Paul Coker Jr. (March 5, 1929 – July 23, 2022)

The animation industry has lost another prolific artist. Paul
Coker Jr., a cartoonist and designer whose career spanned
nearly five decades, passed away on Saturday, July 23 at his
home in Santa Fe, New Mexico.  

Coker’s first appearance in Mad was in 1961; and went on to illustrate
over 375 articles for the magazine.

Burt Metcalfe (March 19, 1935 – July 27, 2022)

Burt Metcalfe, the onetime actor from Canada
who  served as a producer, director and writer
on all 11 seasons of M*A*S*H.
   
   
      

     
      
 

Burt Metcalfe (right) in an episode of  Perry Mason (1960’s)

In The Twilight Zone, Metcalfe (second from left) played a neighbor in "The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street"(1960).         
 

On July 29, 1921, Adolf Hitler became the leader of the National
Socialist German Workers’ (Nazi) Party. Under Hitler, the Nazi
Party grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany as a
totalitarian state from 1933 to 1945.

Hitler’s early years did not seem to predict his rise as a political
leader. Born on April 20, 1889, in Braunau am Inn, Austria, he
was a poor student and never graduated from high school.

During World War I, he joined a Bavarian regiment of the German
army and was considered a brave soldier, but his commanders
felt he lacked leadership potential and never promoted him beyond corporal.

Following its ratification by the necessary three-quarters of U.S.
states, the 14th Amendment, granting citizenship to all persons
born or naturalized in the United States—including formerly
enslaved people—is officially adopted into the U.S. Constitution

Secretary of State William Seward (below) issued a proclamation certifying the amendment. 

William Henry Seward
(May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872)