(Live Science) – An An, the oldest-ever male panda in captivity, has
died at the age of 35 in a Hong Kong amusement park. The giant
panda was euthanized after his health deteriorated over the course
of several weeks, according to a statement from the Ocean Park
theme park, where An An lived since 1999.
Camille Bohannon
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014)
Williams is regarded as one of the greatest comedians of
all time.
At 10:56 p.m. EDT, astronaut Neil Armstrong, 240,000 miles from
Earth, speaks these words to more than a billion people listening
at home: “That’s one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind.”
Stepping off the Apollo 11 lunar landing module Eagle, Armstrong
became the first human to walk on the surface of the moon.
Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon. Neil Armstrong, taking the photo, is reflected in his visor.
Buzz Aldrin salutes the deployed United States flag.
Although there is some debate about the exact date, on what was
likely July 19, 1799, during Napoleon Bonaparte’s Egyptian campaign,
a French soldier discovers a black basalt slab inscribed with ancient writing near the town of Rosetta, about 35 miles east of Alexandria.
The irregularly shaped stone contained fragments of passages written
in three different scripts: Greek, Egyptian hieroglyphics and Egyptian demotic. The ancient Greek on the Rosetta Stone told archaeologists
that it was inscribed by priests honoring the king of Egypt, Ptolemy V,
in the second century B.C. More startlingly, the Greek passage announced that the three scripts were all of identical meaning.
The artifact thus held the key to solving the riddle of hieroglyphics, a written language that had been “dead” for nearly 2,000 years.
Paintings of Napoleon in Egypt.
Mickey Rooney Jr. (July 3, 1945 – July 16, 2022)
Rooney was an actor and the eldest son of the actor Mickey Rooney.
He operated the Rooney Entertainment Group, a film and television production company. Mickey Rooney Jr. was a born-again Christian
who had an evangelical ministry in Hemet, California.
After appearing as a "Mouseketeer" in the Mickey Mouse Club in
1955 along with his brother Tim, he played his first film role in 1967
in Hot Rods to Hell.
Mickey Rooney
(September 23, 1920 – April 6, 2014)
