ROSS SIMPSON

It was on this day in 1967.

On this day in 1999, NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.

Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr.
Robert Smith on this day in 1935.

Dr. Robert Smith (Left) and William G. Wilson.

Judy Garland from the Wizard of Oz, 1939.

Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)

Movie icon Judy Garland played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and became the youngest winner of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the
age of 39. She was nominated for Academy Awards for her roles in the films
A Star is Born (1954) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Judy Garland began
performing vaudeville at the age of two and a half. She received a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1997. 

Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)

Among friends and fellow musicians singer Ray Charles preferred being
called "Brother Ray". He was often referred to as "The Genius". Charles
was blind from the age of seven. He pioneered the soul music genre
during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel
styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records.

Ray Charles died at his home in Beverly Hills, California of complications
resulting from acute liver disease. He was 73. 

     
                               CAMILLE BOHANNON                         

In Britain on this day in 1967, "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles. It was released June 2 in the U.S.

Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)

Iconic sex symbol Marilyn Monroe starred in the classic comedy Some
Like It Hot (1959) and became the most famous woman in the world
during the 1950s. Her other memorable films include 1955’s The Seven
Year Itch and 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Personal struggles took
hold of her late in her career and she died of an overdose of barbiturates
at the young age of 36. The above photo is from Marilyn Monroe’s final
photoshoot, just three weeks before her death.

Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news
station on this day in 1980. Ted Turner (above) launched the
network.

Brigham Young (June 1, 1801 – August 29, 1877)

Brigham Young was the second president of The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) from 1847
until his death in 1877. He founded Salt Lake City and he
served as the first governor of the Utah Territory. Young
also led the founding’s of the precursors to the University
of Utah and Brigham Young University.

A statue of Brigham Young at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake
City, Utah.

Helen Adams Keller (Born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama,
died June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut), She was a author
and educator who was blind and deaf. Her education and
training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the
education of persons with these disabilities.

MIKE GRACIA

Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865)

Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President of the United
States who led the country through the horrific American
Civil War. He also helped abolish slavery with the 13th
amendment.

Charles Robert Darwin
(February 12, 1809 – April 19, 1882)

Charles Darwin was an English naturalist, geologist and
biologist, best known for his contributions to the science
of evolution.

On this day in 1999, United States President Clinton was acquitted by       
the U.S. Senate on two impeachment articles. The charges were     
lying under oath to a federal grand jury and obstructing justice. He
is the second president in American history to be impeached.      
 
        
        
        
        
       

President Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) was founded on this day in 1909.

Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

Charles Schulz was a cartoonist best known for the comic strip Peanuts
which featured the characters Charlie Brown and Snoopy, among others. He
is widely regarded as one of the most influential cartoonists of all time, cited
as a major influence by many later cartoonists, including Jim Davis, Bill
Watterson, and Matt Groening.

Charlie Brown and his dog Snoopy.

Facebook is an online social media and social networking service company
based in Menlo Park, California. The Facebook website was launched on
February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with five other fellow Harvard
College students. They had initially limited the website’s membership to 
Harvard students; however, later they expanded it to higher education
institutions in the Boston area, the Ivy League schools, and to Stanford
University.

Mark Elliot Zuckerberg will turn 34 on May 14. He
was born in White Plains, New York.

Since 2010, Time magazine has named Zuckerberg
among the 100 wealthiest and most influential people
in the world as a part of its Person of the Year award
and in December 2016, Zuckerberg was ranked 10th
on Forbes list of The World’s Most Powerful People.

SANDY KOZEL

U.S. Surgeon General Luther Terry released a report that said 
smoking cigarettes was a definite health hazard.

On this day in 1935, Amelia Earhart Putnam became the first woman
to fly solo from Hawaii to California.

Owners of American League baseball teams voted to adopt the designated-hitter rule on a trial basis on this day in 1973.

Alexander Hamilton (January 11, 1755 or 1757 – July 12, 1804)

Hamilton was a United States Founding Father, soldier, economist.
political philosopher, one of America’s first constitutional lawyers
and the first United States Secretary of the Treasury.