King's Lost Draft, an Exploding Whale, and a Hazy Future?
Gandhi went live on the radio exactly once.
That was this day in 1947, at All India Radio, and India still marks the date as Public Service Broadcasting Day. It's World Pneumonia Day, too, but the radio is what stays with me: one voice, one time, and we're still listening. I keep thinking about him in times like these, with the gap between the rich and the poor as wide as it is.
On this date in 1970, a dead whale washed up on the beach in Florence, Oregon, and somebody decided the answer was half a ton of dynamite. It went everywhere. Tragic, and kind of a spectacular way to go, and fifty-six…
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