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Young Howard Hughes, Multi-millionaire businessman, american business tycoon, investor ...

 r/lastimages - Last known authenticated photograph of Howard Hughes alive, a portrait for Hughes Aircraft Company's corporate publications in 1954.
Howard Robard Hughes Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)
(Last known authenticated photo of Howard Hughes alive in 1954)

Hughes, one of the richest men to emerge from the American
West during the 20th century, dies while flying from Acapulco
to Houston.

Born in Houston, Texas, in 1905, he inherited an estate of nearly
a million dollars when his father died in 1923. Hughes’ father
also left him the business that had created this fortune, the
Hughes Tool Company, which controlled the rights to a new
oil drill technology that was in high demand.        

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The Hughes H-4 Hercules with Hughes at the controls.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

September 12, 1962 - Kennedy's "We Go to the Moon" Speech

PORTLAND RETRO BLOG | PDX RETRO - Part 31 Why the AP Fired Emily Wilder - The Ringer
MIKE  GRACIA

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Ronnie Howard & Gig Young in "Walking
Distance", Twilight Zone Episode
#5 (10/30/59)

The Andy Griffith Show, Season 3 release date, trailers, cast, synopsis and reviews
(1960 – 1968)

Friday Five - Spin-offs | Insufficient Scotty
(1974 – 1984)

Ron Howard At The Academy Awards, 3242002, La, Ca, By Robert Hepler. Celebrity (16 x 20 ...

Apollo 13 (1995) - Posters — The Movie Database (TMDB)
1995

Ron Howard's 5 Best Comedies (& His 5 Best Dramas)

Ron Howard announces new Star Wars film will be called "Solo: A Star Wars Story" - CBS News
Director, producer and screenwriter Ron Howard is
71 years old today.

Howard has received two Academy Awards, four Emmy
Awards
, two Golden Globe Awards, and a Grammy Award.

He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and
was inducted into the
Television Hall of Fame in 2013.

Howard has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
for his contributions in film and television.

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AMERICA’S FIRST WWII FLYING ACE IN 1942

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Lt. Edward O’Hare takes off from the aircraft carrier Lexington
in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul—and minutes
later became
America’s first WWII flying ace, shooting down five
enemy bombers.       
      
      
      
      
      
      
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USS Lexington
     

Edward “Butch” O’Hare naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on ...


This Day in WWII History: Feb 20, 1942: Pilot O'Hare becomes first ...
Edward "Butch" O’Hare waves during a parade
held in his honor in his hometown of St. Louis,
Missouri. Flanking him are his mother Selma
O’Hare, left, and his wife Rita.

World War II fighter pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward
World War II fighter pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare,
right, is congratulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
as O’Hare’s wife Rita places the Medal of Honor around his
neck on April 21, 1942, during a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C.

 

In 1963 President Kennedy lays a wreath on a monument dedicated to Lt. Comdr. Edward
In 1963 President Kennedy lays a wreath on a monument dedicated to Lt. Comdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare (1914 –
1943). The wreath was handed to him by O’Hare’s
nephews, Philip Tovrea III and Edward Palmer, right.

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PRISNER EXCHANGE ON THIS DAY IN 1962

Bridge of Spies - DONOVAN, ABEL and POWERS after the BRIDGE OF SPIES
Soviet Colonel Rudolf Abel         Francis Gary Powers
                                                    

On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers 
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior
KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.

Glienicke Bridge Where Spies Were Exchanged

Gary Powers: The U-2 spy pilot the US did not love - BBC News
The Glienicke bridge (known as the Bridge of Spies) just
after the Powers swap.

Los Angeles Morgue Files: Pilot Francis Gary Powers HELICOPTER CRASH 1977 Encino
Francis Gary Powers
(August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)

Powers later worked as a helicopter pilot
for
KNBC in Los Angeles and died in a
1977 helicopter crash.

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UNTHERED SPACEWALK ON THIS DAY IN 1984

Astronaut Bruce McCandless becomes to the first human to fly untethered in space, February 7 ...

While in orbit 170 miles above Earth, Navy Captain Bruce
McCandless II became the
first human being to perform
an untethered spacewalk
, when he exits the U.S. space
shuttle Challenger and maneuvers freely, using a bulky
white jet pack of his own design.

McCandless orbited Earth in tangent with the shuttle at
speeds greater than 17,500 miles per hour—the speed
at which satellites normally orbit Earth—and flew up to
320 feet away from the Challenger. After an hour and a
half of testing and flying the jet-powered backpack and
admiring Earth, McCandless safely reentered the shuttle.


Picture of Bruce McCandless II
Bruce McCandless II
(June 8, 1937 – December 21, 2017)

Incredible Photo of the First Untethered Spacewalk - TechEBlog

Space Shuttle Challenger wallpapers, Vehicles, HQ Space Shuttle Challenger pictures | 4K ...

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