View of anti-Vietnam war protestors around the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool on 21 October 1967
In Washington, D.C. nearly 100,000 people gather to protest the American war effort in Vietnam. More than 50,000 of the protesters marched to the Pentagon to ask for an end to the conflict. The protest was the most dramatic sign of waning U.S. support for President Lyndon Johnson’s war in Vietnam. Polls taken in the summer of 1967 revealed that, for the first time, American support for the war had fallen below 50 percent.
Outside the Pentagon during the 1967 demonstrations.
A scuffle between the military police and protesters outside the Pentagon (above & below).
Sir Elton Hercules John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) is 72.
Rock and roll legend Elton John has sold over 250 million albums in a career that’s spanned over 50 years. He is best known for such hit songs as "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer," "Bennie and the Jets" and "Candle in the Wind."Elton began playing the piano at age three and won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.
Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, AL. on this day in 1965.
King delivering a speech on the steps of the State Capitol.
In New York City on this day in 1911, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
On this day in 1997, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s 85th birthday was celebrated by a skydiving adventure at 9500 feet over Yuma, Arizona.
Aretha Franklin,1960
Aretha Franklin in April 2016.
Singer Aretha Louise Franklin is 76 years young today.
In 2017, Franklin canceled a series of concerts due to health reasons. During an outdoors Detroit show, Franklin told the audience to "keep me in your prayers". In July 2017, Franklin reemerged, appearing to lose more weight before a performance at the Wolf Trap in Virginia.
Sir Elton Hercules John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) is 71 today.
Rock and roll legend Elton John has sold over 250 million albums in a career that’s spanned over 50 years. He is best known for such hit songs as "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer," "Bennie and the Jets" and "Candle in the Wind." He began playing the piano at age three and won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.
On this day in 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., gave his "I Have a Dream" speech at a civil rights rally in Washington, D.C. where more than 200,000 people attended.
It was on this day in 1968.
Emmett Till was a 14-year-old African-American who was lynched in Mississippi after offending a white woman in a grocery store on this day in 1955.
Emmett Louis Till (July 25, 1941 – August 28, 1955)
A divorce decree was issued for Britain’s Prince Charles and Princess Diana on this day in 1996. This made the end of the couples 15-year marriage official.
