Pan American Ceases Operations - December 1991

Delta Air Lines, which had been providing financial support to Pan American World airways, announced, December 3, that it would not offer any further assistance. Pan Am then closed operations, December 4, ending one of the most important and colorful chapters in aviation history. The year 1991 had also seen the demise of Eastern Airlines and Midway Airlines.

Ex-Leader of Panama Convicted - April 1992

Gen. Manuel Noriega, former military ruler of Panama, was convicted, April 9, in U.S. District Court in Miami of racketeering, drug trafficking, and money laundering. Noriega, the first foreign head of state convicted by a U.S. jury, had been seized by U.S. forces early in 1990 after the American invasion of Panama. At the trial, witnesses, many of them convicted drug traffickers themselves, tied Noriega to the Medellin drug cartel. The government sought to show that Noriega had taken millions of dollars in bribes from the cartel. Testifying for the defense, Adm. Daniel Murphy (ret), chief of staff for Vice Pres. George Bush during the 1980s, said that Noriega had cooperated with U.S. efforts to intercept drug shipments. On July 10, Judge William Hoeveler sentenced Noriega to 40 years in prison.

Chicago TV Flashback - April 30-May 1, 1973

WMAQ channel 5 TV schedule for Monday, April 30, 1973

Morning

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5:55a - Meditation

6a - Station Exchange

6:30a - Town and Farm

6:35a - Today in Chicago

7a - Today

7:25a - NewsFive Update

7:30a - Today cont'd (55 min)

8:25a - NewsFive Update with Doug Goldhamer

8:30a - Today cont'd

9a - Dinah's Place

9:30a - Baffle

10a - Sale of the Century

10:30a - Hollywood Squares

11a - Jeopardy!

11:30a - Who, What or Where Game

11:55a - NBC News Update with Floyd Kalber

Afternoon

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Noon - Noon Report with Jorie Lueloff

12:30p - Three on a Match

1p - Days of Our Lives

1:30p - The Doctors

2p - Another World

2:30p - Return to Peyton Place

3p - Somerset

3:30p - Mike Douglas Show (1 hr, 30 min)

5p - NewsFive at 5 with Jim Ruddle

5:30p - NewsFive with Floyd Kalber

Evening

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6p - NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor

6:30p - Wait Till Your Father Gets Home

7p - Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In (1 hour)

8p - NBC Monday Night at the Movies: The Ceremony (2 hours)

10p - NewsFive at 10 with Floyd Kalber

10:30p - Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson (1 hr, 30 min)

Midnight - NewsFive Update

12:05a - Not for Women Only

12:35a - Phil Donahue Show

Early Tuesday, May 1, 1973

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1:05a - Some of My Best Friends

1:35a - NewsFive Update

1:40a - Meditation

Chicago TV Flashback - April 28-29, 1980

WLS channel 7 TV schedule for Monday, April 28, 1980

Morning

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6:02a - Eyewitness News Update

6:09a - Perspectives

6:36a - Ed Allen

6:54a - Today's Woman

7a - Good Morning America (2 hours)

9a - AM Chicago (1 hour)

10a - Laverne & Shirley

10:30a - Family Feud

11a - The $20,000 Pyramid

11:30a - Ryan's Hope

Afternoon

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Noon - All My Children (1 hour)

1p - One Life to Live (1 hour)

2p - General Hospital (1 hour)

3p - Edge of Night

3:30p - The 3:30 Movie: Suddenly Single (1 hr, 30 min)

5p - Eyewitness News at 5

5:30p - World News Tonight with Frank Reynolds

Evening

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6p - Eyewitness News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - That's Incredible! (1 hour)

8p - ABC Monday Night Movie: All God's Children (2 hours)

10p - Eyewitness News at 10

10:30p - Nightline with Ted Koppel (55 min)

11:25p - Police Woman (1 hour)

12:35a - Late Night Movie: We Who Are About to Die (1 hr, 54 min)

Early Tuesday, April 29, 1980

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2:19a - Reflections

6 years ago this week...

This is a transcript of what I wrote on MS Notepad 6 years ago on October 3, 2020 titled "I've Been Bullied on Twitter" and I take this time to share this with you. This is slightly edited before I made this entry post a moment ago.

As the subject title implies, I'm going to do my best to tell you what happened and what drove me to leave Twitter earlier today.

On Wednesday night, September 30th during the edition of AEW Dynamite on TNT, I went on Twitter and I spoke out about the disgraced arcade recordholder Billy Mitchell aka "King of Kong." Mitchell, if you may recall 2 years ago, was banned from Twin Galaxies and voided his record scores for using hardware to cheat his way into the record books. After I spoke out about Mitchell, a deranged fan called me out within moments after the vignette. When I saw that tweet, I fired back at the fan and moments later, that fan had the audacity to copy and paste a snapshot of my own tweets onto his profile and called me a "clown" in front of the fan's followers. After that, another deranged fan happens to be a loyal AEW fangirl posted a tweet calling me out for standing up to the deranged fan I fired back at.

The very next morning after that bullying scandal on Twitter, I was on the verge of breaking down and I did. I broke down and cried hard. Later that day, I spoke to a couple of people and they had the courage to listen to me and hear me out which they did. Today, I've decided to take a month off, but a female wrestling fan had the gall to accuse me and I barked back at her which led me to muting and blocking her. Finally, after some 10 months of being in this toxic environment and being bullied by deranged football and wrestling fans, Twitter left me no other alternavtive but for me to shut my account down for good.

Everytime I try to fact check or even stand up to people, they berate me, laugh at me, mock me and everything they do in their own power to earn rewards for bullying people, including me. I'm a lot better than this, in fact, we're ALL better than this and no one deserves to be bullied by a bunch of deranged fans no matter the fanbase they're a part of. I'm different from everyone else and I'm not like everyone else, but I just wish that this ongoing trend called bullying, online and in real life, needs to end here and now.

Thanks for listening

Maxwell's Private Company File for Bankruptcy - December 1991

It was reported, December 3, that Spanish pathologists had concluded that Robert Maxwell, the publisher, had suffered a heart attack before he fell off his yacht and died in November. They ruled out foul play. The Mirror Group, a Maxwell property, announced, December 3, that it was investigating loans and asset transfers from the company's pension fund to companies that Maxwell controlled. On December 4, Britain's Serious Fraud Office began a similar inquiry. On December 5, Maxwell's sons, Ian and Kevin, sought bankruptcy protection in Britain for Maxwell's privately owned companies. Also on December 5, the New York Daily News, another part of the Maxwell empire, filed for bankruptcy in the U.S.

U.N. Imposes Sanctions on Yugoslavia - May 1992

The U.N. Security Council attempted to stop the bloodshed in Yugoslavia. On May 1, Serbian forces began shelling Sarajevo, the capital of Bosnia-Herzegovina, and also seized many towns within the secessionist republic. Hundreds of people were killed. The federal army, dominated by Serbs, singed a truce with the Bosnian government, May 5, A cease-fire took effect, May 13, but it didn't last long. To convey its concern, the U.S. government, May 20, revoked the U.S. landing rights of the Yugoslav national airline. Sec. of State James Baker announced, May 22, that Yugoslav consulates in New York City and San Francisco would be closed and that Yugoslav military attaches based in Washington would be expelled. On May 22, the U.N. General Assembly admitted as U.N. members the former republics of Croatia, Slovenia, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. On May 27, the European Community imposed a trade embargo on Yugoslavia. On May 29 and 30, Serbian forces shelled Sarajevo and the Croatian port city of Dubrovnik. The U.N. Security Council, May 30, approved, 13-0, broad new sanctions against Yugoslavia. The U.N. resolution demanded an end to the fighting and to all interference in Bosnia by Yugoslavia. The resolution authorized a ban on all exports to Yugoslavia except food and medical supplies, and a global ban on imports from Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia's foreign assets were frozen and commercial contacts halted. Serbian Pres. Slobodan Milosevic denied, May 31, that Yugoslavia had committed any aggression against Bosnia.

Chicago TV Flashback - April 4-5, 1977

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Monday, April 4, 1977

Morning

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6a - Sunrise Semester

6:30a - It's Worth Knowing

7a - CBS Morning News (1 hour)

8a - Captain Kangaroo (1 hour)

9a - Double Dare

9:30a - The Price is Right (1 hour)

10:30a - Love of Life

10:55a - CBS Newsbreak with Douglas Edwards

11a - Young and the Restless

11:30a - Search for Tomorrow

Afternoon

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Noon - Lee Phillip Show

12:30p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

1:30p - Guiding Light

2p - All in the Family

2:30p - Match Game '77

3p - Tattletales

3:30p - Dinah! (1 hr, 30 min)

5p - Channel 5 News at 5

5:30p - CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite

Evening

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6p - Channel 2 News at 6 (1 hour)

7p - It's the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (Special)

7:30p - The Jungle Book: Rikki-Tikki-Tavi (Special)

8p - Maude (5th season finale)

8:30p - All's Fair

9p - The Andros Targets (1 hour)

10p - Channel 2: The 10 O'Clock News

10:30p - Kojak (1 hr, 10 min)

11:40p - New Healers

12:10a - First Edition

12:25a - The Late Show: Hauser's Memory (1 hr, 55 min)

Early Tuesday, April 5, 1977

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2:20a - The Late Show II: Coast of Skeletons (1 hr, 55 min)

Chicago TV Flashback - September 14-15, 1987

WGN channel 9 TV schedule for Monday, September 14, 1987

Morning

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5a - Laverne & Shirley

5:30a - Faith 20

6a - The Muppet Show

6:30a - M.A.S.K.

7a - The Bozo Show (1 hr, 30 min)

8:30a - Heathcliff

9a - Incredible Hulk (1 hour)

10a - The Waltons (1 hour)

11a - Geraldo (1 hour)

Afternoon

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Noon - Newscope (1 hour)

1p - Rhoda

1:30p - Phyllis

2p - Welcome Back, Kotter

2:30p - Bugs Bunny and Friends

3p - Ghostbusters

3:30p - Smurfs' Adventures

4p - G.I. Joe

4:30p - Transformers

5p - Good Times

5:30p - The Jeffersons

Evening

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6p - Benson

6:30p - Baseball: Cubs v. New York Mets at Shea Stadium (2 hrs, 30 min)

9p - 10th Inning

9:30p - The Nine O'Clock News

10p - INN News with Morton Dean

10:30p - Trapper John, M.D. (1 hour)

11:30p - WGN Presents: We of the Never Never (2 hrs, 30 min)

Early Tuesday, September 15, 1987

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2a - Laverne & Shirley

2:30a - INN News with Morton Dean (Rebroadcast)

3a - The Late Movie: Hell in the Pacific (1 hr, 50 min)

4:50a - Five Minutes to Live By

Full boxscore: https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/NYN/NYN198709140.shtml

The official winning numbers in the Illinois State Lottery's Daily Game and Pick 4 were 5-6-0 and 0-2-4-0.

Paris Summit Marks End of Cold War - November 1990

A formal conclusion to the era of Cold War between East and West was formally celebrated at a summit conference in Paris. On his way to the summit, Pres. George Bush visited Czechoslovakia, addressing 100,000 in Wenceslas Square in Prague on November 17, before speaking again to the Federal Assembly. Bush met with German Chancellor Helmut Kohl in Berlin, November 18. Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met with Pope John Paul II in the Vatican, November 18, and then signed a Soviet-Italian friendship treaty with Italian Premier Giulio Andreotti. The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe opened in Paris, November 19, with the United States, Canada, and all the nations of Europe represented (except Albania, which sent observers). On November 19, Bush and Gorbachev, as well as other leaders of NATO and the Warsaw Pact, signed the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, which limited each military force in the region to 20,000 main battle tanks, 30,000 other armored combat vehicles, 20,000 pieces of artillery, and 6,800 combat aircraft. On November 21, the last day of the summit, the leaders signed the Charter of Paris for a New Europe, which declared an end to "the era of confrontation and division in Europe" and pledged a "new era of democracy, peace and unity."