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Elzire Dionne with her quintuplets shortly after their birth.
The Dionne quintuplets (above) were born on this day in 1934 near Callender, Ontario, to Olivia and Elzire Dionne. They were the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
The two surviving sisters, Annette and Cécile.
ROSS SIMPSON
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman)
Legendary singer-songwriter Bob Dylan revolutionized
folk music in the 1960’s with albums such as The
Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan, Highway 61 Revisited, and
Blonde on Blonde and songs such as "The Times
They Are a-Changin’," "Like a Rolling Stone," and
"Positively 4th Street."
Bob Dylan was awarded the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature.
DAVID MELENDY
In Texas City, TX, on this day in 1947, the French ship
Grandcamp, carrying ammonium nitrate fertilizer,
caught fire and blew up. The explosions and resulting
fires killed 576 people.
Rescue workers search for survivors at the Texas City
Terminal Building after disaster.
Sir Charles Spencer Chaplin ( April 16, 1889 – December 25, 1977)
Chaplin was an English comic actor, filmmaker, and composer who rose
to fame in the era of silent film.
The Tramp
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NASA announced the selection of America’s first seven astronauts
on this day in 1959.
John Glenn boards the Friendship 7 capsule to become the first American to orbit Earth.
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On this day in 1868, the United States House of Representatives impeached President Andrew Johnson due to his attempt to
dismiss Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton. The U.S. Senate later acquitted Johnson on May 26, 1868.
Andrew Johnson (December 29, 1808 – July 31, 1875) was the 17th president of the United States, serving from 1865 to 1869. He was
was vice president at the time of the assassination of Abraham
Lincoln.
Edwin McMasters Stanton
(December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869)
The impeachment trial against President Andrew Johnson opens
in the Senate Chambers.
George T. Brown, sergeant at arms of the Senate (left), serving the summons on President Andrew Johnson.
House Impeachment Managers.
