MIKE GRACIA

During the U.S. Civil War on this day in 1862, about 14,000 soldier’s 
of the Confederate army surrendered to Gen. Ulysses S. Grant at
Fort Donelson, TN.

The operator of a crematory in Noble, GA, was arrested on this day in 2002, after dozens of corpses were found stacked in storage sheds
and scattered around in the surrounding woods.

Ray Brent Marsh addresses the court during sentencing proceedings
in Walker County Court in LaFayette, Ga.

John Demjanjuk (above) went on trial in Jerusalem on this day in
1987. He was accused of being "Ivan the Terrible", a guard at the Treblinka concentration camp. He was convicted, but the Israeli
Supreme Court overturned the ruling.

Former prison camp guard John Demjanjuk. 

On this day in 1968, America’s first 911 emergency telephone
system was inaugurated in Haleyville, AL.

Alabama Speaker of the House Rankin Fite (right) went to City Hall
and called U.S. Representative Tom Bevill at the local police station
for the first 911 call.  

On this day in 2005, The NHL announced the cancellation
of the 2004-2005 season due to a labor dispute. It was the
first time a major sports league in North America lost an
entire season to a labor dispute.

National Hockey League commissioner Gary Bettman
announced the cancellation of the 2004-05 season.

BRIAN THOMAS

During World War II on this day in 1945, U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet
leader Josef Stalin began a conference at Yalta to outline plans
for Germany’s defeat.

On this day in 1997, a civil jury in California found O.J. Simpson liable 
in the death of his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Goldman’s parents were awarded $8.5 million in compensatory
damages.

Ron Goldman’s father Fred, sister Kim, and stepmother Patty are pictured during OJ’s trial.

Patricia (Patty) Hearst was kidnapped in Berkeley, CA, by the Symbionese Liberation Army on this day in 1974.

Patty Hearst (right) and Donald DeFreeze rob a San Francisco bank
on April 15, 1974.

On December 11, 2003, the Massachusetts Senate put forward legislative
language creating civil unions for same-sex couples to the SJC, asking if
it satisfied the court’s requirements. On February 4, 2004, the court replied
that it was unacceptable to allow different-sex couples marriages but same-
sex couples only civil unions, that the distinction between marriage and civil
unions constituted unconstitutional discrimination, even if the rights and obligations attached to each were identical. It called the difference between
the terms marriage and civil union "a considered choice of language that
reflects a demonstrable assigning of same-sex, largely homosexual, couples
to second-class status."

On May 17, 2004, Massachusetts became the first state to legalize gay marriage.

A 7.4 earthquake in Guatemala and Honduras on this day in 1976 
killed more than 22,000 people.

Charles Augustus Lindbergh (February 4, 1902 – August 26, 1974)

The Congressional Gold Medal presented August 15, 1930, to Charles Lindbergh by President Herbert Hoover.

MIKE GRACIA

Americans on this day in 1789, voted for the electors that would
choose George Washington to be the first United States president.

George Washington accepted the wish of the American people for
him to be their first president. No one campaigned for the office.

United States President Bill Clinton went on trial before the Senate
on this day in 1999. It was only the second time in U.S. history that
an impeached president had gone to trial. Clinton was later
acquitted of perjury and obstruction of justice charges.

President Bill Clinton tells America, “I did not have sexual relations
with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. These allegations are false”.

President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky.

Phnom Penh just after the overthrow by Vietnamese forces.

Crown Prince Akihito and Princess Michiko.

Lead singer of “The Doors,” Jim Morrison being escorted to his trial
for allegedly exposing himself onstage in Miami, FL.

Jim Morrison during the Infamous trial for the Miami Concert
incident. 

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.