Camille Bohannon

 
Scorsese Communion photo, 1951 
 

 
Martin Charles Scorsese is 71 today

Gordon Meredith Lightfoot, Jr. 

Gordon is a Canadian born singer-songwriter who achieved international success
in folk, folk-rock, and country music. He has been credited for helping define the
folk-pop sound of the 1960s and 1970s and is referred to as Canada‘s greatest
songwriter and internationally as a folk-rock legend.

Lightfoot composed the song in 1964, supposedly inspired
by seeing off a friend at the Los Angeles airport.

President Richard Nixon signing the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Act into law

The federal law authorized the building of an oil pipeline connecting the North
Slope of Alaska to Port Valdez and halted all legal challenges that had been
filed primarily by environmental activists who were against construction of the
800 mile pipeline. Construction work began in March of 1974 and was finished
in 1977.

                                        
                                      Camille Bohannon