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BOHANNON
On this day in 1960, U.S. Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts announced his candidacy for the Democratic presidential
nomination.
On this day in 1935, Bruno Richard Hauptmann went on trial for the kidnap-murder of Charles Lindberghs baby (below). Hauptmann was found guilt and executed.
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Aviator Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
SANDY KOZEL
Saddam Hussein’s Underground Hiding Place.
The first Trial of Saddam Hussein began on October 19, 2005. He was
sentenced to death November 5, 2006 and was executed (below) the following month on December 30.
Richard “Dick” Wayne Van Dyke 93 years old today.
Dick Van Dyke is the Star of The Dick Van Dyke Show
on CBS (1961 – 1966) and Diagnosis: Murder on CBS
(1993 – 2001). He won a SAG Life Achievement award
in 2012 and a Disney Legend Award in 1998. He also
starred in the 1964 classic Mary Poppins and was
cast in the film’s sequel, Mary Poppins Returns.
ED DONAHUE
It was on this day in 1964.
Assassination of President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963.
On this day in 1954, The"Tonight!" show made its debut on NBC-TV
with Steve Allen (below) as host.
SANDY KOZEL
The Fugitive Slave Act was declared by the U.S. Congress on this
day in 1850. The act allowed slave owners to claim slaves that had escaped into other states.
September 18, 1975, after crisscrossing the country with her captors–
or conspirators–for more than a year, Patty Hearst, or “Tania,” as
she called herself, was captured in a San Francisco apartment and
arrested for armed robbery. Despite her later claim that she had
been brainwashed by the SLA, she was convicted on March 20, 1976,
and sentenced to seven years in prison. Her prison sentence was commuted by President Jimmy Carter and she was released in
February 1979. She later married her bodyguard. In 2001, she
received a full pardon from President Bill Clinton.
Patty Hearst poses with a Symbionese Liberation Army poster.
On this day in 2001, Letters postmarked in Trenton, N.J., and later
tested positive for anthrax, were sent to the New York Post and
NBC anchorman Tom Brokaw.
SANDY KOZEL
Berlin was once divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later on this day in 1961, work on the Berlin Wall began.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016)
Infamous Cuban dictator and revolutionary Fidel Castro came to power in
1959 and served as his country’s Prime Minister until 1976 and President
from 1976 to 2008.
Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians on this day in 1521.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
(August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980)
Iconic director Alfred Hitchcock is known as The
Master of Suspense for his classic films such as
Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Dial M for
Murder (1954), and The Birds (1963). One of the
most influential filmmakers of all time, he directed
over 50 feature films, and his work continues to
circulate through film circles and classic movie
channels.
It was on this day in 1995.
Mickey Charles Mantle
(October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995)
Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New
York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951
through 1968. He was nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The
Mick.
