ROSS SIMPSON

Iraqi insurgents destroyed a Shite shrine’s golden dome on this day
in 2006.

The "Miracle on Ice" refers to a medal-round game during the men’s
ice hockey tournament at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid,
New York on this day in 1980.  It was played between the hosting
United States, and the defending gold medalists, the Soviet Union.

It was on this day in 1987.

Andy Warhol (Andrew Warhola)
(August 6, 1928 – February 22, 1987)

Warhol died in Manhattan at 6:32 a.m. on February 22, 1987
at age 58. According to news reports, he had been making
a good recovery from gallbladder surgery at New York
Hospital before dying in his sleep from a sudden post-
operative irregular heartbeat.

Lucy B. Hobbs became the first woman to graduate from
a dental school, the Ohio College of Dental Surgery in 
Cincinnati.

The first telephone directories issued in the United States
were distributed to residents in New Haven, CT. It was a
single page of only fifty subscribers names.

Bell Telephone Company / Charles
Williams, Jr. "Coffin" Telephone.

William Franklin Graham Jr.  (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018)

Billy Graham, who transformed American religious life through his preaching
and activism, becoming a counselor to presidents and the most widely heard Christian evangelist in history, died Wednesday. He was 99.

TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1965, Malcolm X was assassinated in New York City at
the age of 39 by assassins identified as Black Muslims.

It was on this day in 1972.

President and Mrs. Nixon visit the Great Wall of China.

In Baton Rouge, LA, on this day in 1988, TV evangelist Jimmy
Swaggart confessed to his congregation that he was guilty
of unspecified sin. He announced that he was leaving the
pulpit temporarily. Swaggart had been linked to an admitted
prostitute.        

Jimmy Lee Swaggart will be 82 years old on March 15.

Chicago stockbroker Steve Fossett became the first person to fly
solo across the Pacific Ocean in a balloon on this day in 1995. He
landed in Leader, Saskatchewan, Canada.

James Stephen "Steve" Fossett
(April 22, 1944 – c. September 3, 2007)

Fossett disappeared on September 3, 2007, while flying a light aircraft
(below) over the Great Basin Desert, between Nevada and California.

1980 Bellanca 8KCAB-180 SUPER DECATHLON.