ROSS SIMPSON

    
Madonna, aged 42, married Guy Ritchie, who was ten years
her junior, in a ceremony steeped in the groom’s Scottish heritage. 

General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.         
       

CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Rickey Henderson, MLB Hall of Famer
and the only player to reach 1,000 stolen bases, died Friday
at age 65 following a bout with pneumonia at the University
of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Five days short
of his 66th birthday.

On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to
New York exploded in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard,
as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground.

   
Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller
(March 1, 1904 – December 15, 1944)

After departing from an airfield outside London on December
15, 1944, a single-engine aircraft carrying trombonist and
bandleader Glenn Miller went missing over the English
Channel.

Miller was traveling to France for a congratulatory performance
for American troops that had recently helped to liberate Paris.

The wreckage of Miller’s plane was never found. His official
military status remains Missing in Action.

A U.S. Army Air Forces Noorduyn UC-64A Norseman
from the 3rd Air Commando Group.

 
Published in 1939.