ROSS SIMPSON
Soldiers run for cover during crossfire between pro-Ceaucescu
troops and anti-regime supporters near the Republican square in Bucharest.
Romanian demonstrators sit on top of a tank as it passes in
front of a burning building, December 22, 1989.
TIM MAGUIRE
1993
2005
1971
George Corley Wallace Jr. (August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
1998
1996
MIKE GRACIA
On August 1, 1966, after stabbing his mother and his wife to death
the night before, Charles Whitman,(above) a former Marine, took
rifles and other weapons to the observation deck atop the Main
Building tower at the University of Texas at Austin, then opened
fire indiscriminately on persons on the surrounding campus and
streets. Over the next 96 minutes he shot and killed 16 people
(including one unborn child) and injured 31 others; a final victim
died in 2001 from the lingering effects of his wounds. The incident
ended when a policeman and a civilian reached Whitman and shot
him dead. The attack was the deadliest mass shooting by a lone
gunman in U.S. history until it was surpassed 18 years later by the
San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre.
The University of Texas at Austin Tower, Austin, Texas.
George Wallace was the 45th Governor of Alabama,
a position he occupied for four terms.
June 1963
May 1972
George Corley Wallace Jr.
(August 25, 1919 – September 13, 1998)
In his later years, Wallace suffered from deafness and
Parkinson’s disease. He died of septic shock from a
bacterial infection in Jackson Hospital in Montgomery
on September 13, 1998. He suffered from respiratory
problems in addition to complications from his gunshot
spinal injury.
SANDY KOZEL
It was on this day in 1980.
Irish nationalist launched the Easter Rebellion against British
occupation forces on this day in 1916. They were overtaken
several days later.
During World War I on this day in 1915, the Ottoman Turkish Empire began the mass deportation of Armenians.
A group of men excavates the remains of victims of the Armenian genocide.
Mark Rudd (center) a leader of the student protest at Columbia
University in New York,
On this day in 1968, student militants occupied Hamilton Hall, the main
classroom building, and took a dean hostage for 24 hours. They stormed
into the office of the university’s president, ransacked files and smoked
his cigars. Over the next few days, hundreds of students would seize a
total of five campus buildings.
The protests were part of a year of global tumult that included Vietnam’s
Tet Offensive, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F.
Kennedy and mass demonstrations at the Democratic National Convention
in Chicago.
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Barbara Joan "Barbra" Streisand is 50 years young today.
Singing icon Barbara Streisand has sold over 245 million records
and won 10 Grammy Awards, including an Album of the Year Award
for The Barbra Streisand Album in 1963. She has also had success
as an actress, receiving an Academy Award for Best Actress for her
role in the 1968 musical film Funny Girl.
