On November 18, 1978, Peoples Temple founder Jim Jones led
hundreds of his followers in a mass murder-suicide at their
agricultural commune in a remote part of the South American
nation of Guyana.

Many of Jones’ followers willingly ingested a poison-laced punch
while others were forced to do so at gunpoint. The final death toll
at Jonestown that day was 909; a third of those who perished were children.

Jim Jones (below) was a charismatic churchman who established
the Peoples Temple, a Christian sect, in Indianapolis in the 1950s.         
        
        
        
        
        
        
       

Fitz Duke, who lives in nearby Port
Kaituma village, stands in front of
a nondescript memorial stone, the
only sign of the grisly Jonestown
massacre.

In the midst of the Watergate scandal that eventually ended his presidency, President Richard Nixon told a group of newspaper
editors gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando, Florida, that
he is “not a crook.”

Nixon made the now-famous declaration during a televised
question-and-answer session with Associated Press editors.

Nixon, who appeared “tense” to a New York Times reporter,
was questioned about his role in the Watergate burglary
scandal and efforts to cover up the fact that members of his
re-election committee had funded the break-in.

The inauguration of the Suez Canal at Port Said.

The Suez Canal, connecting the Mediterranean and the Red
seas, was inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony attended by
French Empress Eugénie, wife of Napoleon III.

In 1854, Ferdinand de Lesseps, the former French consul to
Cairo, secured an agreement with the Ottoman governor of
Egypt to build a canal 100 miles across the Isthmus of Suez.

An international team of engineers drew up a construction
plan, and in 1856 the Suez Canal Company was formed and
granted the right to operate the canal for 99 years after
completion of the work.

Construction began in April 1859, and at first digging was
done by hand with picks and shovels wielded by forced
laborers. Later, European workers with dredgers and
steam shovels arrived.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, the architect of the
Suez Canal.

Early photographs of dredging in the Suez Canal from
1868-69. Norbert Schiller Collection.

Martin Charles Scorsese has received many accolades, including
an Academy Award, four BAFTA Awards, three Emmy Awards, a
Grammy Award, and three Golden Globe Awards.

He has been honored with the AFI Life Achievement Award in 1997,
the Film Society of Lincoln Center tribute in 1998, the Kennedy
Center Honor in 2007, the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2010, and the
BAFTA Fellowship in 2012.

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 William Franklin Holden (Beedle Jr.)  
(April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981)

William Holden was one of the biggest box-office draws of the
1950s. He won the Academy Award for Best Actor for the film
Stalag 17 (1953) and the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding
Lead Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie for the
television miniseries The Blue Knight (1973).

Holden starred in some of Hollywood’s most popular and critically acclaimed films, including Sunset Boulevard (1950), Sabrina
(1954), Picnic (1955), The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), The
Wild Bunch (1969) and Network (1976).

His death certificate makes no mention of cancer