…sent home in chains. Plus an infamous break up and the Fab Four, finally, in full color.
Thursday, August 23rd, the 236th day of 2012
Today is Permanent Press Day, a day proudly to wear polyester and keep the iron unplugged.
Today is Hug Your Sweetheart Day.
On this day in 1500, just eight years after his heroic discovery of the New World, Christopher Columbus was arrested in Haiti for mistreating the natives and was sent back to Spain in chains.
2010 Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren’s divorce becomes final.
1965 – The U.S. premiere of the motion picture much anticipated in America because the last time their fans saw them on the big screen it was in black and white. Now they were in living color – the Beatles and the movie was: Help!
—Their first film, A Hard Day’s Night, had been produced in black and white.
| Today | Saturday | Sunday | Monday |
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