MIKE GRACIA

It was on this day in 2005.

John Wilkes Booth

Public testimony at the Iran-Contra hearing began on this day in
1987 with National Security Council staff member Oliver North
testifying before a Congressional committee.  He was ultimately
indicted on 16 felony counts.

It was on this day in 1981, President Ronald Reagan announced
he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O’Connor to
become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.

Sandra Day O’Connor turned 81 in March.

Ringo Starr (Richard Starkey) is 77 years old today.

Ringo Starr was asked to join The Beatles after their drummer
Pete Best had a falling out with the band.

ROSS SIMPSON

The ‘Last Column’ is removed from Ground Zero.

On this day in 2002 In New York, a ceremony was held to officially mark the
end of the clean up from the World Trade Center terrorist attacks on Sept. 
11, 2001.

On this day in 1431, Joan of Arc was burned at the stake in Rouen, France, at the age of 19.

Bronze statue of Joan of Arc on Rue de Rivoli in Paris.

Benjamin David "Benny" Goodman
(May 30, 1909 – June 13, 1986)

Benny Goodman was a jazz and swing musician, clarinetist
and bandleader, known as the "King of Swing". He led the
first American jazz band to play in the Soviet Union on this
day in 1962.

MIKE GRACIA

On this day in 2003

Yoko Ono and John Lennon married in Gibraltar, in a three minute ceremony on this day in 1969. 

Novel first published on this day in 1852.

TIM MAGUIRE

Grace Patricia Kelly (November 12, 1929 – September 14, 1982)

ED DANAHUE

John R. "Johnny" Cash (February 26, 1932 – September 12, 2003)