Melvin (Mel) James Brooks (Kaminsky)

Mel Brooks is an actor, comedian, and filmmaker. With a career
spanning over seven decades, he is known as a writer and
director of a variety of successful broad farces and parodies. A
recipient of numerous accolades, he is one of 18 entertainers to
win the EGOT, which includes an Emmy Award, a Grammy Award,
an Academy Award ("Oscar"), and a Tony Award. He received a
Kennedy Center Honor in 2009, a Hollywood Walk of Fame star in
2010, the AFI Life Achievement Award in 2013, a British Film
Institute Fellowship in 2015, a National Medal of Arts in 2016, a
BAFTA Fellowship in 2017, and the Honorary Academy Award
in 2023.

He began his career as a comic and a writer for Sid Caesar‘s
variety show Your Show of Shows from 1950 to 1954.

1974

1974

Dick Novak (1924 – 2002)

Dick Novak was a popular radio personality for over 29
years working at KXL, KGON and KGW. 

On April 11, 1955 Dick moved to KPOJ AM/FM in Portland,
Oregon where he began "Dick Novak’s Rhythm Room”- 9:30
to 2:00am, Monday through Friday from KPOJ’s transmitter
studio located on Mount Scott at S.E. Eastview Drive
(pictured below).        
       

       

 
Interior view of the KPOJ AM & FM Transmitter at Mt. Scott     
in 1956.

Dick also broadcast live from Scotty’s Hamburgers at 12th and
N.E. Sandy Blvd and Amato’s Supper Club on Broadway in
downtown Portland.           
           
 On July 12, 2002 Dick Novak passed away from cancer at age
78 in Portland.
       
           
 
        
  
    
  
     
      
 

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Trump at the New York Military Academy in 1964.

Donald John Trump served as the 45th president of the
United States from 2017 to 2021.

In the United States, Flag Day is celebrated on June 14,
it commemorates the adoption of the flag of the United
States on June 14, 1777, by resolution of the Second
Continental Congress.The Flag Resolution, passed on
June 14, 1777, stated: "Resolved, That the flag of the
thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red
and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a
blue field, representing a new constellation."

The United States Army also celebrates the U.S. Army
birthday on this date; Congress adopted "the American
continental army" after reaching a consensus position
in the Committee of the Whole on June 14, 1775.

In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation
that officially established June 14 as Flag Day; on August
3, 1949, National Flag Day was established by an Act of
Congress.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)