MIKE GRACIA

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

1957

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1968, "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS-TV.

Harry Reasoner (left) and Mike Wallace co-host the first broadcast.

On this day in 1956, The Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets Field (above).

Ebbets Field – last game between Brooklyn Dodgers & Giants – Willie Mays is shown coming to bat. The Dodgers won.

MIKE GRACIA

President Andrew Johnson was acquitted during the Senate impeachment, by one vote on this day in 1868.

     
An illistration of President Johnson’s impeachment trial in the
Senate, published in Harper’s Weekly.

The first Academy Awards were held in Hollywood on this day in
1929.

William C Demille, President Of The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts
And Sciences hands an Oscar to Mary Pickford (with Warner Baxter
and Hans Kraly looking on) at the first ceremony.

Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982)

Henry Fonda was a film and stage actor with a career spanning
five decades. Fonda made his mark early as a Broadway actor.

Henry Fonda and Katharine Hepburn in their
Oscar-winning roles in "On Golden Pond"
(1981).

Singer, dancer, actor and comedian Sammy Davis, JR. 
was noted for his impressions of actors, musicians and
other celebrities. At the age of three, Davis began his
career in vaudeville with his father, Sammy Davis Sr.
and the Will Mastin Trio.

James Maury Henson  (September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990)

Jim Henson was a puppeteer, artist, cartoonist, inventor, screenwriter,
and filmmaker who achieved international fame as the creator of the
Muppets. He died of toxic shock syndrome at age 53.

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.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Patty Hearst got prison time on this day in 1976.

Author F. Scott Fitzgerald was born on this day in 1896.

His other novels include This Side of Paradise, The Beautiful and Damned,
and Tender Is the Night. He was so intelligent as a child that he was given
permission to attend only a half-day of school, and he could decide which
half.

Mike Wallace (left) and Harry Reasoner.

The television series "60 Minutes" premiered on CBS
on this day in 1968.

On this day in 1957, the Brooklyn Dodgers played their last game at Ebbets
Field.

Jane and Jim Henson.

Jim Henson and friends.

James Maury "Jim" Henson
(September 24, 1936 – May 16, 1990)

Jim Henson was the beloved puppeteer and creator of 
The Muppets, Sesame Street, and Fraggle Rock. He
created the iconic puppets Kermit the Frog, Oscar the
Grouch, and Bert and Ernie. He was honored on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame as both himself and Kermit
the Frog.