1941
The United States entered World War Two as Congress declared war on Japan
This announcement came a day after their attack on Pearl Harbor
1963
19-year-old Frank Sinatra, Jr. was “kidnapped” from Harrah’s South Lodge in Lake Tahoe
After Frank Sr. paid a ransom of $240,000 in marked bills, police arrested two ex-classmates of Frank Jr.’s sister
It was discovered that Frank Sinatra Jr. cooperated with his abductors in their sinister plot!
1980
John Lennon was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment building, The Dakota
Mark David Chapman, a former mental patient who had earlier that day asked for and received Lennon’s autograph, was arrested and convicted for the killing
John Lennon’s wife, Yoko Ono, together with New York’s officials, set up a permanent memorial to her husband: a section of Central Park, opposite The Dakota, named Strawberry Fields
(Chapman is still in prison. He’s been eligible for parole several times, but he’s been denied every time so far. His next parole hearing is in August of 2016.)
and then lastly…
1984
“Captain Kangaroo” last aired on CBS after 29 years
It will be forever immortalized by The Statler Brothers’ & Eric Heatherly in the song Flowers On The Wall…
Counting flowers on the wall, that don’t bother me at all
Playing solitaire till dawn with a deck of fifty one
Smoking cigarettes and watching Captain Kangaroo
Now don’t tell me I’ve nothing to do
-Tyler Jackson
