Clara was reportedly dropped from the Wendy’s commercials by the vice
president of the company because she appeared in a Prego pasta sauce
commercial in 1985 saying… “she found the beef”!

The Surveyor 7 landing site on the Moon 

On Tuesday, January 9, 1968, the Surveyor 7 space probe, the fifth and
final spacecraft of the Surveyor series, made a soft landing on the Moon,
marking the end of the American series of unmanned explorations of the
lunar surface. The primary objectives of the Surveyor program, a series
of seven robotic lunar soft landing flights, were to support the coming
manned Apollo landings. The Surveyor program had a total price tag
of $469 million.   

Near the completion of a $5 million conversion, the ocean liner RMS Queen Elizabeth caught fire on Sunday, January 9 1972. There is some speculation the fires were set deliberately, as several blazes broke out simultaneously throughout the ship. The
vessel had been acquired for $3.5 million, and had been insured for $8 million.

The ship was completely destroyed, and the water being sprayed by the fireboats to
put out the flames caused the Queen Elizabeth to capsize and sink in Hong Kong
Victory Harbor. It was soon declared a shipping hazard and was dismantled for
scrap between 1974 and 1975. Portions of the hull were left at the bottom of
the bay along with the keel and boilers.

 
                        Robert Osbourne "Bob" Denver 
                   (January 9, 1935 – September 2, 2005)

Actor Bob Dnver is best known for his roles as Gilligan on the
CBS television series Gilligan’s Island (1964-1967) and the
beatnik Maynard G. Krebs on the 1959-1963 CBS-TV show
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis.