SANDY KOZEL

Sir Thomas Sean Connery is 85 today.

Connery worked as a milkman, a truck driver, and a body builder. The U.S.
Navy discharged him due to his being afflicted with a duodenal ulcer. In July
2000, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II.

1962

This is the first close-up image ever taken of Mars. It shows an area
about 204 miles across by 745 miles.

NASA’S Mariner 4 successfully headed for Mars on Nov. 28. The 574-pound 
spacecraft spent more than seven months traveling to the Red Planet. On
July 14, 1965 Mariner 4 spent just 25 minutes performing observations of
Mars.  In that brief time, it took 21 full pictures that it beamed back to Earth
the next day. The spacecraft’s views would be the first ones beamed back
from another planet.

Mariner 4

 
  Tim Maguire

CBS Laboratories head research scientist Peter Goldmark (below) led a team
to develop a phonograph record that would hold at least 20 minutes per side.

Research began in 1941, was suspended during World War II, and then
resumed in 1945. Columbia Records unveiled the LP at a press conference
in the Waldorf Astoria on June 18, 1948. 

Peter Carl Goldmark (December 2, 1906 – December 7, 1977)

Dr. Goldmark (left) examining the first 33 1/3 LP record developed.

Ed Donahue