TIM MAGUIRE

Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

Buddy Holly was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who along
with his band The Crickets pioneered rock with "That’ll Be the
Day," which topped the Billboard Best Sellers list.

He won a talent contest when he was five years old for singing
"Have You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River of Memories)."

Rolling Stone ranked him as the thirteenth "Greatest Artist of
All Time." He died in a plane crash less than two years after
his career took off.

On this day in 1955, William G. Cobb of the General Motors Corp
demonstrates his 15-inch-long “Sunmobile,” the world’s first solar-powered automobile, at the General Motors Powerama auto show
held in Chicago, Illinois.

Today, more than a half-century after Cobb debuted the Sunmobile,
a mass-produced solar car has yet to hit the market anywhere in the world.

William G. Cobb

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1862, the Confederates defeated Union forces at the second Battle of Bull Run in Manassas, VA.

Stonewall Jackson, Confederate General.

It was on this day in 1967. He would be the first black court justice.

Thurgood Marshall  (July 2, 1908 – January 24, 1993)

The space shuttle Challenger was launched on this day in 1983 with Guion S. Bluford Jr. aboard. He was the first African American to
travel in space when the shuttle embarked on its third mission.

Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. will be 76 on November 22.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Godwin)
(August 30, 1797 – February 1, 1851)

British author Mary Shelley is best known for her Gothic novel
Frankenstein. Her less famous works include novels such as
Valperga, Perkin Warbeck, and The Last Man.

Baseballs Ty Cobb made his major league batting
debut with the Detroit Tigers on this day in 1905.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb
(December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961)
Nicknamed: The Georgia Peach

Jack Paar replaced Walter Cronkite as host of "The Morning Show"
on CBS-TV.

Singer Julius La Rosa, left, makes a guest appearance on “The
Morning Show” with host Jack Paar.

Anchorman Walter Cronkite, host of CBS Television’s ‘The
Morning Show,’ with his daily guest, Charlemane the lion,
one of the Bill and Cora Baird Puppets.

Actor George Stevens Hamilton, born in Memphis, Tennessee.

Hamilton won a Golden Globe Award and was nominated for a BAFTA
Award. He has received one additional BAFTA nomination and two
additional Golden Globe nominations. George Hamilton began his film
career in 1952.