SANDY KOZEL
The United States Armed Forces. It is one of the eight U.S.
uniformed services. Initially formed as a part of the United
States Army on 1 August 1907, the USAF was established
as a separate branch of the U.S. Armed Forces on 18 Sep.
1947 with the passing of the National Security Act of 1947.
The Air Force is the second youngest branch of the U.S.
Armed Forces and the fourth in order of precedence.
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)
Lucille Desiree Ball, one of America’s most famous redheads
and beloved comic actresses, was born near Jamestown, New
York. She became immortalized on TV’s I Love Lucy , a
sitcom which originally aired on CBS from October 15,
1951 to  May 6, 1957.6, 1957.
Cast members from left, Lucille Ball, Vivan Vance, Desi Arnaz, and William Frawley.
SANDY KOZEL
Dick Clark (Richard Wagstaff Clark)
(November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012)
The original ABC network debut of American Bandstand began
on this day in 1957 and continued until 1987.
Blonde bombshell and celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly
on June 29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding struck the rear of a trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.
Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi, Mississippi, where
she had been performing a standing engagement at a local nightclub; she had
a television appearance scheduled the following day. Ronald B. Harrison, a
driver for the Gus Stevens Dinner Club, was driving Mansfield and her lawyer
and companion, Samuel S. Brody, along with three of Mansfield’s children with
her ex-husband Mickey Hargitay, in Stevens’ 1966 Buick Electra.
Jayne Mansfield (Vera Jayne Palmer)
(April 19, 1933 – June 29, 1967)
ROSS SIMPSON
