CAMILLE BOHANNON       

  
     
     
     
 
Actress Katharine Houghton Hepburn
(May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003)

Hepburn’s career as a Hollywood leading lady spanned
six decades. She worked in a varied range of genres,
from screwball comedy to literary drama, which earned
her various accolades, including four Academy Awards
for Best Actress—a record for any performer.

 
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CARLATA BRADLEY

John Herbert Gleason (February 26, 1916 – June 24, 1987)

Gleason was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts &
Sciences Television Hall of Fame in 1986. In 2000 a statue of
him as Ralph Kramden (below) was installed at the Miami
Beach Bus Terminal.

Complicated and tension-filled negotiations between the United States and
the Soviet Union finally result in a plan to end the two-week-old Cuban
Missile Crisis. A frightening period in which nuclear holocaust seemed
imminent began to come to an end. 

Since President John F. Kennedy’s October 22 address warning the Soviets
to cease their reckless program to put nuclear weapons in Cuba and
announcing a naval “quarantine” against additional weapons shipments
into Cuba, the world held its breath waiting to see whether the two
superpowers would come to blows. U.S. armed forces went on alert and
the Strategic Air Command went to a Stage 4 alert (one step away from
nuclear attack). On October 24, millions waited to see whether Soviet
ships bound for Cuba carrying additional missiles would try to break
the U.S. naval blockade around the island. At the last minute, the vessels
turned around and returned to the Soviet Union.

Khrushchev                Castro                                 Kennedy

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1962, President John F. Kennedy went on radio and television to inform the United States about his order to send U.S.
forces to blockade Cuba. The blockade was in response to the
discovery of Soviet missile bases on the island.

Aerial view of missile launch site at San Cristobal, Cuba.

CARLATA BRADLEY

The Soviet Union began the Berlin Blockade on this day in 1948. It
was one of the first major international crises of the Cold  War. The
Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies’ railway, road, and canal
access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. (Wikipedia)