85 years ago today, the first drive-in theater opened in Camden, New Jersey. In the 1960’s some 4,000 outdoor screens operating across the U.S. with large parking areas where customers can view movies from the privacy and comfort of their cars. Today only a couple hundred theaters remain. (1933)
MORE Good News on this Day:
- The National Basketball Association (NBA) was created with 11 teams (1946)
- The first Internet connection was created, as Network control protocol packets were sent from the data port of one IMP to another (1969)
- The video game, Tetris, was released (1984)
- 172 nations meet at a United Nations Environmental Conference – the Earth Summit — in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the largest ever of its kind with unprecedented scope (1992)
- In Australian Rules Football, Tony Lockett breaks the record for career goals, previously 1299 by Gordon Coventry, which had stood since 1937 (1999)
- Phylicia…
