SANDY KOZEL

On January 12,1986, astronaut and physicist Franklin Chang-
Diaz became the first Hispanic American to fly in space on the
Space Shuttle Columbia, which orbited Earth 96 times, deployed
the SATCOM KU satellite used for broadcast television and
conducted experiments in astrophysics. It was a high point in
an aeronautical career with plenty of high points.

That six-day flight was the first of his seven space missions,
tying the record for most space flights held by astronaut Jerry
Ross.

Franklin Ramon Chang-Díaz will be 76 in
April.

Freeman Gosden (“Amos”) and Charles Carrell (“Andy”).

On January 12, 1926, the two-man comedy series “Sam ‘n’ Henry”
debuted on Chicago’s WGN radio station. Two years later, after
changing its name to “Amos ‘n’ Andy,” the show becomes one
of the most popular radio programs in American history.

Though the creators and the stars of the new radio program,
Freeman Gosden and Charles Carrell were both white, the
characters they played were two Black men from the Deep
South who moved to Chicago to seek their fortunes.        
       

Gosden and Correll celebrate the tenth anniversary of the
show on NBC in March 1938.