Camille Bohannon
Dolly Rebecca Parton is a singer, songwriter, actress, and
philanthropist, known primarily for her decades-long career
in country music. After achieving success as a songwriter
for others, Parton made her album debut in 1967 with Hello,
I’m Dolly. Dolly is 79 years young today.
On May 19, 1943, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill
and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt met to plot the cross-
Channel landing that would become D-Day—May 1, 1944.
That date proved to be a bit premature, as bad weather became
a factor.
MIKE GRACIA
A plane similar to the one in which Patsy Cline died.
A Kansas City resident named Mildred Keith snapped what
is believed to be one of the last photographs of the country music star.
ROSS SIMPSON
James Wilson Marshall
(October 8, 1810 – August 10, 1885)
The caption with this photo at the Library of Congress
claims that this was Marshall in front of the mill in 1850.
On January 24, 1848, gold was discovered at Sutter’s Mill on
the American River in Northern California. After James W.
Marshall, who’d been overseeing the sawmill’s construction,
found the gold nuggets he and his boss, John Sutter,
attempted to keep
the discovery a secret. However, word soon spread and by
1849 thousands of prospectors, who became known as 49ers,
were flocking to Coloma, California, site of Sutter’s Mill, and
the surrounding region, hoping to strike it rich.
James Marshall’s cabin.
John Augustus Sutter
(February 23, 1803 – June 18, 1880)
The spot where Marshall first discovered the gold that
started the California Gold Rush.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (left) dining with President Roosevelt.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill arrived in Washington,
D.C. for a series of meetings with President Franklin Delano
Roosevelt on a unified Anglo-American war strategy and a
future peace.
Now that the United States was directly involved in both the
Pacific and European wars, it was incumbent upon both Great
Britain and America to create and project a unified front.
Toward that end, Churchill and Roosevelt created a combined
general staff to coordinate military strategy against both
Germany and Japan and to draft a future joint invasion of the
Continent.
