ED DANAHUE

On July 23, 1885, just after completing his memoirs, Civil War
hero and former president Ulysses S. Grant died of throat
cancer.

The successes of Grant’s tenure while in office (March 4, 1869 
– March 4, 1877) included passage of the Enforcement Act in
1870, which temporarily curtailed the political influence of the
Ku Klux Klan in the post-Civil War South, and the 1875 Civil
Rights Act, which attempted to desegregate public places
such as restrooms, “inns, public conveyances on land or
water, theaters, and other places of public amusement.”

LONDON (AP) — When a schoolboy going for a run found the
ribs of a wooden ship poking through the dunes of a remote
Scottish beach, it sparked a hunt by archaeologists, scientists
and local historians to uncover its story.

Through a mix of high-tech science and community research,
they have an answer. Researchers announced Wednesday that
the vessel is very likely the Earl of Chatham, an 18th-century
warship that saw action in the American War of Independence
before a second life hunting whales in the Arctic — and then a
stormy demise.

“I would regard it as a lucky ship, which is a strange thing to
say about a ship that’s wrecked,” said Ben Saunders, senior
marine archaeologist at Wessex Archaeology, a charity that
helped community researchers conduct the investigation.

Saunders said “I think if it had been found in many other
places, it wouldn’t necessarily have had that community
drive, that desire to recover and study that material, and
also the community spirit to do it.”
 

Thomas Troupe (July 15, 1928 – July 20, 2025).

Veteran actor Tom Troupe died Sunday morning at his home
in Beverly Hills at the age of 97.

Troupe’s death was announced on Instagram Sunday by his
nephew Mark Cocanougher.

“My uncle, Tom Troupe, died peacefully at home this morning.

He had a lovely, full life, and an equally graceful departure,”
he wrote.

The “Star Trek” and “Mission Impossible” star passed away
due to natural causes, according to the New York Post.

Troupe starred as Lt. Harold in Star Trek: The Original Series.

AUGUST/1991

Peterson opened his first store in 1964, which grew to a regional consumer electronics, home appliance, and furniture chain in the
1970s.

In the mid-2000s, the Petersons sold their last remaining property
at the corner of Southeast 82nd and Foster and moved the store
to a side street a block away, just off 82nd Avenue. The final
location closed on February 28, 2009.

The former Tom Peterson’s store at the corner of SE 82nd
and Foster.

Thomas Howard Peterson (February 23, 1930 – July 25, 2016)

Sign outside last Tom Peterson’s location in late 2008.

John Michael "Ozzy" Osbourne
(3 December 1948 – 22 July 2025)

The heavy metal icon Ozzy Osbourne has died, just weeks after
his "Back to the Beginning" farewell concert where he played
in front of a sold-out farewell show in England.

He was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease in February 2019
and In 2020, Osbourne also revealed that he had the smoking-
induced lung condition, emphysema.

A family statement confirmed he was surrounded by his family
at the time of his death.

Ozzy Osbourne onstage at the Back to the Beginning event
on Saturday.