Reporting the JFK assassination in 1963.

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009)

Walter Cronkite was a broadcast journalist who served as
anchorman for the CBS Evening News from 1962 to 1981.

Cronkite received numerous honors including two Peabody
Awards, a George Polk Award, an Emmy Award, and the
Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Deborah Kerr and Burt Lancaster in that famous beach scene in
From Here to Eternity  (Columbia Pictures, 1953).

     
    
              
TIM MIGUIRE 
                                                    

       

1990

Oscar-winning actress Julia Roberts is 58 years young
today.

Pablo Picasso, one of the greatest and most influential artists
of the 20th century, is born in Malaga, Spain.

Picasso’s father was a professor of drawing, and he bred his
son for a career in academic art.

Picasso had his first exhibit at age 13 and later quit art school
so he could experiment full-time with modern art styles.

The work of Picasso, which comprises more than 50,000
paintings, drawings, engravings, sculptures, and ceramics
produced over 80 years, a series of overlapping periods.

Johnny (John William) Carson

Carson was a TV host, comedian, and writer best known as the
host of NBC‘s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–
1992).

Carson received six Primetime Emmy Awards, the Television
Academy‘s 1980 Governor’s Award and a 1985 Peabody Award.

He was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in
1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in 1993.