The "Telstar" communications satellite (above) sent the first live television broadcast to Europe.
The first public images beamed from New York to the Goonhilly Satellite Earth Station in Cornwall (above) on July 23 should have been of President John F Kennedy, but because of a delay in the United States viewers were first treated to footage of a baseball game which was being shown on US television. The satellite was used for several television demonstrations before going out of service on February 21 the following year.
Control staff at the British Goonhilly Earth Station in Cornwall.
On this day in 1940, the 114-day Battle of Britain began during World War II.
The Telstar Communications satellite was launched on this day in 1962. It relayed TV and telephone signals between Europe and the U.S.
Millard Fillmore(January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874)
Following Zachary Taylor’s death,Millard Fillmore (above) became the 13th President of the United States on this day in 1850. He was the last member of the Whig Party to hold the office of president.
Zachary Taylor(November 24, 1784 – July 9, 1850)
The identity and source of Taylor’s illness are the subject of historical speculation, although it is known that Taylor and several of his cabinet members had come down with similar intestinal ailments on July 4, 1850, while attending holiday celebrations during a fund-raising event.
Shamil Salmanovich Basayev (January 14, 1965 – July 10, 2006)
Basayev was a Chechen militant Islamist and a leader of the Chechen movement.
He was killed by an explosion on July 10, 2006. Controversy still surrounds who was responsible for his death.
Folk singer/songwriter Arlo Davy Guthrieis 71 years older today.
Charles Krauthammer(March 13, 1950 – June 21, 2018)
Charles Krauthammer, a longtime Fox News contributor, Pulitzer Prize winner, Harvard-trained psychiatrist and best-selling author who came to be known as the dean of conservative commentators, died today.
In August 2017, Krauthammer had a cancerous tumor removed from his abdomen. The surgery was thought to have been successful; however, on June 8, 2018, Krauthammer announced that his cancer had returned and that doctors had given him only weeks to live.
While in his first year studying at Harvard Medical School, Charles Krauthammer became permanently paralyzed from the neck down after a diving board accident that severed his spinal cord. After spending 14 months recovering in a hospital, he returned to the medical school, graduating as a psychiatrist.
In Britain on this day in 1967, "Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band" was released by the Beatles. It was released June 2 in the U.S.
Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jeane Mortenson) (June 1, 1926 – August 5, 1962)
Iconic sex symbol Marilyn Monroe starred in the classic comedy Some Like It Hot (1959) and became the most famous woman in the world during the 1950s. Her other memorable films include 1955’s The Seven Year Itch and 1953’s Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. Personal struggles took hold of her late in hercareer and she died of an overdose of barbiturates at the young age of 36. The above photo is from Marilyn Monroe’s final photoshoot, just three weeks before her death.
Cable News Network (CNN) made its debut as the first all-news station on this day in 1980. Ted Turner (above) launched the network.
A statue of Brigham Young at the Mormon Temple in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Helen Adams Keller (Born June 27, 1880, Tuscumbia, Alabama, died June 1, 1968, Westport, Connecticut), She was a author andeducator who was blind and deaf. Her education and training represent an extraordinary accomplishment in the education of persons with these disabilities.
John F. Kennedy and Jackie Kennedy the morning of November 22, 1963.
On this day in 1765, Patrick Henry denounced the Stamp Act before Virginia‘s House of Burgesses.
Today, churchgoers still attend services at St. John’s Episcopal Church in Richmond, Va., where Patrick Henry made his “Give me Liberty, or give me Death” speech.
Legendary vaudeville comedian, radio personality, and actor Bob Hope entertained military personnel in 57 USO tours between 1942 and 1988. He performed hundreds of acts with his special humor per year during the height of his career, hosted The Academy Awards fourteen times, and appeared in over 70 films and shorts.
At a young age, he began performing for voluntary donations on the Luna Park streetcar by singing and making jokes. In 1915 Bob Hope won an amateur talent contest for his Charlie Chaplin impersonation.
In 1997, the U.S. Congress declared Bob Hope the "first and only honorary veteran of the U.S. armed forces."
Comedian Bob Hope and his wife, Dolores are shown in their Palm Springs, Calif., home in May 1998.
