On May 10, 1970, 40 seconds into overtime of Game 4 of the
Stanley Cup final, Boston Bruins star Bobby Orr slips the
winning goal past St. Louis Blues goaltender Glenn Hall.

After scoring, Orr leaps into the air before landing flat and
sliding into his teammates’ embrace. The famous celebration
is immortalized by Boston Record-American photographer
Ray Lussier, whose image of the soaring Orr is one of the
most famous sports photographs of all time.

In Boston sports lore, Orr’s game-winner, which made the
Bruins NHL champions, is known as "The Goal."

Robert Gordon Orr (77)

Raymond Roger Lussier (1931 – 2003)

  
SANDY KOZEL

Irish singer Bono (Paul David Hewson) is 65 years old today.

Ellen Ochoa is an American engineer, former astronaut and
former director of the Johnson Space Center. In 1993, Ochoa
became the first Latina woman to go to space when she served
on a nine-day mission aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.

Ochoa became director of the center upon the retirement of
the previous director, Michael Coats, on December 31, 2012.

On May 9, 1914, President Woodrow Wilson (above) issued a
presidential proclamation that officially established the first
national Mother’s Day holiday to celebrate America’s mothers.

The idea for a “Mother’s Day” is credited by some to Julia Ward
Howe (1872) and by others to Anna Jarvis (1907), who both
suggested a holiday dedicated to a day of peace.

In his first Mother’s Day proclamation, Wilson stated that the
holiday offered a chance to “[publicly express] our love and
reverence for the mothers of our country.”

J. C. Leyendecker painted ‘Pot of Hyacinths’ to be used
on the cover of the Saturday Evening Post’s May 30, 1914
issue.

On May 8, 1963, with the American release of Dr. No, North
American moviegoers get their first look down the barrel
of a gun—at the super-spy James Bond (codename: 007),         
the immortal character created by Ian Fleming in his now-
famous series of novels and portrayed onscreen by the
relatively unknown Scottish actor Sean Connery.

Sean Connery and Ursula Andress.

Joseph Wiseman as Dr. No.

Sir Thomas Sean Connery (25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020)