Mad Magazine artist Don Martin created the idea of National Gorilla Suit Day for a 1963 comic strip in which a character mocks the holiday and is then assaulted by gorillas and people in gorilla suits.
— Lynne Irwin (@LLynneIrwin) January 31, 2023
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Category: On this date
Great Molasses Flood – 1/15/1919
The Commodore 64 computer was announced on 1/7/82
The first tweet reminded me of the Commodore 64. I didn’t have one. I had an Atari 800. The Vic 20 was a less powerful computer from Commodore. I had a cassette recorder with my Atari.
Bob Dylan’s album Desire – location used for cover photo
Desire was released on 1/6/76.
Santa with (or played by) celebrities
Mr.T and Nancy Reagan!
10th anniversary of the Ikea monkey
Never heard of this until today. This is the fun side of Twitter.
The cover shoot for Animals by Pink Floyd -12/3/76
11 people died at the Who concert in Cincinnati – 12/3/79
Let It Bleed released 11/28/69
Let It Bleed is one of the best Rolling Stones albums and “Gimme Shelter” is my favorite Rolling Stones song.
The cover is great too – cake on the front. chaos on the back.
Let Them Eat Delia’s Cake, or Robert Brownjohn’s Let It Bleed
The Zapruder film of the Kennedy assassination
The Kennedy assassination was 59 years ago today on 11/22/63. Abraham Zapruder witnessed it and filmed it on his 8 mm camera. The film was sold to Life Magazine and still frames appeared in print. They’re unforgettable if you have seen them.
Sad! 