Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)

Jonas Salk was a medical researcher and virologist who, in 1955, 
developed a vaccine against polio, considered to be the most 
frightening public health problem of the post-war U.S. In 1960 
he founded he Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, 
California and he spent his last years attempting to find a cure 
for HIV.

      
                                                                                    Tim Maguire

Edward Moran’s Unveiling of the Statue of “Liberty Enlightening
the World” (as it was originally known).  

William Henry "Bill" Gates III is 59 years old today.

Marcia A. Strassman (April 28, 1948 – October 25, 2014)

(AP) – Marcia Strassman, who played Gabe Kaplan’s wife, Julie,
on the 1970s sitcom "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died.

Strassman’s sister, Julie, confirmed her death to the Associated
Press.

Strassman died at her Sherman Oaks, California, home on Friday
after battling breast cancer for seven years.

Strassman had numerous roles on television and in film during her
five-decade career.

She played nurse Margie Cutler on the first season of "M.A.S.H."
before her breakout role in "Welcome Back, Kotter."

Marcia Strassman and Gabe Kaplan starred in "Welcome Back, Kotter”
on ABC television from September 1975 to June 1979.

 
                                                                     Ross Simpson