(Variety) – Terry Carter, who played sergeant Joe Broadhurst
on the TV series "McCloud" and detective Colonel Tigh on
the original "Battlestar Galactica," died at his home in New   
York, N.Y., Tuesday morning.

   

Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand

With a career spanning over six decades, Barbara has achieved
success in multiple fields of entertainment and is among the few performers awarded an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.  

Painting in the National Museum of Ireland of the 1916 Easter Rising.

On April 24, 1916, on Easter Monday in Dublin, the Irish
Republican Brotherhood, a secret organization of Irish
nationalists led by Patrick Pearse, launched the so-called
Easter Rising, an armed uprising against British rule.

Assisted by militant Irish socialists under James Connolly,
Pearse and his fellow Republicans rioted and attacked British
provincial government headquarters across Dublin and seized
the Irish capital’s General Post Office.

James Connolly was the Leader of The Irish
Citizen Army.

On April 23, 1969, Sirhan Sirhan was given the death penalty
after being convicted in the assassination of senator Robert
F. Kennedy. In 1972, Sirhan’s sentence was commuted to life
in prison after California abolished the death penalty. He
turned 80  last month.     
      
      
     

Sen. Robert F. Kennedy speaks his final words to supporters
at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, moments before
he was shot on June 5, 1968. At his side are his wife, Ethel,
left.

Robert F. Kennedy lies mortally wounded on the floor immediately after the shooting. Kneeling beside him
is 17-year-old busboy Juan Romero, who was
shaking Kennedy’s hand when Sirhan Sirhan fired
the shots.