MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 1978, San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor Harvey Milk, a gay-rights activist, were shot to death
inside City Hall by Dan White, a former supervisor.

From left: Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.

Dan White

On this day in 1973, the U.S. Senate voted to confirm Gerald R. Ford 
as vice president after the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew (below).

From left: Gerald Ford and President Richard Nixon.

French surgeons performed the world’s first face transplant on this
day in 2005. The patient, a 38-year-old woman, had been gravely disfigured by her dog, which had been trying to revive her after a
suicide attempt.

Isabelle Dinoire’s first public appearance since her partial face transplant. 

TIM MAGUIRE

The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) began an oil-
embargo against several countries including the U.S. and Great Britain
on this day in 1973. The incident stemmed from Western support of
Israel when Egypt and Syria attacked the nation on October 6, 1973. It
lasted until March of 1974.

American troops defeated British forces in Saratoga, NY. on this day in 1777. It
was the turning point in the American Revolutionary War.

An earthquake measuring 7.1 on the Richter Scale hit the San Francisco Bay
area in California on this day in 1989. The quake caused about 67 deaths,
3,000 injuries, and damages up to $7 billion.

Al Capone was convicted on income tax evasion and was sentenced to 11
years in prison on this day in 1931. He was released in 1939.

Arthur Miller on a trip with his wife,
actress Marilyn Monroe.

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony
Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama
Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived
on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in
1966.

Playwright Edward Franklin Albee III 
(March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016)

TIM MAGUIRE

The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon
and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL on this day in 1960.

On this day in 1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to
end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.

On this day in 1957, the musical "West Side Story" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway. 

George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)

George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most
popular melodies are widely known. Among his best-known works are
the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American
in Paris (1928) as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935).

Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965) 

T.S. Eliot was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social
critic, and "one of the twentieth century’s major poets".  Eliot attracted
widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement.

At age 21.

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017)

(FoxNews) – It was learned today, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and actor
Sam Shepard, died at his Kentucky home Thursday, July 27th.

A family spokesperson said the Oscar-nominated actor and celebrated author
whose plays chronicled the explosive fault lines of family and masculinity in
the American West, died from complications related to Lou Gehrig’s disease,
or amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.

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