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WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, March 18, 2024 1881 Barnum and Bailey’s Greatest Show on Earth opens in Madison Square Gardens. 1965 The first spacewalk was conducted by Soviet cosmonaut Alexey Leonov. The spacewalk lasted 12 minutes.

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thursday, Jan. 25, 2024 1937 NBC Radio presented the first broadcast of “The Guiding Light”. The radio show continued until 1956 and began its run-on CBS TV in 1952. It ended

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  Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Friday, Nov. 3, 2023 1993 Polly Wants Justice. The parrot knew who the murderer was but would anybody listen… Jane Gill was murdered in her mansion. Gary Rasp, her business

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, October 30, 2023  1768 The first ‘Methodist’ church in America was dedicated, the Wesley Chapel in New York City. 1938 Orson Welles panicked the nation with his radio adaptation of The

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Wednesday, Sept. 6, 2023 1620 The Mayflower set sail from Plymouth, England with 102 Pilgrims and about 30 crew members. 1969 The TV show H.R. Pufnstuf, with puppets by Sid and Marty Krofft,

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WAY BACK WHEN for Friday, May 26, 2023 1637 The first battle of the Pequot War (the first war between the settlers and Indians) begins, near present-day New Haven, Connecticut. 1994 The King of Pop Michael Jackson married

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WAY BACK WHEN for Thursday, May 25, 2023 1951 Baseball legend Willie Mays played his first major-league game. 1969 The controversial film is released. Midnight Cowboy was the first X-Rated film to win an Oscar; however, its rating was later

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WAY BACK WHEN for Monday, May 15, 2023 1928 Plane Crazy was test screened in a theater as a silent film. It featured Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. It didn’t test well and was not distributed to other

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The Philly naked bike ride. GOAT FIGHT. And wait until you hear where today’s ‘knucklehead’ chose to sell his drugs! That’s what Paul Layendecker is BuZzin’ about today on The Daily BuZz!!

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WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, May 3, 2023 1937 Margaret Mitchell’s Civil War novel “Gone with the Wind” was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. It sold a million copies in its first six months. 1973, the Sears

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Mark was born in Kalamazoo and grew up in Portland Michigan. Mark has worked in radio all his life from Chicago, to Memphis, Indianapolis, Kansas City, Philadelphia, and Detroit (among others). Mark and family are excited to

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WAY BACK WHEN for Wednesday, April 12, 2023 1861, The Civil War began when Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in South Carolina. 1955 Dr. Jonas Salk reported the success of the nationwide test of his polio vaccine and received

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs., March 31, 2023 1870, Thomas Peterson Mundy cast his ballot in a New Jersey municipal election; he was the first black man to vote after the 15th Amendment was ratified. 1889, the Eiffel Tower was officially

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Tuesday, March 21, 2023 1965, Dr. Martin Luther King led 3,000 Civil Rights demonstrators in a 54-mile march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama to demand voting rights for blacks.  By the end of

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  Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Monday, Feb. 27, 2023 1922 The Supreme Court upheld the 19th Amendment, guaranteeing women the right to vote. 1964 The New York Yankees signed Mickey Mantle to a contract for

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Paul Layendecker’s “WAY BACK WHEN” for Thurs. Feb. 23, 2023 1874 The game of Tennis was patented by its inventor Major Walter Clopton Wingfield of Great Britain. 1945 The famous raising of the flag on Mt. Suribachi,