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The 1981 Baseball Strike

June 12, 1981 – The Great Baseball Strike Of 1981

June 12, 1981 – CBS World News Roundup + Newsbreak + Hourly News – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – June 12, 1981 – America‘s Great National Pastime took a vacation this day. With talks between Players and Team Owners breaking down one last time, a strike was called and the

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Humphrey Bogart

January 14, 1957 – On Top Of Everything Else, We Lost Bogie

[laterpay_premium_download target_post_id=”31507″ heading_text=”Download For $1.99:” description_text=”January 14, 1957 – News And Commentary – Various – Gordon Skene Sound Collection” content_type=”link”] Become a Patron! A rather fractured day of news – this day, 63 years ago. With everything else going on in the world, it was learned that screen icon and

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August 26, 1986 - lake Nyos in Cameroon

August 26, 1986 – Tale Of The Exploding Lake

August 26, 1986 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 26, 30 years ago today – A seismic and Volcanic surprise in the African nation of Cameroon – one of the rare volcanos situation under a lake, erupted and spewed lethal carbon dioxide gas and

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Begin-Strauss Meeting 1979

August 17, 1979 – Middle East Fence Mending

August 17, 1979 – CBS World News Roundup – Gordon Skene Sound Collection – August 17, 1979 – a day of fence mending in the Middle East. Special Middle-East Envoy Robert Strauss flew to Israel and held an emergency meeting of reassurance with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin as a

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