Tuesday, August 02, 2005

The Boomer Chronicles: This Date in Boomer History

1943 PT 109 is rammed and sunk in the Pacific. Commander John F. Kennedy and crew feared lost. Pilot Gene Roddenberry scheduled to join search, but aircraft accident prevents takeoff.

1961 Cavern Club in Liverpool gets new house band called the Beatles.

1964 North Vietnam allegedly fires on U.S. destroyer in Gulf of Tonkin.

1964 Filming begins on "'>Darling" starring Julie Christie.

1965 Morley Safer's report from Vietnam is first to suggest U.S. is losing.

1967 U.S. launches Lunar Orbiter 5.

1990 Iraq invades Kuwait.

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