Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)

The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.

Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city
named for him, Chief Seattle died in a nearby village of
his people.

Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief
of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around
the Pacific Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound.

Jesuit missionaries introduced Chief Seattle to Catholicism,
and he became a devout believer. He died in 1866 at the
approximate age of 77.

James Wehn’s Chief Sealth statue near the Space Needle.

Martin and Lewis

Singer and actor who found fame with comedian Jerry Lewis,
palled around with the "Rat Pack"(above) and became a TV
staple starting in the 1960s.        
        
       
He  is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the
mid-20th century.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On June 3, 1965, 120 miles above the Earth, Major Edward H.
White II opened the hatch of the Gemini 4 and stepped out of
the capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to walk
in space.

White had been preceded as a space walker, by Soviet
cosmonaut Aleksei A. Leonov, who on March 18, 1965,
was the first man ever to walk in space.

Astronaut Ed White was the first American to walk in space.

Norma Jeane Mortenson—who will become better known
around the world as the glamorous actress and sex symbol
Marilyn Monroe—was born on June 1, 1926, in Los Angeles,
California. She was later given her mother’s name, and
baptized Norma Jeane Baker.