ROSS SIMPSON

On March 17, 461 A.D., Saint Patrick, Christian missionary,
bishop and apostle of Ireland, died at Saul, Downpatrick,
Ireland. Today he is honored with the annual holiday of St.
Patrick’s Day. 

Mount McKinley

On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, led the
first successful ascent of Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley),
the highest point on the North American continent at 20,320 feet.

Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London
in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska. Stuck
traveled Alaska’s difficult terrain to preach to villagers and
establish schools.

Hudson Stuck
(November 4, 1863 – October 10, 1920)

Stuck (right) and the naturalist John Muir.

ROSS SIMPSON

A Black September terrorist looks from the balcony of an apartment where Israeli Olympic team members are held hostage.

The Munich massacre on this day in 1972 was an attack during the 1972
Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, in which the Palestinian
terrorist group Black September took eleven Israeli Olympic team
members hostage and killed them along with a West German police
officer.

ROSS SIMPSON

It was on this day in 1972.

It took place on this day in 1975.

Jack Kerouac’s "On the Road" was first published on this day in
1957.

Jack Kerouac (Jean-Louis Kérouac) 
(March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)

Mother Teresa, known in the Roman
Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of
Calcutta (Anjezë Gonxhe Bojaxhiu)