The lead singer of the band Ronnie Van Zant, vocalist and guitarist Steve Gaines, backing vocalist Cassier Gaines,
and the managing crew including assistant road manager
Dean Kilpatrick, died in the crash.
HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
THE SURRENDER AT YORKTOWN IN 1781
Hopelessly trapped at Yorktown, Virginia, British General
Lord Cornwallis surrendered 8,000 British soldiers and
seamen to a larger Franco-American force, effectively
bringing an end to the American Revolution.
FORMER KGW-TV POLITICAL ANALYST DIES
PORTLAND, Ore. —According to his family, Len Bergstein died
Monday night. He was 76 years old.
A close family friend said his sudden death was likely caused by
a heart attack.
THE GREAHAM AREA’S FIRST SUPERMARKET
223rd and S.E. Stark in Gresham. (1954)
1963
Carl and Ada Zimmerman leased a one-room country store
(above) from Edward and Minnie Aylsworth in 1938 and purchased it in 1943, remodeling and expanding it into the
area’s first supermarket.
The store closed in 2001 and the building was demolished
in 2005 when Weston Buick Pontiac GMC and Kia built a
new showroom and dealership in its place (below).
POSSESSION OF ALASKA ON THIS DAY IN 1867
On October 18, 1867, the U.S. formally took possession of Alaska
after purchasing the territory from Russia for $7.2 million, or less
than two cents an acre. Indigenous peoples settled the unforgiving territory thousands of years earlier.
The Alaska purchase comprised 586,412 square miles, about twice
the size of Texas, and was championed by William Henry Seward,
the enthusiastically expansionist secretary of state under President Andrew Johnson.
William Henry Seward (May 16, 1801 – October 10, 1872)
Andrew Jackson (March 15, 1767 – June 8, 1845)
Jackson served as the seventh president of the United States
from 1829 to 1837.
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