CAMILLE
BOHANNON
The Battle of Midway began on this day in 1942. It was the first major victory for America over Japan and a turning point in the Pacific
during World War II. The battle ended on June 6 and prevented
further Japanese expansion in the Pacific.
CAMILLE
BOHANNON
Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson)
(June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)
Actress, model, and singer Marilyn Monroe was famous for
playing comic "blonde bombshell" characters. She became
one of the most popular sex symbols of the 1950s and early
1960s. Although she was a top-billed actress for only one
decade, her films grossed $200 million (equivalent to $2
billion in 2018) by the time of her unexpected death in
1962. More than half a century later, she continues to be
a major popular culture icon.
Marilyn Monroe poses over the updraft of a New York
subway grate while filming "The Seven Year Itch" in
New York in 1954. (AP)
ROSS SIMPSON
In New York on this day in 2002, a ceremony was held to officially
mark the end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
ROSS SIMPSON
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized
folk music in the 1960’s with albums such as The
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times
They Are a-Changin’," "Like a Rolling Stone," and
"Positively 4th Street."
Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Doris Day (Doris Mary Ann Kappelhoff) (April 3, 1922 – May 13, 2019)
According to the Doris Day Animal Foundation, she recently
contracted a serious case of pneumonia which resulted in
her death early Monday at her Carmel Valley home.
