OKAY, ACCORDING TO -- AFTER
A BRIEF HIATUS, I'M HAPPY TOP
BRING BACK A SEGMENT THAT
GENERATED SO MANY CARDS AND
LETTERS.
HERE IT IS.
TURN BACK TIME.
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IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME♪
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THANK YOU.
GOOD WORK ON YOUR PART.
OKAY, HERE WE GO.
APRIL 22nd.
1864, CONGRESS PASSES
LEGISLATION AUTHORIZING THE
PHRASE "IN GOD WE TRUST" ON
ONE CENT AND TWO CENT COINS.
IT WASN'T UNTIL THE '50s IT
BECAME ACROSS THE BOARD ON
PAPER AND EVERYTHING.
THAT WAS THE FIRST STEP.
IN 1876 THE FIRST NATIONAL
LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME, THE
BOSTON RED STOCKINGS BEAT THE
THIS DATE IN 1937.
BIRTH DAYS.
BUNCHES OF THEM.
APRIL 23rd.
1985.
COCA-COLA ANNOUNCES IT IS
CHANGING ITS 99-YEAR-OLD OLD
FARMLA INTRODUCING WHAT IS TO
BE KNOWN AS "NEW COKE."
REMEMBER THAT?
COKE CLASSIC RETURNED LESS
SCHOOL IN AMERICA, THE BOSTON
LATIN SCHOOL IS FOUNDED.
IT STILL OPERATES TODAY.
IT'S THE OLDEST PUBLIC SCHOOL
IN AMERICA.
ON THIS DATE IN 1936, YOU
REMEMBER THE GUY WHO DID
"PRETTY WOMAN."
ROY OR BY SON WAS BORN ON THIS
DATE AND SHIRLEY TEMPLE BLACK.
SHE WAS AMBASSADOR TO SEVERAL
COUNTRIES FROM THE UNITED
STATES.
SHE BECAME THE YOUNGEST PERSON
YOU SEE HER ON T.V. ALL THE
TIME.
THE VIDEOS WILL LIVE FOREVER.
APRIL 24, WE BACK ON THIS
ONE.
1184 B.C. THIS IS THE
TRADITIONAL DATE OF THE GREEKS
ENTERING THE CITY OF TROY IN A
WOODEN HORSE DURING THE TROJAN
WAR.
IT STARTED, PEOPLE DON'T KNOW,
AS THOMAS JEFFERSON'S LIBRARY.
THAT'S WHERE IT ALL CAME FROM.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO BARBRA
CENTER ICE NDZ BORN ON THE
24th IN 1942.
CLOSE BUT NOT THE SAME DAY.
CLOSE.
SHIRLEY McLEAN, BORN IN
1934 ON APRIL 24th.
NOW YOU KNOW WHO SHIRLEY
MCLEAN'S BROTHER IS.
WARREN BEATTY.
PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THEY
ABOUT BY A FRENCH PHYSICIAN,
JOSEPH IGNACE GUILLOTINE, WHO
LOOKED NOR A HUMANE WAY TO
EXECUTE.
THAT IS WHAT HE CAME UP
WITH.
THAT'S WHAT HE CAME UP
WITH.
I MEAN, IT'S FAST.
IT IS THAT.
AS YOU HEAR IT SLIDING DOWN -- I WOULD BE MAKING A
LOT OF NOISE.
WHATEVER.
ALL RIGHT.
THANKS FOR THAT.
1901, NEW YORK BECOMES THE
FIRST U.S. STATE TO REQUIRE
AUTOMOBILE LICENSE PLATES.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EDWARD R.
MORROW.
DO YOU REMEMBER HIM?
THAT'S BIG DEAL FOR
JOURNALISTS.
APRIL 25th, ELLA FITZGERALD
NATIONAL TESTING OF JONAS
SALK'S POLIO VACCINE BEGINS.
IT WAS THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL
VACCINE FOR POLIO.
ORIGINALLY THE KIDS AND
EVERYTHING AT THAT TIME, THERE
WAS A NATIONWIDE TEST.
IT TOOK LESS THAN A YEAR FOR
THEM TO SAY IT WORKS.
ABSOLUTELY WORKS.
THE MOON.
CAROL BURNETT'S BIRTHDAY APRIL 26.
JOHN JAMES AUDUBON BORN ON
APRIL 26, THE ORNITHOLOGIST
AND WILDLIFE ARTIST.
FINAL THIS QUESTION, WHAT IS
SO STRANGE ABOUT THE SEVEN
CONTINENTS EVER THE WORLD?
THAT THERE ARE SO MANY I
HAVEN'T BEEN TO YET?
THAT'S NOT IT.
TAKE AWAY NORTH AND SOUTH.
EVERY CONTINENT STARTS AND
ENDS WITH THE SAME LETTER.
ASIA, EUROPE, AMERICA.
THEY START AND END WITH THE
SAME LETTER.
I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.
THAT WRAPS IT UP FOR THIS
WEEK'S TURNING BACK TIME.
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IF I COULD TURN BACK TIME♪
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THANK YOU, CHER AS WELL.