TIM MAGUIRE

On this day in 1940, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in Washington state collapsed during a 42 mph windstorm. The suspension
bridge had opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. The collapse had lasting 
effects on science and engineering.

William Franklin Graham Jr. (November 7, 1918 – February 21, 2018)

Billy Graham was an American evangelist, a prominent evangelical Christian
figure, and an ordained Southern Baptist minister who became well-known internationally in the late 1940s. One of his biographers has placed him
"among the most influential Christian leaders" of the 20th century.

MIKE  GRACIA

On this day in 1947, Howard Hughes flew his "Spruce Goose," a
huge wooden airplane, for eight minutes in California. It was the
plane’s first and only flight. The "Spruce Goose," nicknamed
because of the white-gray color of the spruce used to build it,
never went into production.

Howard Robard Hughes Jr.
(December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976)

CARLATA BRADLEY

On this day in 2001, President George W. Bush signs the renewal of
the U.S. Patriot Act after a long battle with Congress.

Pat Sajak (Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 73 today. 

Sajak is a former weatherman and talk show host, best
known as the host of the syndicated television game
show Wheel of Fortune.

“Wheel of Fortune” hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White.

TIM MAGUIRE

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the UN Assembly in 1960.

Rock vocalist David Lee Roth was with Van Halen from 1974 to 1985 and went
on to pursue a solo career. He has a webcast via YouTube called The Roth
Show. He was born into a family of surgeons, working as a hospital orderly
while attending Pasadena City College.  Before becoming a rock star, he was
a radio personality.