Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists
of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his
son for a career in academic art.

Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school
so he could experiment full-time with modern art styles.

The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000
paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics
produced over 80 years, a series of overlapping periods.

 
ROSS SIMPSON

SAMARRA, Iraq (AP) — On this day in 2006, Sunni extremists blew up a revered Shiite shrine, igniting the worst sectarian violence Iraq had ever seen.

Iraqis walk past the damaged al-Askari shrine following the
explosion.

"A Charlie Brown Christmas," a beloved holiday television tradition for generations of American families, debuted to overwhelming popular acclaim despite CBS network fears
of failure on this day in history, Dec. 9, 1965.  (Fox News)         

Charles Monroe "Sparky" Schulz 
(November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

Original The Saturday Evening Post "Home Improvement” by Stevan Dohanos.

Stevan Dohanos
(May 18, 1907 – July 4, 1994)

Dohanos was born in Lorain, Ohio
and attended the Cleveland School
of Art.

     
MIKE GRACIA

President Nixon shakes hands with Premier Chou En-lai of
the People’s Republic of China. Nixon’s trip to China was
to seek a “normalization of relations.”