MIKE GRACIA
Art Carney as a young man in his school yearbook!
The sitcom originally aired from 1955 to 1956 on CBS.
Art Carney as a department-store Santa Clause
in The Twilight Zone TV episode “The Night of
the Meek”(1960).
Carney died at a care home in Chester, Connecticut, on November 9, 2003, five days after his 85th birthday.
On June 12, 1987, in one of his most famous Cold War
speeches, President Ronald Reagan challenged Soviet
Leader Mikhail Gorbachev to “tear down” the Berlin Wall,
a symbol of the repressive Communist era in a divided
Germany.
SANDY KOZEL
On this day in 1961, Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt
the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.
SANDY KOZEL
Berlin was once divided by a barbed wire fence to halt the flight of refugees. Two days later on this day in 1961, work on the Berlin Wall began.
Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (August 13, 1926 – November 25, 2016)
Infamous Cuban dictator and revolutionary Fidel Castro came to power in
1959 and served as his country’s Prime Minister until 1976 and President
from 1976 to 2008.
Present day Mexico City was captured by Spanish conqueror Hernando Cortez from the Aztec Indians on this day in 1521.
Sir Alfred Joseph Hitchcock
(August 13, 1899 – April 29, 1980)
Iconic director Alfred Hitchcock is known as The
Master of Suspense for his classic films such as
Psycho (1960), Rear Window (1954), Dial M for
Murder (1954), and The Birds (1963). One of the
most influential filmmakers of all time, he directed
over 50 feature films, and his work continues to
circulate through film circles and classic movie
channels.
It was on this day in 1995.
Mickey Charles Mantle
(October 20, 1931 – August 13, 1995)
Mantle played his entire Major League Baseball career with the New
York Yankees as a center fielder and first baseman, from 1951
through 1968. He was nicknamed The Commerce Comet and The
Mick.
