Winston Churchill’s famous "Sinews of Peace" (popularly called the"Iron Curtain" speech) was delivered at Westminster College, in Fulton, Missouri.   

 

Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin’s health had deteriorated towards the
end of World War II. The official cause of death was listed as a heart
attack. He was 74.

March 16, 1953

  Sir Reginald Carey "Rex" Harrison (5 March 1908 – 2 June 1990)

Rex Harrison was an English actor of stage and screen who an Academy Award
and two Tony Awards during his career. He made his stage debut in 1924 in the
production of Thirty Minutes in a Street. His film debut came in 1930 on The
Great Game. Harrison retired from films in the late 1970, but continued to
act on Broadway until his death from pancreatic cancer. He was knighted
by Queen Elizabeth ll in 1989.

1964

1967

Ronald Reagan and Nancy Davis were married at a nearly secret wedding
ceremony near Los Angeles in the Little Brown Church in the Valley. Nancy
was 30 years old, and Ronald was 41 years old at the time.

The only guests at their late-afternoon wedding were William and Ardis
Holden. William was their best man and Ardis was matron of honor. 
 
After the wedding, Ronald and Nancy spent the first night of their 
honeymoon at the historic Mission Inn in Riverside, California.

From left: Ardis Holden, Ronald and Nancy Reagan, and
William Holden.

 
President and Mrs. Reagan

The U.S. twenty-cent piece was created at the urging of Senator John Percival
from Nevada. Jones represented the silver miners of the Comstock Lode and
was hoping to increase U.S. silver exports.

The twenty cent coin had one of the shortest mintages and lowest circulation
in US coin history, its mintage for general circulation ceased only two years it
began, for both the series and the denomination. It was minted from 1875 to
1878, but was only released for circulation in 1875 and 1876, with only a few
hundred proofs released during the remaining two years, It was too easily
confused with the quarter.

The 1876-CC twenty-cent piece (shown above) 
is a major rarity, with one such piece having
sold for $460,000 at a Heritage Auction held in
April of 2009.