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In 1967, the CIA created and weaponized the term "conspiracy theory" to discredit the 60% of Americans who knew that Lee Oswald did not shoot JFK.
In 1956, Yankee baseball legend Mickey Mantle recorded a song with Teresa Brewer entitled I Love Mickey. View it on YouTube.
During the US's 20-year invasion of Afghanistan, the spending price tag was $274 million per day! Every day, for 20 years, before leaving without victory.
The founder of Apple, Inc, Steve Jobs, attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon for one semester in 1972 before dropping out because he had no money. According to his sister, Jobs' dying words were, "Oh, wow! Oh, wow! Oh, wow!"
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March 8 - 14 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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Legendary Yankee baseball player Joe DiMaggio was married to actress Marilyn Monroe for 274 days in 1954. After Monroe's death in 1962, DiMaggio had fresh flowers placed on her grave several times each week for the next 37 years until his death in 1999.
In 1964, at one point, the Beatles had 12 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 music chart during the same week, including all top 5 songs.
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March 15 - 21 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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Catholic Saint Patrick is buried in Protestant Northern Ireland.
Democratic presidential candidate and brother of JFK, Robert Kennedy, was shot 4 times from the rear, including the fatal point-blank shot behind his right ear. All present at the murder testified that accused assassin Sirhan Sirhan was in front of Kennedy at all times. 14 shots were fired, while Sirhan's gun held only 8 cartridges. Two of RFK's sons have lobbied for the release of Sirhan Sirhan, to no avail.
4th President of the US, James Madison, stood 5' 4" tall and weighed about 100 pounds.
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March 22 - 31 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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In the late 1100s, England's King Richard the Lion Heart was ransomed by his mom Eleanor who paid the equivalent of $3 billion to Emperor Henry VI for Lion's release.
In 1983, Pop King Michael Jackson performed his moonwalk dance move for the first time to his mega-hit song Billie Jean. In 2004, Jackson was charged with 7 counts of child molestation but was finally exonerated.
In 1997, 72-year-old former president George H.W. Bush parachutes from an airplane in Yuma, Arizona.
My father, Richard Gorman, served in the same flight squadron as Bush Sr. in the Pacific during World War II.
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South America's Goliath Birdeater spider has a leg span measuring 11" across, about the width of a dinner plate, and can live to be 25 years old.
In 1860, the famous Pony Express began delivering mail from St. Joe, Missouri to California. The first rider covered 1,600 miles in 10 days. The Express lasted only 18 months, replaced by telegraph communications.
Elton John's singing tribute to the late Princess Diana, Candle in the Wind, is the second-best selling single of all time, with sales exceeding 33 million copies. Number 1 all-time? Bing Crosby's White Christmas --- 50 million.
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April 8 - 14 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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All-Star quarterback Tom Brady can be connected back to the sinking of the Titanic in 1912. Huh? Yup, I made the connection.
In 1941, heavyweight boxing champion Joe Louis successfully defended his championship title 4 times in only 9 weeks!
In 2019, Cornell University's Ornithology Lab announced that 600 million birds in the US die annually from flying into tall buildings. The math seems off. Way off. This means 1.6 million birds die daily in the US when they fail to see a building.
In 1999, sitting President William Clinton is cited for giving "intentionally false statements" under oath---lying---about his sexual affair with intern Monica Lewinsky. Clinton was fined $90,000 and disbarred from practicing law.
Monica Lewinsky went to college in Oregon, graduating from Portland's Lewis & Clark College with a degree in psychology in 1995.
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April 15 - 21 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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On April 19, 1783, The American Revolutionary War ended exactly 8 years to the day it began.
In 1934, "America's Little Sweetheart, 6-year-old Shirley Temple appeared in 6 movies released that year.
Actor Crispin Glover, who played the father of Marty McFly (Michael J Fox) in 1985 mega-hit Back to the Future, is actually younger than Fox.
In 1984, Michael Jackson's album Thriller sat attop the Billboard album chart for 37 weeks! It remains the best-selling album of all time, with 55 million sold.
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April 22 - 30 Unexpected Detours and Interesting Connections in Today's History Highlights
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Actor Clark Gable got his acting start in Oregon, arriving in Bend in 1922, Gable worked odd jobs until he finally moved to Portland where he began acting with a troupe that traveled by boat up and down the Columbia River to perform at various ports and towns. During his famous Hollywood career, he often returned to Oregon's Rogue River for rest and recreation.
In 2020, rocker Eddie Van Halen died of throat cancer. A smoker, Eddie attributed his cancer to years of sucking on his metal guitar pick.
In 1429, 17-year-old saint-to-be Joan of Arc inspired the French military forces to defeat the English army invaders at the Batlle of Orleans and eventually turn the tide of the 100 Years War in favor of France.
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Did you know . . . The 20-year US occupation of Afghanistan cost American taxpayers $273 million per day!
Did you know . . . Actor John Travolta had 3 record singles that made the Top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
Did you know . . . US President Gerald Ford's real name was Leslie Lynch King, Jr. and he was the only man ever to be both Vice President and President without being elected to either office.
Did you know . . . During the 1997 "Bite Fight" heavyweight boxing match, Mike Tyson bit BOTH of Evander Holyfield's ears. After his second snack of the fight, Tyson was disqualified, fined $3 million, and banned from boxing for one and a half years.
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