John Mahoney was a stage, film, and television actor, best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch, Martin Crane, in the American sitcom Frasier on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He also worked as a voice actor, and performed on Broadway and in Chicago theatre. Mahoney died Sunday while in hospice care in Chicago after a short illness.
On February 8, 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider President Roosevelt’s request.
On this day in 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (pictured below).
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963)
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)
Burroughs was a writer and artist, a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Richard Remick Smothers and Thomas Bolyn Smothers lll.
Henry Louis Aaron is 84 years old today.
Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin’ Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseballright fielder who is currently the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League, from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973, and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball Players" list.
