SANDY KOZEL

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Founded on this day in 1802.

On July 4, 1939, Yankees fans were given their chance to say
farewell to Lou Gehrig.

John Calvin Coolidge Jr. (July 4, 1872 – January 5, 1933)

Calvin Coolidge was the 30th president of the United States who was
mostly remembered for being a man of few words, which earn him the
nickname Silent Cal. He was a farmer, school teacher, and local store
clerk. Coolidge achieved national recognition for his handling of the
Boston Police Strike of 1919. He held a record number of presidential
press conferences for the time, totaling 520.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Adolf Hitler purged the Nazi Party by destroying the SA and
bringing to power the SS in the "Night of the Long Knives”.

The original Pure Food and Drug Act (also known as the Wiley Act)
was passed by Congress on June 30, 1906 and signed by President
Theodore Roosevelt. It prohibited interstate commerce in misbranded
and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs under penalty of seizure of
the questionable products and/or prosecution of the responsible
parties.

The Soviet spacecraft Soyuz 11 returned to Earth on this day in
1971. The three cosmonauts (below) were found dead inside.

Margaret Mitchell’s book, "Gone with the Wind," was published in
this day in 1936. It was one of the best-selling novels of all time 
and the basis for a blockbuster 1939 movie.

Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell (November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)

From left: Tonya Harding and  Nancy Kerrigan.     

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne (June 30, 1917 – May 9, 2010)

Twentieth-century African-American singer and actress Lena Horne
sang "Stormy Weather," won a Grammy Award for a 1981 album
entitled Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music, and appeared in film
versions of The Wiz, Broadway Rhythm, and Ziegfeld Follies.

After dropping out of high school at the age of sixteen, she performed
in the chorus of Harlem’s famed Cotton Club.

TIM MAGUIRE

The Army-McCarthy hearings reached a dramatic high point on
this day in 1954 in an angry, emotion-packed exchange between
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and Joseph N. Welch, who was
special counsel for the Army.

Charles John Huffam Dickens (February 7, 1812 – June 9.1870) 

Comedian Richard Pryor suffered near-fatal burns at his home
when a mixture of "free-base" cocaine exploded on this day in
1980.

Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor
(December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005)

Secretariat became horse racing’s first Triple Crown winner in
25 years by winning the Belmont Stakes on this day in 1973.

Les Paul (Lester William Polsfuss)  (June 9, 1915 – August 12, 2009) 

Les Paul  was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, which made
the sound of rock and roll possible. Paul taught himself how to play guitar and
while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in
country music. He is credited with many recording innovations. Although he was
not the first to use the technique, his early experiments with overdubbing, also
known as sound on sound, delay effects such as tape delay, phasing effects
and multitrack recording were among the first to attract widespread attention.
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ROSS SIMPSON

The destruction along Main Street in Johnstown, Pa., following the collapse of the South Fork Dam killing 2,209 people on this day in
1889.

 Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892) 

American poet Walt Whitman is best known for his collections Leaves of Grass
and Drum-Taps. His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" was written on the
occasion of the death of Abraham Lincoln. He dropped out of school at the
age of eleven and, to support his family, worked as a law office assistant and
a newspaper apprentice.

It was on this day in 2003.

Serial bombing suspect Eric Robert Rudolph (C) is escorted from
the Cherokee County Jail for a hearing in federal court.

Clinton Eastwood Jr. is 87 years old today. He was born in San
Francisco, California.

Clint Eastwood from The Good, The Bad And The Ugly (1966).

Clint Eastwood as Dirty Harry (1971).

Clint Eastwood worked as a lifeguard, a caddy, and a grocery clerk while growing
up. He became a household name after playing Rowdy Yates on the long-running
CBS-TV Western series Rawhide (1959 – 1965).

Brian Doyle (August 12, 1956 – May 27, 2017) Born in Ottawa, Ontario.

PORTLAND, Ore. – According to a release from the University of Portland,  Brian
Doyle passed away Saturday morning from complications related to a brain tumor.

He was the author of "Mink River," "The Plover," "Chicago," and "Martin Marten." He
won a 2016 Oregon Book Award for Young Adult Literature for "Martin Marten."

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