On March 8, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, carrying
227 passengers and 12 crew members, lost contact with
air traffic control less than an hour after taking off from 
Kuala Lumpur, then veers off course, disappears and
most of the plane, and everyone on board, were never 
seen again.

About an hour after Flight 370 was scheduled to land in
Beijing, Malaysia Airlines announced it was missing.

Prior to the aircraft’s mysterious disappearance, it had
been flying seemingly without incident.

There were no distress signals from the plane, reports
of bad weather or technical problems.

In 2015, French police officers carried a piece of airplane
debris on the island of Réunion which later proved to
have been from Malaysia Airlines Flight 370.

More debris from Flight 370 found.

 
SANDY KOZEL

(1914 – 1999)

Joe DiMaggio (“Joltin Joe”) is widely considered one
of the greatest baseball players of all time and is best
known for setting the record for the longest hitting
streak in baseball (56 games from May 15 – July 16,
1941), which still stands today.

DiMaggio was a heavy smoker for much of his adult
life. He was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital
in Hollywood, Florida, on October 12, 1998, for lung
cancer surgery and remained there for 99 days. He
returned to his Florida home, on January 19, 1999
and died thereon March 8 at age 84.

DiMaggio’s plaque at the National Baseball Hall of Fame
and Museum.

On March 7, 2010, Kathryn Bigelow became the first
woman to win an Academy Award for best director,
for her movie “The Hurt Locker,” about an American
bomb squad that disables explosives in Iraq in 2004.

Prior to Bigelow, only three other women had been
nominated for a best director Oscar: Lina Wertmueller
for 1975’s “Seven Beauties,” Jane Campion for 1993’s
“The Piano” and Sofia Coppola for 2003’s “Lost in
Translation.”

Bigelow was born in San Carlos, California, in 1951
and is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute
and earned a master’s degree in film from Columbia
University.

She made her feature film debut with 1982’s “The
Loveless,” which she co-wrote and co-directed.

On March 6, 1836, after 13 days of intermittent fighting, the Battle
of the Alamo came to a gruesome end and capping off a pivotal
moment in the Texas Revolution.

Mexican forces were victorious in recapturing the fort, and nearly
all of the roughly 200 Texan defenders—including frontiersman
Davy Crockett—died.

The defense of the Alamo remains a symbol of resistance and
revolution. The battle has been immortalized in several TV
series and films, including 1960’s The Alamo, starring John
Wayne as Davy Crockett. 

On March 6, 1981, CBS Evening News anchor Walter
Cronkite signs off with his trademark valediction,
"And that’s the way it is," for the final time.

Over the previous 19 years, Cronkite had established
himself not only as the nation’s leading newsman but
as "the most trusted man in America," he was a steady
presence during two decades of social and political
upheaval.

        
        
        
        
       

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)