The first known published crossword puzzle (above) was created by  journalist
Arthur Wynne (below) from Liverpool. The word game appeared in the Sunday
addition of  the New York World newspaper on December 21, 1913. Despite their enormous popularity, crosswords only appeared in the New York World. It wasn’t
until 1924 that a couple of recent graduates of the Columbia School of Journalism,
by the names of Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster, set up their own publishing
company. Looking for something to publish, they settled on a book with puzzles
that had appeared in the New York World newspaper. The crossword book was
a huge hit and began a craze for the word puzzles worldwide.

Arthur Wynne

Left to right: Dick Simon and Lincoln Schuster with their first Crossword
Puzzle book

Hayley Mills is an English actress who began her acting career as a child
and was hailed as a promising newcomer, winning the British Academy
Academy Film Award for Most Promising newcomer for her role in Tiger
Bay (1959), the Academy Juvenile Award for Pollyanna (1960), and
Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year-Actress in 1961. During
her early career, she appeared in several films for Walt Disney. In the
1960s she began performing in theatrical plays, and played in more
mature roles.Hayley has continued to make movies and television
appearances.

Hayley Mills in Tiger Bay

1963

Actress Grace Kelly married Prince Rainier III of Monaco in two separate ceremonies,
a civil ceremony on April 18 and in a Catholic Mass on April 19. Guests included Cary Grant, David Niven, Gloria Swanson, Aristotle Onassis, and Ava Gardner. The wedding was broadcast across Europe. Onassis gave the couple a 147-foot yacht as a wedding present.

The Doolittle Raid was the first air raid by the U.S  to strike Japan in retaliation after 
the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 during World War ll. The
raid was planned and led by Lieutenant Colonel James “Jimmy” Doolittle (below). A
total of sixteen U.S Army Air Forces B-25B Mitchell medium bombers were launched
from the U.S Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Hornet in the Western Pacific Ocean. All of
the aircraft involved in the mission were lost and 11 crewmen were either killed Or
captured. The raid caused negligible material damage to Japan. As of this date,
five of the Doolittle Raiders are still alive.

James Doolittle

Doolittle taking off