Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated
game shows in American television, premiered on NBC on
January 6, 1975.

Created by television legend Merv Griffin and hosted hosted
by Chuck Woolery with hostess Susan Stafford.
 
Since the early 1980’s the show was hosted by Pat Sajak and
and hostess Vanna White.

Elected in 1964, Patsy T. Mink was sworn in on January 4, 1965,
as the first Asian – American woman and first woman of color
to serve in the U.S. Congress.

Throughout her career, the U.S. representative for Hawaii was
a strong supporter of civil and women’s rights, as well as an
advocate for children, labor unions and education.

Serving as a member of the Committee for Education and Labor,
Mink was vocal in her opposition to the Vietnam War and was
a supporter of a national daycare system, Head Start and the
Women’s Educational Equity Act.

She was again elected to Congress in 1990, serving until her
death at age 74 in 2002. Soon after her death, Title IX was
renamed the Patsy T. Mink Equal Opportunity in Education
Act.         


    
    
    
    
       
        
       

1972

Patsy Matsu Mink (December 6, 1927 – September 28, 2002)

"Johnny’s Mic", the Shure microphone that sat on the
desk of Johnny Carson during "The Tonight Show"
from 1962 to the early 1980’s. 

The mic was sold at a Heritage Galleries auction in
Dallas in 2005 for over $50,000 to an anonymous
collector, and it’s likely still in a private collection,
making it a prized piece of television history rather
than being publicly displayed.

The two founders: President Franklin D. Roosevelt (left)
meeting with Basil O’Connor over a sack of dimes.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founded the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later
renamed the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938.