Happy "Max Headroom Incident" Day to all who celebrate.
On November 22, 1987 television signals in Chicago were interrupted twice by an unknown person in a Max Headroom mask.
(Kids, ask your grandparents about Max Headroom)
The first time, WGN Channel 9's 9 PM news was interrupted for about 17 seconds before WGN's engineers got control of their signal back.
The second time, it was WTTW Channel 11's turn. The PBS station's airing of the classic Doctor Who episode The Horror of Fang Rock was interrupted with the clip above.
Those responsible were never caught and has since become a legendary moment in piracy/hacking.
Habitat- Southeastern North America; Northeastern Mexico
Size (Weight/Length)- 19.8 g; 9 cm
Diet- Seeds; Fruits; Insects
Cool Facts- Spending their days tucked away in burrows and their nights foraging, eastern deer mice are one of the most common mammals in North America. The mice that live in open plains are more likely to have multiple burrows they can dart to, scattered across their territory. The woodland mice prefer to climb from tree to tree and have relatively few burrows. While eastern deer mice are solitary, their territories often overlap. When encountering each other, an eastern deer mouse is less likely to attack its neighbor if they have had past encounters. Sometimes the two mice are playful and groom each other before going their separate ways.
In 2010: My Chemical Romance released their EP "The Mad Gear and Missile Kid", alongside the album "Danger Days: The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys". (🖤)
John F. Kennedy - Trade Mart Speech November 22, 1963
Collection JFK-8.25: Papers of John F. Kennedy: Presidential Papers: White House Staff Files of Pierre SalingerSeries: Press ReleasesFile Unit: White House Staff Files; Papers of Pierre E. G. Salinger; Press Releases; John F. Kennedy Final Copies
FOR RELEASE AT 1:00 P.M., EST, 12:00 P.M., CST, November 22, 1963
I am honored to have this invitation to address the annual meeting of the
Dallas Citizens Council, joined by the members of the Dallas Assembly --
and pleased to have this opportunity to salute the Graduate Research Center of the Southwest.
It is fitting that there two symbols of Dallas progress are united in the sponsorship of this meeting. For they represent the best qualities, I am told, of leadership and learning in this city -- and leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. The advancement of learning depends on community leadership for financial and political support -- and the products of that learning, in turn, are essential to the leadership's hopes for continued progress and prosperity. It is not a coincidence that those communities possessing the best in research and and graduate facilities -- from MIT to Cal Tech -- tend to attract the new and growing industries. I congratulate those of you here in Dallas who have recognized these basic facts through the creation of the unique and forward-looking Graduate Research Center.
This link between leadership and learning is not only essential at the community level. It is even more indispensable in world affairs. Ignorance and misinformation and handicap the progress of a city or a company -- but they can, if allowed to prevail in foreign policy, handicap this country's security. In a world of complex and continuing problems, in a world full of frustrations and irritation, America's leadership must be guided by the lights of learning and reason -- or else those who confuse rhetoic with reality and the plausible with the possible will gain the popular ascendancy with their seemingly swift and simple solutions to every world problem.
There will always be dissident voices in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility. Those voices are inevitable.
But today other voices are heard in the land -- voices preaching doctrines wholly unrelated to reality, wholly unsuited to the Sixties, doctrines which apparently assume that words will suffice without weapons, that vituperation is as good as victory and that peace is a sign of weakness. At a time when the national debt is steadily being reduced in terms of its burden on our economy, they see that debt as the greatest single threat to our security. At a time when we are steadily reducing the number of Federal employees serving every thousand citizens, they fear those supposed hordes of civil servants far more than the actual hordes of opposing armies.
We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will "talk sense to the American people." But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogan, is nothing but just plain nonsense.