ROSS SIMPSON

MIKE GRACIA

Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.)  (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)

CARLATA BRADLEY

On this day in 1979. Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in
Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage (90 total hostages). The
militants, mostly students, demanded that the U.S. send the
former shah back to Iran to stand trial. Many hostages were
later released, but 52 were held for the next 14 months.

World leaders watch as the coffin of assassinated Israeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin is placed on a stand during funeral
services November 6.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Nazi Germany’s troops entered Paris on this day in 1940. As Paris became occupied loud speakers announced the implementation
of a curfew being imposed for 8 p.m.

A French civilian weeping as German soldiers marched into Paris.

Also on this same day in 1940, the Nazis opened their concentration camp at Auschwitz in German-occupied Poland. 

Trans World Airlines Flight 847 was a flight from Cairo to San Diego with in 
route stops in Athens, Rome, Boston, and Los Angeles. On the morning of 
Friday, June 14, 1985 Flight 847 was hijacked shortly after take off from
Athens. The hijackers were seeking the release of 700 Shi’ite Muslims from
Israeli custody.

United States Navy diver Robert Stethem (below) was murdered, and his
body was thrown onto the tarmac. Dozens of passengers were held hostage
over the next two weeks until released by their captors after some of their
demands were met.

Robert Stethem

On this day in 1777, The Continental Congress in Philadelphia adopted the
"Stars and Stripes" as the national flag of the United States. The Flag
Resolution stated "Resolved: that the flag of the United States be made
of thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars,
white in a blue field, representing a new Constellation." On May 20, 1916,
President Woodrow Wilson (below) officially proclaimed June 14 "Flag Day"
as a commemoration of the "Stars and Stripes."

Thomas Woodrow Wilson
(December 28, 1856 – February 3, 1924)

Donald Trump played football, soccer, and baseball at the New
York Military Academy as a teenager. He later graduated from 
the prestigious Wharton School of Business.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1973, President Nixon announced that an accord had
been reached to end the Vietnam War.

On this day in 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation’s territorial waters on a
spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.

Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of the USS Pueblo.

The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on this day in 1977 on
ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel.

Alexander Murray Palmer Haley
(August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992)

Keeshan played the original Clarabell the Clown 
on the Howdy Doody show on NBC-TV.

Bob Keeshan created and played the title role in the children’s television
program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984 on CBS, the
longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of
its day.

Robert James "Bob" Keeshan (June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)

John William Carson (October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)

Talk show host and comedian, Johnny Carson is best remembered for his
30 years as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1962–1992). 

He received six Emmy Awards, the Television Academy‘s 1980 Governor’s
Award, and a 1985 Peabody Award. He was inducted into the Television
Academy Hall of Fame in 1987. Carson was awarded the Presidential
Medal of Freedom in 1992 and received a Kennedy Center Honor in
1993.