Rare and incredible color photographs of the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The USS Oglala capsized at her dock. Maryland and the
capsized Oklahoma can be seen in background.

USS Arizona.

 
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Dave Brubeck was a jazz pianist and composer. Often regarded
as a foremost exponent of cool jazz.

Born in Concord, California, Brubeck was drafted into the US
Army, but was spared from combat service when a Red Cross
show he had played at became a hit. Within the US Army,
Brubeck formed one of the first racially diverse bands.

Brubeck died of heart failure on December 5, 2012, in
Norwalk, Connecticut, one day before his 92nd birthday.

Terry Alan Anderson (October 27, 1947 – April 21, 2024)

Anderson was an American journalist and combat veteran. He
reported for the Associated Press.

In 1985, he was taken hostage by Shia Hezbollah militants of
the Islamic Jihad Organization in Lebanon and held until this 
day in 1991. 

Anderson being welcomed home to Lorain, Ohio, on June 21, 1992.

A fire at a 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 fire originated in the basement near the foot of a stairway.

The Our Lady of Angels School was operated by the Sisters
of Charity in Chicago.

The disaster led to major improvements in standards for school
design and fire safety codes.

School memorial.

On November 29, 1981, the actress Natalie Wood, who starred in
such movies as Rebel Without a Cause and West Side Story,
drowned in a boating accident near California’s Catalina Island.

Wood started acting at age four and was given a co-starring role
at age eight in Miracle on 34th Street (1947).

Wood’s film credits also include West Side Story (1961), winner
of 10 Oscars, in which she played the lead role of Maria.