TIM MAGUIRE

Israel and Palestine signed their first major agreement on this day in 1993. Palestine was granted limited self-government in the Gaza
Strip and in Jericho.

On this day in 2005, President George W. Bush took responsibility
for the Federal response to Hurricane Katrina.

President George W. Bush meets with Hurricane Katrina victims in
Biloxi, Miss.

In New York on this day in 1971, National Guardsmen stormed the
Attica Correctional Facility and put an end to the four-day revolt. A
total of 43 people were killed in the final assault. A committee was organized to investigate the riot on September 30, 1971.

George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)

Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama, having served two
nonconsecutive terms and two consecutive terms. He survived
an assassination attempt in in 1972, but remained wheelchair-
bound until his death from a bacterial infection..

During his final years, Wallace publicly recanted his segregationist
views and asked for forgiveness from African Americans.

CARLATA BRADLEY

1990

        1945

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

Edison sold candy, newspapers, and vegetables to train passengers who
were going from Port Huron to Detroit. He felt that the invention of sound
in film had ruined the medium.

SANDY KOZEL

John William "Johnny" Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

1968

1973

            
             Original series on ABC: January 23 – January 30, 1977

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Hiram King "Hank" Williams (September 17, 1923 – January 1, 1953)

Legendary country star Hank Williams released 35 Top-10 singles on the Billboard Country & Western Best Sellers chart and 11 #1 singles between 1948 and 1953, including "Your Cheatin’ Heart" and "Hey, Good Lookin’." Williams dropped out of
school to write music for the Drifting Cowboys, and heavily when his band mates
were drafted during World War l l, and was dismissed by radio station WSFD in
Montgomery, Alabama due to his alcoholism.

TIM MAGUIRE