Dusty was one of the first female rock jocks on the West
Coast. She is shown here on the air with SiriusXM, KROQ.
Dusty Street, the radio disc jockey who shot to popularity in
Southern California passed away Saturday in Eugene, Ore.
after a long battle with cancer.
MIKE GRACIA
In a televised speech of extraordinary gravity, President John F.
Kennedy announces on October 22, 1962 that U.S. spy planes
discovered Soviet missile bases in Cuba. These missile sites—
under construction but nearing completion—housed medium-
range missiles capable of striking a number of major cities in
the United States, including Washington, D.C.
Kennedy announced that he was ordering a naval “quarantine”
of Cuba to prevent Soviet ships from transporting any more
offensive weapons to the island and explained that the United
States would not tolerate the existence of the missile sites
currently in place. The president made it clear that America
would not stop short of military action to end what he called a “clandestine, reckless and provocative threat to world peace.”
In the summer of 1977, members of the rock band Aerosmith
inspected an airplane they were considering chartering for
their upcoming tour—a Convair 240 (above) operated out of
Addison, Texas. Concerns over the flight crew led Aerosmith
to look elsewhere. a decision that saved one band but doomed
another. The aircraft in question was instead chartered by the
band Lynyrd Skynyrd, who were just setting out that autumn
on a national tour that promised to be their biggest to date.
On October 20, 1977, however, during a flight from Greenville,
South Carolina, to Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s
tour plane crashed in a heavily wooded area of southwestern
Mississippi during a failed emergency landing attempt, killing
band-members Ronnie Van Zant, Steve Gaines and Cassie
Gaines as well as the band’s assistant road manager and the
plane’s pilot and co-pilot. Twenty others survived the crash.
(FOX NEWS) – Burt Young, the Oscar-nominated actor
known for his role as Paulie in "Rocky," has died.
According to the New York Times, Young died on Oct.
8 in Los Angeles.
His cause of death was not immediately known.
Burt Young starred in six of the "Rocky" films alongside Sylvester Stallone (left).
Scientists have discovered sealed jars of wine from 5,000 years
ago in an Egyptian queen’s tomb.
According to SWNS, the British news, the find, one of the oldest
ever, was among the "grave goods" for Queen Meret-Neith in
Abydos, from 3,000 BC.
The University of Vienna researchers say she was the most
powerful woman in the period and possibly the first female
pharaoh of Ancient Egypt.
