Hailed by many critics as Eugene O’Neill’s finest work, The Iceman Cometh
opened at the Martin Beck Theater on Broadway. The play, about desperate
tavern bums clinging to illusion as a remedy for despair, was the last O’Neill
play to be produced on Broadway before the author’s death in 1953. Like
many of his other works, the play drew on O’Neill’s firsthand experiences
with all-night dive bars and desperate characters.
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.
John F. Kennedy Richard M. Nixon
SANDY KOZEL
SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line
(Società di navigazione Italia) home-ported in Genoa, Italy,
most famous for her sinking on this day in 1956, when 46
people died. Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, the
Eastbound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line
collided with it in one of history’s most infamous maritime
disasters.
TIM MAGUIRE
It was on this day in 1998.
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John King executed for the dragging death of James Byrd Jr.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1927, Charles A. Lindberg completed the first solo
nonstop airplane flight from New York, crossing the Atlantic Ocean
and landing his Spirit of St. Louis in Paris France.
