Daily Archives: December 21, 2014

Senator Kennedy flown to Palm Beach following spinal surgery 60 years ago today (Dec 21 1954)

1950s, U.S. Presidents

Video: 'December 21, 1954 - Senator John F. Kennedy recovering from spinal operations'

(Tuesday, December 21, 1954) — Senator John F. Kennedy was taken by stretcher to a special plane today so he could be flown from the New York Hospital for Special Surgery to the Kennedy home in Palm Beach, Florida, more than two months after undergoing a spinal operation.

‘Tillie’s Punctured Romance,’ first feature-length silent film comedy, released 100 years ago today (Dec 21 1914)

1910s, Movies 1910s

http://youtu.be/z8PPHS1WdWM

Video: 'Tillie's Punctured Romance Nov 14, 1914'

(Monday, December 21, 1914) — The first feature-length silent film comedy, Mack Sennett’s Tillie’s Punctured Romance, starring Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand and Charlie Chaplin, was released today in the U.S.