Today in History...

[Woody's Workshop]

In 1947 Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is published
Wake Up Little Susie becomes the Everly Brothers' first #1 hit
Pulp Fiction opens in theaters
Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
Cuban Missile Crisis begins
Nikita Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
Trial begins in Amityville murders
Dwight D. Eisenhower is born
U.S. servicemen sent to Vietnam for second tours
German General Erwin Rommel, aka "The Desert Fox" dies by suicide
and Adolf Hitler wounded in British gas attack

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[Hobie1dog]

6 good things, 6 bad things happened. These days we only seem to hear about the bad things as shown on the news.

 

[tfish]

 

[Zeus-cat]

6 good things, 6 bad things happened. These days we only seem to hear about the bad things as shown on the news.

I came up with more good than bad from that list

 

[Mushtang]

6 good things, 6 bad things happened. These days we only seem to hear about the bad things as shown on the news.

I'm curious what you think are 6 bad things? I see them as:

Good
In 1947 Chuck Yeager breaks the sound barrier
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is published
Wake Up Little Susie becomes the Everly Brothers' first #1 hit
Pulp Fiction opens in theaters
Martin Luther King Jr. wins Nobel Peace Prize
Nikita Khrushchev ousted as premier of Soviet Union
Trial begins in Amityville murders - (The trial being a good thing, to bring justice, but the murders were not good)
Dwight D. Eisenhower is born
German General Erwin Rommel, aka "The Desert Fox" dies by suicide
and Adolf Hitler wounded in British gas attack

Bad
Cuban Missile Crisis begins
U.S. servicemen sent to Vietnam for second tours