JOHN BELMONT

On this day in 1967, guerrilla leader Che Guevara was executed in
Bolivia.

Anthrax laced letters were sent to Capitol Hill on this
day in 2001.

The hijackers of the Italian cruise ship Achille Lauro surrendered on
this day in 1985.

Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize on this
day in 1975. The Soviet scientist is known as the "father of
the hydrogen bomb."

John Winston Ono Lennon (John Winston Lennon) 
(October 9, 1940- December 8, 1980)

John Lennon became one of the most influential songwriters
in the history of popular music after co-founding The Beatles
with Paul McCartney and George Harrison. He was a symbol
of counterculture, promoting peace, activism and freedom
of speech.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day on 1776.

A depiction of the hanging of Nathan Hale.

A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale
war on this day in 1980.  

Gerald Ford looks to where a shot was fired as he is leaving the St.
Francis Hotel.

Sara Jane Moore

On this day in 1964, "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway. It was the beginning of a run of 3,242 performances.

Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin)  (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)

Irving Berlin was a Russian born, American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.

SANDY KOZEL

Nicola Sacco (left) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella)

(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

Italian actor Rudolph Valentino starred in several well-known silent films including
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik, Blood and Sand (1922),
The Eagle, (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). He was an early pop icon, a
sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover".  He had applied for U.S.citizenship shortly before his untimely death from Pleuritis, an inflammation of 
of the membranes that surround the lungs. He was 31.   

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1974, President Nixon announced that he would
resign the following day.

It was on this day in 1942.

Dustin Lee Hoffman is 80 years old today.

Famous method actor Dustin Hoffman won the Academy Award for Best
Actor for Kramer vs. Kramer in 1979 and Rain Man in 1988. He had his
breakthrough role as Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 classic The Graduate.

He began his acting career at the Pasadena Playhouse with his roommate
and fellow actor Gene Hackman. 

1969

1982

   
ROSS SIMPSON

It was on this day in 1996.

On this day in 1918.

Disneyland opened in Anaheim, California on this day in 1955.

Walt Disney (far right) delivering his opening day speech.

Nicaraguan President Anastasio Somoza resigned and fled to
Miami, Florida in exile on this day in 1979.

On this day in 1975, an Apollo spaceship docked with a Soyuz
spacecraft in orbit. It was the first link up between the U.S. and
Soviet Union.

Tyrus Raymond Cobb (December 18, 1886 – July 17, 1961)

                                     The Georgia Peach