Space Shuttle Columbia Launch for it’s
28th and final mission.
The launching of Apollo 8.
Jane Fonda (born Jayne Seymour Fonda) is 79 today.
Jane Fonda dropped out of Vassar College to become a fashion model. She is
a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner. In 2014,
she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.
1979
Steven Allan Spielberg is 70 years old today.
Spielberg charged friends and family to watch the 8mm adventure
films he made growing up. His 1968 short film Amblin’ inspired the
name of his future production company Amblin Entertainment. His
1977 science fiction feature Close Encounters of the Third Kind
was labeled "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant"
by the U.S. Library of Congress and chosen for preservation
in the National Film Registry.
Arizona Memorial and USS Missouri.