ROSS SIMPSON

James Wilson Marshall
(October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885)

The caption with this photo at the Library of Congress
claims that this was Marshall in front of the mill in 1850.

On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill on
the American River in Northern California. After James W.
Marshall, who’d been overseeing the sawmill’s construction,
found the gold nuggets he and his boss, John Sutter,
attempted to keep

the discovery a secret. However, word soon spread and by
1849 thousands of prospectors, who became known as 49ers,
were flocking to Coloma, California, site of Sutter’s Mill, and
the surrounding region, hoping to strike it rich.

   
James Marshall’s cabin.

   

    
    
    
   
John Augustus Sutter
(February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880)

The spot where Marshall first discovered the gold that
started the California Gold Rush.

Johnny Carson  best known as the host of The Tonight Show
Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). Carson received six
Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television Academy‘s 1980
Governor’s Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award.

He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in
1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.

He once reportedly joked, "My giving advice on marriage is like
the captain of the Titanic giving lessons on navigation.” He was
79.

On January 23, 1968, the USS Pueblo, a Navy intelligence vessel,
was  engaged in a routine surveillance of the North Korean coast
when it is intercepted by North Korean patrol boats. According to
U.S. reports, the Pueblo was in international waters almost 16
miles from shore, but the North Koreans turned their guns on
the lightly armed vessel and demanded its surrender.

The Pueblo was boarded and taken to Wonson. There, the 83-man
crew was bound and blindfolded and transported to Pyongyang,
where they were charged with spying within North Korea’s 12-
mile territorial limit and imprisoned. It was the biggest crisis in
two years of increased tension and minor skirmishes between
the United States and North Korea.

The crew of USS Pueblo at a press conference in North
Korea in 1968. (Korea News Service via AP Images)

One of the last public photos (August 1972) of Lyndon
Johnson five months before his death.  

After leaving the White House in 1968, L.B.J. returned to his
beloved home state, Texas, with his wife, Lady Bird Johnson,
and immersed himself in the activity dearest to him: ranching.

On January 22, 1973, former President Lyndon Baines Johnson
died in Johnson City, Texas having suffered a fatal heart attack
in his home at age 64.

The First inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson aboard
Airforce One after JFK was assassinated.

After the assassination of John F. Kennedy, Johnson served
as the 36th president of the United States from 1963 to 1969.

 
1964

From London’s Heathrow Airport and Orly Airport outside Paris,
the first Concordes with commercial passengers simultaneously
take flight on January 21, 1976. The London flight was headed to
Bahrain in the Persian Gulf, and the Paris to Rio de Janeiro via
Senegal in West Africa. At their cruising speeds, the innovative Concordes flew well over the sound barrier at 1,350 miles an
hour, cutting air travel time by more than half.