CAMILLE
BOHANNON
On this day in 1994, the U.S. Figure Skating Association stripped
Tonya Harding of the 1994 national championship and banned her
from the organization for life for an attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan.
Tonya Maxene Price (Harding) will be 49 in November. She was
born in Portland, Oregon.
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 1868, Christopher Latham Sholes received a patent
for an invention that he called a "Type-Writer." It became the first machine to be mass-produced.
Christopher Latham Sholes
(February 14, 1819 – February 17, 1890)
The world’s first typist was Lillian Sholes, daughter
of Christopher Sholes. The machine typed only in
capital letters.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Young Donald Trump in military school.
Donald John Trump is 73 years old today.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The D-Day invasion of Europe took place on the beaches of
Normandy, France on this day in 1944. A total of 400,000 Allied
American, British and Canadian troops were involved.
Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower gives orders to paratroopers on D-Day.
U.S. paratroopers attached to the static line just prior to jumping
during the invasion of Normandy.
ROSS SIMPSON
Clinton (Clint) Eastwood Jr. is 89 today.
Clint Eastwood gained fame as an iconic actor in such classic
Western films as A Fistful of Dollars 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 (1992) and
Million Dollar Baby (2004).
