ROSS SIMPSON

Romania’s hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising on this day in 1989.

Foreign protesters campaign against the Ceaucescu regime.

Ceausescu and his wife Elena attempted to flee Romania but were 
caught and executed in Targoviste on Christmas Day.

The above photo shows the wall where the two were shot. The site
became part of a museum in 2013.

Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed
into his shoes while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to
Miami on this day in 2001.

One of Richard Reid’s explosive shoes.

ED DANAHUE

The "Mayflower", and its passengers, pilgrims from England, landed
at Plymouth Rock, MA. on this day in 1620.

Map of Native American Tribes and Pilgrim Colonies.

The first church service at Plymouth.

On this day in 1988, 270 people were killed when a Pan Am Boeing
747, Flight 103 exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, due to a terrorist attack.
 

The destruction caused by debris from the explosion on board Pan
Am Flight 103 over the village of Lockerbie.

MIKE GRACIA

The first successful gasoline-powered manned airplane flight took
place near Kitty Hawk, NC. on this day in 1903. Orville and Wilbur
Wright made the flight.

While Wright Brothers were building the Flyer they continued to make 
practice flights with their 1902 glider (above). They made about 2000
total glides. 

Television history was made on this day in 1969 when singer Tiny
Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show"
with Johnny Carson on NBC.

Tiny Tim (Herbert Buckingham Khaury)
(April 12, 1932 – November 30, 1996)

Tiny Tim suffered a heart attack just as he began singing at a ukulele festival at the Montague Grange Hall in Montague, Massachusetts.

JOHN BELMONT

In Oslo, Norway on this day in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person
to receive the award at the age of 35.

The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. on
this day in 1958 when 111 passengers flew from New York to
Miami on a National Airlines Boeing 707 leased from Pan
American World Airways. In 1959 the Lockheed L-188 Electra
was introduced into the fleet. It was the only turboprop aircraft
type ever operated by the airline.

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