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STRIKING AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS FIRED

33 Years Ago: Reagan Goes Union-Busting, Fires 11,000 Striking Air Traffic Controllers – Mother ...
President Reagan with US Attorney General William French Smith making a statement to the press regarding the air
traffic controllers strike from the Rose Garden. White
House Photo/Ronald Reagan Library

On August 5, 1981, President Ronald Reagan began firing
11,359 air-traffic controllers striking in violation of his order
for them to return to work. The executive action, regarded
as extreme by many, significantly slowed air travel for
months.

Labor Department Names Ronald Reagan to Hall of Honor - Washington Wire - WSJ

Corey Templeton Photography: November 2011

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A young Tony Bennett - life as a waiter, 1967 wedding and birth of son

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Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto)
(August 3, 1926 – July 21, 2023)

Singer Tony Bennet received many accolades,
including 20
Grammy Awards, a Lifetime
Achievement Award
, and two Primetime
Emmy Awards
. Bennett was named an NEA
Jazz
Master
and a Kennedy Center Honoree
and founded the
Frank Sinatra School of the
Arts
in Astoria, Queens, New York. He sold
more than 50 million records worldwide
and
earned a star on the
Hollywood Walk of Fame.


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Stephen Glenn Martin an actor, comedian, writer, producer,
and musician. He has won five
Grammy Awards, a Primetime
Emmy 
Award, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award
at the
Academy’s 5th Annual
Governors Awards in 2013. He’s
77 today.
      
 

In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list
of the 100 greatest stand-up comics.
    

    

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In 2009, Martin released his first all-music album, The Crow:
New Songs
for the 5-String Banjo
with appearances from
stars such as
Dolly Parton.The album won the Grammy
Award for Best Bluegrass Album
in 2010.


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SIT- DOWN STRIKE BEGAN ON THIS DAY IN 1936

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In one of the first sit-down strikes in the United States, autoworkers occupied
the General Motors Fisher Body Plant Number One in Flint,
Michigan. The autoworkers were striking to win recognition of the United Auto Workers
(UAW) as the only bargaining agent for GM’s workers; they also wanted to
make the company stop sending work to non-union plants and to establish
a fair minimum wage scale, a grievance system and a set of procedures that
would help protect assembly-line workers from injury. In all, the strike lasted
44 days.

Sitdown strikers in Fisher Body


General Motors’ workers celebrate the end of the historic Flint Sit-
Down Strike in 1937. As a result, 100,000 workers gained the right
to union representation.

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Stephen Glenn Martin is 74  years old today.

Actor, comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician. Steve Martin came to
public notice in the 1960s as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy
Hour
, and later as a frequent guest on The Tonight Show. In the 1970s,
Martin performed his offbeat, comedy routines before packed houses on
national tours. Since the 1980s, having branched away from comedy,
Martin has become a successful actor, as well as an author, playwright,
pianist, and banjo player, eventually earning him
Emmy, Grammy, and
American Comedy awards, among other honors.

In 2004, Comedy Central ranked Martin at sixth place in a list of the 100
greatest stand-up comics. He was awarded an
Honorary Academy Award
at the Academy’s 5th Annual
Governors Awards in 2013.

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