Monte Hall (Monte Halparin) (August 25, 1921 – September 30, 2017)
Hall’s family reported that the Canadian born former game show host and producer died from heart failure at his home in Beverly Hills. He was best known as the long-running host of Let’s Make a Deal.
An international military tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany, found 22 top Nazi leaders guilty of war crimes on this day in 1946.
The Berlin Airlift came to an end on this day in 1949. The airlift had taken 2.3 million tons of food into the western sector despite the Soviet blockade.
African-American James Meredith James Meredith succeeded in registering at the University of Mississippi on this day in 1962. It was his fourth attempt to register.
James Meredith is escorted by U.S. Marshals.
James Howard Meredith turned 84 in June.
The Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart opera The Magic Flute (Die Zauberflote) premiered in Vienna, Austria on this day in 1791.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 – December 5, 1791)
James Byron Dean(February 8, 1931 – September 30, 1955)
Actor and singer Gene Autry is known as The Singing Cowboy for his appearances in ninety-three movies and ninety-one TV productions. The roles as honest American heros earned him a reputation as one of country music’s most prominent figures. Before fame he did work on his father’s ranch and worked as a railroad telegrapher. He also performed as a singer and a guitarist at local dances. Gene Autry owned the Anaheim Angels baseball team for over thirty years.
The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on this day in 1988. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.
Pope John l was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little over a month in office on this day in 1978. The 65-year-old pontiff, born Albino Lusicni, had apparently died of a heart attack.
Game one on this day in 1954.
Jerry Lee Lewis is 83 today.
Singer-songwriter, and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, often known by his nickname, The Killer, has been described as "rock & roll’s first great wild man. He was expelled from Southwest Bible Institute for the called “devil’s music”.
Jerry Lee Lewis has been the last living member of the Sun Records Million Dollar Quartet.
Ariel Sharon visited Jerusalem’s Temple Mount on this day in 2000.
During the Revolutionary War on this day in 1781, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
General George Washington (center) depicted reviewing the captured British army at Yorktown.
On this day in 1066, England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
William the Conqueror (1027-28–1087)
The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. on this day in 1924. The trip took 175 days.
Miles Dewey Davis III(May 26, 1926 – September 28, 1991)
Miles Davis was a jazz trumpeter, bandleader, and composer. He is among the most influential and acclaimed figures in the history of jazz and 20th century music. Davis adopted a variety of musical directions in his five-decade career which kept him at the forefront of a number of major stylistic developments in jazz.