(FOX NEWS) -Quincy Jones, a music mogul whose career in the
industry spanned over seven decades, died Sunday night at 91
years old.
Jones was surrounded by his children, siblings and close family
at his home in Bel Air, California. His cause of death was not
revealed.
Michael Jackson with Quincy Jones.
Jackson won a record eight awards, including Album of the Year
and Record of the Year for Thriller — the bestselling album of all
time — with record producer Quincy Jones.
Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones.
On November 4, 1990, Dances with Wolves, a film about an
American Civil War–era soldier and a group of Sioux Native
Americans that stars Kevin Costner and also marks his
directorial debut, premieres in Los Angeles.
The film, which opened across the United States on November
21, 1990, was a surprise box-office success and earned 12
Academy Award nominations, including Best Actor for Costner.
Dances with Wolves took home seven Oscars, including Best
Picture and Best Director, and solidified Costner’s place on
Hollywood’s A-list.
Arthur W. Ferguson
At age 16, Tuna began working at his hometown radio
station, KGFW in Kearney, Nebraska.
Tuna received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
(as "Charlie Tuna") in January 1990, and was inducted
into the Nebraska Broadcasters Association Hall of
Fame in 1999. On July 18, 2008, he was voted into the
National Radio Hall of Fame.
Star-Kist 1970 Charlie the Tuna transistor radio.
The Soviet Union launched the first animal to orbit the earth
into space—a dog nicknamed Laika—aboard the Sputnik 2
spacecraft.
Laika (above) part Siberian husky, lived as a stray on the
Moscow streets before being enlisted into the Soviet space
program.
Laika survived for a few hours as a passenger in the USSR’s
second artificial Earth satellite, kept alive by a sophisticated
life-support system.
Electrodes attached to her body provided scientists on the
ground with important information about the biological
effects of space travel. She died from overheating and
panic.
Model of Sputnik 2 at the Memorial Museum of Cosmonautics
in Moscow.