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Become a Patron! August 23, 2001 – McDonald’s was in the news – Emery Cargo Planes were in the news and scientist Wen Ho Lee was all over the news. Starting with the latest controversy to hit McDonald’s – this time over Fries. Faced with lawsuits from vegans and protests...
Become a Patron! August 12, 1985 – Not a good news day. Word from Tokyo of the crash of Japan Airlines Boeing 747 Flight 123, into what was later identified as Mount Osutaka, some 100 miles northwest of Tokyo. The flight, a domestic commuter run between Tokyo and Osaka developed...
August 9, 1975 – one year into the Presidency of Gerald Ford and the vice-Presidency of Nelson Rockefeller. Memories were still pretty raw over the events from just a year before; the resignation of Richard Nixon and the swearing in of Gerald Ford, the first President not elected to office...
August 7, 1995 – News from Croatia was not hopeful this day. A much hoped-for surrender offer was turned down at the last minute and it was business as usual in the war-torn region. Croatian soldiers celebrating a victory over Serb rebels may have jumped the gun. The rebels refused...
Become a Patron! August 2, 2000 – Fire season was upon us, in a big way. Wildfires were busy scorching the Northwest and were so out of control, the U.S. Forest Service was considering soliciting help from Australia and Mexico to help in battling the fires which had so far...
Become a Patron! News for August 1, 1978 had much to do with rumors surrounding a pending major East-West Prisoner exchange. At the center of the rumors was Soviet dissident Anatoly Sharanksy and hints he would be swapped for 2 Soviet Spies being held in the U.S. Speculation was fueled...
Become a Patron! July 31, 1947 – While New York City baked in the sticky heat, the scene at the UN meeting in Lake Success was overheating with strife, overthrow and discontent. The United Nations, whose temporary headquarters was at Lake Success, was dealing with a wide range of potentially...
Become a Patron! July 30, 2001 – News from Iraq this day had Saddam Hussein flexing his antagonism as reports came in of another Iraqi surface-to-air missile was fired at an American aircraft near the border of Saudi Arabia. It was becoming clearly evident that Hussein was becoming more aggressive...
July 29, 1966 – July was a bad month for America. In reality, it would be the start of what became known as The Long Hot Summer, as the pattern of violence would be repeated over and over in cities throughout the country. In this year, the problems were triple-fold....
Become a Patron! July 28, 1987 – The nuclear power plant disaster at Chernobyl was still in the news. This time the trial, where half a dozen Soviet nuclear officials were on trial, and prepared to pay heavily for the 1986 disaster which was blamed for 31 deaths and...
Gordon Skene, two-time Grammy Nominee and archivist runs The Gordon Skene Sound Archive and this website, which is dedicated to preserving and encouraging an interest in history and historic news, events, and cultural aspects of our society. Past Daily is the only place on the Internet where you can hear a Nixon speech, listen to an interview with John Cassavettes or play a broadcast of Charles Munch rehearsing the Boston Symphony in 1950, all in the same place. It's living history and it's timeless.
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