December 28, 1949 – 20th Century Fox began producing programs for television networks. The number 1 song on the pop charts this week in 1958 was by Alvin & the Chipmunks. 1954, Denzel Washington, born in Mount Vernon, New York
December 29, 1938 Construction on Lake Washington Floating Bridge, Seattle, begins. 2003, Earl Hindman, voice with hat, Home Improvement, dies at 61
December 30 – Saddam Hussein is hanged in Baghdad. In 1972, Nixon halts bombing of North Vietnam and announces peace talks. Paul McCartney sues his bandmates to dissolve the Beatles  in 1970. 1975, Golfer, Tiger Woods was born. Matt Lauer, TV host, Today Show was born in 1957.
December 31, 1997 Microsoft buys Hotmail E-mail service. In 1981, CNN Headline News debuts. 1961, 1st performance of Beach Boys. Val Kilmer, actor, born in 1959
January 1, 1994 Microsoft CEO Bill Gates (38) marries Melinda French (29). In 1984, AT&T’s 22 owned Bell system companies divests into 8 companies.
January 2, 1974, 55 MPH speed limit imposed by Richard Nixon. Dixy Lee Ray, chairwoman (US Atomic Energy Commission and former Governor of Washington), dies at 79
January 3, 1871 Oleomargarine patented by Henry Bradley, Binghamton, New York. Actor, Mel Gibson, born in 1956

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