SANDY KOZEL

Sam Phillips (left) of Sun  Record Company and Elvis Presley.

Elvis Presley’s first commercial recording session took place in Memphis, TN
on this day in 1954.. He recorded "That’s All Right (Mama)" and "Blue Moon
of Kentucky” at Sun Studios. 

The bikini bathing suit, created by Louis Reard, made its debut
during a fashion show at the Molitor Pool in Paris on this  day
in 1946. Micheline Bernardini (above) wore the two-piece outfit.

Arthur Ashe became the first black man to win a Wimbledon singles
title when he defeated Jimmy Connors on this  day in 1975.  

Arthur Robert Ashe Jr.
(July 10, 1943 – February 6, 1993)

Larry Doby signed a contract with the Cleveland Indians, becoming
the first black player in the American League on this day in 1947.
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
    
   

Lawrence Eugene Doby
(December 13, 1923 – June 18, 2003)

Theodore Samuel Williams
(August 30, 1918 – July 5, 2002)

Williams is regarded as one of the greatest players in
baseball history. Williams retired from playing in 1960
and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in
1966.

MIKE GRACIA

President Nixon and White House chief of staff H.R. Haldeman
discussed a plan to use the CIA to obstruct the FBI’s Watergate investigation.

President Nixon (seated) and H.R. Haldeman.

It was on this day in 1995.

Jonas Edward Salk (October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)

CAMILLE BOHANNON

It was on this day in 1972.

The British took Bunker Hill outside of Boston on this day.

On this day in 1994.

Kate Smith (Kathryn Elizabeth Smith)
(May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986)

Kate Smith was known as The First Lady of Radio, who is remembered 
for her rendition of Irving Berlin‘s "God Bless America". She had
a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades.

ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1954

On this day in 1973.

The Buttonwood Agreement on this day in 1792 marked the
beginning of the New York Stock Exchange.Two dozen stock 
brokers met under a buttonwood tree in Lower Manhattan.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1992.

View of the Dachau moat & fence.

The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated on this day in 1945.

It was on this day in 1974 when President Richard Nixon announced
he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House
tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is 63 years old today.

In 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld their "12th Greatest Stand- 
up Comedian of All Time".

In the 1990s he had to rent a hangar at Santa Monica Airport to store
his vehicle collection, which included forty-six Porsches.