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.
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.
The repair dubbed the "mail box" that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. After an oxygen tank exploded, the three men had to retreat to the Lunar Module and use duct tape, along with plastic plastic bags and lithium hydroxide canisters to build a makeshift CO2 scrubber.
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 historybecause it changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW)
On this day in 1962, U.S. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson presented photographic evidence to the United Nations Security Council. The photos were of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
Soviet Ambassador Zorin.
A Kennedy administration official (upper left) shows aerial views of one of the Cuban medium-range missile bases, taken in October 1962.
The Charge of the Light Brigade took place during the Crimean War on this day in 1854. The British were winning the Battle of Balaclava when Lord James Cardigan received an order to attack the Russians and took his troops into a valley where they suffered 40 percent casualties. It was later revealed that the order was the result of confusion and was not given intentionally.
Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaclava. The view is from the Fedokine hills across the Causeway toward Balaklava harbor in this painting by William Simpson.
On this day in 1983,U.S. troops and soldiers from six Caribbean nations invaded Grenada to restore order and provide protection to U.S. citizens after a recent coup within Grenada’s Communist (pro-Cuban) government.
U.S Special Operations Forces in Grenada.
William Payne Stewart(January 30, 1957 – October 25, 1999)
It was on this day in 1999.
Stewart, 42, was one of the world’s most recognizable golfers because of his trademark knickerbockers. The plane carrying Stewart and five others crashed near Aberdeen, South Dakota, after traveling 1,500 miles, most of it while the pilot, co-pilot and passengers were apparently unconscious or dead when the plane lost cabin pressure during its flight and ran out of fuel and crashed. The sounds of a low-pressure alarm could be heard on the recovered cockpit voice recorder.
The Learjet 35, N47BA, before its final flight on October 25, 1999.
