On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell received
a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone.

Rawhide is a Western TV series starring Eric Fleming and Clint Eastwood. The show aired for eight seasons on the CBS
network on Friday nights, from January 9, 1959, to September
3, 1965, before moving to Tuesday nights from September 14,
1965, until December 7, 1965, with a total of 217 black-and-white episodes. The series was produced and sometimes directed by
Charles Marquis Warren, who also produced early episodes of Gunsmoke. The show is fondly remembered by many for its
theme, "Rawhide".

Spanning 7+1⁄2 years, Rawhide was the sixth-longest running
American television Western, exceeded only by 8 years of
Wagon Train, 9 years of The Virginian, 14 years of Bonanza,
18 years of Death Valley Days, and 20 years of Gunsmoke.
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Clint Eastwood will be 93 years old on May 31st.

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The German company Bayer patented aspirin on March 6,
1899. Now the most common drug in household medicine
cabinets, acetylsalicylic acid was originally made from a
chemical found in the bark of willow trees. In its primitive
form, the active ingredient, salicin, was used for centuries
in folk medicine, beginning in ancient Greece when
Hippocrates used it to relieve pain and fever. Known to
doctors since the mid-19th century, it was used sparingly
due to its unpleasant taste and tendency to damage the
stomach.

In 1897, Bayer employee Felix Hoffmann (above) found a
way to create a stable form of the drug that was easier and
more pleasant to take. (Some evidence shows that Hoffmann’s
work was really done by a Jewish chemist, Arthur Eichengrun,
whose contributions were covered up during the Nazi era.)

After obtaining the patent rights, Bayer began distributing
aspirin in powder form to physicians to give to their patients
one gram at a time. The brand name came from “a” for acetyl,
“spir” from the spirea plant (a source of salicin) and the suffix
“in,” commonly used for medications. It quickly became the
number-one drug worldwide.

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington was last surviving
original member of rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary
Rossington died Sunday. The cause of  death not known at
this time.