Susan Alexandra Weaver

Sigourney Weaver played the resourceful action hero Ellen Ripley in Alien
(1979), Aliens (1986) for which she was nominated for the Academy Award
for Best Actress, Alien 3 (1992), and Alien Resurrection (1997). She also
played Dana Barrett in Ghostbusters (1984) and Ghostbusters II (1989) 
and Dr. Grace Augustine in Avatar (2009).
 

Sigourney Weaver in Alien.

MIKE  GRACIA

On this day in 20001, the U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan
in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act
was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the
U.S. on September 11, 2001. 

On this day in 1985.

On this day in 1991.

Clarence Thomas turned 69 on June  23.

It was on this day in 1998.

The musical "Cats" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on this day
in 1982. In 1997 the show became the longest running show in
Broadway history.

John J Mellencamp  (John Cougar Mellencamp) is 66 today.

Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp is best known for his #1 hit song,
"Jack & Diane." He has been nominated for more than ten Grammy
Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Mahatma (Mohandas) K Gandhi was born on this day
in 1869.

On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson suffered a stroke
that left him partially paralyzed.

Thurgood Marshall was sworn in in this day in 1967. He was the first African-American member of the U.S. Supreme Court.

On this day in 1985.

"Peanuts," the comic strip created by Charles M. Schulz, was published for
the first time in seven newspapers on this day in 1950.

Charles Monroe Schulz  (November 26, 1922 – February 12, 2000)

Sting (Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner) is 66 years old today.

British born Sting is a multi-instrumentalist and singer for The Police, known
for such hits as "Don’t Stand So Close to Me" and "Message in a Bottle." He
also became a successful solo artist, releasing his first album The Dream of
the Blue Turtles in 1985, followed by ten more albums the next two decades.

 
The Catskill Resort Hotel pool before.
    
   

How the Catskill Resort Hotel pool looks today. (AARP NEWSLETTER)
    
    
   

In its glory days, Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel outside Liberty, N.Y., was a
glamorous vacation scene frequented by celebrities. Eddie Fisher and Elizabeth
Taylor got married there, and it was the inspiration for the fictional resort in Dirty
Dancing, the iconic 1987 movie starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey.

Now the owner of the non-operational hotel has applied for state funds to clean
up the acres of contaminated ruins and recreate a grand resort on the grounds,
according to the New York Times.

For the new Grossinger’s, developer Louis Cappelli of Westchester, N.Y. told
the Times he imagines a golf course, yoga classes and chalets — not the
bungalows where Baby and Johnny danced in Dirty Dancing and had the
time of their lives.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

On this day in 1938.

The space shuttle Discovery took off from Cape Canaveral in Florida 
on this day in 1988. It was the first manned space flight since the Challenger disaster.

Pope John l was found dead in his Vatican apartment a little over a month in office on this day in 1978. The 65-year-old pontiff, born
Albino Lusicni, had apparently died of a heart attack.

Game one on this day in 1954.

Jerry Lee Lewis is 83 today.

Singer-songwriter, and pianist Jerry Lee Lewis, often known by his nickname,
The Killer, has been described as "rock & roll’s first great wild man. He was
expelled from Southwest Bible Institute for the called “devil’s music”.

Jerry Lee Lewis has been the last living member of the Sun Records Million
Dollar Quartet.