1916 Children under the age of 16 were banned from New York City theatres due to an outbreak of polio. Some 200 theatres shut down throughout the summer. In 1919, a similar incident took place when the world-wide flu epidemic resulted in the closure of many theatres and the temporary halt of new film releases

I grew up with the fear of coming down with polio and was one of the first generations who received that little lump of sugar to help prevent the horrible disease.

1946 The first bikini bathing suit was unveiled in Paris, invented by Louis Reard, a former motor engineer. He named it after Bikini Atoll, where the first peacetime atomic bomb tests were being held, because he thought the two-piece bathing costume would be highly explosive

Wearing my first bikini at the beach, I got the worst sunburn in places the sun had never seen before. Very painful.

1965 Maria Callas gave her last stage performance singing Tosca at Covent Garden. She was 41. I wonder if a young Morse attended?

Don't 'cha know he would have given his eye teeth to be there?