TIM MAGUIRE
Armstrong became the first person to step onto the lunar surface.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 astronauts Commander Neil Armstrong and
lunar Module pilot Edwin E. “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr. became the first men to walk
on the moon.
First footprint on the Moon (left) was that of astronaut Neil
Armstrong (right).
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin Jr. poses for a photograph beside the U.S. flag.
(Neil Armstrong/NASA via AP)
CAMILLE BOHANNON
It was on this day in 1964.
The bodies of the three civil rights workers found in an earthen dam
in Mississippi on August 4, 1964.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Statue of Nathan Hale in City Hall Park,
New York.
It was on this day in 1975.
President Gerald Ford (center) is pushed into his limousine after
Sara Jane Moore (below) took a shot at him as he was leaving the
Post Street entrance of the St. Francis hotel in San Francisco.
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Sara Jane Moore was a political radical, a follower of Marxism.
Sara Jane Moore (Kahn) became 88 in February.
ED DONAHUE
On this day in 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left
Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan
was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.
Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – April 27,1521)
Magellan was killed in the Philippines during the
Battle of Mactan by soldiers of leader Lapu-Lap.
The statue of Lapu-Lapu on Mactan Island.
James Joseph "Jim" Croce
(January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973)
On this day in 1973, pop singer Jim Croce was killed along
with five others in a plane crash on his way to Sherman,
TX, for a concert. He was only 30 years old.
Croce released five studio albums and singles. His songs
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" reached
No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
Croce’s chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree
during take-off from the Natchitoches Regional Airport
in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
It was on this day in 1958.
Dr. Emil A. Naclerio, member of the surgical team that operated
on the Rev. Martin Luther King, is shown at King’s bedside in
Harlem Hospital in New York on Sept. 21, 1958.
Police officers arrest Izola Curry, King’s would-be assassin.
George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama,
a position he occupied for four terms.
June 1963
May 1972
George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
In his later years, Wallace suffered from deafness and
Parkinson’s disease. He died of septic shock from a
bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery
on September 13, 1998. He suffered from respiratory
problems in addition to complications from his gunshot
spinal injury.
