ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1981.

Signing the Alaska purchase on this day in 1867. Seward is seated
at center.

On this day in 1986.

1942

Eric Patrick Clapton is 72 years old today.

Clapton got the nickname Slowhand because he played the guitar with such
ferocity that his strings would break and as he replaced them onstage, the
audience would slowly clap their hands.

Eric Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson’s "Top 50 Guitarists
of All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine’s list of
"The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009.

The King and I is the fifth musical by the team of composer Richard
Rodgers and dramatist Oscar Hammerstein II. It is based on Margaret
Landon‘s novel, Anna and the King of Siam (1944), which is in turn
derived from the memoirs of Anna Leonowens, governess to the
children of King Mongkut of Siam in the early 1860s. The musical
premiered on March 29, 1951, at Broadway‘s St. James Theatre. It
ran for nearly three years, making it the fourth longest-running
Broadway musical in history at the time, and has had many tours
and revivals.

Mariner 10 was a robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3,
1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. The spacecraft flew past
Mercury three times with the first encounter taking place on March 29,
1974 (below). Mariner 10 was deactivated March 24, 1975.

Mercury in black and white.

Artists’ impression of the Mariner 10 mission.

Denton True "Cy" Young  (March 29, 1867 – November 4, 1955)

Legendary 511-game winner Cy Young pitched three no-hitters throughout
his career, including a perfect game on May 5, 1904. He had most of his
success with the Cleveland Spiders and the Boston Americans and Red
Sox. The season-ending award for the top pitcher in the AL and NL was
named after him. He set the record for most career innings pitched with
7,356. Young was born in Gilmore, Ohio and quit school after sixth grade.

Baseball used for the first four innings in Game One of the first
modern World Series in 1903.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1951

On this day in 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the March 16, 1968,
My Lai massacre. Calley ended up spending  three years under
house arrest.

On this day in 1973 the last us troops left south Vietnam and a war,
which had lasted more than a decade.

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