Brian Wheeler, known by the nickname "Wheels", was a
radio announcer and host best known for his work as the
the play-by-play radio announcer for the Portland Trail
Blazers of the National Basketball Association from 1998
to 2019.
Wheeler had reportedly been in poor health for some time. He
died today at age 62.
On November 8, 1962, the famous Ford Rotunda stood in
Dearborn, Michigan for the last time: the next day, it is
destroyed in a massive fire. Some 1.5 million people
visited the Rotunda each year, making it the fifth most
popular tourist attraction in the U.S. (behind Niagara Falls,
Smokey Mountain National Park, the Smithsonian, and the
Lincoln Memorial).
Ford had commissioned the Rotunda for the 1933 Century
of Progress exposition in Chicago and had moved it to
Dearborn when the fair ended.
Christmas exhibit at Ford Rotunda, December 1955.
Kennedy, 43, became the youngest man ever to be elected
elected president of the United States, narrowly beating
Republican Vice President Richard Nixon. He was also the
first Catholic to become president.
David N. Dinkins (1927 – 2020) Douglas D. Wilder
On November 7, 1989, in New York, former Manhattan borough
president David Dinkins, a Democrat, was elected New York
City’s first African American mayor, while in Virginia,
Lieutenant Governor Douglas Wilder, also a Democrat,
becomes the first elected African American state governor
in American history.
