(FOX NEWS) – Retired Associate Justice Sandra Day O’Connor,
the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court, has died.
The high court said O’Connor died Friday morning in Phoenix
of complications related to advanced dementia, probably
Alzheimer’s, and a respiratory illness.
O’Connor is sworn in by Chief Justice Warren Burger as
her husband John O’Connor looks on.
A fire at Our Lady of Angels grade school in Chicago killed
87 children and three nuns on December 1, 1958; five more
children later died as a result of their injuries.
The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters
of Charity in Chicago.
Henry Alfred Kissinger (May 27, 1923 – November 29, 2023)
Henry Kissinger, the influential former U.S. Secretary of State
who earned a reputation as a sagacious diplomat but drew
international condemnation and accusations of war crimes
for his key role in widening the American presence in Vietnam
and the U.S. bombing of Cambodia, died Wednesday.
He served as Secretary of State and national security adviser
under two Republican presidents, Richard Nixon and Gerald
Ford, and advised powerful leaders in both American political
parties for decades.
Henry Kissinger President Richard Nixon.
Kissinger and President Gerald Ford.
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Natalie Wood (July 20, 1938 – November 29, 1981)
Natalie was a actress who began her career in film
as a child and successfully transitioned to young
adult roles.
As a teenager, she was nominated for an Academy
Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in
Rebel Without a Cause (1955), followed by a part
in John Ford‘s The Searchers (1956).
At the age of only 43, Wood drowned in the Pacific
Ocean near Santa Catalina Island during a break
from production of her would-be comeback film
Brainstorm (1983).
Natalie Wood in WEST SIDE STORY (1961)
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.
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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)
