Venus after detecting phosphine in the planets’ atmosphere by telescope.

Today is...
Eat a Hoagie Day .... National Coloring Day ...
National Cream-Filled Donut Day .... Gobstopper Day ....
National Live Creative Day .... Support Latino Business Day ....

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On This Day in History ....

1813 - The nickname “Uncle Sam” was first used as a symbolic reference to the United States. The reference appeared in an editorial in New York’s Troy Post.

1940 - The World War II London Blitz began, during which N**i Germany bombed London for 57 consecutive nights. Some 40,000 people were killed and over a million left homeless.

1967 - The Flying Nun premiered on ABC, starring Sally Field.

1977 - President Jimmy Carter and Panamanian dictator Omar Torrijos signed the Panama Canal Treaties, agreeing to transfer control of the Panama Canal from the United States to Panama on December 31, 1999.

1977 - Convicted Watergate conspirator G. Gordon Liddy was released from prison after more than four years.

1979 - The Entertainment and Sports Programming Network, ESPN, made its cable TV debut.

1992 - Fay Vincent resigned as baseball commissioner.

1999 - It was announced that Viacom was buying the CBS Corporation for 36 billion dollars -– the richest media merger in history at that time.

2014 - US Open Women's tennis player Serena Williams wins her 3rd straight US title; beating Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark 6-3, 6-3

2020 - India overtook Brazil to record the second-highest number of COVID-19 cases with 4.2 million.

Today Is...
Salami Day ..... National Acorn Squash Day ... Grandma Moses Day ....
Google Commemoration Day .... National Beer Lover’s Day ......
National Feel the Love Day .... National Grateful Patient Day .....
Superhuman Day .....

Listen for "This Day in History" weekday mornings at 7:35 on WADK AM-1540, on FM 101.1, and on wadk.com... presented by The Preservation Society of Newport County.