Thomas A. Edison announced the invention of his phonograph
on this day in 1877.

President Richard M. Nixon‘s attorney announced the presence of        
an 18 minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings 
related to the Watergate case on this day in 1973.

President Richard Nixon holds a press conference upon release of 
the White House tapes.

Ottilie Lundgren, 94, of Oxford, Connecticut was the final victim
to die in America’s Anthrax scare. Four had died before her.

On this day in 1985, former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan
Jay Pollard was arrested after being accused of spying for Israel. He
was later sentenced to life in prison.

On this day in 1934, the Cole Porter musical "Anything Goes"
opened on Broadway.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1966, Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard was acquitted in his
second trial of charges he had murdered his pregnant wife, Marilyn,
in 1954.

The United States and the Soviet Union established diplomatic
relations for the first time on this day in 1933.

William Christian Bullitt, Jr. (January 25, 1891 – February 15, 1967)

On this day in 2001, a second Anthrax letter found addressed to
Capitol Hill.

A hazmat team at the Senate Office Building in Washington, DC.

William Holden (William Franklin Beedle Jr.)  
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

According to the Los Angeles County Coroner’s autopsy
report, Holden was alone and intoxicated in his apartment
in Santa Monica, California, on November 12, 1981, when
he slipped on a rug, severely lacerating his forehead on a 
bedside table, and bled to death. His body was found four
days later on this day in 1981.

William Holden in The Wild Bunch (1969)

The musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway at the
Lunt-Fontanne Theatre on this day in 1959.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony
Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama
Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived
on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in
1966.

Playwright Edward Franklin Albee III 
(March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016)

MIKE  GRACIA

On this day in 20001, the U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan
in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act
was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the
U.S. on September 11, 2001. 

On this day in 1985.

On this day in 1991.

Clarence Thomas turned 69 on June  23.

It was on this day in 1998.

The musical "Cats" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on this day
in 1982. In 1997 the show became the longest running show in
Broadway history.

John J Mellencamp  (John Cougar Mellencamp) is 66 today.

Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp is best known for his #1 hit song,
"Jack & Diane." He has been nominated for more than ten Grammy
Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.

TIM MAGUIRE

The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon
and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL on this day in 1960.

On this day in 1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to
end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.

On this day in 1957, the musical "West Side Story" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. 

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most
popular melodies are widely known. Among his best-known works are
the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American
in Paris (1928) as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935).

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) 

T.S. Eliot was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social
critic, and "one of the twentieth century’s major poets".  Eliot attracted
widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement.