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."

"Junk-Bond" Expert Sentenced - November 1990

In New York District Court on November 21, Judge Kimba Wood sentenced Michael Milken, a former employee of Drexel Burnham Lambert Inc., to 10 years in prison for securities fraud. Milken had helped facilitate the corporate takeover boom of the 1980s through the promotion of high-risk, high-yield securities known as "junk bonds." He pleaded guilty in April 1990 to fraud---6 felony counts---and agreed to pay fines and make restitution totalling $600M. In imposing a sentence that was longer than some had predicted, Judge Wood dismissed assertions by Milken's lawyers that the crimes were little more than technicalities. She said a prison term was necessary to deter others in the financial industry from engaging in similar practices.

Senate Finds New Way to Cut Deficits - October 1985

The U.S. Senate came up with a new plan for eliminating the federal budget deficits. The Republican leadership in the Senate and House endorsed a proposal aimed at forcing the government to balance the budget by 1991. The plan would direct the president and Congress to cut the deficit by $36B a year until it disappeared. In any year that the deficit exceeded the specified level by more than 5 percent, the president would have the authority to reduce spending across the board. Support grew for the plan although it appeared to require further cuts in defense and popular domestic programs and increases in taxes. The plan was offered as an amendment to a bill to raise the government's debt ceiling to more than $2T. Pres. Ronald Reagan formally endorsed the plan, October 4. The debate of the amendment delayed action on the debt ceiling, and the Treasury said, October 8, that it would run out of cash that night unless Congress acted on the ceiling. On October 9, the Treasury borrowed $5B to raise the case needed to cover checks already issued. The balance-budget amendment won Senate approval, October 9, as liberals and conservatives joined in the 75-24 majority. The House, October 11, endorsed the goals of the Senate bill; without voting on a specific bill, the House went directly to a conference with the Senate.

Chicago TV Flashback - July 1-2, 1988

WBBM channel 2 TV schedule for Friday, July 1, 1988

Morning

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5a - CBS News Nightwatch cont'd (1 hour)

6a - Business This Morning

6:30a - CBS Early Morning News with Faith Daniels and Charles Osgood

7a - CBS News This Morning with Kathleen Sullivan and Harry Smith (2 hours)

9a - The $25,000 Pyramid (Finale)

9:30a - Card Sharks

10a - The Price is Right (1 hour; 16th season finale)

11a - Photoplay

11:30a - Young and the Restless (1 hour)

Afternoon

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12:30p - Bold and the Beautiful

1p - As the World Turns (1 hour)

2p - Guiding Light (1 hour)

3p - Love Connection

3:30p - Superior Court

4p - The People's Court

4:30p - First Edition

5p - Channel 2 News at 5 (1 hour)

Evening

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6p - CBS Evening News with Dan Rather

6:30p - Entertainment Tonight

7p - Beauty and the Beast (1 hour)

8p - CBS Friday Night Movie: Camille (2 hours)

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

10:30p - CBS Late Movie: Death of a Soldier (2 hours)

12:30a - Channel 2: The 10 O'Clock News (Rebroadcast)

Early Saturday, July 2, 1988

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1a - Entertainment Tonight

1:30a - Fan Club

2a - The Late Show: The Best of the Safecrackers (2 hours)

4a - The Late Show: Ode to a Dying Love (2 hours)

After 15 years of being on daytime television on both CBS and ABC as The $10,000 Pyramid and The $20,000 Pyramid respectively, The $25,000 Pyramid signs off for the last time. Everyone from Rob Reiner, Judy Carne, Frank Gifford, Anson Williams, Robert Mandan, Michael J. Fox, and a giant parade of celebrities leading the contestants to winning a fortune in cash by guessing 6 subjects in 60 seconds or less. The most notable moment was Billy Crystal went up the pyramid in a record-setting time of 24 seconds on December 2, 1977. A record that still stands to this very day. The $100,000 Pyramid still be seen in syndication until the September 2, 1988 finale. Staring Monday, July 4th, the 2nd incarnation of Family Feud with Ray Combs as the new host takes over Pyramid's time slot.

The Price is Right ends its 16th year on daytime television by testing out its computerized on-screen chyron graphics. This practice would be used full-time in 1996 during its final few months of the show's 24th year.

My Life - July 16, 2026

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been a month since my last post, but I'm just happy the World Cup circus coming to an end this weekend and the USMNT got themselves eliminated by Belgium 4-1. Why? It's because a felonious president made FIFA overturn the suspension of one of its players. That, right there, is corruption, and that's what happens when you interfere in FIFA's business to overturn a suspension or a penalty.

As I'm writing this entry, it's been a year since leaving Bluesky and ended 19 years of being on social media. No matter which social media platform you're on, you see a lot of people who are toxic, ignorant, racist, and controlling. I'm referring those who are fans of politics, wrestling, and sports where they cyberbully others and get rewarded by the them, the aggressors, by mocking those with a disability, or those who are struggling with mental health. And the screenshots I uploaded to this blog one year ago goes to show you that social media platform owners, like Bluesky, tolerate these things and letting these events happen.

If I were to give the summer season on a scale of 1 to 10, I'd give it a -30. Too many severe storms, prolonged heat waves, meteorologists on television breaking their promises and lie to the viewers saying that the extreme heat warning or the air quality alert extends until midnight the next day to grab ahold of their ego.

Guess I'll end here...

My Life - June 19, 2026

Hey y'all, what's going on?

It's been a little over a month since my last entry, but he had some severe weather and tornadoes rolled through south of me last week where it hit Streator, Illinois with not one, but 2 tornadoes. In all, some 19 tornadoes were confirmed and some of them were wedge tornadoes. And there were some that touched down in Indiana. Thankfully, all we had that day was rain, some wind and a few flashes of lightning. Yesterday, Chicago escaped that severe weather when it was a moderate 4 risk south of I-80, because we had rain for that afternoon and that was that.

I catch some of the highlights of the Obama Presidential Center for both days and the opening festivities and speeches from both Michelle and Barack Obama were awe-inspiring. Three other ex-presidents and their first ladies were there as well, including George W. Bush. I didn't even care for the World Cup tournament, because just like the UFC, it's too political driven for and it's too political driven for this country. If the United states Men's team choke in the knockout round, I would be very happy for that team to choke.

From the way I see it, Trump, Vance and his assclown administration failed in getting the job done, failed in upholding the constitution, failed to protect us from enemies abroad, and failed to live up to their promises.

Guess I'll end here...