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.
During World War II on this day in 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans for Germany’s defeat.
On this day in 1997, a civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Goldman’s parents were awarded $8.5 million in compensatory damages.
Ron Goldman’s father Fred, sister Kim, and stepmother Patty are pictured during OJ’s trial.
Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army on this day in 1974.
Patty Hearst (right) and Donald DeFreeze rob a San Francisco bank on April 15, 1974.
On December 11, 2003, the Massachusetts Senate put forward legislative language creating civil unions for same-sex couples to the SJC, asking if it satisfied the court’s requirements. On February 4, 2004, the court replied that it was unacceptable to allow different-sex couples marriages but same- sex couples only civil unions, that the distinction between marriage and civil unions constituted unconstitutional discrimination, even if the rights and obligations attached to each were identical. It called the difference between the terms marriage and civil union "a considered choice of language that reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples to second-class status."
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage.
A 7.4 earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras on this day in 1976 killed more than 22,000 people.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
The Congressional Gold Medal presented August 15, 1930, to Charles Lindbergh by President Herbert Hoover.
