(Portland, Oregon) – Will Vinton, the creator of the beloved Claymation characters of the 1980s, like the California Raisins and the Domino’s Pizza Noid, has died. His family announced his death in a Facebook post Thursday afternoon. They said he battled multiple myeloma, a cancer in white blood cells, for 12 years. Vinton won an Oscar for his work and several Emmy Awards and Clio Awards for his studio’swork.
(Fox News) – Juan Romero, the hotel busboy who sprung to the aid of Robert F. Kennedy the day he was gunned down in Los Angeles in 1968, has died of a heart attack.
According to family members and the Los Angeles, Romero passed away in Modesto Monday morning.
Romero was 17 years old on June 6, 1968, when Kennedy, then a presidential hopeful, gave a speech at the Ambassador Hotel. He was the last person to shake Kennedy‘s hand before he was assassinated.
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into orbit around the Earth on this day in 1957. Sputnik was the first manmade satellite to enter space. It fell out of orbit on January 4, 1958.
The rocket that carried Sputnik 1, is shown on the launch pad.
The ‘Great Stone Face’ in 1925.
Joseph Frank "Buster" Keaton (October 4, 1895 – February 1, 1966)
Buster Keaton was best known for his silent films, in which his trademark was physical comedy with a consistent deadpan expression, earning him the nickname "The Great Stone Face". Critic Roger Ebert wrote of Keaton’s "extraordinary period from 1920 to 1929, [when] he worked on a series of films that make him, arguably, the greatest actor–director in the history of the movies". His career declined with a loss of his artistic independence when hired by MGMstudios, a divorce and alcoholism. He recovered in the 1940s, remarried, and revived his career to a degree as an honored comic performer for the rest of his life, earning an Academy Honorary Award.
NEW YORK (AP) — The sale of a prominent Abraham Lincoln scholar’s collection of material pertaining to the nation’s 16th president brought in nearly $300,000 at a New York City auction.
Swann Galleries says nearly 90 percent of Harold Holzer’s collection of hundreds of Lincoln books, artwork and documents was sold recently at auction in Manhattan. The overall sale total of $299,995 topped the presale estimate of $158,000 to $236,000.
An 1860 painting of Lincoln before he grew a beard drew the highest price at $40,000.
Holzer is an award-winning historian best known for his books on Lincoln and the Civil War. He collected hundreds of Lincoln items during the decades he spent researching and writing about him.
Holzer currently serves as director of Hunter College’s Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute.
Harold Holzer
Abraham Lincoln’s Opera Glasses,The Pair He Brought to Ford’s Theatre and Held in His Hands at The Time of His Assassination.
Prosecutors Marcia Clark and Christopher Darden seek life without parole forO.J.
After careful selection, a Jury of eight women and four men was selected and included eight blacks, one white, one Hispanic and two people of mixed race.
In baseball, the "Shot Heard ‘Round the World" was a game-winning home run by New York Giants outfielder and third baseman Bobby Thomson off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca at the Polo Grounds in New York City on October 3, 1951, to win the National League (NL) pennant.
Thomson hits the ‘Shot Heard ‘Round the World’ atThe Polo Grounds in New York City .
Robert (Bobby) Brown Thomson (October 25, 1923 – August 16, 2010)
The children’s television series “Captain Kangaroo” aired weekday mornings on the CBS network from October 3, 1955, until December 8, 1984, making it the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of its day.
Robert James Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)
On this day in 1955, "The Mickey Mouse Club" premiered on ABC-TV and ran until 1959.
Walt Disney (center) is surrounded by members of "The Mickey Mouse Club" cast.
Head Mouseketeer Jimmie Dodd with his Mouse Guitar.
