Estelle Louise Fletcher
(July 22, 1934 – September 23, 2022)

Actress Louise Fletcher, who won an Academy Award
for her portrayal as the heartless Nurse Ratched — one
of the most reviled characters in movie history — in
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, has died.

Her son stated Fletcher died Friday of natural causes at
her home in Montdurausse, France. She had survived
two bouts with breast cancer.

Fletcher with her Academy Award in 1954.

On September 23, 1875, Billy the Kid was arrested for the first time
after stealing a basket of laundry. He later broke out of jail and
roamed the American West, eventually earning a reputation as
an outlaw and murderer and a rap sheet that allegedly included
21 murders.

BY TYMBER ALDAINE

New images released this week from NASA’s James Webb
Space Telescope are revealing Neptune, and the planet’s
hard-to-detect rings, in a fresh light.

Johann Gottfried Galle
(9 June 1812 – 10 July 1910)

Amid much public excitement, American explorers Meriwether
Lewis and William Clark returned to St. Louis, Missouri, from
the first recorded overland journey from the Mississippi River
to the Pacific coast and back. The Lewis and Clark Expedition
had set off more than two years before to explore the territory
of the Louisiana Purchase.