ROSS SIMPSON

President George W. Bush, wearing a flight suit after landing on
the flight deck of the Abraham Lincoln in an S3–Viking aircraft.

President George W. Bush declares the end of major combat in
Iraq on this day in 2003.

Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977)

The Empire State Building in New York was dedicated and
opened on this day in 1931. It was 102 stories tall and was
the tallest building in the world at the time.

"Citizen Kane," directed and starring Orson Welles, premiered
in New York on this day in 1941.

Orson Welles arriving at the premiere of “Citizen Kane”.

ROSS SIMPSON

On this day in 1945

Nazi leader Adolf Hitler dinning with mistress Eva Braun.

The country’s first federal capitol.

SANDY KOZEL

On this day in 1992.

View of the Dachau moat & fence.

The Nazi death camp, Dachau, was liberated on this day in 1945.

It was on this day in 1974 when President Richard Nixon announced
he was releasing edited transcripts of secretly made White House
tape recordings related to the Watergate scandal.

Jerome Allen "Jerry" Seinfeld is 63 years old today.

In 2005, Comedy Central named Seinfeld their "12th Greatest Stand- 
up Comedian of All Time".

In the 1990s he had to rent a hangar at Santa Monica Airport to store
his vehicle collection, which included forty-six Porsches.

 
ED DONAHUE

Chernobyl reactor number four after the disaster, showing the
extensive damage to the main reactor hall (image centre) and
turbine building (image lower left)

          
              John Wilkes Booth (May 10, 1838 – April 26, 1865)

Colonists Landing at what would become Jamestowne occurred
on this day in 1607.

Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989)

SANDY KOZEL

Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer known for his pioneering
work on long-distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi’s
law and a radio telegraph system. He is often credited as the inventor of radio.

Soviet and American forces meet at the Elbe River near Torgau,
Germany. World War II in Europe is almost over.

The Hubble Telescope being deployed from space shuttle Discovery
on this day in 1990.

The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed into low Earth orbit 
and remains in operation to this day.