Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)

Original series on NBC: January 22, 1968 – March 12, 1973
1953
Lyndon Baines Johnson (August 27, 1908 – January 22, 1973)

Original series on NBC: January 22, 1968 – March 12, 1973
1953
Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.)
(January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968)
At age 25, King became the pastor at Dexter Avenue
Baptist Church in Alabama. He received the Nobel
Peace Prize in 1964.

Green Bay Packers quarterback Bart Starr (above) was named the
Most Valuable Player of the first Super Bowl.

Martin Charles Scorsese is74 today.
Scorsese couldn’t play sports as a kid because of his asthma. He
was named to Time magazine’s 2007 list of the 100 Most Influential
People in the World.
In 2006, Martin Scorsese won his first Academy Award for Best
Director for his film The Departed after previously being nominated
five times.
