Mike Gracia

Sidney Poitier is 87 years old today. He became the first
African American to win an Oscar after performing in “Lilies
of the Field” (1963).

The American Film Institute called Sidney Poitier one of the
25 Greatest Male Stars of All Time in 1999.

      Buddy  Holly (Charles Hardin Holley) 

    (September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)

                                                                                       Photo: Des Moines Register

One of the last photos of Buddy Holly taken at the Laramar Ballroom
in Fort Dodge, Iowa on January 30, 1959. 

The crash site today near Clear Lake, Iowa

Back row, (L-R) Dr. David Brown, Dr. Laurel Clark, Payload commander Michael Anderson, Ilan Ramon. Front row, (L-R) Commander Rick Husband, Flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, Co-pilot William McCool. (NASA)