WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – January 19
1920 – The American Civil Liberties Union or ACLU for short, is founded
1943 – Rock legend Janis Joplin was born in Port Arthur, Texas. Joplin gain prominence as the lead singer of Big Bother and the Holding Company. She was setting out on her own when she died of an overdose in 1970 at the age of 27. In 2004, Rolling Stone magazine ranked Joplin number 46 on its list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time.
1946 – International Treasure and music legend Dolly Parton is born in Locust Ridge, Tenn. She becomes one of the biggest stars in country music, winning her first Grammy Award for her self-titled 1978 album. Two of her songs top Chart Toppers’s pop singles chart: the title song to the film “9 to 5” and “Islands in the Stream,” a duet with Kenny Rogers.
A half-century after its bracing debut, sitcom âAll in the Familyâ speaks to todayâs conflicts
The issues and lessons of âAll in the Familyâ still resonate
By David M. Shribman Globe Correspondent,Updated January 9, 2021, 3:54 p.m.
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Actor Carroll O Connor as Archie Bunker in All in the Family. AP
One of them spewed ethnic slurs. Another was flighty and yet grounded. A third loved to dance, and danced around her parentsâ bickering. And the last of them
was a rebel without a pause.
They were Archie, Edith, Gloria, and Meathead. Actually the fourth oneâs name was Mike but few today remember that. Even now, a half-century later, they need no introduction, nor