#45YearsAgoToday #GIRobot III debuted in @dc.com #WeirdWarTales #comic #101 ( #20YearsAfterTheOG in #StarSpangledComics #101 #JAKE1: Jungle Action Killer/experimental ) designed by #MIT #ProfessorThompson & deployed in #ThePacific under Sgt Coker during #WWII @seangunn.bsky.social #CreatureCommandos

#45yearsagotoday, John Hinckley, Jr., an emotionally disturbed 25 year old, shot then- President Ronald Reagan and three others outside a Washington, DC hotel. Hinckley, who was later found not guilty by reason of insanity, was confined to a psychiatric hospital until 2016.
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#45YearsAgoToday #TheOmegaMen debuted in #GreenLantern #comics #141 #RagTagBandOfOutlawSpaceHeroes led by #Primus @dc.com #typicallyLateFollowingTrends introducedThisGang a YearAfter #TheEmpireStrikesBack unlike @marvelcomics.bsky.social whose #Starjammers debuted aFewMonthsAfter #original #StarWars

3/6/81: Ronald Reagan on finding a dead body in the street 🤔 #cheapfake #45yearsagotoday

#45YearsAgoToday #Nekron debuted in #TalesOfTheGreenLanternCorps #comics #2 #EmbodimentOfDeath banishedBy #TheGuardiansOfTheUniverse thoUtilizes TheLifeEnergy of #Krona #toInvadeLandOfTheLiving #GreenLanternHalJordan spearheadsHisDefeat but Nekron is revealed 2008 @dc.com #BlackLanterns #crisis host

#45yearsagotoday, Blondie's "The Tide Is High" was at #1 on the Hot 100. A cover of the 1967 song by The Paragons, Blondie's interpretation was featured on their album, "Autoamerican." "The Tide Is High" was the 1st single from the album. "Rapture" was the 2nd.
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"(Just Like) Starting Over" by John Lennon was the #1 song in the US #45yearsagotoday. The last single released during Lennon's lifetime, the song was the lead single from "Double Fantasy." The single is certified gold in the United States and the United Kingdom.
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The Iran Hostage Crisis ended #45yearsagotoday. 52 hostages were held for 444 days after revolutionaries stormed the American embassy in Tehran. The Iranian government released them all minutes after Ronald Reagan was sworn in as president.
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9 to 5 was released #45yearsagotoday. Starring Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, the film was Dolly Parton's film debut. The film grossed over $100 million. Parton's song, "9 to 5," which was featured on the soundtrack, was nominated for Best Original Song at the Oscars.
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"Stir Crazy" was the #1 film #45yearsagotoday. Directed by Sidney Poitier and starring Gene Wilder and Richard Pryor, the film was commercially successful despite mixed reviews. With this film, Pryor became the first African-American to be paid $1 million dollars for a film role.
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#45YearsAgoToday #Trigon debuted in @dc.com #NewTeenTitans #comics #5 #extraDimensionalDemonLord #fatherOfRaven #responsibleForBringingThe2ndGenerationOfTheTeamOfYoungSuperHeroesTogether #toPreventHimFromSubjugatingEarth #SeamusDever is #thisHornyLiveActionDevil 40yrs later @dcuniverse.bsky.social

#45yearsagotoday, John Lennon was murdered outside his apartment building by Mark David Chapman, a former fan. Chapman, admitting to jealousy over Lennon's lifestyle and anger over public statements Lennon had made, later pleaded guilty to the murder. He remains incarcerated.
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Episodes of "Eight Is Enough," "Soap," "Taxi," "Vega$," and "Enos," a "Dukes of Hazzard" spin-off, all aired on primetime television #45yearsagotoday.
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#45YearsAgoToday #Blok recalled #hisOrigin & #CrystalKid #Lamprey & #Nightwind debuted in @dc.com #LegionOfSuperHeroes #comics #272 #TheFutureSuperTeam #applicants #BobbKohan #TaylaSkott & #BertaHaris can #transformMatterToCrystal #exhibitAmphibiousAndElectricalPowers & #controlTheWinds respectively

#45YearsAgoToday #Typhoon debuted in @dc.com #TheFlash #comics #294 as #inventor #DavidDrake testing a #nuclearPowered #MantaBathysphere aboard #TheNeptuneExplorer in #TheSouthPacific during #TyphoonSeason & in #theNextIssue turns into a #superHumanTyphoon soon tangling with #FirestormTheNuclearMan

Ronald Reagan, then-Governor of California, defeated President Jimmy Carter in the Election of 1980 #45yearsagotoday. Reagan won 489 Electoral College votes, one of the largest landslides in American history. John B. Anderson, a third-party candidate, won nearly 6 million votes.
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Monica Denise Arnold was born #45yearsagotoday in GA. Discovered at age eleven, Arnold recorded her first album, "Miss Thang," under her first name at age fourteen. The album went triple platinum. Monica has recorded nine more studio albums and has been nominated for five Grammys.
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"The Elephant Man" was released nationwide #45yearsagotoday. Loosely based on the life of Joseph Merrick, the film was a critical success, garnering 8 Oscar nods. Outcry over the lack of recognition for the makeup artists led The Academy to create the "Best Makeup" category.
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#45YearsAgoToday #Deathstroke debuted in #NewTeenTitans #comics #2 #SladeWilson #ableBodiedMilitaryMan who #undergoesExperimentsToFurtherEnhanceHisAbilities rebels as #mercenaryForHire takesAn earlyStrike in #TheDCU against #TheNewTeenTitans45 using #15YearOldGirl as #insideMan & begat #Deadpool (!)

#45YearsAgoToday #MrE debuted in @DC.com #SecretsOfHauntedHouse #comics #31 #Erik #blind #ArcaneHistorian & #vigilante #hasTheAbilityToSeeEvil #encountersANumberOfHorrors & that #MrJ movie’s got nothin’ on the #torturousOrigin #NeilGaiman gives E in #BooksOfMagic as #TimothyHunter’s #mentor 🫣

#45yearsagotoday, a 1200 lb. bomb exploded at Harvey's Resort Hotel in NV. The bomb had been planted by John Birges, Sr., a Hungarian immigrant who had lost $750,000 gambling in the hotel's casino. Miraculously, no one was killed. Birges was sentenced to life without parole.
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"42nd Street" premiered on Broadway #45yearsagotoday. The play, which was nominated for multiple Tonys, ran for 3,486 performances. The play was later revived at the Lyric Theatre in 2001 and ran for over 1500 performances.
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Vanessa Lee Carlton was born in Pennsylvania #45yearsagotoday. Learning piano at a young age, Carlton began pursuing a music career in the early 2000s. After signing to A&M Records, Carlton recorded "A Thousand Miles," her biggest hit to date.
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#45YearsAgoToday #Mongul debuted in @DC.com #DCComicsPresents #27 transmitting #AnExtraterrestialVideoMessage via #scrambledSignal to #Superman in #ClarkKent’s apartment blackmailing him into acquiring #TheCrystalKey that allows him access to #WarWorld after he #kidnapsLoisJimmyAndSteve #inMiniature

#45YearsAgoToday #TheCreatureCommandos debuted in @DC.com #WeirdWarTales #comics #93 #WWII #UniversalMonstersSuicideSquad #LtShrieve leads #werewolf #WarrenGriffith #vampire #SgtVincentVelcro #Frankenstein #PvtElliotLuckyTaylor & #gorgon #DrMyrnaRhodes #DCStudios #animated @jamesgunn.bsky.social

Devo's "Whip It" was released #45yearsagotoday. The second single from Devo's third studio album, "Whip It" was an unexpected success, peaking within the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100. Certified platinum, it is the band's only song to make it within the US Top 40.
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#45YearsAgoToday #Raven debuted in @DC.com Presents #26 #RachelRoth #psychicEmpath #daughterOfAWomanWedToTrigon #ExtradimensionalDemon is rescued to & raised on #Azarath #toPacifyHerPotentiallyDestructiveInstincts she rallies #DCComics #teenSuperTeam to defeat her dad 1 of 3 #NewTeenTitans

#45YearsAgoToday #Starfire IV debuted in @DC.com Presents #26 #PrincessKoriandr of #Tamaran where #herPeopleCanHarnessAndWeaponizeSolarEnergy #BetrayedByHerSisterOverHerRightToTheThrone & cast into slavery until #herEscapeToEarth #TheBoyWonder’s #Barbarella 1 of 3 #NewTeenTitans

#45YearsAgoToday #Cyborg debuted in @DC.com Presents #26 #footballHero #VicStone is caught in #HisFathersLabAccident & remade #6MillionDollarMan with #promethiumMetalCybernetics + #techToys 2011 #New52 reboot introduces #JackKirby #4thWorld #MotherBox circuitry into #hisGearbox 1 of 3 #NewTeenTitans

#45YearsAgoToday #TheNewTeenTitans debuted in @dc.com Presents #26 via #MarvWolfman #GeorgePerez #DickGiordano #RobinTheTeenWonder85 #KidFlash & #WonderGirl60 #getTheGangBackTogether #3yearsAfterTheirSeriesWasCanceled joined by #BeastBoy renamed #Changeling + #3NewTeenHeroes gettingNewSeriesInAugust