Day the Music Died

In the early morning of February 3, 1959, after a performance at the Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, the small four-passenger Beechcraft Bonanza took off from the Mason City airport during a blinding snow storm and crashed into Albert Juhl’s corn field several miles after takeoff at 1:05 a.m. Richardson got the ticket from Waylon Jennings who was supposed to have that seat. The crash killed Holly, Valens, Richardson and the 21-year-old pilot, Roger Peterson. In his 1971 hit song "American Pie," Don McLean referred to this event as "The Day the Music Died". The label has stuck.

Greensboro (NC) Sit-ins

(following from Wikipedia) - On February 1, 1960, four African American students (Ezell Blair, Jr., David Richmond, Joseph McNeil, and Franklin McCain) from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at a segregated lunch counter in the Greensboro, North Carolina Woolworth's store. Although they were refused service, they were allowed to stay at the counter, sparking off sit-ins and economic boycotts that were a landmark of the American civil rights movement.As they sat at the counter they were spit on, had drinks poured on them, and worst of all they were beaten. In just two months the sit-in movement spread to 54 cities in 9 states. Six months after the sit-ins began, the original four protesters were served lunch at the same Woolworth's counter. Sit-ins would be effective throughout the South in integrating other public facilities.

Young Bill Gates

Helen Keller Meets Pres. Eisenhower

Albert Einstein

Winston Churchill

British Prime Minister during WW II - kept up morale as London was heavily bombed by Germany

Casablanca

Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman