CARLATA BRADLEY
Pat Sajak ( Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 76 years old today.
Sajak is a television personality and game show host. He is
best known as the host of the American television game
show Wheel of Fortune, a position he has held since 1981.
Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp (March 19, 1848 – January 13, 1929)
Nearly 50 years after the famous gunfight at the O.K. Corral, Wyatt
Earp dies quietly in Los Angeles at the age of 80.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
It was the Earp brothers against the Clanton-McLaury gang
in a legendary shootout at the O.K. Corral in Tombstone,
Arizona. It was a 30-second gunfight that is generally
regarded as the most famous shootout in the history
of the American Wild West.
Tombstone in 1881
CARLATA BRADLEY
On this day in 2001, President George W. Bush signs the renewal of
the U.S. Patriot Act after a long battle with Congress.
Pat Sajak (Patrick Leonard Sajdak) is 73 today.
Sajak is a former weatherman and talk show host, best
known as the host of the syndicated television game
show Wheel of Fortune.
“Wheel of Fortune” hosts Pat Sajak and Vanna White.
Wild Bill Hickok threatens the friends of Davis Tutt after defeating
Tutt in a duel.
In what may be the first true western showdown on this day in 1865, Wild Bill Hickok shoots Dave Tutt dead in the market square of Springfield, Missouri.
Hollywood movies and dime novels notwithstanding, the classic western showdown–also called a walkdown–happened only rarely in the American
West. Rather than coolly confronting each other on a dusty street in a deadly
game of quick draw, most men began shooting at each other in drunken
brawls or spontaneous arguments. Ambushes and cowardly attacks were
far more common than noble showdowns.
The first story of the shootout was detailed in an article in Harper’s Magazine
in 1867, making Hickok a household name and folk hero.
James Butler (Wild Bill) Hickok (1837-1876)
Davis “Dave” Tutt was born during
1836 in Yellville, Arkansas.
