ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1848, James Wilson Marshall
(October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885) found
a gold nugget at Sutter’s Mill in northern
California. The discovery led to the gold
rush of ’49’.

John Sutter’s sawmill in 1850. The historians at Marshall Gold State Historic Park concluded the person seen in the above photo was
the photographer’s assistant who was used to show scale.

James Marshall’s cabin in Coloma, California.

James Marshall Monument

On this day in 1896 – Gold was discovered in Canada’s Yukon
Territory. Within the next year more than 30,000 people rushed
to the area looking for gold.

Miner’s camp at the head of the Yukon River during the Klondike
Gold Rush.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Robert Anthony De Niro is 73 today.

De Niro played the Cowardly Lion in a production of The
Wizard of Oz when he was ten. He earned his first movie
role when Brian De Palma cast him in his 1963 film The
Wedding Party. The film was shot when De Niro was 20 
years old, then released six years later, in 1969.

Robert De Niro as Jake La Motta in the 1980 film Raging Bull.