Stephen McDannell Hillenburg (August 21, 1961 – November 26, 2018)

LOS ANGELES (AP) – "SpongeBob SquarePants" creator Stephen Hillenburg
has died.

Roy Linwood Clark (April 15, 1933 – November 15, 2018)

(Fox News) – Country star Roy Clark, the legendary singer and multi-
instrumentalist with an ear-to-ear smile who headlined the hit TV show
"Hee Haw" for nearly a quarter century, has died.

A rep for the singer told Fox News Clark died on Thursday at his Tulsa,
OK., home due to complications from pneumonia.

Clark was the "Hee Haw" host or co-host for its entire 24-year run, with
Buck Owens his best-known co-host. The country music and comedy
show’s last episode aired in 1993, though reruns continued for a few
years thereafter. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame
in 2009.

The original Hee-Haw was anchored by Bakersfield country legend
Buck Owens on the left, and banjo maestro Roy Clark.

CAMILLE BOHANNON

Union Gen. William T. Sherman and his troops began their "March to
the Sea" during the U.S. Civil War on this day in 1864. They left the
captured city of Atlanta (depicted above). The campaign ended with
the capture of the port of Savanna on December 21.

William Tecumseh Sherman (February 8, 1820 – February 14, 1891)

Union soldiers destroying telegraph poles and railroads, and freeing slaves, who are assisting Union soldiers in making their way to
safety.

GENERAL SHERMAN’S HEADQUARTERS DURING MARCH TO
THE SEA.

General Sherman at the port city of Savannah on the Atlantic coast.

Explorer Zebulon Pike (above) spotted the mountaintop
that became known as Pikes Peak in Colorado.

Pikes Peak, called America’s Mountain for its summit’s role inspiring Katharine Lee Bates to pen “America the Beautiful.”

Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor (Dorlee Deane MacGregor)
(January 12, 1925 – November 13, 2018)

(Fox News) – Katherine MacGregor, who played the antagonist character 
Harriet Oleson on TV’s "Little House on the Prairie," has died. 

Her representative said MacGregor died Tuesday at the Motion Picture
and Television Fund retirement community in Los Angeles.

TIM MAGUIRE

The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling freighter and its crew of 29
vanished during a storm in Lake Superior on this day in 1975. It was
the largest ship to sail on the Great Lakes.

Edmund Fitzgerald in its watery grave.

On this day in 1969, the children’s TV series "Sesame Street" made
its debut on PBS.

Shown above is an early cast and crew photo. (click to enlarge)