The Steelers defeated the Cowboys 21–17 in 1976 to become 
the third franchise to win consecutive Super Bowls.

John Steinbeck’s novella Of Mice and Men, the story of the
bond between two migrant workers, was published.

   
John Ernst Steinbeck (February 27, 1902-December 20, 1968)

The first organized immigration of freeborn Black Americans to
Africa from the United States departed New York harbor on a
journey to Freetown, Sierra Leone, in West Africa.

The immigration was largely the work of the American Colonization Society, a U.S. organization founded in 1816 by Robert Finley to
return formerly enslaved African people to Africa.

However, the expedition was also partially funded by the U.S.
Congress, which in 1819 had appropriated $100,000 to be used
in returning displaced Africans, illegally brought to the United
States after the abolishment of the slave trade in 1808, to Africa.

John and Nellie Reagan with their sons, Neil and Ronald.

 
During his WHO radio career, Reagan “announced” Chicago Cubs baseball games in the Des Moines studio by reading a pitch-by-pitch account off the wire as if he were actually at
the game.  He was so skillful that some listeners believed he actually was at the game!

Before his years of Hollywood stardom, and long before
Washington, Ronald Reagan was born in a small town in
northwestern Illinois.

Reagan made the sobering announcement that he had
Alzheimer’s disease, which would end his public career.

He died on June 5, 2004, at the age of 93.

George Herman "Babe" Ruth (
February 6, 1895 – August 16, 1948)

Babe Ruth was a professional baseball player whose career
in Major League Baseball spanned 22 seasons, from 1914
through 1935. Nicknamed "the Bambino" and "the Sultan
of Swat.