(AP) – Loni Anderson, who famously portrayed receptionist
Jennifer Marlowe in the comedy "WKRP in Cincinnati," has
died.
According to a statement to the Associated Press, Anderson
died at a Los Angeles hospital following a "prolonged" illness.
On August 3, 1949, after a damaging three-year battle to win
both players and fans, the rival Basketball Association of
America (BAA) and National Basketball League (NBL)
merged to form the National Basketball Association (NBA).
Track-and-field star Jesse Owens, one of 18 Black athletes
on the US team at the Berlin Olympics, won his first of four
gold medals—the most of any American at the Games.
Back home, only white Olympians were invited to the White
House.
James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens
(September 12, 1913 – March 31, 1980)
Football player and broadcaster Tom Brady won seven Super
Bowl titles and some consider the best quarterback of all
time and one of the greatest athletes in sports history.
On August 3, 1795, the United States and Northwest Indian
Federation, a confederacy of tribal nations from the eastern
Great Lakes region, signed the Treaty of Greenville, pausing
two decades of hostility over territory disputes.
The Federation, comprised mostly of Shawnee, Delaware,
Iroquois, Ottawa, Ojibwa and Miami nations, had formed to
collectively defend its member nations’ ancestral lands from
being overtaken—often violently—by European settlers
moving westward since the American Revolution.
