Spacetime for the week of 3/28/07

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

By Ed Bushnell

March 28
1930 – Constantinople changes its name to Istanbul.
1972 – Wilt Chamberlain plays his last pro basketball game.
1995 – Julia Roberts and Lyle Lovett    split up.

March 29
1795 – Beethoven, 24, debuts as a concert pianist in Vienna.
1852 – Ohio passes a statute making it illegal for women and children to work more than 10 hours a day.
1962 – Jack Parr hosts his last “Tonight Show” on NBC.

March 30
1955 – “On the Waterfront” wins Best Picture at the 27th Academy Awards.
1966 – “Color Me Barbara,” a Streisand jamboree, premieres on CBS.
1967 – The cover photograph for “Sgt. Pepper’s” is taken.

March 31
1880 – Wabash, Ind., becomes the first town to be completely illuminated by electricity.
1933 – Georgia’s Soperton News becomes the first newspaper to publish on pine pulp paper (say that 10         times fast).
1933 – Hitler becomes the head of the German Republic.

April 1
1946 – Weight Watchers forms.
1952 – The Big Bang Theory is first published.
1963 – “General Hospital” premieres on ABC.

April 2
1977 – Fleetwood Mac’s “Rumours” hits #1 and stays there for 31 weeks.
1978 – “Dallas” premieres on CBS.
1995 – Lawrence Taylor defeats Bam Bam Bigelow in Wrestlemania XI.  

April 3
1868 – Legend has it, a Hawaiian surfs a 50-foot tidal wave.
1933 – The first airplane flies over Mount Everest.
1981 – One-legged Arnie Boldt high-jumps 6 feet, 8.25 inches.


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