Bruce Willis showed his appreciation for those keeping
everyone in Los Angeles safe during the devastating
fires. (Emma Heming Willis Instagram)
The "Die Hard" star was making a rare public appearance since announcing his frontotemporal dementia diagnosis in 2023.
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Bob Uecker was a professional baseball catcher and sportscaster
who served as the primary broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers
of Major League Baseball for 54 seasons.
Uecker became known for his self-deprecating wit and became a
regular fixture on late night talk shows in the 1970s and 1980s.
Uecker was diagnosed with small-cell lung cancer in 2023. He
died in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin, on January 16 ten days
before his 91st birthday.
Johnny Carson (right) gave Bob Uecker his ‘Mr. Baseball’ nickname.
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The final flight of the Space Shuttle Columbia took
place from January 16, 2003 to February 1, 2003.
The mission ended in disaster when the shuttle
broke apart during reentry, killing all seven crew
members.
The space shuttle Columbia lifting off on its final flight.
On January 16, 1942, the actress Carole Lombard, famous for her
roles in such screwball comedies as My Man Godfrey and To Be
or Not to Be, and for her marriage to the actor Clark Gable, was
killed when the TWA DC-3 plane she is traveling in crashed en -
route from Las Vegas to Los Angeles. She was only 33.
Doug Scroggins of Las Vegas spent years documenting the crash
site on Mount Potosi which is 35 miles southwest of Las Vegas.
Scroggins said "Flight 3 crashed near the 8,300-foot level of Mount Potosi with flaps retracted, and the plane in level flight. Something happened inside that cockpit and happened so fast that the pilot
could not react.”
Clark Gable and Carole Lombard.
1939
A TWA DC-3, similar to the accident aircraft.
