Promotion still, ABC television sitcom Laverne & Shirley (1976–1983)
Carole Penny Marshall (October 15, 1943 – December 17, 2018)
(Fox News) – Penny Marshall, who starred in "Laverne & Shirley," has
died. A publicist for Marshall told Fox News that the actress died
"peacefully at her Hollywood Hills home" from complications due to
diabetes on Monday.
JOHN BELMONT
In Cape Town, South Africa on this day in 1967, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard (above), performed the first human
heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18
days.
Louis Waskhansky after undergoing the world’s first successful heart transplant.
On this day in 1964 the Free Speech Movement on the Berkeley
campus of the University of California culminated with the arrest
of some 800 student demonstrators.
Mario Savio, leader of the Berkeley Free Speech Movement, speaks
to assembled students on the campus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Effigy of Governor Pat Brown hanging outside an off-
campus student resident hall after the December 3rd
arrests.
John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne is 70 years old today.
Rock ‘n’ roll performer “Ozzy” Osbourne gained fame as the lead singer
of Black Sabbath and became known as the Prince of Darkness and the
Godfather of Heavy Metal.
ED DANAHUE
On this day in 1954, the U.S. Senate voted to condemn Sen. Joseph
R. McCarthy for what it called "conduct that tends to bring the
Senate into dishonor and disrepute." The censure was related to McCarthy’s controversial investigation of suspected communists in
the U.S. government, military and civilian society.
A self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction was demonstrated by Dr.
Enrico Fermi and his staff at the University of Chicago on this day
in 1942. The above illustration shows scientists watching the first
sustained fission chain reaction.
Enrico Fermi (1901–1954)
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone (right)
and City Supervisor Harvey Milk (left), a gay-rights activist, were
shot to death inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.
Daniel James White.
San Francisco got its first female mayor as City
Supervisor Dianne Feinstein (above) was named
to replace the assassinated George Moscone.
On this day in 1973, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R.
Ford (left) as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T.
Agnew (below).
Spiro Agnew resigns the vice presidency
amid accusations of income tax evasion.
Vice President Gerald R. Ford (left) and President Richard M. Nixon.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a massive
stroke that left him partially paralyzed.
Final report on President Wilson’s condition written by Dr. Dercum.
It was on this day in 1985.
"Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, appeared
for the first time in seven newspapers on this day in 1950.
Charles Monroe Schulz (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)
Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 67 years old today.
Multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Police, Sting is known for such
hits as "Don’t Stand So Close to Me" and "Message in a Bottle." He also
became a successful solo artist, releasing his first album The Dream of
the Blue Turtles in 1985, followed by ten more albums within the next
two decades.
Sting (left) with other members of The Police.
