Vintage Memories That Make You Go AAH!
Who shot J.R.? was an advertising catch phrase that American network CBS created in 1980 to promote the television show Dallas. In the final scene of the 1979-1980 season, the character J.R. Ewing, played by Larry Hagman, was shot by an unknown assailant.
The episode, titled A House Divided, was broadcast on March 21, 1980. Viewers […]
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The MGM Grand Fire was a 1980 fire at the MGM Grand Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, that killed 85 people, most through smoke inhalation. The tragedy remains the worst disaster in Nevada history, and the second-worst hotel fire in modern U.S. history, after the 1946 Winecoff Hotel fire that killed 119.
At […]
The Play refers to a last-second kickoff return during a college football game between the University of California, Berkeley Golden Bears and the Stanford University Cardinal on November 20, 1982.
Given the circumstances and rivalry, the wild game that preceded it, the very unusual way in which The Play unfolded, and its lingering aftermath on players […]
The Day After is an American television movie which aired on November 20, 1983, on the ABC Television Network.
The film portrays a fictional nuclear war between NATO forces and the Warsaw Pact and its effects on the residents of Lawrence, Kansas, and Kansas City, Missouri, as well as several family farms situated next to nearby […]
Windows 1.0 is a 16-bit graphical operating environment released on November 20, 1985. It was Microsoft’s first attempt to implement a multi-tasking graphical user interface-based operating environment on the PC platform.
Windows 1.0 offers limited multitasking of existing MS-DOS programs and concentrates on creating an interaction paradigm or cf. message loop, an execution model and a […]
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Petroleos Mexicanos is Mexico’s state-owned petroleum company. It is the 10th largest oil company in the world in terms of Revenue and 34th place out of the Fortune 500 companies.
PEMEX has had 4 major accidents but the explosion accident is clearly the worst.
On November 19, 1984 a series of explosions at the PEMEX petroleum storage […]
Calvin and Hobbes is a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson, following the humorous antics of Calvin, an imaginative six-year old boy, and Hobbes, his energetic and sardonic—albeit stuffed—tiger.
The pair are named after John Calvin, a 16th century French Reformation theologian, and Thomas Hobbes, a 17th century English political philosopher. The strip was […]
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The Iran-Contra Affair was a political scandal occurring in 1987 as a result of earlier events during the Reagan administration in which members of the executive branch sold weapons to Iran, an avowed enemy, and illegally used the proceeds to continue funding anti-Sandinista rebels, the Contras, in Nicaragua.
Large volumes of documents relating to the scandal […]
The King’s Cross fire was a fatal underground fire in London which broke out at approximately 19:30 on 18 November 1987, and which killed 31 people.
It took place at King’s Cross St. Pancras station, a major interchange on the London Underground. The station consisted of two parts, a subsurface station on the Circle and Metropolitan […]
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William Holden was an Academy Award-winning American film actor. He was named one of the “Top 10 stars of the year” six times (1954-1958, 1961) and appeared on the American Film Institute’s AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars list as #25.
His first starring role was in Golden Boy (1939), in which he played a violinist […]
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