One Day in Your Life: June 28, 1980

June 28, 1980, is a Saturday. At Camp David, President Carter goes fishing, and later sees the movie Urban Cowboy with the First Lady. The federal debt ceiling is temporarily raised to $985 billion. Helen Gahagan Douglas, the second woman to serve in Congress, dies at age 79. (Douglas was defeated for the U.S. Senate [...]

One Day in Your Life: May 8, 1984

May 8, 1984, is a Tuesday. The Soviet Union announces that it will boycott the upcoming Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Gary Hart wins Democratic presidential primaries in Ohio and Indiana; Walter Mondale wins Maryland and North Carolina. An American clergyman, Benjamin Weir, is kidnapped in Beirut; he will be freed in 16 months as [...]

One Day in Your Life: December 18, 1985

(This feature usually appears at Popdose on the third Wednesday of the month, but not this month. I’m posting what would have been over there over here.)
December 18, 1985, is a Wednesday. The UN Security Council unanimously condemns hostage-taking, in response to the hijackings of the cruise ship Achille Lauro and TWA Flight 847 earlier [...]

One Day in Your Life: December 4, 1972

(One Day in Your Life has been appearing over at Popdose this year. It’s appearing here today because I felt like writing it.)

December 4, 1972, is a Monday. Time magazine reports on the opening of the SALT II arms limitation talks. At the Vietnam peace talks in Paris, North Vietnamese negotiator Le Duc Tho tells [...]

One Day in Your Life: October 31, 1984

(Individual days tend to get past us. For every one we remember vividly—in my case, October 6, 1981, or October 16, 1978—hundreds more slip away into the void. The simple purpose of this month’s series of One Day in Your Life posts has been to rescue a few of those lost days. The deeper purpose [...]

One Day in Your Life: October 30, 1974

October 30, 1974, is a Wednesday. Last night here in the states (but at 4AM on the 30th in Zaire, where the fight is held), Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the eighth round to regain the heavyweight championship in “the Rumble in the Jungle.” In one of four games played in the World [...]