CAMILLE BOHANNON

Edward White became the first American astronaut to do a "space
walk" when he left the Gemini 4 capsule on this day in 1965.

Ed White floats beside Gemini IV, with the Gulf of California behind
him.

Edward Higgins White II (November 14, 1930 – January 27, 1967)

Ayatollah (Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi) Khomeini
(September 24, 1902 – June 3, 1989)

Pope John XXIII  (Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli)
(November 25, 1881 – June 3, 1963)  

The Duke of Windsor, who had abdicated the British throne, married Wallis Warfield Simpson on this day in 1937. The Duke died on May
28, 1972 at age 77.

Irwin Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 – April 5, 1997)

Allen Ginsberg was an American poet, philosopher, and
writer. He is considered to be one of the leading figures
of both the Beat Generation during the 1950s and the
counterculture that soon followed. Ginsberg vigorously
opposed militarism, economic materialism and sexual
repression.

Josephine Baker (Freda Josephine McDonald)
(June 3, 1906 – April 12, 1975)  

Dancer and entertainer Josephine Baker was known as "Black
Pearl" and "Creole Goddess" and widely recognized by her
Danse banana costume. She was activist in the Civil Rights
Movement, and adopted a "Rainbow Tribe" of orphans from
various races.
 

     
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In Britain on this day in 1967, "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles. It was released June 2 in the U.S.

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

Iconic sex symbol Marilyn Monroe starred in the classic comedy Some
Like It Hot (1959) and became the most famous woman in the world
during the 1950s. Her other memorable films include 1955’s The Seven
Year Itch and 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Personal struggles took
hold of her late in her career and she died of an overdose of barbiturates
at the young age of 36. The above photo is from Marilyn Monroe’s final
photoshoot, just three weeks before her death.

Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news
station on this day in 1980. Ted Turner (above) launched the
network.

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877)

Brigham Young was the second president of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847
until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he
served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young
also led the founding’s of the precursors to the University
of Utah and Brigham Young University.

A statue of Brigham Young at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake
City, Utah.

Helen Adams Keller (Born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama,
died June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut), She was a author
and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and
training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the
education of persons with these disabilities.

ROSS SIMPSON

In Johnstown, PA. on this day in 1889, more than 2,200 people died
after the South Fork Dam collapsed.

Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel on this day in 1962. He was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in Nazi Germany’s
Holocaust.

    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
   
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
   

In North Carolina on this day in 2003, Eric Robert Rudolph was
captured. He had been on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for five
years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.

    
Eric Robert Rudolph will be 52 years old on September 19. 
    

Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)

American poet Walt Whitman is best known for his collections
Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps. His 1865 poem "O Captain!
My Captain!" was written on the occasion of the death of
Abraham Lincoln.

Whitman dropped out of school at the age of eleven and, to
support his family, working as a law office assistant and a
newspaper apprentice.

Clinton Eastwood Jr. is 88 years old today.

Clint Eastwood gained fame as an iconic actor in such classic Western
films as A Fistful of Dollars (1967) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(1967) and as Detective Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry franchise
beginning in 1971. He later became a renowned director, receiving the
Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his films
Unforgiven (1991) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). He also directed the
critically acclaimed films Mystic River (2003), Gran Torino (2009) and
American Sniper (2014). 

Clint Eastwood became a household name after
playing Rowdy Yates on the long-running CBS
Western series Rawhide.

ROSS SIMPSON

In New York on this day in 2002, a ceremony was held to officially
mark the end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.

On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

Bronze statue of Joan of Arc on Rue de Rivoli in Paris.

On this day in 1982,  MLB legend Cal Ripken Jr. began his record-
breaking streak of 2,632 consecutive games played. He entered
the Orioles’ lineup and didn’t leave until three more presidents
were inaugurated and nearly two decades passed.

Calvin Edwin Ripken Jr. will be 58 August 24.

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman (May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)

Benny Goodman was a jazz clarinetist and bandleader known as the "King
of Swing". In the mid-1930s, Goodman led one of the most popular musical
groups in the United States. His bands launched the careers of many major
jazz artists.

SANDY KOZEL

Edmund Hillary (left) and Sherpa Tenzing Norgay became first men
to  reach the top of Mount Everest on this day in 1953.

John Fitzgerald "Jack" Kennedy
(May 29, 1917 – November 22, 1963)

Commonly referred to by his initials JFK, John F. Kennedy 
was a politician who served as the 35th President of the
United States from January 1961 until his assassination 
in November 1963.

John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy the morning of November 22,
1963.

On this day in 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the
Stamp Act before Virginia‘s House of Burgesses.

Today, churchgoers still attend services at St. John’s
Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va., where Patrick
Henry made his “Give me Liberty, or give me Death” 
speech.  

Leslie Townes "Bob" Hope  (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003)

Legendary vaudeville comedian, radio personality, and actor Bob
Hope entertained military personnel in 57 USO tours between 1942
and 1988. He performed hundreds of acts with his special humor
per year during the height of his career, hosted The Academy
Awards fourteen times, and appeared in over 70 films and shorts.

At a young age, he began performing for voluntary donations on the
Luna Park streetcar by singing and making jokes. In 1915 Bob Hope
won an amateur talent contest for his Charlie Chaplin impersonation.    

In 1997, the U.S. Congress declared Bob Hope the "first and only
honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces."

Comedian Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores are shown in their Palm
Springs, Calif., home in May 1998.