Video: 'Cheers | S04E13 cold open | "What kind of greeting is that?'"'
(Friday, December 20, 1985, evening PST) — Sam donates his Boston Red Sox baseball jersey for a television charity auction on “Take My Shirt … Please?,” an episode of of the TV sitcom series Cheers filmed tonight “before a live studio audience” on Paramount Stage 25 in Hollywood for airing on NBC Jan. 9, 1986. Continue reading ‘Take My Shirt … Please?’ episode of ‘Cheers’ filmed 40 years ago tonight (Dec 20 1985)
Video: 'Tech Fail or Human Error? American Airlines Flight 965 Vanished in Darkness! | Mayday: Air Disaster'
(Wednesday, December 20, 1995, 9:41:28 p.m. EST) — An American Airlines Boeing 757 en route from Miami to Cali, Colombia, slammed into a mountain tonight, killing all but four of the 163 people aboard. Continue reading 159 people killed as jetliner crashes into mountain in Colombia 30 years ago this hour (Dec 20 1995)
(Saturday, December 20, 1975) — “Our Day Will Come” by Frankie Valli (featuring Patti Austin) peaks at #11 on today’s Billboard Hot 100 singles chart for two weeks. Continue reading ‘Our Day Will Come’ by Frankie Valli peaks at #11 in USA 50 years ago today (Dec 20 1975)
Video: 'World War II Rationing - Decades TV Network'
(Thursday, December 20, 1945) — More than three months after the end of World War II, the end of tire rationing (effective Jan. 1, 1946), was ordered today by the Office of Price Administration, but the public was warned that this did not mean that tires would be “plentiful.”
