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A Blast From The Past

By PENNY NELSON BARTHOLOMEW, United Press International
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Today is March 19.


South Carolina televangelist Jim Bakker resigned as head of the PTL Club on this date in 1987, saying he'd been blackmailed after a sexual encounter with former church secretary Jessica Hahn. Bakker's religious empire fell apart after his admission, he ended up doing time in prison for fleecing his flock, and his wife -- the heavily mascara'd Tammy Faye -- divorced him. Hahn went on to pose for Playboy.

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According to the Roman historian Ptolemy, it was on this date in 721 B.C. that Babylonian astronomers noted history's first recorded eclipse: an eclipse of the moon.


The U.S. Senate, on this date in 1920, rejected the Treaty of Versailles, which established the League of Nations -- a forerunner of the United Nations.


Not long after announcing the separation of Prince Charles and Princess Diana, Buckingham Palace -- on this date in 1992 -- revealed that Prince Andrew and his wife, Sarah, the duchess of York, were also splitting up. Despite their divorce, the couple remains on very cordial terms and are both very involved in the raising of their two daughters.

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We now return you to the present, already in progress.

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