(AP) – After five years of sniffing out land mines and unexploded ordnance in Cambodia, Magawa (above) is retiring.

The African giant pouched rat has been the most successful rodent
trained and overseen by a Belgian nonprofit, APOPO, to find land
mines and alert his human handlers so the explosives can be
can be safely removed.

Marlin Perkins (left) and Jim  Fowler.

Jim Fowler (April 9, 1930 – May 8, 2019)

Fowler was an professional zoologist and host of the Emmy 
Award–winning television show Mutual of Omaha’s Wild 
Kingdom.

Jim Fowler (left) on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson
(middle).

           
CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1914, World War I officially began when Austria-
Hungary declared war on Serbia.

On this day in 1932, Federal troops forcibly dispersed the "Bonus
Army" of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington,
DC. They were demanding money they were not scheduled to
receive until 1945.

A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City’s Empire State Building on this day in 1945. A total 14 people were
killed and 26 were injured.

President John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline.

Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (Bouvier)
(July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)

Jacqueline was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John
F. Kennedy, and the First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his
assassination in 1963.

On October 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate.  In 1994 she died in her sleep at age 64 from Non-Hodgkin
lymphoma.

Helen Beatrix Potter
(July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943) 

Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator,
natural scientist, and conservationist best known
for her children’s books featuring animals, such
as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.

ROSS SIMPSON

The "St. Valentine’s Day Massacre" took place in Chicago, IL. on
this day in 1929.  Seven gangsters who were rivals of Al Capone
(below) were killed.

Alphonse Gabriel Capone (January 17, 1899 – January 25, 1947)

On this day in 1989, Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini called on Muslims
to kill author Salman Rushdie (below).

Salman Rushdie’s fourth novel, The Satanic Verses (1988), was
the center of a major controversy, provoking protests from
Muslims in several countries.

On this day in 2002, former Yugoslav president Slobodan Milosevic began his defense against war crimes charges.

Dolly died on this day in 2003.

Dolly the Sheep is now a stuffed specimen, standing inside a glass
showcase at the National Museum in Edinburgh, Scotland.