Teddy Roosevelt on horse leads the charge up San Juan Hill
in 1898.
Gatling guns hauled by mules arrive to turn the tide at San
Juan Hill.
10th Cavalry USCT advances on San Juan Hill.
Teddy Roosevelt on horse leads the charge up San Juan Hill
in 1898.
Gatling guns hauled by mules arrive to turn the tide at San
Juan Hill.
10th Cavalry USCT advances on San Juan Hill.
The transistor radio was a technological marvel that put music
literally into consumers’ hands in the mid-1950s. It was cheap,
it was reliable and it was portable, but it could never even
approximate the sound quality of a record being played on
a home stereo. It was, however, the only technology available
to on-the-go music lovers until the Sony Corporation sparked
a revolution in personal electronics with the introduction of
the first personal stereo cassette player. A device as astonishing
on first encounter as the cellular phone or digital camera would
later be, the Sony Walkman went on sale for the very first time
on July 1, 1979.
Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023)
Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation
with characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
to “Little Miss Sunshine”, and “Argo,” died at his home in
Carlsbad, California Thursday at age 89. He had a history
of heart problems.
1992
Alan Arkin and Alec Baldwin.
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, one of the best-
selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster
1939 movie, was published on June 30, 1936.
In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter
at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical
injuries. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon
grew restless. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift
from her second husband, John R. Marsh, in their cramped
one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story
of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
(November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
Judy Garland was an award winning actress,
singer, dancer and vaudevillian. While critically
acclaimed for many different roles throughout
her career, she is widely known for playing the
part of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).