The big three news anchors – Top row: David Brinkley and Chet
Huntley (NBC). Bottom row: Walter Cronkite (CBS) and Frank
Reynolds (ABC).
 

SANDY KOZEL

"Common Sense" by Thomas Paine was published on this day in
1776. 

On this day in 1863, Prime Minister Gladstone (below) opened the
first section of the London Underground Railway system, from
Paddington to Farringdon Street.      

William Ewart Gladstone
December 29, 1809 – May 19, 1898)

The Beatles first album released in the United States hit store
shelves on this day in 1964.

The Beatles posed for a portrait in front of an American Flag
in 1964 in New York City.

Sir Roderick David Stewart  is 73 years old today.

Singer Rod Stewart has released over 60 hit singles and, in 2008, was
named the 17th most successful artist on the The Billboard Hot 100
Top All-Time Artists. He once worked as a newspaper delivery boy
and a gravedigger.

Sir Rod Stewart at Buckingham Palace in London, after he
received his knighthood in 2016.

National Law Enforcement Appreciation Day was founded in
2015 to thank officers across the country for all the daily
sacrifices they make for their communities.

SANDY KOZEL

Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994)

Nixon was the 37th President of the United States, serving from
1969 until 1974, when he resigned from office, the only United
States president to do so.

Clifford Michael Irving (November 5, 1930 – December 19, 2017)

Surveyor 7 landed on the Moon on this day in 1968. It was the seventh and last lunar lander of the American unmanned Surveyor program sent to explore the surface of the Moon. A total of 21,091 pictures were transmitted to Earth.

Surveyor 7 (arrow) is seen sitting on the ejecta blanket of Tycho
Crater.

Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of The Opera”
became the longest running Broadway show on this
day in 2006.