Monday, March 14, 2011

The Retroscope: 14 March

March 14, 1980 - Polish airliner crash kills all 87 aboard, 22 were US amateur boxers.
March 14, 1983 - OPEC cut oil prices for the first time in 23 years.
March 14, 1987 - Huey Lewis and the News recorded Jacob's Ladder written by Bruce Hornsby and brother John Hornsby and became a number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1987.
"Step by step, one by one, higher and higher..."
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