FORMER NBA STAR HAS DIED AT AGE 68

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Former NBA player Robert Reid, who spent most of his 13-year
career with the Rockets, has died. 

Reid died after a battle with cancer, according to the Houston
Chronicle.

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SAY KIDS, WHAT TIME IS IT?

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Howdy Doody is a children’s television show broadcast on
the
NBC
television network from December 27, 1947, until
September 24, 1960.

It was a pioneer of children’s programming and set the
pattern for many similar shows.

The complicated origin of the expression 'peanut gallery'

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Two Words By Clarabell The Clown Solidified The End Of 'Howdy Doody'
Buffalo Bob Smith, Howdy Doody and Clarabell the clown,
originally played by
Bob Keeshan
, who went on to create
the children’s TV character Captain Kangaroo.
 

It’s Howdy Doody Time! – I Remember JFK: A Baby Boomer's Pleasant Reminiscing Spot
1950s

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AMERICA’S FIRST WWII FLYING ACE IN 1942

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Lt. Edward O’Hare takes off from the aircraft carrier Lexington
in a raid against the Japanese position at Rabaul—and minutes
later became
America’s first WWII flying ace, shooting down five
enemy bombers.       
      
      
      
      
      
      
 File:USS Lexington (CV-2) at anchor 1938.jpg - Wikimedia Commons    
USS Lexington
     

Edward “Butch” O’Hare naval aviator of the United States Navy, who on ...


This Day in WWII History: Feb 20, 1942: Pilot O'Hare becomes first ...
Edward "Butch" O’Hare waves during a parade
held in his honor in his hometown of St. Louis,
Missouri. Flanking him are his mother Selma
O’Hare, left, and his wife Rita.

World War II fighter pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward
World War II fighter pilot Lt. Cmdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare,
right, is congratulated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
as O’Hare’s wife Rita places the Medal of Honor around his
neck on April 21, 1942, during a White House ceremony in Washington, D.C.

 

In 1963 President Kennedy lays a wreath on a monument dedicated to Lt. Comdr. Edward
In 1963 President Kennedy lays a wreath on a monument dedicated to Lt. Comdr. Edward "Butch" O’Hare (1914 –
1943). The wreath was handed to him by O’Hare’s
nephews, Philip Tovrea III and Edward Palmer, right.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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Feb 20, 1962. Astronaut John Glenn during pre-launch preparations. Credit: NASA photo. | Space ...

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John Glenn, First American to Orbit the Earth, Dies at 95

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John Glenn, U.S. Hero: First American to Orbit the Earth

John Glenn's orbit of Earth was front-page news in The Repository on Feb. 20, 1962. The Glenn ...

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Former Astronaut, US Senator John Glenn Dead at 95 - Alabama News

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DONNER RESCUE BEGAN THIS DAY IN 1847

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On February 19, 1847, the first rescuers reach surviving members
of the
Donner Party, a group of California-bound emigrants stranded
by snow in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.

In the summer of 1846, in the midst of a Western-bound fever
sweeping the United States, 89 people—including 31 members
of the Donner and Reed families—set out in a wagon train from Springfield,
Illinois.

After arriving at Fort Bridger, Wyoming, the emigrants decided to
avoid the usual route and try a new trail recently blazed by
California promoter Lansford Hastings, the so-called “Hastings
Cutoff.” 

After electing George Donner as their captain, the party departed
Fort Bridger in mid-July.
 

The shortcut was nothing of the sort: It set the Donner Party back
nearly three weeks and cost them much-needed supplies. After
suffering great hardships in the Wasatch Mountains, the Great Salt
Lake Desert and along the Humboldt River, they finally reached the
Sierra Nevada Mountains in early October.

Despite the lateness of the season, the emigrants continued to press
on, and on October 28 they camped at Truckee Lake, located in the
high mountains 21 kilometers northwest of Lake Tahoe. Overnight,
an early winter storm blanketed the ground with snow, blocking the mountain pass and trapping the Donner Party.

This Day in History: Apr 25, 1847: The last survivors of the Donner ...


Donner Party Monument at Donner Memorial State Park
Truckee, California.

World of Mailman: Shelters of the Donner Party

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