The first Emmy Awards ceremony was held on January 25, 1949
at the Hollywood Athletic Club.

The awards recognize excellence in television (which in the
1940s was a novel medium).

Hollywood’s first television academy had been founded three
years earlier by Sydney Cassyd, a former film editor for Frank
Capra who later worked as a grip at Paramount Studios and
an entertainment journalist.

Sydney Cassyd (1908 – 2000) 

       

  
MIKE GRACIA

Ronald Wilson Reagan (February 6, 1911 – June 5, 2004)    
    
    
    
   

Singer-songwriter Neil Diamond has sold more than 130 million
records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians
of all time. He has written and recorded ten singles that reached
No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100. 

Belushi as a senior at Wheaton Central High School (1967)


John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)     
Born in Chicago, Illinois. 
    
    
   
Belushi was a comedian, actor and musician who was one
of seven Saturday Night Live cast members of the first        
season on NBC.

During a preliminary hearing held in September 1985, two
Los Angeles pathologists testified that Belushi’s cause of
death was due to a drug overdose. He was 33.

“Blues Brothers” with Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi (1980)

Bluto (John Belushi): "See if you can guess what I am now."
”Animal House” (1978)

Charles Curtis of Kansas became the first Native American to
be elected to the United States Senate on January 23, 1907.

His tenure later as Herbert Hoover’s vice president (below) 
made him the highest-ranking Native American ever to serve
in the federal government.