Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.

Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city
named for him, Chief Seattle died in a nearby village of
his people.

Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief
of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around
the Pacific Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound.

Jesuit missionaries introduced Chief Seattle to Catholicism,
and he became a devout believer. He died in 1866 at the
approximate age of 77.

James Wehn’s Chief Sealth statue near the Space Needle.

On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most
decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—came to
an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered
U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese
aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the
Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously
invincible Japanese navy.

Martin and Lewis

Singer and actor who found fame with comedian Jerry Lewis,
palled around with the "Rat Pack"(above) and became a TV
staple starting in the 1960s.        
        
       
He  is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the
mid-20th century.