Mary Lou Retton is ‘fighting for her life’ as she battles a rare
form of pneumonia. She was unable to breathe on own and
is in ICU.

Retton, 55, won five medals in the 1984 Games, including
two silver medals for team and vault and two bronze
medals in the uneven bars and floor exercise.

The United States Naval Academy opened in Annapolis,
Maryland, with 50 midshipmen students and seven
professors. Known as the Naval School until 1850,
the curriculum included mathematics and navigation,
gunnery and steam, chemistry, English, natural
philosophy, and French.

The Naval School officially became the U.S. Naval Academy
in 1850, and a new curriculum went into effect, requiring
midshipmen to study at the academy for four years and to
train aboard ships each summer—the basic format that
remains at the academy to this day.

TIM MAGUIRE

On May 27, 1995, Reeve broke his neck when he was thrown
from a horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper,
Virginia. The injury paralyzed him from the shoulders down,
and he used a wheelchair and ventilator for the rest of his life.

Banjo player and guitarist Buck Trent, a two-time CMA
instrumental group of the year winner and a prominent
member of the cast of the variety show Hee Haw, died
on Monday (Oct. 9) at age 85.