Today, also known as The Today Show, NBC’s several-hour morning news program, debuted 65 years ago … um, on this date.

The show was created by Sylvester Weaver, who also created programs with counterpart names: Tonight, which also lives on, and Tomorrow, which lives on in the spirit of late-late-night talk programs.
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The New York Times published an editorial on this date in 1920 that took to task the rocket pioneer Robert H. Goddard for his thought that someday rockets could be used to travel to the moon (and beyond).

How would rockets possibly work in the vacuum of space? the writers wondered. After all, thanks to Isaac Newton, any schoolkid knew that actions work as a reaction, and, in the vacuum of space, where would the reaction take place? Here is some of the Times’ fussy editorial (after the jump):
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Super Bowl III, in which the New York Jets defeated the heavily favored Baltimore Colts by the score of 16–7, took place 48 years ago today.

Jets quarterback Joe Namath, seen above, went 17 for 28 and threw for 206 yards. It remains the Jets’ only SuperBowl win and appearance.
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