It Was 20 Years Ago
The Pasadena school board votes to continue requiring female teachers at some of the city’s schools to work in dresses, turning down the teachers’ plea for permission to wear pantsuits.
The body of Charlie Chaplin is stolen from a cemetery near Vevey, Switzerland, barely two months after his death on Dec. 25, 1977.
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