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.
ROSS SIMPSON
In an attempt to lift the state out of the hard times of the Great Depression,
the Nevada state legislature voted to legalize gambling on this day in 1931.
James Orsen "Jim" Bakker turned 77 in January.
Bob Dylan’s debut album released by Columbia on this day in 1962.
