CAMILLE BOHANNON
The Golden Gate Bridge, which spans the San Francisco
Bay and connects the city to its northern suburbs, is one
of the world’s most famous structures. Its construction
78 years ago over a deep, treacherous channel was a
marvel of modern engineering.
In this photo, pedestrians walk across the bridge on May
27, 1937 — one day before it opened to vehicular traffic.
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Elvis Presley swears in to the U.S. Army, March 24, 1958. (Associated Press photo/Public Domain)
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ROSS SIMPSON
It was on this day in 1967.
On this day in 1999, NATO suspended air strikes in Yugoslavia after Slobodan Milosevic agreed to withdraw his forces from Kosovo.
Alcoholic Anonymous was founded by William G. Wilson and Dr.
Robert Smith on this day in 1935.
Dr. Robert Smith (Left) and William G. Wilson.
Judy Garland from the Wizard of Oz, 1939.
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm) (June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
Movie icon Judy Garland played Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz and became the youngest winner of the Cecil B. DeMille Award for lifetime achievement at the
age of 39. She was nominated for Academy Awards for her roles in the films
A Star is Born (1954) and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961). Judy Garland began
performing vaudeville at the age of two and a half. She received a Grammy
Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously in 1997.
Ray Charles Robinson (September 23, 1930 – June 10, 2004)
Among friends and fellow musicians singer Ray Charles preferred being
called "Brother Ray". He was often referred to as "The Genius". Charles
was blind from the age of seven. He pioneered the soul music genre
during the 1950s by combining blues, rhythm and blues, and gospel
styles into the music he recorded for Atlantic Records.
Ray Charles died at his home in Beverly Hills, California of complications
resulting from acute liver disease. He was 73.
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NATO launched air strikes against Yugoslavia (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo and Vojvodina) on this day in 1999. The attacks marked the
first time in its 50-year history that NATO attacked a sovereign
country. The bombings were in response to Serbia’s refusal to
sign a peace treaty with ethnic Albanians who were seeking independence for the province of Kosovo.
On this day in 1989, the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of
oil in Alaska’s Prince William Sound after it ran aground.
Elvis Presley was sworn in as a private in the U.S. Army on this
day in 1958.
Elvis Presley receives a haircut on his first full day
as a member of the US Army.
On this day in 1955, Tennessee Williams’ play
"Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" debuted on Broadway.
Ben Gazzara (left) and Burl Ives.
Barbara Bel Geddes
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III
(March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983)
Denzel Washington and Halle Berry with their Academy Awards in
2002.
Denzel Washington and Halle Berry famously became the first black actors to
win both lead acting awards in the same year. That same night, Sidney Poitier,
the first black man to win an Oscar, received an honorary award.
