The United States Congress established Yellowstone National Park in 1872
and President Ulysses S. Grant signed the Yellowstone National Park
Protection Act into law. Thus the world’s first national park was born.
Ulysses S. Grant (April 27, 1822 – July 23, 1885)
MIKE GRACIA
The 22-month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was kidnapped
on this day in 1932. The child was found dead in May.
Bruno Richard Hauptmann was convicted and executed
for the kidnapping and murder of baby Lindbergh.
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed was captured by CIA and Pakistani
agents near Islamabad on this day in 2003. He was the suspected
mastermind behind the terrorist attacks on the United States on September 11, 2001 (below).
On this day in 1981, Bobby Sands (above) who was a member
of the Provisional Irish Republican Army began a hunger strike
while imprisoned at HM Prison Maze after being sentenced for
firearms possession. He eventually died May 5, 1981 at age 27.
The Peace Corps was established on this day in 1961 by President Kennedy (pictured signing the act).
Ronald William Howard is 64 years old today.
Director, producer, and actor Ron Howard first became known as Andy
Griffith‘s son Opie on The Andy Griffith Show on CBS from 1960-1968
and also played teenager Richie Cunningham on Happy Days on ABC
from 1974-1984. His 2001 film A Beautiful Mind received the Academy
Award for Best Picture and earned Howard the Academy Award for
Best Director. He also directed the 1995 film Apollo 13.
GOT MILK AD (1997)
ROSS SIMPSON
The Reichstag, Germany’s parliament building in Berlin, was set
afire on this day in 1933. The Nazis accused Communist for the
fire.
Firemen surveying the ruins following the Reichstag fire.
President George H.W. Bush announced live on television on this
day in 1991, "Kuwait is liberated."
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Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (27 February 1932 – 23 March 2011)
Better known as Liz Taylor, she was a glamorous movie actress who
starred in numerous films during Hollywood’s Golden Age. She was
in 11 films with Richard Burton, including Who’s Afraid of Virginia
Woolf? (1966). She made her motion picture debut at the age of nine
in Universal’s There’s One Born Every Minute (1942).
Fred McFeely Rogers (March 20, 1928 – February 27, 2003)
Fred Rogers was a popular television personality, musician, puppeteer,
writer, and producer, as well as a Presbyterian minister. He was famous
for creating, hosting, and composing the theme music for the educational preschool television series Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (1968–2001),
which featured his kind-hearted, grandfatherly personality, and the
directness to his young audiences.
According to the Reagan Library, this photograph of President
Ronald Reagan shaking hands with a young Donald Trump
was taken at the White House on November 3, 1987 during a
reception for members of the “Friends of Art and Preservation
in Embassies” Foundation held in the Blue Room.
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)
