ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY.
1778: Alexander Hamilton was "feelin' it."1864: John Wilkes Booth was down with that.
1907: It was Teddy Roosevelt's bad.
1933: Amelia Earhart went, girl.
1933: Charles Lindbergh player hated.
1954: Rock Hudson had it going on.
1955: Albert Einstein kept it real.
1972: Richard Farnsworth gave/was given props/a shout out.
1985: Ted McGinley broke it down.
1998: Oprah Winfrey busted it out.
[No more than a 1999 reprint here folks. But the key insight is this: it's only been nine years since Oprah was still known as Oprah Winfrey.]
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