Celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly on June
29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding struck the rear of a
trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi,
Mississippi, where she had been performing at a local nightclub;
she had a television appearance scheduled the following day.

His first wife, Candace Kaniecki told TMZ he died Thursday
morning and that it was unexpected and the cause of death
is currently unknown.

The Dukes of Hazzard is an action comedy television
series that aired on CBS from 1979 to 1985, with a total
of seven seasons consisting of 147 episodes.

Lalo Schifrin (June 21, 1932 – June 26, 2025)

Lalo Schifrin, the composer who wrote the endlessly catchy
theme for “Mission: Impossible” and more than 100 other
arrangements for film and television, died Thursday from
complications of pneumonia at a hospital in Los Angeles.

Schifrin was a five-time Grammy Award winner; he was
nominated for six Academy Awards and four Emmy
Awards. He was 93.

Series originally aired for eight seasons on CBS from
September 16, 1967, to March 13, 1975.

On June 25, 2009, Michael Jackson, one of the most commercially successful entertainers in history, died at the age of 50 at his
home in Los Angeles, California, after suffering from cardiac
arrest caused by a fatal combination of drugs given to him by
his personal doctor Conrad Murry (below).

Conrad Murray

        
TIM MAGUIRE
              

On June 25, 1950, armed forces from communist North Korea
smashed into South Korea, setting off the Korean War.

The United States, acting under the auspices of the United
Nations, quickly sprang to the defense of South Korea and
fought a bloody and frustrating war for the next three years.