Peter Jennings started his career early, hosting a Canadian radio
show at the age of nine. In 1965, ABC News tapped him to anchor its
flagship evening news program. In 1968 Jennings became a foreign
correspondent. He returned to ABC’s World News Tonight as sole
anchor until his death in 2005 of complications from lung cancer. He
was 67.
ANCHOR DEBUT ON THIS DATE IN 1965
FAMOUS PHOTO ON THIS DATE IN 1968
CLARK GABLE ~ BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1901
William Clark Gable, a film actor who was nicknamed "The King of Hollywood"
in his heyday. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Gable seventh among
the greatest male stars of all time. Gable’s most famous role was Rhett Butler in
in the 1939 Civil War epic film Gone with the Wind. His performance earned him
his third nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actor. He won a Best Actor
Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night. His final screen appearance was in
The Misfits in 1961, with co-star Marilyn Monroe, also her last film.
Clark Gable in Gone with the Wind
Gable and Monroe in The Misfits
THIRD MOON LANDING ON THIS DAY IN 1971
Apollo 14 was the eighth manned mission in the Apollo program , the third to land on
the Moon. It was the last of the "H missions", targeted landings with two-day stays on
the Moon with two lunar EVA’s, or moonwalks. The crew for the nine-day mission included , from left to right, Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell, Commander Alan
Shepard, and Command Module Pilot Stuart Roosa. Shepard and Mitchell made their lunar landing on February 5 in an area originally targeted for the aborted Apollo 13 mission. During the two lunar EVS’s, 93 pounds of Moon rocks were collected and several surface experiments were conducted. Commander Shepard hit two golf
balls while on the lunar surface with a make-shift club he brought from Earth.
Commander Alan Shepard hitting a golf ball on the lunar surface
Autographed golf ball used by Shepard
U.S. ENTERED SPACE AGE ON THIS DATE IN 1958
Pictured above is an animation of the Explorer orbiting Earth and a scale model of the
satellite being held up by (left to right) William Pickering, James Von Allen, and Wernher
Von Braun.
Explorer 1 was the first Earth satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in an international scientific project. The mission followed the first two
Earth satellites the previous year, the Soviet Union’s Sputnic l and 2, beginning the
Cold War Space Race between the two nations.
Explorer 1 was launched atop the first Juno booster from at the Cape Canaveral, Florida. It returned data until its batteries were exhausted after nearly four months. It remained in orbit until 1970.
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