CAMILLE BOHANNON

British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on  Nazi
Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.

The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended
with the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783.

Treaty of Paris original document.

End of the hostage crisis on this day in 2004.

The NASA spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars on this day in 1976. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the
planet’s surface.

Vincent Thomas Lombardi
(June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970)

Vince Lombardi died in Washington, D.C. of cancer on
Thursday morning, September 3, 1970. He was 57.  
  
 

CAMILLE BOHANNON

World War II began on this day in 1939 when Nazi Germany invaded Poland.

It happened on this day in 1983.

Korean Air Lines 747, Flight 007, was shot down over the Sahakin Islands.

America’s Bobby Fischer (right) beat Russia’s Boris Spassky to
become world chess champion on this day in 1972. The chess
match took place in Reykjavik, Iceland.

Robert James "Bobby" Fischer (March 9, 1943 – January 17, 2008)

Young Gloria and her mother.

      
      
      
      
      
      
Gloria Estefan (Gloria María Milagrosa Fajardo García) is 60 years
young today.

Latin pop singer Gloria Estefan has sold more than one hundred million records
over the course of her career. She has released many #1 hits, including "Don’t
Wanna Lose You." She once worked with the Miami International Airport Customs Department while in college. She was approached by the CIA for the job because
of her prowess with language. Gloria has won seven Grammy Awards, including
one for Best Tropical Latin Album in 1993 for Mi Tierra.
 

MIKE GRACIA

American Airlines had the first scheduled transcontinental flight of a
Boeing 707.

1971

          
             1981

SANDY KOZEL

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

1968

1973

            
             Original series on ABC: January 23 – January 30, 1977

ROSS SIMPSON