SANDY KOZEL

George Washington (February 22, 1732 – December 14, 1799)

Mount Vernon Estate seen from the Potomac River.

Statue of George Washington, State
Capitol, Richmond, Virginia.

Roger Eugene Maris (September 10, 1934 – December 14, 1985)

Roger Maris was an professional baseball player who played four seasons
in the minor leagues and twelve seasons in the major leagues. He played
right field on four Major League Baseball (MLB) teams, from 1957 through
1968 and set the MLB record for home runs during the 1961 season with
61, breaking Babe Ruth‘s single-season record of 60 home runs in 1927.

Roger Maris was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 1983 and
died at age 51 at M.D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas.

Roger Maris plaque in Yankee Stadium’s Monument Park.

October 2, 1961 cover of Sports Illustrated magazine
featuring Roger Maris hitting one of his late-season,
record home runs.

Maris organized the annual Roger Maris
Celebrity Golf Tournament to raise money
for cancer research and treatment.  

TIM MAGUIRE

The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling freighter and its crew of 29
vanished during a storm in Lake Superior on this day in 1975. It was
the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes.

Edmund Fitzgerald in its watery grave.

On this day in 1969, the children’s TV series "Sesame Street" made
its debut on PBS.

Shown above is an early cast and crew photo. (click to enlarge)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1952, Richard Nixon gave his "Checkers Speech". At
the time he was a candidate for U.S. vice-president.

The expedition of Meriwether Lewis (Left) and William Clark
(Right) ended their trek to the Pacific Northwest on this day
in 1806.

A replica of Fort Clatsop in the National Memorial at the mouth of the
Columbia River in Oregon.

1970

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen is 69 years old today.

Known simply as The Boss, rock legend Bruce Springsteen struck
fame in 1975 with his critically acclaimed album Born to Run and
again in 1984 with his rock anthem "Born in the U.S.A." He won his
20th career Grammy Award in 2009 when his song "Working on a
Dream" took Best Solo Rock Vocal Performance.

ED DONAHUE

On this day in 1519, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan left
Spain to find a route to the Spice Islands of Indonesia. Magellan
was killed during the trip, but one of his ships eventually made the journey.

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – April 27,1521)

Magellan was killed in the Philippines during the
Battle of Mactan by soldiers of  leader Lapu-Lap.

The statue of Lapu-Lapu on Mactan Island.

James Joseph "Jim" Croce
(January 10, 1943 – September 20, 1973)

On this day in 1973, pop singer Jim Croce was killed along
with five others in a plane crash on his way to Sherman,
TX, for a concert. He was only 30 years old.

Croce released five studio albums and singles. His songs
"Bad, Bad Leroy Brown" and "Time in a Bottle" reached
No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Croce’s chartered Beechcraft E18S crashed into a tree
during take-off from the Natchitoches Regional Airport
in Natchitoches, Louisiana.

It was on this day in 1958.

Dr. Emil A. Naclerio, member of the surgical team that operated
on the Rev. Martin Luther King, is shown at King’s bedside in
Harlem Hospital in New York on Sept. 21, 1958.
    
    

    
   
    Police officers arrest Izola Curry, King’s would-be assassin.