ROSS SIMPSON

It was on this day in 1981.

On this day in 1607.

The Battle of Churubusco on this day in 1846.

Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Judkins) is 67 years old today.

Stevie Wonder signed with Motown Records when he was eleven years old
and released the hit song "Fingertips (Pt. 2)" when he was thirteen. His 
album, “Songs in the Key of Life”, was ranked 56 on Rolling Stone magazine’s
list of the top 500 albums of all time.

 
ED DONAHUE

Chernobyl reactor number four after the disaster, showing the
extensive damage to the main reactor hall (image centre) and
turbine building (image lower left)

          
              John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865)

Colonists Landing at what would become Jamestowne occurred
on this day in 1607.

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

ED DANAHUE

                  
                     The launching of Apollo 8.

Jane Fonda (born Jayne Seymour Fonda) is 79 today.

Jane Fonda dropped out of Vassar College to become a fashion model. She is
a two-time Academy Award winner and two time BAFTA Award winner. In 2014,
she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award.

1979

SANDY KOZEL

George Walton Lucas, Jr. is 72 today.

Lucas began his collegiate career studying anthropology at Modesto
Junior College, then transferred to the University of Southern California
School of Cinematic Arts. He attempted to join the U.S. Air Force after
graduation but they wouldn’t accept him because of a number of
speeding tickets on his record, so instead he re-enrolled at USC as
a graduate student in film production.