Toni Tennille and Daryl Dragon.
Daryl Frank Dragon (August 27, 1942 – January 2, 2019)
(AP) – Daryl Dragon, the cap-wearing "Captain" of pop band The Captain
and Tennille, has died.
Dragon passed away on Wednesday of renal failure at a hospice in
Prescott, Arizona, according to spokesman Harlan Boll. Toni Tennille,
Dragon’s ex-wife and longtime musical partner, was by his side.
ED DANAHUE
Approximately 600 people died when fire broke out at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, IL. on this day in 1903. The theater was billed
as being fire proof, much the same way the Titanic was said to be
unsinkable. The fire one of the most horrific events in Chicago’s
history.
Drawing depicts the scene inside the lobby when fire broke out in the
Iroquois Theater.
On this day in 1936, the United Auto Workers union staged its first
sit-down strike, at the Fisher Body Plant in Flint, MI. The Flint Sit–
Down Strike is known as the most important strike in American
history because it changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW)
The UAW was founded as part of the
Congress of Industrial Organizations
(CIO) in the 1930s and grew rapidly
from 1936 to the 1950s.
ROSS SIMPSON
On this day in 1831, Charles Darwin (above) set out on a
voyage to the Pacific aboard the HMS Beagle. Darwin’s
discoveries during the voyage helped him form the basis
of his theories on evolution.
The British naval vessel HMS Beagle.
James Barrie’s play "Peter Pan" premiered in London
on this day in 1904.
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet (May 9, 1860 – June 19, 1937)
Historical newspaper report on “Peter Pan”.
Peter Pan statue by Sir George Frampton in Kensington
Gardens, London.
ROSS SIMPSON
Romania’s hard-line Communist ruler, Nicolae Ceausescu, was overthrown in a popular uprising on this day in 1989.
Foreign protesters campaign against the Ceaucescu regime.
Ceausescu and his wife Elena attempted to flee Romania but were
caught and executed in Targoviste on Christmas Day.
The above photo shows the wall where the two were shot. The site
became part of a museum in 2013.
Richard Colvin Reid, also known as the Shoe Bomber, is a British terrorist who attempted to detonate an explosive device packed
into his shoes while on American Airlines Flight 63 from Paris to
Miami on this day in 2001.
One of Richard Reid’s explosive shoes.
