Stephen Hawking and wife Jane Wilde on Their Wedding
Day In 1965.

Stephen William Hawking  (January 8, 1942 – March 14, 2018) 

LONDON (AP) — Family spokesman says physicist Stephen Hawking has
died at the age of 76. Hawking had a rare early-onset slow-progressing form
of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease
or Lou Gehrig’s disease, that gradually paralyzed him over the decades.

 
MIKE GRACIA

The New York "Lantern" newspaper published the first "Uncle Sam cartoon" on this day in 1852. It quickly became the symbol of the
United States.

   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    

On this day in 1925, a law in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching
of evolution went into effect. 
 
   

On this day in 1996, the Dunblane Massacre occurred at a Scottish
elementary school. Thomas Hamilton, pictured above, murdered
16 children and their teacher before turning the gun on himself.

Relatives near the Dunblane primary school on the day of the
shooting.

The musical "Brigadoon" opened at the Ziegfeld Theater in New
York City on this day in 1947.