Upon his retirement, Sinatra told LIFE journalist Thomas
Thompson that "I’ve got things to do, like the first thing is
not to do anything at all for eight months … maybe a year".

Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the
Beatles. It was an immediate commercial and critical success, spending
15 weeks at number one in America.Time magazine declared it "a historic
departure in the progress of music" and the New Statesman praised its
elevation of pop to the level of fine art. It won four Grammy Awards in
1968, including Album of the Year, the first rock LP to receive this honor.

The album cover photo shoot.                    (click on pic to enlarge)

On this day in 1916, a 22-year-old Norman Rockwell painted his
first cover for The Saturday Evening Post. The original oil on
canvas painting is titled Boy with Baby Carriage. Over the next
47 years, the artist would paint over 300 covers for the magazine.

Norman Percevel Rockwell
(February 3, 1894 – November 8, 1978)

Fictional superhero The Hulk was created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby
and was published by Marvel Comics.  Lee said the Hulk’s creation
was inspired by a combination of Frankenstein and Dr. Jekyll and Mr.
Hyde.

 

Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)