Air Crashes, Gangrene, Ethan Allen and an Old Pitcher

National Comic Book Day

1981 – Sandra Day O’Connor became the first female US Supreme Court Justice.

1978 – A Cessna, with a pilot in training, and a Boeing 727 with 144 people aboard collided in mid-air over San Diego. 7 people on the ground were killed along with all Pacific Airwest passengers and crew and the people in the Cessna.

1970 – The Partridge Family starring Shirley Jones and her step-son David Cassidy premiered on ABC.

1965 – Satchel Paige, 59-year old KC Athletics pitcher, pitched 3 innings, with only 1 hit. The oldest  pitcher (at the time) to play a major league game.

1957 -  Little Rock, Arkansas school, Central High School was integrated. 9-black students began school with the help of the US Army’s 101^st Airborne Division.

1867 – Oliver Loving died of gangrene. He had been trapped by Commanche braves and, while escaping, was shot. He made it to Fort Sumner, only to develop and infection. The Fort’s doctor had never amputated and declined to start with Loving.

1775 – Ethan Allan was captured by British forces. Once identified, he was shipped to England to be executed, which he was not ‘cause the British were afraid of reprisals.

1969 – Catherine Zeta-Jones, Actress, Bugsy Malone, The Phantom, The Mask of Zorro, Entrapment, The Haunting.

1968 – Will Smith, Actor, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Independence Day, Wild Wild West,  I am Legend, Enemy of the State.

1961 – Heather Locklear, Actress, Dynasty, T.J.Hooker, Melrose Place, Spin City.

1952 – Christopher Reeve, Actor, Somewhere in Time, Superman, Deathtrap, The Aviator, Anna Karenina. (Roles he turned down: American Gigolo, The World According to Garp, Splash, Fatal Attraction, Pretty Woman, Romancing the Stone, Lethal Weapon, Body Heat, The Bounty).

1951 – Mark Hamill, Actor, The Partridge Family (1971 episode), Star Wars, Slipstream, Reeseville, now does lots of voice over work.

1947 – Cheryl Tiegs, Model, Seen on covers of Glamour, Harper’s Bazaar, ELLE, Time and Vogue.. Also appeared in The Brown Bunny.

1944 – Michael Douglas, Actor, Hail, Hero!, Coma, Romancing the Stone, The China Syndrome, Wall Street, Wonder Boys,  Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, Liberace.

1931 – Barbara Walters, TV Journalist, 20/20, ABC News, The View.

1917 – Phil Rizzuto, Baseball Player/Sportscaster. Yankee shortstop. As a sportscaster is known for his trademark yell “Holy Cow!”.

1897 – William Faulker, Writer, Soldiers’ Pay, The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom, As I Lay Dying.