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   Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

   
   

   Doctors determined that Ball had succumbed to a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm not directly related to her surgery
   on April 18 to install an aortic valve replacement.

   Lucille Ball was an actress, comedian, producer, and
   studio executive. She was recognized by Time in 2020
   for her work in all four of these areas.

   She was nominated for 13 Primetime Emmy Awards,
   winning five times, and was the recipient of several
   other accolades, such as the Golden Globe Cecil B.
   DeMille Award and two stars on the Hollywood Walk
   of Fame.
   

On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was given the death penalty
after being convicted in the assassination of senator Robert
F. Kennedy. In 1972, Sirhan’s sentence was commuted to life
in prison after California abolished the death penalty. He
turned 80  last month.     
      
      
     

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaks his final words to supporters
at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before
he was shot on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel,
left.

Robert F. Kennedy lies mortally wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling beside him
is 17-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who was
shaking Kennedy’s hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired
the shots.

During an outdoor rally in Laurel, Maryland on May 15, 1972,
George Wallace, the governor of Alabama and a presidential
candidate, was shot by 21-year-old Arthur Bremer. Three
others were wounded, and  Wallace was left paralyzed from
the waist down.

Michigan and Maryland. On June 8, Shirley Chisholm, the
first Black woman elected to Congress and one of Wallace’s
opponents for the Democratic nomination, famously visited
him in the hospital to wish him well. He remained in the
hospital for several months, bringing his third presidential
campaign to an irrevocable end.

Arthur Herman Bremer will be 73 August
21.

After 35 years of incarceration, Bremer was
released from prison on November 9, 2007.

George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)

SANDY KOZEL

Henry Louis Aaron (February 5, 1934 – January 22, 2021)

On April 23, 1954, Hank Aaron knocked out the first home run
of his Major League Baseball career. Twenty years later, Aaron
becomes baseball’s new home run king when he broke Babe
Ruth’s long-standing record of 714 career homers.

A native of Mobile, Alabama, Aaron  began his professional
baseball career in 1952 in the Negro League and joined the
Milwaukee Braves of the major leagues in 1954, eight years
after Jackie Robinson had integrated baseball. Aaron,
nicknamed "Hammer", was the last Negro League player
to compete in the majors.

MIKE GRACIA

Film director, writer, producer, and actor Quentin Tarantino
is 60 years old today.

Tarantino’s work has been subject to controversy and 
has garnered a cult following, as well as critical and
commercial success. He has received two Academy
Awards and four Golden Globes.

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