TIM MAGUIRE

During the French Revolution on this day in 1793, King Louis XVI
was executed on the guillotine. He had been condemned for
treason.

Soviet leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin died on this day in 1924. Joseph
Stalin began a purge of his rivals for the leadership of the Soviet
Union.

        On this day in 1950.

President Jimmy Carter pardoned almost all Vietnam War draft
evaders on this day on 1977.

The French Concorde SST aircraft began regular commercial service
for Air France and British Airways on this day in 1976.

On this day in 1942, Count Basie and His Orchestra recorded "One O’Clock Jump."

William James "Count" Basie (August 21, 1904 – April 26, 1984)

A McDonnell Douglas DC-8 similar to the aircraft that crashed.

United Airlines Flight 173 was a flight from John F. Kennedy International
Airport in New York City, New York to Portland International Airport in
Portland, Oregon, with a scheduled stop in Denver, Colorado. While the
aircraft was approaching Portland it ran out of fuel and crashed in a
suburban Portland neighborhood near NE 158th Avenue and East
Burnside Street.

The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) determined the following probable cause: “The failure of the captain (Malburn McBroom) to monitor
properly the aircraft’s fuel state and the crewmember’s advisories regarding
the fuel state. This resulted in fuel exhaustion to all engines. The pilots
inattention resulted from preoccupation with a landing gear malfunction 
and the preparations for a possible landing emergency”.   

The crash site as it looks today.

ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1944, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the wartime relocation of Japanese-Americans, but also stated that undeniably
loyal Americans of Japanese ancestry could not be detained.

The United States began the heaviest bombing of North Vietnam
during the Vietnam War on this day in 1972. The attack ended 12
days later.

On this day in 1892, Tchaikovsky’s "The Nutcracker" publicly
premiered in St. Petersburg, Russia.

“Snow Flakes” from the 1892 production of “The Nutcracker.”

Steven Allan Spielberg is 71 years old today. He was
born in Cincinnati, OH.

Celebrated director Steven Spielberg achieved box office 
records with the blockbuster films Jaws (1975) E.T. (1982)
and Jurassic Park (1993). He received the Academy Award
for Best Director for the films Schindler’s List (1993) and 
Saving Private Ryan (1998). He also directed the action/
adventure classic trilogy Indiana Jones, starring Harrison
Ford, in the ’80s.

MIKE GRACIA

The first successful gasoline-powered airplane flight took place near Kitty Hawk, NC. on this day in 1903. Orville Wright was piloting the
craft while his brother Wilbur ran alongside.

The United States successfully test-fired the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile for the first time on this day in 1957.

South American patriot Simon Bolivar died in Colombia on this day
in 1830. Cause of death was listed as Tuberculosis. He was 47.

Television history was made on this day in 1969 when singer Tiny
Tim and Miss Vicki Budinger were married on "The Tonight Show"
with Johnny Carson.

JOHN BELMONT

In Oslo, Norway on this day in 1964, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
received the Nobel Peace Prize. He was the youngest person
to receive the award.

Women were granted the right to vote in the Wyoming Territory
on this day in 1869.

The first domestic passenger jet flight took place in the U.S. on this
day in 1958 when 111 passengers flew from New York to Miami on
a National Airlines Boeing 707.

Soul singer Otis Redding, at age 26, was killed on this day in 1967 
when his tour plane crashed into a Wisconsin lake. The members
of Redding’s tour band, the "Bar-Kays," were also killed.

Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte died on this day in 2006.

Pinochet was a Chilean general, politician and the dictator of Chile
between 1973 and 1990; he remained the Commander-in-Chief of the 
Chilean Army until 1998. He was also president of the Government
Junta of Chile between 1973 and 1981. He died of congestive heart
failure and pulmonary edema.