Soviet hard-liners announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power on this day in 1991. Gorbachev returned to power two days later.
Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive power in Germany as Fuehrer on this day in 1934.
Francis Gary Powers (far right) an American U-2 pilot, was convicted of espionage in Moscow on this day in 1960.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into law on this day in 1935. The act created unemployment insurance and pension plans for the elderly.
On this day in 1969, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman Catholics.
Lech Walesa
Stephen Glenn Martin is 73 years old today. Born in Waco, Texas.
While he has played banjo since an early age, and included music in his comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career, he has increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording, and touring with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs.
On this day in 1964, the U.S. Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, which gave President Johnson broad powers in dealing with reported North Vietnamese attacks on U.S. forces.
U.S. forces landed at Guadalcanal on this day in 1942, marking the start of the first major allied offensive in the Pacific during World War II.
U.S. Marines rest in the field during the Guadalcanal campaign.
On this day in 1947, the balsa wood raft Kon-Tiki, which had carried a six-man crew (below) 4,300 miles across the Pacific Ocean,crashed into a reef in a Polynesian archipelago.
On this day in 2007, at the Giants home AT&T Park in San Francisco, Berry Bonds hit a 435 foot (133 m) home run, his 756th, off a pitch from Mike Bacsik of the Washington Nationals, breaking the all- time career home run record, formerly held by Hank Aaron. Bonds, was indicted later that year on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice for allegedly lying under oath to a federal grand jury looking into steroid use among pro athletes.
The armistice agreement that ended the Korean War was signed at Panmunjon, Korea on this day in 1953.
The U.S. Congress asked for impeachment procedures against President Richard Nixonon this day in 1974.
It was on this day in 1996.
The blast site is seen during the investigation immediately following the bombing.
On this day in 1980, the deposed shah of Iran, Muhammad Riza Pahlavi, died of cancer in a hospital near Cairo, Egypt.
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi(October 26, 1919 – July 27, 1980)
Bob Hope (Leslie Townes Hope) (May 29, 1903 – July 27, 2003)
Bob Hope, was an English-American stand-up comedian, vaudevillian, actor, singer, dancer, athlete, and author. With a career that spanned nearly 80 years, Hope appeared in more than 70 short and feature films, with 54 feature films with Hope as star, including a series of seven "Road" musical comedy movies with Bing Crosby as Hope’s top-billed partner.
In addition to hosting the Academy Awards show 19 times, more than any other host, he appeared in many stage productions and television roles, and was the author of 14 books. Hope retired in 1997, and died at the age of 100 in 2003, at his home in the Toluca Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.
Bob Hope performs for servicemen at Munda Airstrip, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, in 1944.
Bob Hope in the guest chair on the Tonight Show with host Johnny Carson.
The first major battle of the U.S. Civil War began on this day in 1861. It was the Battle of Bull Run at Manassas Junction, VA. The Confederates won the battle.
The "Monkey Trial" ended in Dayton, TN. on this day in 1925.John T. Scopes was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state law on teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.
Photo taken of Clarence Darrow (left) and William Jennings Bryan (right) during the Scopes Trial in 1925.
John Thomas Scopes.
The Geneva Conference partitioned Vietnam into North Vietnam and South Vietnam on this day in 1954.
The Geneva Conference of 1954.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was a Pulitzer and Nobel Prize American novelist/short story writer.
Robin McLaurin Williams (July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014) was popular actor and comedian.
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Mork & Mindysitcom aired on ABC from September 14, 1978 to May 27, 1982.
