Grant McOmie died early Thursday after a brief illness. He.was
a beloved Oregon television journalist, author, and educator
renowned for his five-decade career covering the Pacific
Northwest’s outdoors.
He was best known for producing and hosting "Grant’s
Getaways" on KGW and previously KATU in Portland, He
was 73.
Grant McOmie (1952–2026)
(FOX NEWS) – A U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
(ICE) agent saved the life of a 1-year-old boy Wednesday who
stopped breathing while in line at New York City‘s John F.
Kennedy International Airport.
The Department of Homeland Security said the ICE agent was
assisting TSA agents at the airport when he responded to a
medical emergency involving the child.
According to DHS, the young boy became unresponsive in the
arms of his father.
Security footage from inside the airport showed a passenger
in a TSA Precejcl line holding the boy.
Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)
On March 26, 1953, American medical researcher Dr. Jonas Salk
(above) announced that he had successfully tested a vaccine
against poliomyelitis, the virus that causes the crippling disease
of polio.
In 1952—an epidemic year for polio—there were 58,000 new cases reported in the United States, and more than 3,000 died from the
disease.
For his work in helping to eradicate the disease, which is known
as “infant paralysis” because it mainly affects children, Dr. Salk
was celebrated as the great doctor-benefactor of his time.
Diana Ross the former lead singer of the vocal group the
Supremes, became Motown‘s most successful act during
the 1960s and one of the world’s best-selling girl groups
of all time.
They remain the best-charting female group in history,
with a total of 12 number-one pop singles on the U.S.
Billboard Hot 100.
On this day in 1945 the west Pacific volcanic island of Iwo Jima
was declared secure by the U.S. military after weeks of fiercely
fighting its Japanese defenders.
When all was done, more than 6,000 Marines died fighting for the island,
along with almost all the 21,000 Japanese soldiers trying to
Defend it.
