SANDY KOZEL
Alexander Graham Bell‘s “liquid” transmitter design
permitted the first successful transmission of speech
by Bell to his assistant, Thomas Watson in another
room when he said…“Mr. Watson, come here; I want
you.”
Bell had received a comprehensive telephone patent
just three days before.
Thomas Augustus Watson, Bell’s Assistant.
CARLATA BRADLEY
On February 10, 1962, American spy pilot Francis Gary Powers
was released by the Soviets in exchange for Soviet Colonel
Rudolf Abel, a senior KGB spy who was caught in the United
States five years earlier.
The German bridge where Rudolf Abel, top left, and Gary Powers.
A bird’s-eye view of Germany’s Glienicke Bridge, a crossing
the Soviet Union and the United States used to exchange captured spies during the Cold War.
Barbara Rush, the Golden Globe-winning star of "It Came from
Outer Space" and "Peyton Place" has died.
Later in her career, Rush became a regular performer in the
television series Peyton Place, and appeared in TV movies,
miniseries, and a variety of other programs, including the
soap opera All My Children and family drama 7th Heaven.
1953
1969
1986
ED DANAHUE
March 24, 1989: One of the worst oil spills in U.S. history began
when the supertanker Exxon Valdez, owned and operated by
the Exxon Corporation, ran aground on a reef in Prince William
Sound in southern Alaska. An estimated 11 million gallons of oil eventually spilled into the water.
Attempts to contain the massive spill were unsuccessful, and
wind and currents spread the oil more than 100 miles from its
source, eventually polluting more than 700 miles of coastline.
Hundreds of thousands of birds and animals were adversely
affected by the environmental disaster.
Death of a Salesman is a 1949 stage play written by the
American playwright Arthur Miller. The play premiered
on Broadway in February 10, 1949, running for 742
performances. It is a two-act tragedy set in late 1940s
Brooklyn told through a montage of memories, dreams,
and arguments of the protagonist Willy Loman, a travelling
salesman who is despondent with his life and appears to
be slipping into senility. The play addresses a variety of
themes, such as the American Dream, the anatomy of truth,
and infidelity. It won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize for Drama and
Tony Award for Best Play. It is considered by some critics
to be one of the greatest plays of the 20th century.
Arthur Asher Miller
(October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)
Lee J. Cobb and Mildred Dunnock in the 1949
Tony Award-winning production of "Death of
a Salesman."
