High School, 1958
William Shatner as Captain Harrison Byers in "The
Judgment of Nuremberg" 1961.
Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek from
1966 to 1994, and won the Saturn Life Career Award in
1980. He also played eponymous police sergeant T.J.
Hooker on ABC/CBS from 1982 to 1986.
The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"
from 1963.
SANDY KOZEL
The Stamp Act was passed on this day in 1765. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17,
1766.
On this day in 1987, a barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left
Islip, NY, to find a place to unload. After being refused by several
states and three countries space was found back in Islip.
On NBC-TV, Tom Brokaw (above) called the barge the“homeless
garbage barge” from Islip, N.Y. On CBS-TV, Dan Rather called the
Mobro barge “the most-watched load of garbage in the memory
of man."
Tara Lipinski, at 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest
women’s world figure skating champion on this day in 1997.
Tara Kristen Lipinski will be 36 June 10.
The Beatles‘ first album, "Please Please Me," was released in the
U.K. on this day in 1963.
Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber) is 70 today.
Legendary showman and musical theatre impresario Andrew
Lloyd Webber is known for "Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera,"
and "Jesus Christ Superstar." He was honored with a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was also inducted into the
Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.
Jan. 18, 1988
SANDY KOZEL
Albert Einstein (March 14, 1879 – April 18, 1955)
German-born theoretical physicist Albert Einstein
developed the theory of relativity, one of the two
pillars of modern physics and is also known for its
influence on the philosophy of science. He received
the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his services to
theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery
of the law of the photoelectric effect".
Quincy Delight Jones Jr. is 85 years old today.
Quincy Jones is an Influential record producer, arranger, and
musician of many film scores, classic albums, and hit songs. He
is perhaps best known for producing multiple albums by the great
Michael Jackson, including 1982’s Thriller and 1987’s Bad. He was
inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2013.
Michael Jackson (left) with “Q” (Quincy Jones).
Sir Michael Caine (Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.)
is 85 years old today.
Across his fifty-year career,Michael Caine has had roles in The
Cider House Rules (1999), and The Italian Job (1969). He also
played Bruce Wayne’s butler Alfred Pennyworth in The Dark
Knight Trilogy (2005 – 2012). He served in the Korean War for
the British Army and was knighted in 2000.
Michael Caine as Alfred in ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ (2012).
Eli Whitney received a patent for his cotton gin on this day in
1794.
On this day in 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard (above)
became the first American to enter space aboard a Russian rocket.
Norman Earl Thagard will turn 75 July 3. He retired in 1996.
Folk singer James Taylor is known for hit songs like "You’ve Got a
Friend" and "Fire and Rain" and who was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame. He has won five Grammy Awards, including
Album of the Year. He was once married to Carly Simon in 1972.
MIKE GRACIA
The thirteen-day siege of the Alamo by Santa Anna and his army
ended on this day in 1836. The Mexican army of three thousand
men defeated the 189 Texas volunteers.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott decision on this day in 1857,
ruled that blacks could not sue in federal court to be citizens.
Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
(March 6, 1475 – February 18, 1564)
On this day in 1981, Walter Cronkite (above) appeared in the last
airing of "CBS Evening News with Walter Cronkite." He had been
on the job 19 years.
Edward Leo Peter McMahon Jr. (March 6, 1923 – June 23, 2009)
Ed McMahon (left) and Johnny Carson (right) began their long association in
their first TV series, the ABC game show Who Do You Trust?, running from
1957 to 1962. Then afterwards, McMahon would make his famous thirty-year
mark as Carson’s sidekick, announcer and second banana on NBC‘s highly successfully The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson from 1962 to 1992.
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Rob Reiner, actor, writer, director, producer, and activist, is 71
years old today.
