MIKE GRACIA
It was on this day in 1945.
Jessica Dawn Lynch will be 34 on April 26.
It was on this day in 1984.
Marvin Gaye (Marvin Pentz Gay Jr.) (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984)
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1951
On this day in 1971, Army Lt. William L. Calley Jr. was convicted of murdering at least 22 Vietnamese civilians in the March 16, 1968,
My Lai massacre. Calley ended up spending three years under
house arrest.
On this day in 1973 the last us troops left south Vietnam and a war,
which had lasted more than a decade.
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The RMS Falaba was carrying 13 tons of high explosive cargo
which detonated when she was struck by the U-28‘s torpedo .
On March 28, 1915, the first American citizen is killed in the eight-month-old
European conflict that would become known as the First World War, Leon
Thrasher (below), a 31-year-old mining engineer from Massachusetts,
drowned when a German submarine, the U-28, torpedoed the cargo-
passenger ship RMS Falaba (above), on its way from Liverpool.
Leon Chester Thrasher
SANDY KOZEL
The most serious nuclear accident in United States history took
place at the Three Mile Island plant near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
on this day in 1979.
Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower ( October 14, 1890 – March 28, 1969)
Eisenhower, the 34th president of the United States and one of
the most highly regarded American generals of World War II.
Reba Nell McEntire is 62 years young today.
Reba was in the family singing group "the Singing McEntires"
as a child. Red Steagall discovered her during her performance
of the National Anthem at the National Rodeo in Oklahoma City
when she was a sophomore in college.
Elvis Presley performed his last live show for the next eight years in Pearl
Harbor, Hawaii. The show raised $62,000 for the U.S.S. Arizona memorial
fund. He bought a $100 ticket for himself then bought dozens more to give
to staff and patients at a military hospital.
Elvis Presley helped raise money to build the USS Arizona Memorial.
