Actor, writer and comedian Joe Flaherty, who was best known
for his work on the sketch show SCTV and Freaks and Geeks,
passed away Monday after a brief illness.
Flaherty on SCTV.
On That ‘70s Show, he portrayed Bryan (Mountie) in
“Canadian Road Trip.”
Farm Film Celebrity Blow-Up: Hosts Big Jim McBob (John Candy) and Billy Sol Hurok (Joe Flaherty).
Jeannette Pickering Rankin, the first woman ever elected to
Congress, took her seat in the U.S. Capitol as a representative
from Montana.
Born on a ranch near Missoula, Montana Territory, in 1880,
Rankin was a social worker in the states of Montana and
Washington before joining the women’s suffrage movement
in 1910.
Working with various suffrage groups in 1914, she campaigned
for the women’s vote on a national level and was instrumental
in the passage of suffrage legislation in Montana.
Two years later, she successfully ran for Congress in Montana
on a progressive Republican platform calling for total women’s
suffrage, legislation protecting children, and U.S. neutrality in
the European war.
Following her election as a representative, Rankin’s entrance
into Congress was delayed for a month as congressmen
discussed whether a woman should be admitted into the
House of Representatives.
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Bronze statue of Rankin inside the Montana
State Capitol in Helena.
HONOLULU (AP) — Lou Conter, the last living survivor of the
USS Arizona battleship that exploded and sank during the
Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, has died. He was 102
years old.
His daughter, Louann Daley said Conter passed away at his
home Monday in Grass Valley, California following congestive
heart failure.
The battleship USS Arizona belches smoke as it topples
over into the sea during Japanese surprise attack on
Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, December 7, 1941.
The ship sank with more than 80 percent of its 1,500-
man crew, including Rear Admiral Issac C. Kidd.
USS Arizona Memorial in Pearl Harbor, Honolulu, Hawaii.
Barbara Rush, the Golden Globe-winning star of "It Came from
Outer Space" and "Peyton Place" has died.
Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the
television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies,
miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the
soap opera All My Children and family drama 7th Heaven.
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