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.
ROSS SIMPSON
President George W. Bush announced that U.S. forces had launched
a strike against "targets of military opportunity" in Iraq. The attack,
using cruise missiles and precision-guided bombs, were aimed at
Iraqi leaders thought to be near Baghdad.
On this day in 1987, Televangelist Jim Bakker, shown with wife
Tammy Faye, resigned from the PTL due to a scandal involving
model Jessica Hahn (below).
Jim Bakker turned 78 January 2.
Jessica Hahn will be 59 July 7.
The state of Nevada legalized gambling on this day in
1931.
Bob Dylan released his self-titled debut studio album on this day
in 1962. It was produced by Columbia’s legendary talent scout
John H. Hammond, who signed Dylan to the label, the album
features folk standards, plus two original compositions,
"Talkin’ New York" and "Song to Woody".
Bob Dylan (Robert Allen Zimmerman) will be 77 on May 24.
On this day in 1989, the hit reality-based television show COPS premiered
on the Fox television network with it’s distinctive theme song, Inner
Circle’s “Bad Boys,” for the very first time. Created by the producing
team of John Langley and Malcolm Barbour, COPS is one of the longest-
running television programs in the United States. The show places cameras
and production crews in the car with real patrol officers around the country.
SANDY KOZEL
Joseph Raymond McCarthy
During the U.S. Civil War on this day in 1862, the ironclads Monitor
(left) and USS Merrimack (right), which had been rechristened the Virginia, fought to a draw in a five-hour battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
George Burns (Nathan Birnbaum)
(January 20, 1896 – March 9, 1996)
George Burns was one of the few entertainers whose career successfully
spanned vaudeville, radio, film and television. He and his wife, Gracie
Allen, appeared on radio, television, and film as the comedy duo Burns
and Allen.
1977
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.
(From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Rob Reiner, actor, writer, director, producer, and activist, is 71
years old today.
