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On January 26, 1966, Cesar Romero’s Joker debuted in Don Weis & Robert Dozier’s "Batman" tv episode “The Joker is Wild” on ABC. Adapting David Vern Reed & Dick Sprang's 1952 story “The Joker’s Utility Belt”, the episode marks Joker’s debut outside of comics.
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January 26, 1966: Cesar Romero as The Joker as Italian opera Pagliacci in Batman.
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Today in 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger’s mission STS-51-L external fuel tank exploded and the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, FL, killing all six crew members, and New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe. Investigators found failure of O-ring seals in the right solid rocket booster was the cause.
The crew on board the Challenger:
Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnick, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.
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The Crew of the Challenger Shuttle Mission in 1986
VP George Bush had announced that Christa McAuliffe would be Challenger's "Teacher in Space," 1985.
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My mom was a teacher then and was quite ecstatic to hear this news AND she knew Gregory Jarvis. She had a tv in her classroom and watched in horror with her class. School was promptly cancelled and remained closed the next day. I remember my mom went into shock & deep depression from this tragic day forward.
President Reagan’s address to the nation that night quotes from John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight”
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On January 26, 1966, Cesar Romero’s Joker debuted in Don Weis & Robert Dozier’s "Batman" tv episode “The Joker is Wild” on ABC. Adapting David Vern Reed & Dick Sprang's 1952 story “The Joker’s Utility Belt”, the episode marks Joker’s debut outside of comics.
January 26, 1966: Cesar Romero as The Joker as Italian opera Pagliacci in Batman.
Today in 1986: The Space Shuttle Challenger’s mission STS-51-L external fuel tank exploded and the shuttle disintegrated 73 seconds after liftoff from Cape Canaveral, FL, killing all six crew members, and New Hampshire teacher Christa McAuliffe. Investigators found failure of O-ring seals in the right solid rocket booster was the cause.
The crew on board the Challenger:
Ellison Onizuka, Christa McAuliffe, Gregory Jarvis, Judith Resnick, Mike Smith, Dick Scobee, and Ronald McNair.
The Crew of the Challenger Shuttle Mission in 1986
VP George Bush had announced that Christa McAuliffe would be Challenger's "Teacher in Space," 1985.
My mom was a teacher then and was quite ecstatic to hear this news AND she knew Gregory Jarvis. She had a tv in her classroom and watched in horror with her class. School was promptly cancelled and remained closed the next day. I remember my mom went into shock & deep depression from this tragic day forward.
President Reagan’s address to the nation that night quotes from John Gillespie Magee’s “High Flight”
Quote:President Reagan, who had been planning to deliver his State of the Union speech that evening, instead consoled a grieving nation by giving one of the most powerful presidential addresses of the 20th century, concluding with the following paragraph that quotes from the first and last lines of the poem:
The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and “slipped the surly bonds of earth” to “touch the face of God.”
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