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.
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.
John Adam Belushi (January 24, 1949 – March 5, 1982)
Comedian, actor, and musician John Belushi was one of the seven original cast members of the NBC sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL) that premiered October 11, 1975.