SANDY KOZEL
Elzire Dionne with her quintuplets shortly after their birth.
The Dionne quintuplets (above) were born on this day in 1934 near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
The two surviving sisters, Annette and Cécile.
CAMILLE
BOHANNON
On this day in 1927, 25-year-old Charles Lindbergh (above) became
the first person to make a nonstop solo flight across the Atlantic
Ocean, taking off from New York’s Roosevelt Field and arriving in
Paris, France 33.5 hours later.
Charles Lindbergh and the Spirit of St. Louis on the way to Paris.
Crowds race to meet Charles Lindbergh after he lands the Spirit of St. Louis in Paris.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh
(February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
On May 20, 1932, Amelia Earhart took off from Newfoundland; she
landed in Ireland nearly 15 hours later, becoming the first woman
to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Amelia Mary Earhart (July 24, 1897; disappeared July 2, 1937)
Thomas Daniel "Tim" Conway (December 15, 1933 – May 14, 2019)
NEW YORK (AP) — Tim Conway, the stellar second banana to Carol Burnett
who won four Emmy Awards on her TV variety show, has died. He passed
away Tuesday morning in Los Angeles after a long illness.
"The Carol Burnett Show" aired on CBS from 1967-1978. The ensemble cast included Harvey Korman, Vicki Lawrence and Lyle Waggoner. Conway joined
the cast as a regular in 1975 after being a frequent guest.
Tim Conway as Dorf
ED DONAHUE
The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev
on this day in 1986.. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands
more were exposed to radioactive material.
SANDY KOZEL
RMS Titanic was a British passenger liner that set sail from
Southampton on this day in 1912. It sank in the North Atlantic
Ocean after colliding with an iceberg four days into her maiden
voyage to New York City. Of the estimated 2,224 passengers and
crew aboard, more than 1,500 died, making it one of modern
history’s deadliest commercial marine disasters during
peacetime.
Rare photo of the actual iceberg that sank Titanic!
Photo of Survivors in Lifeboats After Titanic sank.
