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.
Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began on this day in 1987 with National Security Council staff member Oliver North testifying before a Congressional committee. He was ultimately indicted on 16 felony counts.
It was on this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Sandra Day O’Connor turned 81 in March.
Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 77 years old today.
Ringo Starr was asked to join The Beatles after their drummer Pete Best had a falling out with the band.
The emancipation of slaves was proclaimed in Texas on this day in 1865. It is the oldest known celebrating commemorating the ending of slavery in the country.
Paula Julie Abdul is 55 years young today.
Paula Abdul was inspired to perform by dancer Gene Kelly. She started her career as an LA Lakers cheerleader and then became a choreographer. She won the Lifetime Achievement Award for choreography at The Carnival: Choreographer’s Ball in 2013.
Alabama Gov. George Wallace’s literal stand (left) against forced integration on this day in 1963 made him a national figure in the ongoing Civil Rights battle.
National Guard Brig. Gen. Henry Graham (left) informs Gov. George Wallace that the guard is under federal control as the two meet at the door of Foster Auditorium at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Ala.
On this day in June of 1963, Vietnamese Mahayana Buddhist monk ThÃch Quang Duc burned himself to death at a busy intersection in Saigon. He was attempting to show that to fight all forms of oppression on equal terms, Buddhism too, needed to have its martyrs.
Photographer Malcolm Browne captured the scene in Saigon for the Associated Press, and the stark image quickly became an iconic visual of the turbulent 1960s.
Timothy James McVeigh(April 23, 1968 – June 11, 2001)
Timothy McVeigh was convicted of blowing up the Oklahoma city federal building killing and 168 people in the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil. He was executed on this day in 2001.
It was on this day in 1919.
Sir Barton’s monument and gravesite in Douglas, Wyoming.
On this day in 1979.
John Wayne (Marion Robert Morrison) (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979)
