Wheel of Fortune, one of the the longest-running syndicated game
show in American television, premieres on NBC on January 6, 1975. Created by television legend Merv Griffin and hosted since the early 1980s by Pat Sajak and Vanna White (below), Wheel is one of the
most popular television shows in the world.
White next to the Wheel of Fortune puzzle board.
Ashli Elizabeth Pamatian Babbitt (1985 – 2021)
On January 6, 2021, during the United States
Capitol attack, Capitol Police officer Michael
Byrd (below) shot and killed UNARMED Ashli
Babbitt, one of the rioters, while ATTEMPTING
to breach a barricaded door leading to the
Speaker’s Lobby, where members of the u.s.
evacuated.
SAN DIEGO (AP) — The USS Abraham Lincoln deployed this
week from San Diego under the command of Capt. Amy
Bauernschmidt, the first woman to lead a nuclear carrier in
U.S. Navy history.
Bauernschmidt, who previously served as the Abraham
Lincoln’s executive officer from 2016 to 2019, took over
command from Capt. Walt Slaughter during a ceremony
last August.
USS Abraham Lincoln in San Diego Bay. (US Navy)
On January 4, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson delivered the
first televised evening State of the Union Address.
Johnson laid out for Congress a laundry list of legislation needed
to achieve his plan for a Great Society.
As a result Congress enacted sweeping legislation in the areas of
civil rights, health care, education and the environment.
The 1965 State of the Union address heralded the creation of Medicare/Medicaid, Head Start, the Voting Rights Act, the Civil
Rights Act, the Department of Housing and Urban Development
and the White House Conference on Natural Beauty.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson signs the Voting Rights
Act of 1965.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt (L), founder of the March
of Dimes to fight polio, is shown at the White House with
Basil O’Connor, who worked with the president in forming
the charity.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, an adult victim of polio, founded the
National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, which he later renamed
the March of Dimes Foundation, on January 3, 1938. A predominantly childhood disease in the early 20th century, polio wreaked havoc
among American children every summer. The virus, which affects
the central nervous system, flourished in contaminated food and
water and was easily transmitted. Those who survived the disease
usually suffered from debilitating paralysis into their adult lives. In
1921, at the relatively advanced age of 39, Roosevelt contracted
polio and lost the use of his legs. With the help of the media, his
Secret Service and careful event planning, Roosevelt managed to
keep his disease out of the public eye, yet his personal experience inspired in him an empathy with the handicapped and prompted
him to the found the March of Dimes.
Roosevelt talking with two young fellow polio patients at
Warm Springs.
