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)
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.”
AP – A 17th-century masterpiece by Peter Paul Rubens,
Portrait of a Lady, at the DESA Unicum auction house
in Warsaw, Poland, sold for $3.4 Million on Thursday,
February 17,
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
(28 June 1577 – 30 May 1640)
Rubens was the most versatile and
influential Baroque artist of northern
Europe in the seventeenth century.
