1978 – Switzerland Charlie Chaplin
The coffin of Charlie Chaplin was stolen from a small, unguarded village cemetery in Switzerland.
1968 – Johnny Cash
Johnny Cash gets married to June Carter.
1941 – First FM Radio Station
Nashville, Tennessee becomes the home of the very first FM radio station in the country. While the FM band had less static and more range, it didn’t become popular until the early 1960s.
2007 – US CO2 Emissions Violate Human Rights
An Inuit delegation has arrived in Washington to argue that the U.S. government’s climate change policies are a violation of their human rights. A legal petition to the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has demanded that the U.S. limits its emission of greenhouse gases. The Inuit are saying that pollution is contributing to the melting ice and thawing permafrost of their homeland. Their representatives have presented evidence to the Commission in an attempt to link human-induced climate change to international human rights, and this hearing is the latest stage in the legal process that they started in December 2005.
2010 – US News Now More Commonly Seen Online
Online news has become more popular than reading newspapers in the United States, and is the third most popular form of news, behind local and national TV. It is known as an ‘anytime, anywhere, any device activity for those who want to stay informed’ as well as being ‘omnipresent.’ Its multiple formats on multiple platforms have shifted viewers’ loyalty to a particular news organization. Now, only 7% of Americans get their news from a single media source, although the veracity of online news is debateable.
