Will Rogers and Wiley Post were killed in a plane crash near Point
Barrow, AK.on this day in 1935. Post and American humorist Will
Rogers perished when the aircraft Post was piloting crashed on
takeoff from a lagoon near Point Barrow in the Territory of Alaska.
Will Rogers (left) and Wiley Post before taking off for Alaska.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1914, World War I officially began when Austria-
Hungary declared war on Serbia.
On this day in 1932, Federal troops forcibly dispersed the "Bonus
Army" of World War I veterans who had gathered in Washington,
DC. They were demanding money they were not scheduled to
receive until 1945.
A U.S. Army bomber crashed into the 79th floor of New York City’s Empire State Building on this day in 1945. A total 14 people were
killed and 26 were injured.
President John F. Kennedy and wife Jacqueline.
Aristotle Onassis with wife Jacqueline.
Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis (Bouvier)
(July 28, 1929 – May 19, 1994)
Jacqueline was the wife of the 35th President of the United States, John
F. Kennedy, and the First Lady of the United States from 1961 until his
assassination in 1963.
On October 20, 1968, she married Aristotle Onassis, a Greek shipping
magnate. In 1994 she died in her sleep at age 64 from Non-Hodgkin
lymphoma.
Helen Beatrix Potter
(July 28, 1866 – December 22, 1943)
Beatrix Potter was an English writer, illustrator,
natural scientist, and conservationist best known
for her children’s books featuring animals, such
as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit.
SANDY KOZEL
It was on this day in 1956.
Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born in Oldham,
England on this day in 1978. She had been conceived through
in-vitro fertilization.
Louise Brown with her parents.
William Ben Hogan (August 13, 1912 – July 25, 1997)
Professional golfer Ben Hogan is generally considered to be one of the
greatest players in the history of the game. He is one of only five golfers
to have won all four major championships. Hogan died in Fort Worth,
Texas on July 25, 1997 at the age of 84, and is interred at Greenwood
Memorial Park there.
On this day in 1975, "A Chorus Line" debuted at the Shubert
Theatre on Broadway. The show closed in 1990 after 6,137
performances.
Rare Photos of the Original Broadway Cast of A Chorus Line.
ROSS SIMPSON
It was on this day in 1996.
Wreckage from the front portion of the TWA Flight 800 Boeing 747 on display in its reconstructed state in 1997.
The cockpit of TWA Flight 800 is lowered at the U.S. Coast Guard
station at Shinnecock Inlet in Hampton Bays, N.Y.
The Russian Imperial Romanov family (Tsar Nicholas II, his
wife Tsarina Alexandra and their five children Olga, Tatiana,
Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei) and all those who chose to
accompany them into imprisonment were shot, bayoneted
and clubbed to death in Yekaterinburg on this day in 1918
by several Bolshevik troops under the orders of the Ural
Regional Soviet and according to instructions by Lenin.
A drawing of the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family.
The room in the Ipatiev House, Yekaterinburg, where the Russian
royal family was brutally murdered.
Disneyland opened in Anaheim, CA. on this day in 1955.
Disneyland theme park is now divided into 8 extravagantly themed
lands: Main Street, U.S.A., Tomorrowland, Fantasyland, Mickey’s
Toontown, Frontierland, Critter Country, New Orleans Square and
Adventureland.
Walter Elias Disney (December 5, 1901 – December 15, 1966)
Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to
Miami, Florida in exile on this day in 1979.
Somoza talks to the press after fleeing to safety in Miami.
An Apollo spaceship (left) docked with a Soyuz spacecraft in orbit
on this day in 1975. It was the first link up between the U.S. and
Soviet Union.
It was on this day in 1961.
Coltrane’s first recordings were made when he was
a sailor.
John William Coltrane (September 23, 1926 – July 17, 1967)
John Coltrane was an American jazz saxophonist and composer, also
known as "Trane". Working in the bebop and hard bop idioms early in
his career,Coltrane helped pioneer the use of modes and was later at
the forefront of free jazz. He died of liver cancer at a Hospital in New
York on July 17, 1967, at the age of 40.
ROSS SIMPSON
On this day in 1945, the United States detonated the first atomic
bomb in a test at Alamogordo, NM.
On this day in 1973, Alexander P. Butterfield informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of
President Nixon’s recorded White House tapes.
Alexander Porter Butterfield testifying before the Senate
committee.
It was on this day in 1999.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL,
and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
The Apollo 11 lunar landing mission crew, from left to right, Neil
A. Armstrong, commander; Michael Collins, command module
pilot; and Edwin E. Aldrin Jr., lunar module pilot.
After a highly publicized six-week jury trial, Martha Stewart was found guilty in March 2004 of felony charges of conspiracy, obstruction of
an agency proceeding, and making false statements to the federal
investigators, and was sentenced July 16, 2004 to serve a five-month term in a federal correctional facility and supervised release for a two-year period (to include five months of electronic monitoring)
Inmates sit in their bunks at a women’s prison in Alabama.
