Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
Meredith MacRae was an American actress. MacRae was best known for her television roles as Billie Jo on Petticoat Junction and as Sally Ann in My Three Sons. She took over the role of Animal from Valora Noland in the Beach Party movie series.
She also made guest appearances on such shows as: The FBI, The […]
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On May 30, 1967, Knievel successfully cleared sixteen cars in Gardena, California. Then he attempted the same jump on July 28, 1967, in Graham, Washington, where he had his next serious crash.
Landing his cycle on a panel truck that was the last vehicle, Knievel was thrown from his bike. This time he only suffered a […]
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Mariner 9 was a NASA space probe orbiter that helped in the exploration of Mars and was part of the Mariner program.
Mariner 9 was launched toward Mars on May 30, 1971 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and reached the planet on November 13 of the same year, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another […]
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Tiananmen Square Massacre of protests of 1989 were a series of demonstrations led by labor activists, students, and intellectuals in the People’s Republic of China (PRC).
On May 30, a statue of the Goddess of Democracy was erected in the Square and came to symbolize the protest to television viewers worldwide.
Following the violence, the government conducted […]
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO); French: Organisation du Traité de l’Atlantique Nord (OTAN); (also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance, or the Western Alliance) is a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949.
With headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, the organization established a system of collective […]
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On May 30, 1972 three members of the Japanese Red Army undertook a terrorist attack on behalf of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine at Tel Aviv’s Lod airport (now Ben Gurion International Airport).
Because airport security was focused on the possibility of a Palestinian attack, the use of Japanese terrorists took the guards […]
The Angry Brigade (also known as the Stoke Newington Eight) was a British libertarian communist terrorist group responsible for a long string of bomb attacks around Britain between 1970 and 1972.
Strongly influenced by anarchism and the Situationists, their targets included banks, embassies and the homes of Tory MP’s. In total, 25 bombings were attributed to […]
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Afghanistan is a land-locked and mountainous country in central Asia, with plains in the north and southwest.
The highest point is Nowshak, at 7,485 m (24,557 ft) above sea level. Large parts of the country are dry, and fresh water supplies are limited. The endorheic Sistan Basin is one of the driest regions in the world. […]
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Manchester United Football Club is an English football club, based at the Old Trafford stadium in Trafford, Greater Manchester, and is arguably the most popular football club in the world, with over 50 million supporters worldwide; average attendances at the club have been higher than any other team in English football for all but six […]
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White Christmas is a 1945 Christmas album by Bing Crosby. Originally released as Merry Christmas, it has since been revised, but it has remained in print for over sixty years.
The March 19, 1947 recording of “White Christmas” heard on this recording, and almost all other extant pressings, is actually a re-recording of the song with […]
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