John Mahoney was a stage, film, and television actor, best known for playing the blue-collar patriarch, Martin Crane, in the American sitcom Frasier on NBC from 1993 to 2004. He also worked as a voice actor, and performed on Broadway and in Chicago theatre. Mahoney died Sunday while in hospice care in Chicago after a short illness.
On February 8, 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider President Roosevelt’s request.
On this day in 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (pictured below).
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963)
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)
Burroughs was a writer and artist, a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Richard Remick Smothers and Thomas Bolyn Smothers lll.
Henry Louis Aaron is 84 years old today.
Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin’ Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseballright fielder who is currently the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League, from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973, and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball Players" list.
On this day in 1973, President Nixon announced that an accord had been reached to end the Vietnam War.
On this day in 1968, North Korea seized the U.S. Navy ship Pueblo, charging it had intruded into the nation’s territorial waters on a spying mission. The crew was released 11 months later.
Cmdr. Lloyd M. Bucher, captain of the USS Pueblo.
The TV mini-series "Roots," began airing on this day in 1977 on ABC. The show was based on the Alex Haley novel.
Alexander Murray Palmer Haley (August 11, 1921 – February 10, 1992)
Bob Keeshan created and played the title role in the children’s television program Captain Kangaroo, which ran from 1955 to 1984 on CBS, the longest-running nationally broadcast children’s television program of its day.
Robert James "Bob" Keeshan(June 27, 1927 – January 23, 2004)
John William Carson(October 23, 1925 – January 23, 2005)
On this day in 1973, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down state laws that had been restricting abortions during the first six months of pregnancy. The case (Roe vs. Wade) legalized abortion.
On this day in 1973.
On this day in 1998, Theodore Kaczynski pled guilty to federal charges for his role as the Unabomber. He agreed to life in prison without parole.
Queen Victoria of England died on this day in 1901, after reigning for nearly 64 years. Edward VII, her son (below), succeeded her.
The Arthur Miller drama "The Crucible" opened on Broadway on this day in 1953.
On this day in 1968, "Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In", debuted on NBC - TV.
