Actress Tina Louise played Ginger on Gilligan’s Island
(CBS) from 1964 – 1967. Her role in the 1958 film God’s
Little Acre earned her a Golden Globe Award for New
Star of the Year. In 1962, she made an appearance on
the TV series The Real McCoys (ABC/CBS). She began
studying acting, singing, and dancing at the age of
seventeen.

TIM MAGUIRE

On February 7, 1964, Pan Am Yankee Clipper flight 101 from London
Heathrow landed at New York’s Kennedy Airport—and “Beatlemania”
arrives. It was the first visit to the United States by the Beatles, a
British rock-and-roll quartet that had just scored its first No. 1 U.S.
hit six days before with “I Want to Hold Your Hand.” At Kennedy,
the “Fab Four”—dressed in mod suits and sporting their trademark
pudding bowl haircuts—were greeted by 3,000 screaming fans who
caused a near riot when the boys stepped off their plane and onto
American soil.

Country/Pop singer Troyal Garth Brooks is 58 years old today.

BRIAN THOMAS

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

Charles Lindbergh was a aviator, military officer, author, inventor, and
activist. At age 25 in 1927, he went from obscurity as a U.S. Air Mail pilot
to instantaneous world fame by winning the Orteig Prize for making a
nonstop flight from New York to Paris.

William Clark Gable (February 1, 1901 – November 16, 1960)

Leading man Clark Gable was nominated for the Academy Award for Best
actor for his portrayal of Rhett Butler in Gone with the Wind (1939). He
gained additional acclaim for his roles in The Misfits (1961), Mutiny on
the Bounty (1935), and Manhattan Melodrama (1934). His last film was
The Misfits, which was also Marilyn Monroe‘s last film. Gable worked
at an Ohio tire company after dropping out of school at age 16.

Clark Gable entered the U.S. Army Air Forces where was awarded military
honors for service, they are: the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal,
American Campaign Medal, European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign
Medal, and World War II Victory Medal. He was a qualified aerial gunner
having received his wings upon completion of flexible gunnery school
at Tyndall field. Gable held the rank of Major when discharged in 1944.