Victims bodies are carried from the wreckage of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston.
On this day in 1966, NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek"
entitled "The Man Trap". The series was canceled on September 2,
1969.
Victims bodies are carried from the wreckage of the 1900 hurricane in Galveston.
On this day in 1966, NBC-TV aired the first episode of "Star Trek"
entitled "The Man Trap". The series was canceled on September 2,
1969.
Victims of Hurricane Katrina stay at the Astrodome stadium where
16,000 evacuees were receiving food and shelter in Houston on
Sept. 4, 2005.
In Johnstown, PA. on this day in 1889, more than 2,200 people died
after the South Fork Dam collapsed.
Adolf Eichmann was hanged in Israel on this day in 1962. He was a Gestapo official and was executed for his actions in Nazi Germany’s
Holocaust.
In North Carolina on this day in 2003, Eric Robert Rudolph was
captured. He had been on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted list for five
years for several bombings including the 1996 Olympic bombing.
Eric Robert Rudolph will be 52 years old on September 19.
Walter "Walt" Whitman (May 31, 1819 – March 26, 1892)
American poet Walt Whitman is best known for his collections
Leaves of Grass and Drum-Taps. His 1865 poem "O Captain!
My Captain!" was written on the occasion of the death of
Abraham Lincoln.
Whitman dropped out of school at the age of eleven and, to
support his family, working as a law office assistant and a
newspaper apprentice.
Clinton Eastwood Jr. is 88 years old today.
Clint Eastwood gained fame as an iconic actor in such classic Western
films as A Fistful of Dollars (1967) and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
(1967) and as Detective Harry Callahan in the Dirty Harry franchise
beginning in 1971. He later became a renowned director, receiving the
Academy Awards for Best Director and Best Picture for his films
Unforgiven (1991) and Million Dollar Baby (2004). He also directed the
critically acclaimed films Mystic River (2003), Gran Torino (2009) and
American Sniper (2014).
Clint Eastwood became a household name after
playing Rowdy Yates on the long-running CBS
Western series Rawhide.
During World War II on this day in 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet
leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans
for Germany’s defeat.
On this day in 1997, a civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable
in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Goldman’s parents were awarded $8.5 million in compensatory
damages.
Ron Goldman’s father Fred, sister Kim, and stepmother Patty are pictured during OJ’s trial.
Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army on this day in 1974.
Patty Hearst (right) and Donald DeFreeze rob a San Francisco bank
on April 15, 1974.
On December 11, 2003, the Massachusetts Senate put forward legislative
language creating civil unions for same-sex couples to the SJC, asking if
it satisfied the court’s requirements. On February 4, 2004, the court replied
that it was unacceptable to allow different-sex couples marriages but same-
sex couples only civil unions, that the distinction between marriage and civil
unions constituted unconstitutional discrimination, even if the rights and obligations attached to each were identical. It called the difference between
the terms marriage and civil union "a considered choice of language that
reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples
to second-class status."
On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage.
A 7.4 earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras on this day in 1976
killed more than 22,000 people.
Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)
The Congressional Gold Medal presented August 15, 1930, to Charles Lindbergh by President Herbert Hoover.
Under the Indian Ocean, a 9.0 magnitude earthquake sent 500-mph
waves across the Indian Ocean and Bay of Bengal on this day in
2004. The tsunami killed at least 283,000 people in a dozen
countries, including Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Sumatra, Thailand
and India.
Six-year-old beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey was found beaten and strangled to death in the basement of her family’s home in Boulder,
CO on this day in 1996.
On this day in 1941, Winston Churchill became the first British prime minister to address a joint meeting of the U.S. Congress.
Tennessee Williams’ play "The Glass Menagerie"
was first performed publicly, at the Civic Theatre
in Chicago, IL. on this day in 1944.
Anthony Ross, Laurette Taylor, Eddie Dowling and Julie Haydon in
the Broadway production of “The Glass Menagerie”.
Harry S. Truman (May 8, 1884 – December 26, 1972)
Truman served as the 33rd President of the United States (1945–1953),
taking the office upon the death of Franklin D. Roosevelt.
On December 5, 1972, Truman was admitted to Kansas City’s Research
Hospital and Medical Center with lung congestion from pneumonia. He
developed multiple organ failure and died at 7:50 am on December 26
at the age of 88.
Although one paper decided early that Dewey won, Truman was victorious, November 4, 1948.