After a two-month ordeal, the expedition of British explorer
Robert Falcon Scott arrived at the South Pole only to find
that Roald Amundsen, the Norwegian explorer, had preceded
them by just over a month. Disappointed, the exhausted
explorers prepared for a long and difficult journey back to
their base camp.

Weather on the return journey was exceptionally bad, two
members perished and Scott and the other two survivors
were trapped in their tent by a storm only 11 miles from
their base camp. Scott wrote a final entry in his diary in
late March. A search party discovered their frozen bodies
eight months later. In his final journal entry, Scott wrote,
"We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker,
of course, and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but
I do not think I can write more…For God’s sake look after
our people."

        
 
Edward Adrian Wilson, Robert Falcon Scott, Lawrence
Oates, Henry Robertson Bowers and Edgar Evans at
the South Pole.

Randolph and co-star Art Carney in a promo photo
for The Honeymooners (circa 1955).

NEW YORK — “Honeymooners” actress Joyce Randolph, who
played Ed Norton’s sarcastic wife Trixie, has died. She was 99.

Her son Randolph Charles told The Associated Press Sunday,
his mother died of natural causes Saturday night at her home
on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

She was the last surviving main character of the beloved comedy
from television’s golden age of the 1950s.

The Honeymooners is a television sitcom that originally
aired from 1955 to 1956, created by and starring Jackie
Gleason, and based on a recurring comedy sketch of the        
same name that had been part of Gleason’s variety show.          

   

Jackie Gleason, Art Carney, Audrey Meadows and Joyce Randolph.

Bill Hayes, best known for his role as Doug Williams on the hit
soap opera "Days of Our Lives," has died.

"Bill peacefully passed Friday morning surrounded by family.

Born William Foster Hayes III in Harvey, Illinois in 1925, the late
actor was one of the longest-running characters on "Days of Our
Lives." Hayes originated the role and has portrayed Williams
since 1970. 

This past June, Hayes celebrated his 98th birthday with his
colleagues from the soap opera (below). 

On January 13, 1982, an Air Florida Boeing 737-222 plunged into
the Potomac River in Washington, D.C., killing 78 people. The
crash, caused by bad weather, took place only two miles from
the White House.

The Air Florida flight took off from Washington National Airport
in Arlington, Virginia, with 74 passengers and 5 crew members
on board. The plane had flown into Washington from Miami in
the early afternoon and was supposed to return to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, after a short stop.

However, snow in Washington temporarily closed the airport and
when it reopened, the plane was de-iced with chemical anti-freeze,
but the plane still had difficulty moving away from the gate due to
the ice. When it eventually made it to the airport’s only usable
runway, it was forced to wait 45 minutes for clearance to take
off.

Not wanting to further delay the flight, the pilot, Larry Wheaton,
did not return for more de-icing, and worse, failed to turn on the
plane’s own de-icing system.

Cindy Morgan and Bill Murray from “Caddyshack” (1980)

Cindy Morgan (Cynthia Ann Cichorski)
(September 29, 1954 – December 30, 2023)

Cindy Morgan, the actress best known for playing Lacey
Underall in "Caddyshack" and Lora/Yori in Disney’s original
"Tron" film, has died.

The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s office in Florida confirmed
the news to the Los Angeles Times, saying Morgan died of
natural causes at her home in Lake Worth Beach, Florida.

1982