TIM MAGUIRE
The New York Yankees retired Mickey Mantle’s number (7) on this
day in 1969.
Mickey Mantle delivering his speech the day his number was retired.
Mickey Mantle’s retired uniform No. 7 at Yankee Stadium.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Around 12:15 a.m. PDT on June 5, 1968, Sirhan Sirhan fired a .22
caliber Iver-Johnson Cadet revolver at Senator Robert Kennedy
and the crowd surrounding him in the Ambassador Hotel in Los
Angeles shortly after Kennedy had finished addressing supporters
in the hotel’s main ballroom (above).
Sirhan Sirhan (center) is led away from the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles moments after the shooting of Robert F. Kennedy
ED DONAHUE
The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev
on this day in 1986.. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands
more were exposed to radioactive material.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1912, the ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and
more than 700 people survived.
Lifeboat 6 from the Titanic, as it approached the Carpathian
on the morning of April 15, 1912.
On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln died from injuries inflicted by John Wilkes Booth.
The above photograph was taken by Petersen House
boarder Julius Ulke shortly after the president died in
this bed. (Source: Chicago History Museum)
SANDY KOZEL
Maya Angelou (Marguerite Annie Johnson)
(April 4, 1928 – May 28, 2014)
An African-American poet and author, Maya Angelou is
known for her 1969 autobiography I Know Why the Caged
Bird Sings, as well as for her poem "On the Pulse of
Morning." Her 1971 poetry collection, Just Give Me a Cool
Drink of Water ‘fore I Diiie, was nominated for the Pulitzer
Prize. She was mute for five years as the result of trauma
and, during this period, developed her lifelong love of
literature.
