Earl Boen ( August 8, 1941 – January 5, 2023)

Earl Boen, best known for his roles in the Terminator movies,
passed away Thursday in Hawaii.

Alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger, Boen appeared in three
of the Terminator films. According to Variety, the voice and
character actor was 81 years old and had been diagnosed
with stage four lung cancer in the fall. Boen was an actor
who wasn’t a household name for many, yet he worked
consistently in film and television. Boen retired from on-
camera work in 2003 but nevertheless continued to do voice-
over until he officially retired from all acting work in 2017.

Boen as criminal psychologist Dr. Peter Silberman in The Terminator (1984)

America’s first president George Washington addressed the
assembled Congress with the first State of the Union on this
day in history, Jan. 8, 1780.

Washington’s address took place at Federal Hall in New York
City — and addressed a variety of topics including national
defense, foreign policy, economics and education.

Federal Hall in New York City.

MIKE GREACIA

On January 7, 1999, the impeachment trial of President Bill
Clinton, formally charged with lying under oath and
obstructing justice, began in the Senate. As instructed
in Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution, Supreme Court Chief
Justice William Rehnquist was sworn in to preside (below),
and the senators were sworn in as jurors. Congress had only
attempted to remove a president on one other occasion:
the 1868 impeachment trial of President Andrew Johnson,
who incurred the Republican Party’s wrath after he proposed
a conservative Reconstruction plan.

Bessie Hendricks was the oldest living person in the US and
fourth in the world, according to Gerontology Research Group
before she passed away at Shady Oaks Care Center in Lake
City, Iowa, Tuesday at age 115.

Hendricks was born in that city on Nov. 7, 1907, and she grew
up on a farm. She later went on to raise five children, two of
whom she outlived.

The original presenter of the game show was Chuck Woolery who later worked on shows like Love Connection among
many others. Woolery had help from his lovely assistant
Susan Stafford (above).

Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated
game show in American television, premieres on NBC on
January 6, 1975. Created by television legend Merv Griffin and
hosted since the early 1980s by Pat Sajak and Vanna White,
(below). Wheel is one of the most popular television shows
in the world.