Singer, actress, film producer and author Nancy Sandra
Sinatra the elder daughter of Frank Sinatra and is known
for her 1965 signature hit "These Boots Are Made for Walkin’".
Nancy Sinatra began her career as a singer in November 1957
with an appearance on her father’s ABC television variety
series The Frank Sinatra Show. She is 85 years young today.
Frank and Nancy Sinatra.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks
(June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000)
The first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for poetry,
Brooks used her work to explore the urban African American
experience.
Thirteen years after American settlers founded the city
named for him, Chief Seattle died in a nearby village of
his people.
Born sometime around 1790, Seattle (Seathl) was a chief
of the Duwamish and Suquamish tribes who lived around
the Pacific Coast bay that is today called Puget Sound.
He was the son of a Suquamish father and a Duwamish
mother, a lineage that allowed him to gain influence in
both tribes.
Jesuit missionaries introduced Chief Seattle to Catholicism,
and he became a devout believer. He died in 1866 at the
approximate age of 77.
James Wehn’s Chief Sealth statue near the Space Needle.
On June 7, 1942, the Battle of Midway—one of the most
decisive U.S. victories in its war against Japan—came to
an end. In the four-day sea and air battle, the outnumbered
U.S. Pacific Fleet succeeded in destroying four Japanese
aircraft carriers with the loss of only one of its own, the
Yorktown, thus reversing the tide against the previously
invincible Japanese navy.
At the Battle of Midway, Japan lost four carriers, a cruiser,
and 292 aircraft, and suffered 2,500 casualties.
The U.S. lost the Yorktown, the destroyer USS Hammann,
145 aircraft, and suffered 307 casualties.
Martin and Lewis
Singer and actor who found fame with comedian Jerry Lewis,
palled around with the "Rat Pack"(above) and became a TV
staple starting in the 1960s.
He is regarded as one of the most popular entertainers of the
mid-20th century.
