1959 Ad

 
Actress Elke Sommer is 70 today.

  
NBA Hall Of Famer and former Portland Trail Blazer Bill Walton is 58.

 
Singer Art Garfunkel (of Simon & Garfunkel) is now 69.

 
                                           1957

It was on this date in 1947 that one of the worlds wealthiest and most
influential aviators in history, Howard Hughes, piloted the largest
aircraft ever made. It was called the Hercules H-4 and was largely 
made of wood , thus nicknamed… “The Spruce Goose.” It’s one
and only flight lasted for about a minute for a little over a mile at
70 feet above Long Beach Harbor in California. The airplane is
now part of the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Or.