ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1981, U.S. President Ronald Reagan was shot and wounded in Washington, DC, by John W. Hinckley Jr. (below). Two
police officers and Press Secretary James Brady were also wounded. 

President Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy wave from hospital
windows.

On this day in 1867, William Seward reached a deal to purchase
Alaska from Russia for $7.2 million.

William Henry Seward
(May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872)

A Treasury Check in the Amount of $7.2 Million for the Purchase of Alaska.

It was on this day in 1986.

James Francis Cagney Jr. (July 17, 1899 – March 30, 1986)

James Cagney 1942 Best Actor.

Eric Patrick Clapton is 73 years old today.

Eric Clapton is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He
is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a
solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. Clapton
has been referred to as one of the most important and influential guitarists of
all time and is ranked second in Rolling Stone magazine’s list of the "100
Greatest Guitarists of All Time" and fourth in Gibson’s "Top 50 Guitarists of
All Time". He was also named number five in Time magazine’s list of "The 10
Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1965, the United States landed about 3,500 Marines
in South Vietnam. They were the first U.S. combat troops to land 
there.
    
    
    
    
    
   

Russia’s "February Revolution" began on this day in 1917 with
rioting and strikes in St. Petersburg. The revolution was called
the "February Revolution" due to Russia’s use of the Old Style
calendar.

Lenin during the Russian Revolution.

On this day in 1852, Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry (below) 
(1794-1858) of the United States Navy arrived in Japan. He had
been sent there by U.S. President Millard Fillmore to induce the
Japanese government to establish diplomatic relations with the
United States.

Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999)

Nicknamed "Joltin’ Joe" and "The Yankee Clipper", Joe DiMaggio
was a baseball center fielder who played his entire 13-year career
in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He is perhaps
best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941),
a record that still stands. DiMaggio was a three-time Most Valuable
Player Award winner and an All-Star in each of his 13 seasons.

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SANDY KOZEL

State troopers and a sheriff’s posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL. on this day in 1965.

On this day in 1936, Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.

Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999)

MIKE GRACIA

The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army
ended on this day in 1836. The Mexican army of three thousand
men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.

The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision on this day in 1857, 
ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni   
(March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564) 

On this day in 1981, Walter Cronkite (above) appeared in the last 
airing of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been
on the job 19 years.

Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009)

Ed McMahon (left) and Johnny Carson (right) began their long association in
their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, running from
1957 to 1962. Then afterwards, McMahon would make his famous thirty-year
mark as Carson’s sidekick, announcer and second banana on NBC‘s highly successfully The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.
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Rob Reiner, actor, writer, director, producer, and activist, is 71 
years old today.

ROSS SIMPSON

Six people were killed and more than a thousand injured when a van exploded in the parking garage beneath the World Trade Center in
New York City on this day in 1993. The bomb had been built by
Islamic extremists.

The Tower Commission rebuked President Reagan on this 
day in 1987 for failing to control his national security staff 
in the wake of the Iran-Contra affair.

Napoleon Bonaparte escaped from the Island of Elba on this day in
1815. He then began his second conquest of France.

Singers who were born on this day:

Antoine Dominique "Fats" Domino Jr.
(February 26, 1928 – October 24, 2017)

John R. Cash (J. R. Cash)  (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)