SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) – Through history, we can better understand ourselves and the world around us. There is a rich chronicle of the past in everything from politics to music which helps to get a more detailed picture of where society is today.
2021 – Richard Scott William Hutchinson celebrated his first birthday.
Known by Guinness World Record as the world’s most premature baby to survive, Hutchinson celebrated his first birthday. Hutchinson was born 5 months premature at Minnesota Children’s Hospital in Minneapolis where doctors gave him a 0% chance of survival. It weighed less than a pound and could fit in the palm of one hand. He spent over 6 months in the neonatal intensive care unit.
2020 – President Trump held his first rally since the coronavirus shut down the country and halted all in-person campaigning.
President Trump has been allowed to hold his first rally since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Oklahoma Supreme Court has ruled. Lawyers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, have sought a temporary injunction against the 19,000-seat BOK center to prevent it from hosting Saturday’s rally “unless the campaign institutes social distancing protocols.” The BOK Center’s legal team argued that the arena had already agreed to provide masks and perform temperature checks on attendees, and the judges all agreed that the attorneys could not point to a law requiring those measures.
2009 – Construction begins in New Mexico on the first commercial spaceport
Spaceport America would take 18 months and house Virgin Galactic’s space tourism business as well as other companies involved in space tourism. The Spaceport now provides access to the National Airspace System and 6,000 square miles of restricted airspace, from surface to unlimited. This unique environment creates a quiet zone with minimal commercial air traffic that enhances privacy and allows safe testing of new designs with fewer regulatory delays.
2002 – The United States Supreme Court issued a decision in Atkins v. Virginia, ruling that people with intellectual disabilities cannot be sentenced to death.
Atkins v. Virginia involved Daryl Renard Atkins, who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death for kidnapping, robbing and killing 21-year-old airman Eric Michael Nesbitt.
During the penalty phase of the trial, the defense presented Atkins’ school records and the results of an IQ test conducted by clinical psychologist Dr. Evan Nelson confirmed that he had an IQ of 59. On this basis, they proposed that he had an intellectual disability. . In that case, the United States Supreme Court ruled that the imposition of the death penalty in cases involving mentally disabled defendants violated the Eighth Amendment’s protection against cruel and unusual punishment. Despite the ruling, the state of Virginia did not immediately reduce Daryl Atkins’ death sentence.
1990 – “It Must Have Been Love” (from “Pretty Woman”) – No. 1 ranked Roxette
Roxette, a Swedish pop duo that rose to fame from the 1980s, topped the Billboard Hot 100 with this song written by Per Gessle, who was one half of the duo. The other half, Marie Fredriksson, known for her powerful voice and dynamic stage presence, died in 2019.
1987 – Johnnie Carson marries his fourth wife
Johnny Carson married Alexis Maas in a secret ceremony at his Malibu beach house. He met Maas on a beach a few years ago. Carson was 61 at the time of the ceremony and presented “The Tonight Show” on NBC.
1975 – Steven Spielbergthe thriller Jaws was released in theaters.
While the film hit theaters on June 20, 1975, it was originally slated for a Christmas 1974 release. However, it was a huge hit and ended up creating the summer blockbuster genre. The film starred Roy Scheider as police chief Martin Brody, Robert Shaw as shark fisherman Quint, and Richard Dreyfuss as oceanographer Matt Hooper.
1967 – Oscar-winning actress Nicole Kidman was born
Kidman was born in Honolulu to Australian parents. She grew up in Sydney and launched her acting career as a teenager. She will then win the Oscar for best actress in 2010 for the role of Becca Corbette in the film “Rabbit Hole”. She was also a Golden Globe recipient this year for Best Actress in a Drama for her role as Lucille Ball in the movie “Being the Ricardo’s.” So far, she has received six Golden Globes in total. She has also won numerous other awards, including two Primetime Emmy Awards.
1963 – A hotline was established between the United States and the Soviet Union.
The “hotline” was designed to facilitate communication between the President and the Soviet Premier. The establishment of the hotline to the Kremlin came in the wake of the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962, in which the United States and the USSR had come dangerously close to nuclear war.
1896 – Charles Dickens Jr.. deceased
The first child of novelist Charles Dickens and his wife, Catherine, Dicken’s Jr., became the editor of his father’s “All Year Round” magazine and a successful writer of dictionaries. However, he is best remembered for his two 1879 books “Dickens’s Dictionary of London and Dickens’s Dictionary of the Thames”.
