SANDY KOZEL
State troopers and a sheriff’s posse broke up a march by civil rights demonstrators in Selma, AL. on this day in 1965.
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On this day in 1936, Hitler sent German troops into the Rhineland in violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles.
Stanley Kubrick (July 26, 1928 – March 7, 1999)
ROSS SIMPSON
George C. Wallace was sworn in as governor of Alabama on this day
in 1963.
On this day in 1784, the American Continental ratified a peace treaty
with England ending the Revolutionary War.
On this day in 1943, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt flew from Miami, FL, to French Morocco where he met with British Prime
Minister Winston Churchill to discuss World War II. Roosevelt
became the first U.S. President to fly in an airplane while in office.
President Franklin D Roosevelt (seated on the left) and Passengers
during First Official Presidential Airplane Flight.
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio were married on this day in
1954. The marriage only lasted nine months.
NBC-TV’s "Today" show premiered on this day in 1952 with host
Dave Garroway.
Today‘s dominance was virtually unchallenged by the other networks until the
late 1980s, when it was overtaken by ABC‘s Good Morning America.
David Cunningham "Dave" Garroway (July 13, 1913 – July 21, 1982)
TIM MAGUIRE
London received its initial rain of bombs from Nazi Germany during World War II on this day in 1940.
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The military dictator and President of the Democratic
Republic of the Congo died on this day in 1997.
The Panama Canal treaties were signed by U.S. President Carter
(left) and General Omar Torrijos Herrera on this day in 1977. The
treaties called for the U.S. to turn over control of the canal’s
waterway to Panama in the year 2000.
ESPN, the Entertainment and Sports Programming Network,
made its debut on cable TV on this day in 1979.
The National Professional Football Hall of Fame was dedicated
in Canton, OH on this day in 1963.
Buddy Holly (Charles Hardin Holley)
(September 7, 1936 – February 3, 1959)
Buddy Holly was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist
who along The Crickets pioneered rock with "That’ll
Be the Day," which topped the Billboard Best Sellers.
Buddy won a talent contest when he was five years old
for singing "Have You Ever Gone Sailing (Down the River
of Memories)."
CAMILLE BOHANNON
British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, in a radio broadcast, announced that Britain and France had declared war on Nazi
Germany. Germany had invaded Poland on September 1.
The Revolutionary War between the U.S. and Great Britain ended
with the Treaty of Paris on this day in 1783.
Treaty of Paris original document.
End of the hostage crisis on this day in 2004.
The NASA spacecraft Viking 2 landed on Mars on this day in 1976. The unmanned spacecraft took the first close-up, color photos of the
planet’s surface.
Vincent Thomas Lombardi
(June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970)
Vince Lombardi died in Washington, D.C. of cancer on
Thursday morning, September 3, 1970. He was 57.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
The battle began on this day in 1861 at Manassas Junction, VA.
and the Confederates won the battle.
The "Monkey Trial" ended on this day in 1925 in Dayton, TN. John T. Scopes
was convicted and fined $100 for violating the state prohibition on teaching Darwin’s theory of evolution. The conviction was later overturned on a legal technicality because the judge had set the fine instead of the jury.
John T. Scopes
That first war ended on this day in 1954.
Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961)
Ernest Hemingway was an American modernist author whose most
famous works include The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms,
and For Whom the Bell Tolls. A Nobel Prize-winning author associated
with the "Lost Generation," Hemingway became known for both his
adventurous lifestyle and his eloquently sparse literary aesthetic.
