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« Reply #6664 on: July 20, 2026, 11:30:31 AM »
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« Reply #6665 on: July 20, 2026, 10:29:34 PM »
A week in Television 50 yrs ago 1976
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/v3ICj_xwpgk
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« Reply #6666 on: July 20, 2026, 10:36:54 PM »
42 years ago today, July 20, 1984, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong posed with their "Bronze Taco" award at a press conference on Melrose Boulevard in Hollywood, California, to promote their upcoming film, Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers, which opened in theaters the following week. The photograph was taken by famed photographer Ron Galella.

Marin and Chong had achieved massive success throughout the 1970s and early 1980s through their stand-up comedy, comedy albums, and film franchise, becoming one of the most recognizable comedy duos of the era. The Corsican Brothers, released July 27, 1984, marked their sixth feature film together and their final movie collaboration before the duo split up later that decade.

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« Reply #6667 on: July 21, 2026, 07:39:41 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Marie Besnard Charged with Multiple Murders (1949)
Between 1927 and 1947, 13 of Besnard's family members and friends died under mysterious circumstances, and she became a wealthy woman by inheriting their fortunes. She gave bizarre explanations for some of the deaths, such as claiming that two people had eaten lye they mistook for a dessert. Her second husband remarked that he thought she was poisoning him, prompting the police to investigate his death. When they exhumed his body, they found arsenic. Why was Besnard acquitted of murder charges?
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« Reply #6668 on: July 22, 2026, 07:57:09 AM »
THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

London Police Kill Commuter, Sparking Furor (2005)
The day before this controversial police shooting, four suicide bombing attempts on London's transport system failed, sparking a massive manhunt for the escaped bombers. With the perpetrators still at large, commuters returned to the tube. On July 22, police at the Stockwell tube station shot and killed 27-year-old Jean Charles de Menezes, whom they mistook for suspected bomber Hussain Osman.
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THIS DAY IN HISTORY: 

Man Causes a Sensation by Jumping off Brooklyn Bridge—Or Not (1886)
The iconic Brooklyn Bridge opened in 1883. Three years later, a New Yorker named Steve Brodie claimed to have survived a jump off the span, and newspapers eagerly reported the stunt, allegedly done as part of a bet. Vaulted to sudden fame, Brodie embarked on a successful stage career and opened the popular Bowery Tavern. "To pull a Brodie" even became a slang term for doing something flamboyant and dangerous, but Brodie's dubious claim about his leap was later disputed.
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« Reply #6670 on: Today at 10:04:25 AM »
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