Pan American World Airways

And boxer Rocky Marciano TKO's former heavyweight champion Joe Lewis in the eighth round at Madison Square Garden.

1958, Pan American Airlines operates the first commercial Boeing 707 jetliner flight from New York to Paris.

1962, during the Cuban Missile Crisis, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev sends President John F. Kennedy a letter proposing to remove Soviet missiles from Cuba in exchange for a U.S. pledge not to invade the island.

A similar offer is conveyed through a back channel that same day.

Um, and so that, I mean, that kind of harkens like the city of light.

Um, Stuff like that, the old stories of Buffalo 1901, Pan Am, stuff like that.

Eric Bodemer, who was one of the primary jersey designers with Fanatics.

He was with Adidas previously.

We all know American has a giant Latin American network.

They got that from Pan Am.

When Pan Am went under, you always think about Miami and Dallas flying to all over South America and Central America.

I was really surprised that United was only within like $300 million of American.

Latin America income was $1.62 billion.

It went from 10 cents to 15 cents, but people's pay went from 40 cents to 75 cents.

1958 Pan American Airways make the first commercial flight to Paris from New York City.

1970 The comic strip Doonesbury makes its debut in 28 newspapers.

1970 Muhammad Ali returns to the ring after being banned for refusing to serve in the Vietnam War.

Yeah.

You always think of the 60s as being the TWA, Pan Am.

Yeah.

Luxury in the sky kind of era.

It's certainly the Middle East and beyond.

Where outside the Middle East is Iran most capable of operating? Are we talking Europe, Latin America, here at home? You've mentioned Lockerbie a couple times, which of course is a Pan Am flight over Scotland that exploded because of bombs on board.

It's pretty much the whole World Fair game.

Exactly right.

Well, hydroponics, the science of growing plants without soil, has been developed in the 1930s.

One of the earliest successful applications developed by Pan American Airlines on Wake Island.

Later to become famous in World War II, this rocky atoll was an important refueling stop for Pan Am's Trans-Pacific flights.

And the airline grew fresh vegetables for their passengers when the cost of shipping them in proved prohibited.

That was a good movie, though.

Today in 1958, Pan Am begins New York to Paris passenger jet service.

Looking back at that now, probably regret it.

Doonesbury comic strip became a thing on this day in 1970.