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On this day in 1888, Massachusetts inventor John Loud secured the first patent for a ballpoint pen. A part-time leather tanner, Loud wanted a pen that could write on hides — something fountain pens couldn't do. What his pen didn't do well, though, was write on paper. It took roughly another 40 years before Hungarian news editor László Bíró perfected the modern version we use today.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
50 years ago on Monday (11/10/1975)

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I was talking to someone Friday about the great lakes,and just how the storms make it like sn ocean. Since then, all weekend, I've gotten tons of stories and videos popping up on my Facebook about this. Freaking government listening to me🤣
 
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On this day in 1968, football fans across the country were furious when NBC cut away from a wild Jets-Raiders game — with just 1:05 left — to start airing the movie "Heidi." Viewers missed the Raiders' last-minute comeback in what became known as "The Heidi Game." The backlash was so intense that NBC changed its policies — enforced later by the NFL through future broadcast deals — to ensure that in-market games always aired to the end.
 
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VolFaninFla said:
On this day in 1968, football fans across the country were furious when NBC cut away from a wild Jets-Raiders game — with just 1:05 left — to start airing the movie "Heidi." Viewers missed the Raiders' last-minute comeback in what became known as "The Heidi Game." The backlash was so intense that NBC changed its policies — enforced later by the NFL through future broadcast deals — to ensure that in-market games always aired to the end.
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Now it's 2025 and people would be begging NBC to air something besides a Jets-Raiders game!!
 
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VolFaninFla said:
On this day in 1968, football fans across the country were furious when NBC cut away from a wild Jets-Raiders game — with just 1:05 left — to start airing the movie "Heidi." Viewers missed the Raiders' last-minute comeback in what became known as "The Heidi Game." The backlash was so intense that NBC changed its policies — enforced later by the NFL through future broadcast deals — to ensure that in-market games always aired to the end.
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At the time, Sunday nights were for family programming on NBC. They learned the hard way about their investment in sports programming.
 
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Tin Man said:
At the time, Sunday nights were for family programming on NBC. They learned the hard way about their investment in sports programming.
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Don’t remember the channel, but always looked forward to a show called Wonderful of Disney when I was a kid in the early 70’s. I think they would have a movie or some other type of programming.
 
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MAD said:
Don’t remember the channel, but always looked forward to a show called Wonderful of Disney when I was a kid in the early 70’s. I think they would have a movie or some other type of programming.
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The name changed a few times, but The Wonderful World of Disney was on NBC from 1961-1981. It anchored NBC’s family programming on Sunday evenings.
 
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