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Christopher Columbus left Palos, Spain with three ships on this
day in 1492. The voyage led him to what is now known as the
Americas. He reached the Bahamas on October 12.

Illustration depicting Christopher Columbus’s fleet
departing from Spain.

On the day in 1914, Germany declared war on France. The next
day World War I began when Britain declared war on Germany.

It was on this day in 1948.

Whittaker Chambers holds a newspaper with the Hiss verdict.

Leo Ferris (second from left) and representatives of the NBL and
BAA shake hands.

Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) is 91 years old today.

Singer Tony Bennett is known for his renditions of show tunes, jazz, and popular
songs like "I Left My Heart in San Francisco" and "Rags to Riches." He dropped
out of school to work as a copy boy in order to help support his family. Bennett
was a painting and music student at New York’s School of Industrial Art.

Battle of the Little Bighorn began on this day in 1876, when the US 7th
Cavalry under Brevet Major General George Armstrong Custer wiped
out by Sioux and Cheyenne warriors led by Chiefs Crazy Horse and
Sitting Bull in what has become famously known as "Custer’s Last
Stand."

John Dean began his testimony before the Senate Watergate
Committee on this day in 1973.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997)

Jaques Cousteau was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist,
filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and researcher who
studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-developed the Aqua-
lung and pioneered marine conservation.

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On this day in 1927, Charles Lindbergh took off from New York
to cross the Atlantic for Paris aboard his airplane the "Spirit of
St. Louis." The trip took 33 1/2 hours.

Amelia Earhart took off to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean on
this day in 1932. She became the first woman to achieve the feat.

On this day in 1961, a white mob attacked the Freedom Riders in Montgomery, AL. The event prompted the federal government to
send in U.S. marshals.

The Freedom Riders Burning Bus.

During a violent storm on his first return voyage, Columbus, then approximately
41, suffered an attack of what was believed at the time to be gout. During later
years, he was plagued with influenza and other fevers, bleeding from the eyes,
and prolonged attacks of gout. The suspected attacks increased in duration
and severity, sometimes leaving Columbus bedridden for months at a time,
and culminated in his death 14 years later at age 54.

SANDY KOZEL

JOHN BELMONT

George Harrison (February 25, 1943 – November 29, 2001)