Carol Burnett Hosted The Carol Burnett Show on CBS for a decade after winning Tony, Emmy, and Golden Globe Awards for her work in various genres. Her show is called one of the greatest TV shows of all time by various outlets. Carol Burnett once worked as an usherette and hat- checkgirl while living in a boarding house for women pursuing an careers in acting.
Carol Burnett as the hopeless klutz Agnes Grep in “Cavender Is Coming” Season Three, Episode 101 of “The Twilight Zone”, Original Air Date: May 25, 1962.
The world’s worst nuclear disaster to date occurred at Chernobyl, in Kiev on this day in 1986. Thirty-one people died in the incident and thousands more were exposed to radioactive material.
John Wilkes Booth was killed by the U.S. Federal Cavalry on this day in 1865.
On April 14, 1865, actor John Wilkes Booth (above) assassinated President Abraham Lincoln while he was watching the play ‘Our American Cousin’ at Ford Theater in Washington, D.C.
The British established an American colony at Cape Henry, Virginia on this day in 1607. It was the first permanent English establishment in the Western Hemisphere.
On this day in 1937, German planes attacked Guernica, Spain, during the Spanish Civil War for the Spanish nationalist government. This raid is considered one of the first to be attacks on a civilian population by a modern air force.
Spanish Civil War: the Spanish town of Guernica, after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft.
The state of Vermont enacted same-sex unions on this day in 2000.
It was on this day in 1989.
Lucille Désirée Ball Morton(August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)
Lucille Ball was an actress, comedian, model, film-studio executive, and producer. She was best known as the star of the self-produced sitcoms I Love Lucy (1951-1967) on CBS, The Lucy–Desi Comedy Hour (1957-1960) on CBS, The Lucy Show (1962-1968) CBS, Here’s Lucy (1968-1974) CBS, and Life with Lucyfor only one season in 1986 on ABC.
Harry Laverne Anderson (October 14, 1952 – April 16, 2018)
(Meredith-Fox-News) — Harry Anderson, known for his acting role as Judge Harry Stone on "Night Court" was found dead in his Asheville, North Carolina home Monday morning. Foul play was not suspected by officials.
Anderson’s acting career started with many appearances on "Saturday Night Live" (NBC).This led him to the role of Harry "The Hat" Gittes on multiple seasons of the NBC-TV sitcom "Cheers", and eventually as Judge Harry Stone on "Night Court"for nine seasons on NBC beginning in 1984.
Lee Ermey when he was an actual Drill Instructor Circa 1966.
Ronald Lee Ermey(March 24, 1944 – April 15, 2018)
(Fox News) – R. Lee Ermey, a former Marine Corps drill instructor known to millions of moviegoers as the sadistic Gunnery Sergeant Hartman in Stanley Kubrick’s "Full Metal Jacket” (1987) died Sunday morning.
In a statement posted on Twitter,his longtime manager Bill Rogin said Ermey had died due to complications from pneumonia.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt died in Warm Spring, GA. on this day in 1945. He died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the age of 63. Harry S. Truman (below) became president.
Truman (left) being sworn as the 33rd president of the United States.
Fort Sumter was shelled by Confederacy, starting America’s Civil War on this day in 1861.
Soviet Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin became first man to orbit the Earth on this day in 1961.
On this day in 1981, the space shuttle Columbia blasted off from Cape Canaveral, FL, on its first test flight. It orbits Earth 37 times before landing.
Commander John W. Young, left, and Pilot Robert L. Crippen.
David Letterman retired as host of “The Late Show” on May 20, 2015.
David Michael Letterman is 71 years old today.
David Letterman became a late night TV host during the 1982 debut of NBC’s Late Night with David Letterman, and later hosted The Late Show with David Letterman. In 2014, he announced that he would retire from The Late Show in 2015. He once worked as a weatherman for AM radio station WNTS and anchored on Indianapolis television station WLWI.
