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Peter “Pete” Seeger turned 94 today

Rare photograph of Virgil Earp at age 19,
taken in 1862 in Monmouth, IL

 
  Virgil Walter Earp (July 18, 1843 – October 19, 1905)

Virgil Earp was the older brother of Wyatt Earp and Tombstone
City Marshal at the time of the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral
in 1881.

After suffering from pneumonia for six months, Virgil died in the
town of Goldfield, Nevada. His remains were sent to Portland,
Oregon at the request of his daughter Nellie Jane Bohn and
buried at the River View Cemetery (below), the state’s oldest
nonprofit cemetery, dating back to 1882.

The Earp brothers from left: Wyatt, Morgan and Virgil

Actor Charles Richard Moll is best known for playing Bull
Shannon, the bailiff on the NBC sitcom Night Court from
1984 to 1992. He has also done extensive work as a voice
actor playing villains.

Sandra Day O’Connor being sworn in as a Supreme Court Justice by Chief
Justice Warren Burger

President Ronald Reagan, who had pledged during his 1980 presidential campaign
to appoint the first woman to the Court, nominated Arizona judge Sandra Day
O’Connor as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, to replace the retiring
Potter Stewart. O’Connor herself retired January 31, 2006. 

Supreme Court Justice-nominee Sandra Day O’Connor talks with
President Ronald Reagan outside the White House.