SANDY KOZEL
SS Andrea Doria was an ocean liner for the Italian Line
(Società di navigazione Italia) home-ported in Genoa, Italy,
most famous for her sinking on this day in 1956, when 46
people died. Andrea Doria was approaching the coast of
Nantucket, Massachusetts, bound for New York City, the
Eastbound MS Stockholm of the Swedish American Line
collided with it in one of history’s most infamous maritime
disasters.
Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby (May 3, 1903 – October 14, 1977)
Born in Tacoma, Washington.
Singer and actor.Bing Crosby was a leader in record sales, radio ratings,
and motion picture grosses from 1931 to 1954. In 1948, American polls
declared him the "most admired man alive", ahead of Jackie Robinson
and Pope Pius XII. Also in 1948, Music Digest estimated that his records
filled more than half of the 80,000 weekly hours allocated to recorded
radio music. Bing Crosby won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role as Father Chuck O’Malley in the 1944 motion picture Going My Way.
Bing Crosby (right) gives Bob Hope (left) a golf lesson.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1865, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated in Ford’s Theater by John Wilkes Booth. He actually died early the next morning.
Loretta at age 9.
Loretta Lynn is a country music singer-songwriter with multiple gold albums
in a career spanning almost 60 years. She is famous for hits such as "You
Ain’t Woman Enough (To Take My Man)", "Don’t Come Home A’ Drinkin’
(with) Lovin’ on Your Mind)", "One’s on the Way", "Fist City", and "Coal
Miner’s Daughter." Loretta is 87 years young today.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1970, an oxygen tank exploded on Apollo 13, which
prevented the planned moon landing.
Artists painting showing the explosion on board Apollo 13.
ED DANAHUE
Approximately 600 people died when fire broke out at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, IL. on this day in 1903. The theater was billed
as being fire proof, much the same way the Titanic was said to be
unsinkable. The fire one of the most horrific events in Chicago’s
history.
Drawing depicts the scene inside the lobby when fire broke out in the
Iroquois Theater.
On this day in 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first
sit-down strike, at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI. The Flint Sit–
Down Strike is known as the most important strike in American
history because it changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW)
The UAW was founded as part of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO) in the 1930s and grew rapidly
from 1936 to the 1950s.
