The Passion of the Christ, Mel Gibson’s controversial film about
the last 44 hours of Jesus of Nazareth’s life, opened in theaters
across the U.S.on February 25, 2004. Not coincidentally, the day
was Ash Wednesday, the start of the Catholic season of Lent.

Star Jim Caviezel (left) and director Mel Gibson.

George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001)

Musician, singer and songwriter George Harrison achieved
international fame as the lead guitarist of the Beatles, an 
English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960, comprising
John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo
Starr. They are regarded as the most influential band of all
time.               
            
          
 
      
     
      
    
   

Thaddeus Stevens delivers the last speech to Congress
about the impeachment of President Andrew Johnson.

The U.S. House of Representatives voted 11 articles of
impeachment against President Andrew Johnson, nine
of which cite Johnson’s removal of Secretary of War
Edwin M. Stanton, a violation of the Tenure of Office
Act. The House vote made President Johnson the first
president to be impeached in U.S. history.

   
Edwin McMasters Stanton
(December 19, 1814 – December 24, 1869)

Pictured is an illustration of Johnson being served
impeachment summons in the White House.

Have Gun – Will Travel is a Western television series that was
produced and originally broadcast by CBS on both television
and radio from 1957 through 1963. The television version of
the series starring Richard Boone was rated number three
or number four in the Nielsen ratings every year of its first
four seasons.

Richard Allen Boone
(June 18, 1917 – January 10, 1981)

John Dehner (November 23, 1915 – February 4, 1992)

The sound effects department.

On February 23, 1954, a group of children from Arsenal Elementary School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, receive the first injections of
the new polio vaccine developed by Dr. Jonas Salk.

Jonas Edward Salk
(October 28, 1914 – June 23, 1995)