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Today’s Highlight in History: On this date: In 1859, Big Ben, the great bell inside the famous London clock tower, chimed for the first time. In 1936, New York City’s Triborough Bridge (now officially the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge) linking Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx was opened to traffic. In 1955, the U.S. Air Force Academy swore in its first class of cadets at its temporary quarters at Lowry Air Force Base in Colorado. In 1960, the novel “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee was first published by J.B. Lippincott and Co. In 1966, the game show “The Newlywed Game,...

America's game show host is also one of America's proudest dads. Pat Sajak used air time during Monday's episode of "Wheel of Fortune" to give his 30-year-old son, Patrick Sajak, a congratulatory shout out. He asked his longtime co-host Vanna White if he could do "a little parental bragging" to honor his first born.  "You know my son Patrick, you've known him all his life," Sajak told White. "He's made it through medical school and he is now officially Dr. Sajak."  The game show host said he is thrilled about his son's accomplishment, whom he shares with his wife Lesly, but there is one ...

A raucously sarcastic take on the game show genre, Remote Control burst onto MTV in 1987. Part of the cable channel’s first wave of non-video-centric shows, Remote Control skewered vintage pop culture with its “mom’s basement” style set, cigarette smoking commentators, and questions about everything from physics to The Brady Bunch—or a combination thereof. Contestants slouched in brightly colored Barcaloungers, were pelted with snacks between questions, and got pulled backward through breakaway walls upon elimination. Host Ken Ober (who died in 2009) held court with an everyman s...

January 7, 2021 295 Today is Friday, Jan. 8, the eighth day of 2021. There are 357 days left in the year. Today’s Highlight in History: On Jan. 8, 1998, Ramzi Yousef (RAHM’-zee YOO’-sef), the mastermind of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, was sentenced in New York to life in prison without the possibility of parole. On this date: In 1815, the last major engagement of the War of 1812 came to an end as U.S. forces defeated the British in the Battle of New Orleans, not having gotten word of the signing of a peace treaty. In 1918, President Woodrow Wilson outlined his Fourteen Points fo...

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