TIM MAGUIRE

Muhammad Ali (left) defeated Sonny Liston. 

Leon Spinks, right, connects with a right hook to Muhammad Ali,
during the late rounds of their championship fight in Las Vegas
on 15 February 1978. (AP)

Leon Spinks (July 11, 1953 – February 5, 2021)

(Fox News) – Leon Spinks, a former Marine who became a gold-
medal Olympic boxer and once defeated Muhammad Ali in a
title fight, has died. He had been battling multiple types of
cancers, including prostate cancer, for years,

TIM MAGUIRE

Comedy legend Mel Brooks (Melvyn Kaminsky) is 94 years old
today. He became one of the most successful film directors of 
the 1970s.

1974

CARLATA BRADLEY

 
On this day in 1962, the Soviet Union exchanged captured American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers (seated) for the Soviet KGB spy Rudolph Ivanovich Abel (right) being held by the U.S. 

Francis Gary Powers and a U2 recon aircraft .

The Glienicke bridge just after the Powers swap.

SANDY KOZEL

Analysts have argued the election of 1968 was a major realigning election
as it permanently disrupted the New Deal Coalition that had dominated
presidential politics for 36 years.