1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.

 Manbird wrote: 
Maybe in your rock and roll world, pal...

 oldviolin wrote: 
or a rusty spatula might work huh.

 Manbird wrote: 
Just don't mix up the Visine and the super glue. If you do that red ain't coming out...Whew!

 oldviolin wrote: 
Too big. Makes my eyes water and my crote split.

 Manbird wrote: 
Well what about Big Uncle? Did you ever consider that? Well did you?

 Red_Dragon wrote: 
I love Big Brother. 

I have one of these. I think the story is it came into the drugstore mom worked at and she bought it. Put it aside so us kids didn't actually color it. Then afterwards, she put it way away. 25 or 30 years later she remembered it and showed it to me. Really funny stuff... except.
 
 
 

 oldviolin wrote: 
for years I thought I remembered the news first hand because I had such vivid images of it in my memory. Then I figured out that was a pretty impressive feat given that I was only 19 months at the time and we didn't have TV. What had burned on my cerebellum though were all the images from the LIFE issue that my parents kept of it and I had often looked at as a kid. I guess we all constitute our own stories from fragments like this.

 kurtster wrote: 
In '63 I had a great 3rd grade teacher. I thought school was going to be ok after all. Then I got to the 4th and I went backwards, at least until that teacher left to have a baby. She never did cotton to me reading Classic comic books hidden in my geography book. I spent a lot of time in the hall the first part of that year. Ol' Roosevelt would come by sprinkling that green dust collector down the hall and running his wide mop. He would always say in his negro vernacular and pronunciation; "you out here again? You ain't gon lern nuthin' out here in this hall son!" then he'd move on down the hall with his peg leg and his dust mop. Everybody loved that old man.

Anyhow things got better with the new teacher because she loved music, especially The Beatles, and she'd play their records in the classroom.
Things were looking up sorta.

Still, I'll never forget the year before coming home on a rowdy school bus and the driver yelling at us to sit down and be quiet, "the president has been assassinated. That was the first time I ever heard the word. All I knew was the TV was locked up in black and white with it for days, and also in my black and white memories...

 kurtster wrote: 
Not too many people were posting in here yesterday apparently.

I guess I imagined that something important happened yesterday some 52 years ago.

Must just be me. Oh well ...  

1992 – The first smartphone, the IBM Simon, is introduced at COMDEX in Las Vegas, Nevada.

1963 – The BBC broadcasts "An Unearthly Child" (starring William Hartnell), the first episode of the science-fiction television serial of the same name and the first episode of Doctor Who, which is now the world's longest running science fiction drama.

1924 – Edwin Hubble's discovery that the Andromeda nebula is actually another island universe far outside of our own was first published in The New York Times.

1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.

1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.

1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal.

1985 – Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.

1805 – Beethoven's only opera, Fidelio premieres in Vienna.