(TMZ) – Richard “Rick” Hurst, best known for his role as Deputy
Cletus Hogg on “The Dukes of Hazzard,” has died at age 79.
His first wife, Candace Kaniecki told TMZ he died Thursday
morning and that it was unexpected and the cause of death
is currently unknown.
The Dukes of Hazzard is an action comedy television
series that aired on CBS from 1979 to 1985, with a total
of seven seasons consisting of 147 episodes.
On June 27, 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced he is
ordering U.S. air and naval forces to South Korea to aid the
democratic nation in repulsing an invasion by communist
North Korea.
The United States was undertaking the major military operation,
he explained, to enforce a United Nations resolution calling for
an end to hostilities, and to stem the spread of communism in
Asia.
In addition to ordering U.S. forces to Korea, Truman also deployed
the U.S. 7th Fleet to Formosa (Taiwan) to guard against invasion
by communist China and ordered an acceleration of military aid
to French forces fighting communist guerrillas in Vietnam.
The total U.S. dead in the Korean War
numbers 36,516.
After 59 years, the iconic Route 66 enters the realm of history
on June 27, 1985, when the American Association of State
Highway and Transportation Officials decertified the road
and voted to remove all its highway signs.
Measuring some 2,200 miles in its heyday, Route 66 stretched
from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California, passing
through eight states.
(FOX NEWS) – Archaeology technician Mark Doucette
found a 1983 message in a bottle on Sable Island, a
remote island near Nova Scotia.
Park officials are searching for crew members of the
British supply ship that launched the decades-old time
capsule.
The letter from the supply ship still carried a strong gin
scent after being adrift for 42 years.
(FOX NEWS) – NASA’s Curiosity rover is getting a firsthand look
at a region on Mars previously only seen from orbit that features
a "boxwork" pattern, along with evidence of ancient waterways,
including rivers, lakes and maybe an ocean.
New images and data from the Mars rover have already raised
questions about how the red planet’s surface was changing
billions of years ago.
Scientists are still unable, though, to answer why the planet’s
water eventually dried up and converted the surface into a chilly
desert.
Curiosity rover is in an area called Gale Crater, and evidence has
shown that when it was formed, water was percolating under the
surface.
NASA said the rover had found evidence of groundwater in the
crater when it encountered crisscrossing low ridges, some of
which were only a few inches tall and were described by
geologists as being arranged in a boxwork pattern.
