On January 15, 1929, Martin Luther King Jr.was born in Atlanta,
Georgia, the son of a Baptist minister. King received a doctorate
degree in theology and in 1955 helped organize the first major
protest of the African American civil rights movement: the
successful Montgomery Bus Boycott.

On October 14, 1964, King won the Nobel Peace Prize for
combating racial inequality through nonviolent resistance.

In his final years, he expanded his focus to include opposition
towards poverty and the Vietnam War.         
    
    
    
    
     
   

Green Bay QB and game MVP Bart Starr, Super Bowl I, 1967.

As NBC and CBS had held the rights to nationally televise
AFL and NFL games, respectively, it was decided that both networks were allowed to broadcast the game.

Kansas City QB Len Dawson.

Randolph and co-star Art Carney in a promo photo
for The Honeymooners (circa 1955).

NEW YORK — “Honeymooners” actress Joyce Randolph, who
played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, has died. She was 99.

Her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday,
his mother died of natural causes Saturday night at her home
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy
from television’s golden age of the 1950s.

The Honeymooners is a television sitcom that originally
aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie
Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the        
same name that had been part of Gleason’s variety show.          

   

Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.

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Polar vortex sending arctic blast of life-
threatening cold into America’s Heartland.

Dangerously cold air has already started its
invasion of the U.S. and will spread south
during the next few days.

Temperatures as much as 50 degrees below
average are expected in some places.