In 1942, the Battle of Midway ended in a decisive victory for
American naval forces over Imperial Japan, marking a turning
point in the Pacific War.

Mount McKinley

On June 7, 1913, Hudson Stuck, an Alaskan missionary, led the
first successful ascent of Denali (formerly known as Mt. McKinley),
the highest point on the North American continent at 20,320 feet.

Stuck, an accomplished amateur mountaineer, was born in London
in 1863. After moving to the United States, in 1905 he became archdeacon of the Episcopal Church in Yukon, Alaska. Stuck
traveled Alaska’s difficult terrain to preach to villagers and
establish schools.

Hudson Stuck
(November 4, 1863 – October 10, 1920)

Stuck (right) and the naturalist John Muir.

William John Neeson was born in Northern Ireland. He has received several awards throughout his career, including nominations for an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, two Tony Awards,
three Golden Globe Awards and the Venice Film Festival‘s Volpi
Cup. In 2020, he was placed 7th on The Irish Times list of Ireland’s
50 Greatest Film Actors. Neeson was appointed Officer of the Order
of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2000.

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On June 7, 1972, the production opened at the Broadhurst
Theatre on Broadway, and on November 21, it moved to the
Royale Theatre there, where it ran until January 27, 1980.

For the five final weeks of the run, the show moved to the
larger Majestic Theatre. By the time it closed on April 13,
1980, it had run 3,388 performances.

J. Wellington Wimpy (above), generally referred to as Wimpy, is
one of the characters in the comic strip Popeye, by E. C. Segar           
and originally called Thimble Theatre, and in the Popeye
cartoons  based upon the strip. Wimpy debuted in the strip
in 1931 and was one of the dominant characters in the
newspaper strip, but when  Popeye was adapted as an
animated cartoon series by Fleischer Studios, Wimpy
became a minor character.                     
    

      
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Elzie Crisler Segar
(1894-1938)