CARALATA BRADLEY

Cecil Blount DeMille (August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)

DeMille is acknowledged as a founding father of American
cinema and the most commercially successful producer-
director in film history.

   
CARLATA BRADLEY

At the Wesleyan Chapel in Seneca Falls, New York, a woman’s
rights convention—the first ever held in the United States—
convened with almost 200 women in attendance.

The convention was organized by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth
Cady Stanton, two abolitionists who met at the 1840 World Anti-
Slavery Convention in London.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1973, a Senate vote confirmed Gerald Ford as
vice president after Spiro Agnew resigned to avoid being indicted for allegedly accepting bribes. Ford was the first
vice president to be selected under the terms of the 25th Amendment.

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.
(born Leslie Lynch King Jr.)
(July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006)

CARLATA BRADLEY

MIKE GRACIA

Singer John J. (Cougar) Mellencamp is 71 years old today. 

He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008, followed by an induction into the Songwriters Hall of Fame
in 2018.