(June/July 1986)

His first wife, Candace Kaniecki told TMZ he died Thursday
morning and that it was unexpected and the cause of death
is currently unknown.

The Dukes of Hazzard is an action comedy television
series that aired on CBS from 1979 to 1985, with a total
of seven seasons consisting of 147 episodes.

Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025)

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy
theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other
arrangements for film and television, died Thursday from
complications of pneumonia at a hospital in Los Angeles.

Schifrin was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was
nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy
Awards. He was 93.

Series originally aired for eight seasons on CBS from
September 16, 1967, to March 13, 1975.

On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced he is
ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the
democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist
North Korea.

In addition to ordering U.S. forces to Korea, Truman also deployed
the U.S. 7th Fleet to Formosa (Taiwan) to guard against invasion
by communist China and ordered an acceleration of military aid
to French forces fighting communist guerrillas in Vietnam.

The total U.S. dead in the Korean War
numbers 36,516.

After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history
on June 27, 1985, when the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials decertified the road
and voted to remove all its highway signs.

Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched
from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing
through eight states.