Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)
On June 28, 1972, President Nixon (above) announced that no
more draftees will be sent to Vietnam unless they volunteer
for such duty. He also announced that a force of 10,000 troops
would be withdrawn by September 1, which would leave a
total of 39,000 in Vietnam.
The New York Times has reported, Hollywood star Ryan
Seacrest will replace Pat Sajak as the new host of the
iconic game show, “Wheel of Fortune.”
Seacrest’s new role was announced just two weeks after
Sajak (below) announced his retirement from the game
show after hosting the program for over 40 years.
The well-known daytime and competition talk show host
is set to begin hosting the 42nd season in Fall 2024.
Melvin (Mel) James Brooks (Kaminsky)
Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career
spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and
director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A
recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to
win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award,
an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. He received a
Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in
2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film
Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award
in 2023.
He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar‘s
variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.
1974
1974
On June 28, 1997, Mike Tyson bit Evander Holyfield’s ear in the
third round of their heavyweight rematch. The attack led to his disqualification from the match and suspension from boxing,
and was the strangest chapter yet in the champion’s roller-
coaster career.
Holyfield was examined but the fight continued after the bite.
On June 28, 1953, workers at a Chevrolet plant in Flint, Michigan, assembled the first Corvette, a two-seater sports car that would
become an American icon. The first completed production car
rolled off the assembly line two days later, one of just 300
Corvettes made that year.
The idea for the Corvette originated with General Motors’ designer
Harley J. Earl, who in 1951 began developing plans for a low-cost American sports car that could compete with Europe’s MGs,
Jaguars and Ferraris. The project was eventually code-named
“Opel.”
The Chevrolet Team with the Very First Corvette off the
assembly line.
Harley Jarvis Earl
(November 22, 1893 – April 10, 1969)
