Thomas Sean Connery (August 25, 1930 – October 31, 2020)
Scottish actor and producer Sean Connery was best known as the
first actor to portray the character James Bond in film. Connery
died in his sleep at his home in Nassau in the Bahamas. His son
stated that he “had been unwell for some time”. Connery was 90.
On October 29, 1858, the first store opens in a small frontier town in
Colorado Territory that a month later will take the name of Denver
in a shameless ploy to curry favor with Kansas Territorial Governor James W. Denver. The town was a brainchild of a promoter and real estate salesman from Kansas named William H. Larimer Jr.
James William "Jim" Denver
(October 23, 1817 – August 9, 1892)
The Statue of Liberty, a gift of friendship from the people of France
to the people of the U.S. was dedicated in New York Harbor by then
President Grover Cleveland.
