CAMILLE BOHANNON

Soviet hard-liners announced on this day in 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to
power two days later.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev turned 86 in March.

On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive
power in Germany as Fuehrer.

Francis Gary Powers (center), an American U-2 pilot, was convicted
of espionage in Moscow on this day in 1960.

Inventor and television pioneer, Philo Farnsworth made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-
electronic television. He was also the first person to demonstrate
such a system to the public.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth
(August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971)

On this day in 1977.