On this day in 1912, the ocean liner Titanic sank in the North Atlantic after hitting an iceberg the evening before. 1,517 people died and more than 700 people survived.
Lifeboat 6 from the Titanic, as it approached the Carpathian on the morning of April 15, 1912.
(Fox News) – Fox Sports NASCAR analyst Darrell Waltrip has announced that he will retire at the end of the network’s broadcast season.
Waltrip was a member of the Fox Sports NASCAR team when it first went on the air in 2001, when he helped call the Daytona 500 that was won by his brother Michael, but is mostly remembered for the last-lap accident that took the life of Dale Earnhardt.
Fox Sports CEO & executive producer Eric Shanks said “Darrell has been the heart and soul of the Fox NASCAR booth since day one, so it’s incredibly bittersweet to know this is his final season.”
Waltrip, a 3-time series champion, said he has been talking about the decision with his family for several months.
Darrell Waltrip (far right) with #17 Tide Chevrolet Monte Carlo & Race Team along with transporter.
On this day in 1965, the United States landed about 3,500 Marines in South Vietnam to defend the U.S. air base at Da Nag. They were the first American combat troops to land in Vietnam. They joined 23,000 American military advisors already in Vietnam.
As American troops fight their first large scale battles against the North Vietnamese Army, college students march against the war in Boston, October 16, 1965.
Joseph Paul DiMaggio (November 25, 1914 – March 8, 1999)
Joe DiMaggio was a baseballcenter fielder who played his entire 13-year career in Major League Baseball for the New York Yankees. He is widely considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time, and is perhaps best known for his 56-game hitting streak (May 15 – July 16, 1941), a record that still stands. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1955 and was voted the sport’s greatest living player in a poll taken during the baseball centennial year of 1969.
DiMaggio, a heavy smoker for much of his adult life, was admitted to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, on October 12, 1998, for lung cancer surgery and remained there for 99 days. He returned to his home in Hollywood, Florida, on January 19, 1999; he died there at age 84 on March 8.
