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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

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Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Race Cartoons Film Collection DVD, Video Download, USB Flash Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9: National Sugar Cookie Day: -- Sugar cookies are far and away one of the simplest and most delicious cookies to ever be created. They are the hallmark of Christmas, with Santa ostensibly wolfing down tons of them every year in a deluge of milk. They are made to celebrate every occasion and are sold as part of charity drives everywhere. National Sugar Cookie Day celebrates this delicious little treat, and the big role it plays in all our lives. In their simplest form, the sugar cookie only needs three ingredients: sugar, butter, and flour. Easy and fast to make, but oh so satisfying as well. National Sugar Cookie Day was created to honor the tasty sugar cookie. This is a holiday favorite, and it is very easy to make, which is always a major plus! Most sugar cookies are made with a mixture of sugar, vanilla, eggs, butter, flour, and either baking soda or baking powder. They're fun, they're classic, but most importantly, they taste unbelievably delicious. Originating back in the 1700's in Nazareth, Pennsylvania, sugar cookies were initially referred to as Nazareth Cookies by German Protestant settlers and baked in the shape of a keystone, their state's symbol. Fast forward a couple hundred years later and traditional sugar cookies are now a treasured staple amid most households. Though they are outwardly simple, sugar cookies are a popular treat frequently consumed on numerous different occasions, including Valentine's Day, Easter, Christmas, and birthdays. There are ample ways to celebrate this holiday - but really, do we need a reason to celebrate sugar cookies? On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/race-cartoons-dvd-dual-layer-all-regions.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9: Fashion Day: -- Today gives everyone the opportunity to put their fashionable side on display and let the world see their unique aesthetic sense, be it through their clothes or accessories. Fashion is an integral part of American society since so many culturally diverse communities live and thrive in this country where every individual has a unique way of expressing their fashion sense. The first-ever Fashion Day was celebrated in 2016, which makes this holiday a relatively recent one on the American cultural calendar. It appears that Fashion Day might have emerged as a popular day through social media or the efforts of an unidentifiable group with a zeal to celebrate everyday fashion choices made by Americans across the country. Whatever the origins of the day, Fashion Day appears to have gained a lot of traction since its creation in 2016. Fashion Day is an interesting occasion and can be seen as a kind of public revolt against the dominant fashion trends and styles that are set by major fashion houses and corporations across the country. It is for this reason that the day is seen as a popular event for LGBTQ groups and people all over the country as it gives them the opportunity to assert their fashion choices and tastes without any fear of criticism. For many people, especially those who aspire to join the fashion industry, Fashion Day is a great time to dive into the world of fashion and experience how different individuals perceive fashion and choose to express their fashion sense through the clothes and makeup they wear on this day. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/mrs-fenwick-went-to-washington-dvd-millicent-fenwick.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9: National No Bra Day (Original) : -- July 9, 2011: The first National No Bra Day is observed, to encourage women to go braless to raise breast cancer awareness; within three years, it had moved to the 13th day of the National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, October. Users on social media are encouraged to post using the hashtag #NoBraDay to promote awareness of breast cancer symptoms and to encourage gender equality. Some users on social media sites also encourage women to post pictures of themselves not wearing a bra. Some women embrace No Bra Day as a political statement while others prefer the comfort of discarding what they view as a restrictive, uncomfortable garment. The observance has spread worldwide. The event was spun off a medical event in Toronto, Canada, that encourages breast cancer survivors to consider reconstructive surgery. First held on October 19, 2011, the medical event was named BRA (Breast Reconstruction Awareness) Day. It was adapted by an anonymous individual who conceived of No Bra Day as a way to encourage women to enjoy being braless and to become knowledgeable about breast cancer symptoms. The day is controversial as some see it as sexualizing and exploiting women's bodies while at the same time belittling a serious disease. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/tv-commercials-the-classics-vol-9-dv9.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Edward R. Murrow WWII Radio Broadcasts MP3 Set CD, Download, USB Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9-10, 1943: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Mediterranean And Middle East Theater Of World War II: The Italian Campaign Of World War II (The Liberation Of Italy): The Allied Invasion Of Sicily (The Battle Of Sicily, Operation Husky): The Battle Of Gela (1943): -- The Allied Invasion of Italy begins with an attack on the island of Sicily. The opening engagement of the American portion of the Allied Invasion Of Sicily occurs as the United States Navy ships lands United States Army troops along the eastern end of the south coast of Sicily, who withstood attacks by Luftwaffe and Regia Aeronautica aircraft while defending the beachhead against German tanks and Italian tanks of the Livorno Division until the Army captured the Ponte Olivo Airfield for use by United States Army Air Forces planes. The battle convinced United States Army officers of the value of naval artillery support, and revealed problems coordinating air support from autonomous air forces during amphibious operations. General Dwight D. Eisenhower labeled the invasion "the first page in the liberation of the European Continent"; the British entry into Syracuse, Sicily was the first Allied success in Europe. The day before, the commencement of the Allied invasion of Sicily caused the downfall of Mussolini and forced Hitler to break off the Battle Of Kursk. On July 5, 1943, an Allied invasion fleet secretly set sail for Sicily, ultimately to commence Operation Husky, which began on the night of July 9-10, 1954. t was a major campaign of World War II, in which the Allies took the island of Sicily from the Axis powers (Italy and Nazi Germany). It began with a large amphibious and airborne operation, followed by a six-week land campaign, and initiated the Italian Campaign. Husky began on the night of 9-10 July 1943, and ended on 17 August. Strategically, Husky achieved the goals set out for it by Allied planners; the Allies drove Axis air, land and naval forces from the island and the Mediterranean sea lanes were opened for Allied merchant ships for the first time since 1941. The Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was toppled from power in Italy and the way was opened for the Allied invasion of Italy. The German leader, Adolf Hitler, canceled a major offensive at Kursk after only a week, in part to divert forces to Italy, resulting in a reduction of German strength on the Eastern Front. The Allies had foreknowledge of the German intentions regarding Kursk, provided in part by the British intelligence service's overall intelligence gatherings and their cryptanalysis of intercepted Lorenz cipher German Army communications, known as Tunny Intercepts, co-called because British cryptanalysts, who referred to encrypted German teleprinter traffic as Fish, dubbed the machine and its traffic Tunny (meaning tunafish). Aware thereby months in advance that an attack would fall on the neck of the Kursk salient, the Allies concluded that an invasion of Sicily, and the collapse of Italy that might potentionally result, timed to occur at the same time that the Germans planned to launch the Battle Of Kursk would require German troops to be diverted from the battle to replace the Italians in Italy and to a lesser extent the Balkans. Accordingly, Adolf Hitler was forced to have troops training in France to be a strategic reserve for the Eastern Front diverted to meet the Allied threat in the Mediterranean, and one fifth of the entire German army was diverted from the east to southern Europe, a proportion that would remain until near the end of the war. Germany's extensive losses of men and tanks in the Battle Of Kursk ensured that the victorious Soviet Red Army enjoyed the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/edward-r-murrow-world-war-ii-radio-broadcasts-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The Battle Of Kursk The Mother Of All Battles + Bonus MP4 Download DVD

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1943: The European Civil War: World War II: The Second European War (The European Theater Of World War II): The Eastern Front Of World War II: The Great Patriotic War (The German-Soviet War): The Battle Of Kursk (Russian: Kurskaya Bitva): Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle): -- Hitler is forced to break off the Battle Of Kursk due to the Allied invasion of Sicily and the resulting downfall of Mussolini. On July 5, 1943. German forces began a massive offensive against the Soviet Union at the Battle Of Kursk, the largest full-scale battle in history and the world's largest tank battle, also known as Operation Citadel. The battle broke the back of the German Wehrmacht, and from then on, Germany's war fortunes turned against them. The day prior, July 4, 1943, preliminary combat began in Prokhorovka village. The fighting started on the southern face of the salient on the evening of 4 July 1943, when German infantry launched attacks to seize high ground for artillery observation posts prior to the main battle that began on 5 July. During these attacks, a number of Red Army command and observation posts along the first main belt of defence were captured. By 16:00 on 4 July, elements of the Panzergrenadier Division "Grossdeutschland", 3rd and 11th Panzer Divisions had seized the village of Butovo and proceeded to capture Gertsovka before midnight. At around 22:30, Russian General Vatutin ordered 600 guns, mortars and Katyusha rocket launchers, of the Voronezh Front, to bombard the forward German positions, particularly those of the II SS Panzer Corps. The Battle Of Kursk was a Second World War engagement between German and Soviet forces on the Eastern Front near Kursk (450 kilometres or 280 miles south-west of Moscow) in the Soviet Union, during July and August 1943. After preliminary engagements of 4 July in and around Prokhorovka village, the main Battle Of Kursk began with the launch of the German offensive, Operation Citadel (German: Unternehmen Zitadelle), on 5 July, which had the objective of pinching off the Kursk salient with attacks on the base of the salient from north and south simultaneously. After the German offensive stalled on the northern side of the salient, on 12 July the Soviets commenced their Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation with the launch of Operation Kutuzov against the rear of the German forces in the northern side. On the southern side, the Soviets also launched powerful counterattacks the same day, one of which led to a large armoured clash, the Battle of Prokhorovka. On 3 August, the Soviets began the second phase of the Kursk Strategic Offensive Operation with the launch of Operation Polkovodets Rumyantsev against the German forces in the southern side of the Kursk salient. The battle was the final strategic offensive that the Germans were able to launch on the Eastern Front. Because the Allied invasion of Sicily had begun, Adolf Hitler was forced to have troops training in France diverted to meet the Allied threat in the Mediterranean, rather than use them as a strategic reserve for the Eastern Front. Hitler canceled the offensive at Kursk after only a week, in part to divert forces to Italy, resulting in a reduction of German strength on the Eastern Front. Germany's extensive losses of men and tanks ensured that the victorious Soviet Red Army enjoyed the strategic initiative for the remainder of the war. The Germans hoped to weaken the Soviet offensive potential for the summer of 1943 by cutting off the forces that they anticipated would be in the Kursk salient. The Kursk salient or bulge was 250 kilometres (160 mi) long from north to south and 160 kilometres (99 mi) from east to west. The plan envisioned an envelopment by a pair of pincers breaking through the northern and southern flanks of the salient. Hitler believed that a victory here would reassert German strength and improve his prestige with his allies, who were considering withdrawing from the war. It was also hoped that large numbers of Soviet prisoners would be captured to be used as slave labour in the German armaments industry. The Soviet government had foreknowledge of the German intentions, provided in part by the British intelligence service's overall intelligence gatherings and their cryptanalysis of intercepted Lorenz cipher German Army communications, known as Tunny Intercepts, co-called because British cryptanalysts, who referred to encrypted German teleprinter traffic as Fish, dubbed the machine and its traffic Tunny (meaning tunafish). Aware months in advance that the attack would fall on the neck of the Kursk salient, the Soviets built a defence in depth designed to wear down the German armoured spearhead. The Germans delayed the offensive while they tried to build up their forces and waited for new weapons, mainly the new Panther tank but also larger numbers of the Tiger heavy tank. This gave the Red Army time to construct a series of deep defensive belts. The defensive preparations included minefields, fortifications, artillery fire zones and anti-tank strong points, which extended approximately 300 km (190 mi) in depth. Soviet mobile formations were moved out of the salient and a large reserve force was formed for strategic counter-offensives. The Battle Of Kursk was the first time in the Second World War that a German strategic offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences and penetrate to its strategic depths. The maximum depth of the German advance was 8-12 kilometres (5.0-7.5 mi) in the north and 35 kilometres (22 mi) in the south. Though the Red Army had succeeded in winter offensives previously, their counter-offensives following the German attack at Kursk were their first successful strategic summer offensives of the war. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-kursk-the-mother-of-all-battles-wwii-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1944: World War II: The Pacific War (The Asia-Pacific War, The Pacific Theater Of World War II): The Pacific Ocean Theater Of World War II: The Mariana And Palau Islands Campaign: The Battle Of Saipan: -- In a major turning point of World War II, American forces take Saipan, bringing the Japanese archipelago within range of B-29 raids, and causing the downfall of the Tojo government. Two days prior, on July 7, 1944, the largest Banzai charge of the entire Pacific War took place two days before the final defeat of Japanese forces at the battle. On June 15, 1944, the United States invaded the Japanese-occupied island of Saipan. The Battle Of Saipan was a battle of the Pacific campaign of World War II, fought on the island of Saipan in the Mariana Islands from 15 June to 9 July 1944. The Allied invasion fleet embarking the expeditionary forces left Pearl Harbor on 5 June 1944, the day before Operation Overlord in Europe was launched. The U.S. 2nd Marine Division, 4th Marine Division, and the Army's 27th Infantry Division (a unit of the New York Army National Guard), commanded by Lieutenant General Holland McTyeire "Howlin' Mad" Smith, defeated the 43rd Infantry Division of the Imperial Japanese Army (Japanese call sign: Honor Division {Homare Heidan}) commanded by Lieutenant General Yoshitsugu Saito. The battle was the fiercest and most desperate of the Pacific War up till that time, and it saw the largest banzai charge of the Pacific War on July 7; the Japanese knew the loss of the island would mean the Americans would build airstrips for B-29 Superfortress long-range strategic heavy bombers that were within range of the Japanese archipelago. Once the Battle Of Saipan was lost and the Mariana Islands fell to the Americans, it brought about the downfall of the Tojo government, and it became apparent to the Japanese Imperial Headquarters that victory in the Pacific War had become highly unlikely. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-battle-of-saipan-dvd-mp4-download-usb-flash-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Meet George Washington: The Man Behind Myth + Bonus MP4 Download DVD

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1776: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The American Enlightenment: The American Revolution: The Declaration Of Independence (The Unanimous Declaration Of The Thirteen United States of America): -- At 4 PM on a Tuesday afternoon, three days after news had reached New York City Congress had voted for independence, Commander of the Continental Army George Washington orders several brigades to march onto the commons of New York City (today's City Hall Park) to hear the Declaration Of Independence read out to members of the Continental Army in Manhattan, while thousands of British troops on Staten Island prepared for the August 27th Battle Of Long Island. After the end of the reading, a mob ran down to Bowling Green with ropes and bars, where they tore down the gilded lead equestrian statue of George III of Great Britain. In their fury, the crowd cut off the statue's head, severed the nose, mounted what remained of the head on a spike outside a tavern, and the rest of the statue was dragged to Connecticut and melted down into musket balls. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/meet-george-washington-the-man-behind-myth-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1868: The Reconstruction Era (Reconstruction): The Constitution Of The United States: The Reconstruction Amendments: Black Suffrage (Black Political Franchise, Black Franchise, Black Right To Vote, Black Active Suffrage): The Fourteenth Amendment To The United States Constitution (Amendment XIV): -- The Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing to African Americans full citizenship rights and to all persons in the United States due process of law. The Fourteenth Amendment (Amendment XIV) to the United States Constitution was adopted as one of the Reconstruction Amendments. The amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War. The amendment was bitterly contested, particularly by the states of the defeated Confederacy, which were forced to ratify it in order to regain representation in Congress. The amendment, particularly its first section, is one of the most litigated parts of the Constitution, forming the basis for landmark decisions such as Brown v. Board of Education (1954) regarding racial segregation, Roe v. Wade (1973) regarding abortion, Bush v. Gore (2000) regarding the 2000 presidential election, and Obergefell v. Hodges (2015) regarding same-sex marriage. The amendment limits the actions of all state and local officials, including those acting on behalf of such an official. The amendment's first section includes several clauses: the Citizenship Clause, Privileges or Immunities Clause, Due Process Clause, and Equal Protection Clause. The Citizenship Clause provides a broad definition of citizenship, nullifying the Supreme Court's decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), which had held that Americans descended from African slaves could not be citizens of the United States. The Privileges or Immunities Clause has been interpreted in such a way that it does very little. The Due Process Clause prohibits state and local government officials from depriving persons of life, liberty, or property without legislative authorization. This clause has also been used by the federal judiciary to make most of the Bill Of Rights applicable to the states, as well as to recognize substantive and procedural requirements that state laws must satisfy. The Equal Protection Clause requires each state to provide equal protection under the law to all people, including all non-citizens, within its jurisdiction. This clause has been the basis for many decisions rejecting irrational or unnecessary discrimination against people belonging to various groups. The second, third, and fourth sections of the amendment are seldom litigated. However, the second section's reference to "rebellion and other crime" has been invoked as a constitutional ground for felony disenfranchisement. The fourth section was held, in Perry v. United States (1935), to prohibit a current Congress from abrogating a contract of debt incurred by a prior Congress. The fifth section gives Congress the power to enforce the amendment's provisions by "appropriate legislation"; however, under City of Boerne v. Flores (1997), this power may not be used to contradict a Supreme Court decision interpreting the amendment. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/sold-down-the-river-black-liberty39s-loss-after-civil-war-dvd-mp4-394.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1932: #BOTD: Donald Rumsfeld, American politician, businessman, naval officer, and diplomat who served as the 13th United States secretary of defense from 1975 to 1977 under President Gerald Ford, and again as the 21st secretary of defense from 2001 to 2006 under President George W. Bush (d. June 29, 2021) is #born Donald Henry Rumsfeld at St. Luke's Hospital on July 9, 1932, in Chicago, Illinois. He was both the youngest and the oldest secretary of defense. Additionally, Rumsfeld was a four-term U.S. Congressman from Illinois (1963-1969), director of the Office of Economic Opportunity (1969-1970), counselor to the president (1969-1973), the U.S. Representative to NATO (1973-1974), and the White House chief of staff (1974-1975). Between his terms as secretary of defense, he served as the CEO and chairman of several companies. Rumsfeld attended Princeton University, graduating in 1954 with a degree in political science. After serving in the Navy for three years, he mounted a campaign for Congress in Illinois's 13th Congressional District, winning in 1962 at the age of 30. Rumsfeld accepted an appointment by President Richard Nixon to head the Office of Economic Opportunity in 1969; appointed counsellor by Nixon and entitled to Cabinet-level status, he also headed up the Economic Stabilization Program before being appointed ambassador to NATO. Called back to Washington in August 1974, Rumsfeld was appointed chief of staff by President Ford. Rumsfeld recruited a young one-time staffer of his, Dick Cheney, to succeed him when Ford nominated him to be secretary of defense in 1975. When Ford lost the 1976 election, Rumsfeld returned to private business and financial life, and was named president and CEO of the pharmaceutical corporation G. D. Searle & Company. He was later named CEO of General Instrument from 1990 to 1993 and chairman of Gilead Sciences from 1997 to 2001. Rumsfeld was appointed secretary of defense for a second time in January 2001 by President George W. Bush. As secretary of defense, Rumsfeld played a central role in the 2001 United States invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq. Before and during the Iraq War, he claimed that Iraq had an active weapons of mass destruction program; no stockpiles were ever found. A Pentagon Inspector General report found that Rumsfeld's top policy aide "developed, produced, and then disseminated alternative intelligence assessments on the Iraq and al-Qaeda relationship, which included some conclusions that were inconsistent with the consensus of the Intelligence Community, to senior decision-makers". Rumsfeld's tenure was controversial for its use of torture and the Abu Ghraib torture and prisoner abuse scandal. Rumsfeld gradually lost political support and resigned in late 2006. In his retirement years, he published an autobiography, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, as well as Rumsfeld's Rules: Leadership Lessons in Business, Politics, War, and Life. Donald Rumsfeld died from multiple myeloma at his home in Taos, New Mexico, aged 88. Following a private funeral at Fort Myer, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery on August 24, 2021. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/global-rivals-history-of-cold-war-w-mavin-kalb-dvd-mp4-usb-driv4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: The French Revolution Series + Irish Rebellion & You Are There MP4 DVD

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1789: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The National Constituent Assembly: -- In Versailles, the National Assembly reconstitutes itself as the National Constituent Assembly and begins preparations for a French constitution. The National Constituent Assembly (French: Assemblee Nationale Constituante) was a constituent assembly (a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution) in the Kingdom of France during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on September 30, 1791; the following day, the Constitution of 1791 went into effect, which granted power to the Legislative Assembly which succeeded it. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-french-revolution-dvd-3-part-tv-documentary-serie3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Napoleon (1955) Raymond Pellagrin Orson Welles DVD, Download, USB

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1807: The Age Of Enlightenment (The Enlightenment, The Age Of Reason): The Age Of Revolution: The Atlantic Revolutions: The French Revolution: The French Revolutionary And Napoleonic Wars (The Great French War) (The French Revolutionary Wars, The Napoleonic Wars): The Napoleonic Wars: The Coalition Wars: The War Of The Fourth Coalition: The Treaties Of Tilsit (French: Traites De Tilsit) (The Peace Of Tilsit [German: Friede Von Tilsit, Russian: Tilzitski Mir): The Second Treaty Of Tilsit (The Franco-Prussian Treaty [July 9]): -- The War Of The Fourth Coalition officially ends as King Frederick William III Of Prussia cedes to Napoleon I Of France about half of the territories he possessed prior to The War Of The Fourth Coalition, in a treaty signed in the Prussian town of Tilsit (modern Sovetsk, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russia, located on the south bank of the Neman River which forms the border with Lithuania. The First Treaty Of Tilsit (The Franco-Russian Treaty (July 7) was signed two days prior by Napoleon and Emperor Alexander I Of Russia, when they met on a raft in the middle of the Neman River. The two agreements Napoloen signed in Tilsit were the result of the aftermath of his victory at The Battle Of Friedland (June 14, 1807) against the armies of the Russian Empire led by Count von Bennigsen. Napoleon and the French obtained a decisive victory that routed much of the Russian army, which retreated chaotically over the Alle River by the end of the fighting. The battlefield is located in modern-day Kaliningrad Oblast, near the town of Pravdinsk, Russia. Napoleon's overwhelming victory was enough to convince the Russian political establishment that peace was necessary. Friedland effectively ended the War of the Fourth Coalition, as Emperor Alexander I reluctantly entered peace negotiations with Napoleon. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/napoleon-1955-dvd-raymond-pellagrin-orson-welles-2-19552.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Campaigning And The Presidency MP3 Set CD, Download, USB Flash Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1896: Elections: Elections In The United States: The 1896 United States Presidential Election: The 1896 United States Democratic National Convention: The Cross Of Gold Speech: -- William Jennings Bryan delivers a rousing speech, considered one of the greatest political speeches in American history, that catapulted him to the Democratic Party's presidential nomination advocating "free silver", i.e. bimetallism or the bimetallic standard, rather than the single metal gold standard upon with the United States dollar and the rest of the world's international monetary system based their currency's value. Byran believed this would bring the nation prosperity. He decried the gold standard, concluding the speech, "you shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold". For twenty years, Americans had been bitterly divided over the nation's monetary standard. The gold standard, which the United States had effectively been on since 1873, limited the money supply but eased trade with other nations, such as the United Kingdom, whose currency was also based on gold. Many Americans, however, believed that bimetallism (making both gold and silver legal tender) was necessary for the nation's economic health. The financial Panic of 1893 intensified the debates, and when President Grover Cleveland (a Democrat) continued to support the gold standard against the will of much of his party, activists became determined to take over the Democratic Party organization and nominate a silver-supporting candidate in 1896. Bryan had been a dark horse candidate with little support in the convention. His speech, delivered at the close of the debate on the party platform, electrified the convention and is generally credited with earning him the nomination for president. However, he lost the general election to William McKinley, and the United States formally adopted the gold standard in 1900. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/campaigning-and-the-presidency-historical-audio-mp3-c3.html

Today's EarthStation1.com 15% Off Commemorative Memorial Title: Clive James' Fame In The 20th Century TV Series DVD Set MP4 USB Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1922: The Olympic Games (The Olympics): The 1924 Summer Olympics: (French: Jeux Olympiques D'Ete De 1924) (The Games Of The VIII Olympiad (French: Jeux De La VIIIe Olympiade) Paris 1924): The 100 M Freestyle Swimming Competition: -- Johnny Weissmuller swims the 100 meters freestyle in 58.6 seconds, breaking the world swimming record and the 'minute barrier'. Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters (50 yards) and reaching 1500 meters (1650 yards), also known as the mile. The term 'freestyle stroke' is sometimes used as a synonym for 'front crawl', as front crawl is the fastest swimming stroke. It is now the most common stroke used in freestyle competitions. Johnny Weissmuller, Austro-Hungarian-born American champion competition swimmer, Olympic gold medalist, Olympic bronze medalist, water polo player and actor (June 2, 1904 - January 20, 1984) was born Janos (Johann) Peter Weissmuller in Freidorf, in the Hungarian part of Austria-Hungary (now part of Romania). Weissmuller was known for playing Edgar Rice Burroughs' ape man Tarzan in films of the 1930s and 1940s and for having one of the best competitive swimming records of the 20th century. Weissmuller was one of the world's fastest swimmers in the 1920s, winning five Olympic gold medals for swimming and one bronze medal for water polo. Johnny Weissmuller was undefeated in official competition for the entirety of his competitive career. He was the first to break the one minute barrier for 100-meter freestyle, and the first to swim 440-yard freestyle under five minutes. He won fifty-two U.S. national championships and set more than 50 world records (spread over both freestyle and backstroke). After retiring from competitions, he became the sixth actor to portray Tarzan, a role he played in twelve feature films. Dozens of other actors have also played Tarzan, but Weissmuller is by far the best known. Weissmuller's distinctive Tarzan yell is still often used in films in his legacy. Johnny Weissmuller died on January 20, 1984 from pulmonary edema at the age of 79. He was buried just outside Acapulco, Valle de La Luz at the Valley of the Light Cemetery. As his coffin was lowered into the ground, a recording of the Tarzan yell he invented was played three times, at his request. He was honored with a 21-gun salute, befitting a head-of-state, which was arranged by Senator Ted Kennedy and President Ronald Reagan. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/clive-james39-fame-in-the-20th-century-tv-series-dvd-set-mp4-usb-39204.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1823: #BOTD: #HBD! Phineas Gage, Vermont railroad construction foreman remembered for his improbable survival of an accident in which a large iron rod was driven completely through his head, long known for and as the American Crowbar Case (d. May 21, 1860) is #born Phineas P. Gage (middle name not known) in Grafton County, New Hampshire, the first of five children born to Jesse Eaton Gage and Hannah Trussell (Swetland) Gage; little is known about his upbringing and education beyond that he was literate, and his birth date is uncertain. Physician John Martyn Harlow, who knew Gage before his accident, described him as "a perfectly healthy, strong and active young man, twenty-five years of age, nervo-bilious temperament, five feet six inches in height, average weight one hundred and fifty pounds, possessing an iron will as well as an iron frame; muscular system unusually well developed - having had scarcely a day's illness from his childhood to the date of injury". On September 13, 1848, Phineas P. Gage survived an iron rod 1 1/4 inches (3.2 cm) in diameter being driven completely through his head, destroying much of his brain's left frontal lobe; the reported effects on his behavior and personality over the remaining 12 years of his life, effects sufficiently profound that friends saw him as "no longer Gage", stimulate thinking about the nature of the brain and its functions. Surgeon H. F. Campbell wrote in the Ohio Medical & Surgical Journal his 1851 article "Injuries of the Cranium - Trepanning" that this was "the case which more than all others is calculated to excite our wonder, impair the value of prognosis, and even to subvert our physiological doctrines". Phineas Gage influenced 19th-century discussion about the mind and brain, particularly debate on cerebral localization, and was perhaps the first case to suggest the brain's role in determining personality, and that damage to specific parts of the brain might induce specific mental changes. Gage is a fixture in the curricula of neurology, psychology, and neuroscience, one of the great medical curiosities of all time and a part of medical folklore, frequently mentioned in books and scientific papers. Despite this celebrity, the body of established fact about Gage and what he was like (whether before or after his injury) is small, with Gage acting as a "Rorschach inkblot" in which proponents of various conflicting theories of the brain all saw support for their views. Historically, published accounts of Gage (including scientific ones) have almost always severely exaggerated and distorted his behavioral changes, frequently contradicting the known facts. A report of Gage's physical and mental condition shortly before his death implies that his most serious mental changes were temporary, so that in later life he was far more functional, and socially far better adapted, than in the years immediately following his accident. A social recovery hypothesis suggests that his work as a stagecoach driver in Chile fostered this recovery by providing daily structure which allowed him to regain lost social and personal skills. Phineas Gage died in status epilepticus, a single seizure lasting more than five minutes or two or more seizures within a five-minute period without the person returning to normal between them, late in the day in or near San Francisco, California. According to John Martyn Harlow's 1868 "Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar through the Head", On May 18, 1860, Gage "left Santa Clara and went home to his mother. At 5 o'clock, A.M., on the 20th, he had a severe convulsion. The family physician was called in, and bled him. The convulsions were repeated frequently during the succeeding day and night, He was buried in San Francisco's Lone Mountain Cemetery. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/pioneers-of-surgery-dvd-set-4-episode-tv-series-2-dis42.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1878: #BOTD: #HBD! H. V. Kaltenborn, pioneer American radio commentator heard regularly on the radio for over 30 years, beginning with CBS in 1928, known for his highly precise diction, his ability to ad-lib, and his depth of knowledge of world affairs, called "The Dean Of Radio Commentators" by Edward R. Murrow and others (d. June 14, 1965) is #born Hans von Kaltenborn in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and grew up in Merrill, Wisconsin. He began his career as a newspaper reporter, but moved to radio when it began to establish itself as a bona fide source of news. When he was 19, he ran away from home and joined the 4th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment to fight in the Spanish-American War. The war ended two months after his enlistment before the regiment could go overseas, however Kaltenborn wrote articles from his training camp for the Wisconsin newspaper the Merrill Advocate, becoming editor of the paper following his demobilisation. He left the Advocate to spend time in Europe; returning to take a job with the Brooklyn Daily Eagle. At 24, he went to college, enrolling as a special student at Harvard University. When he finished, he returned to the Eagle, traveling during summers to distant locales. Returning to the United States in January, 1908, Kaltenborn met the 20 year old Olga von Nordenflycht, the American-born daughter of the German Consul General based in Chicago. Their shipboard romance became a long-distance courtship. He realised that Olga, who was also a linguist and writer who loved travel, was the woman for him. Following his graduation from Harvard and rejoining The Brooklyn Eagle, the couple returned to Berlin in 1910 for their marriage and a honeymoon tour of Europe. Hans and Olga remained married until he died 55 years later. The couple had two children, daughter Olga Anais (1911-1980), and son, Rolf (1915-1995). They had seven grandchildren and six great grandchildren. Olga died in 1977 at age 88. During World War I some regarded him as a German sympathiser with Kaltenborn dropping the "Von" from his surname. He was no relation to General Hans von Kaltenborn-Stachau, a former Prussian Minister of War. Kaltenborn made radio history on a number of occassions. Kaltenborn addressed the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce while speaking from an experimental radio station in Newark, N.J. on April 21, 1921 where the group had assembled there to see the new invention of radio. A year later on April 4, 1922, he made the first of what later became a regular series of radio talks on current events. Kaltenborn called them the "first spoken editorials ever heard by a radio audience." Kaltenborn was one of the first news readers to provide analysis and insight into current news stories. His vast knowledge of foreign affairs and international politics amply equipped him for covering crises in Europe and the Far East in the 1930s. His vivid reporting of the Spanish Civil War and the Czech crisis of 1938 helped establish the credibility of radio news in the public mind and helped to overcome the nation's isolationist sensibilities. As authors Christopher H. Sterling and John M. Kittross wrote, Kaltenborn reported on the Spanish Civil War "while hiding in a haystack between the two armies. Listeners in America could hear bullets hitting the hay above him while he spoke." Kaltenborn was known as a commentator who never read from a script. His "talks" were extemporaneous[ly] created from notes he had previously written. His analysis was welcome into homes especially during the war and the time leading up to America's entry into it. He had an international reputation and was able to speak intelligently about events because he had interviewed many of those involved. From the contacts he developed in his travels and his ability to speak fluent German and French, Kaltenborn seemed chosen for the role he developed at CBS. One of his most famous periods was during the Munich crisis in 1938. Much of what listeners heard was Kaltenborn speaking without script even after sometimes having been up for most of a night covering the breaking news. Some claimed that when Kaltenborn was awakened during the Munich vigil, one merely had to utter Munich and Kaltenborn could talk for hours on the subject. Kaltenborn joined NBC in 1940. On election night in 1948, he and Bob Trout, a former CBS colleague, were at the NBC news desk to broadcast the returns of the White House race between President Harry S. Truman and challenger Thomas E. Dewey. Throughout the evening, the returns were too close to call. As the evening progressed, Kaltenborn could see a swing in Dewey's favor. It was enough for him to project Dewey the winner, although the returns were still close. What Kaltenborn did not foresee was another swing in the votes going to Truman. As evening turned to early morning, Kaltenborn retracted his original projection and announced Truman as the winner. On his newscast, Kaltenborn described how Truman did a remarkably accurate impersonation of Kaltenborn and his description of how Truman was losing the election. Kaltenborn later stated, "We can all be human with Truman. Beware of that man in power who has no sense of humor". Another incident of embarrassment came when Dizzy Dean was Kaltenborn's guest on the program. Exasperated by Dean mispronouncing his name - various sources say "Cattlinbomb", "Cottonborn", etc. - Kaltenborn decided to throw the pitcher a curve and asked him what he would do about Russia. Dean didn't miss a beat. He said, "I'd take some bats and balls and gloves and sneak them behind the Iron Curtain and teach them Rooshin kids how to play baseball. Why if Joe Stallion knowed how much money there was in concessions, he'd get out of politics and into an honest business". Though Kaltenborn left full-time broadcasting in 1953, he provided analyses during NBC's television coverage of the Republican and Democratic conventions in 1956. Those live newscasts were anchored by Chet Huntley and David Brinkley in their first on-air pairing. Kaltenborn was in his mid-seventies when the television age arrived, and some see his time in TV as a disappointment. Forever the radio newsman, Kaltenborn would report everything, including the movements of the subject he was describing, despite the fact that millions of people were watching it. Kaltenborn was also a regular panelist on the NBC television series Who Said That?, in which a panel of celebrities attempt to determine the speaker of a quotation from recent news reports. Kaltenborn had very specific views about radio's role in presenting the news. Later in life he wrote on the subject in many of his books. He was one of four journalists who portrayed themselves in the 1951 film The Day the Earth Stood Still. Kaltenborn also appears as himself both in the 1939 Frank Capra film Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, and the 1948 film The Babe Ruth Story. Kaltenborn also provided "The Voice of Tomorrow" at the 1939 New York World's Fair. In 1944 Kaltenborn received the Alfred I. duPont Award. The National Radio Hall of Fame inducted Kaltenborn in 2011. H. V. Kaltenborn died on July 9, 1878 of a heart attack in New York City at the age of 86. He is buried at Union Cemetery in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/charles-a-lindbergh-dvd-documentary-films.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1863: The American Civil War (The Civil War, The War Between The States): The Western Theater Of The American Civil War: The Battles Of The Lower Seaboard Theater And Gulf Approach Of The American Civil War: The Siege Of Port Hudson: -- The Union gains complete control of the Mississippi River as the siege of Louisiana's Port Hudson ends. On May 22, 1863, Union forces had begun the Siege Of Port Hudson, Louisiana, which lasts 48 days, the longest siege in U.S. military history. It was the final engagement in the Union campaign to recapture the Mississippi in the American Civil War. While Union General Ulysses Grant was besieging Vicksburg upriver, General Nathaniel Banks was ordered to capture the Confederate stronghold of Port Hudson, in order to go to Grant's aid. When his assault failed, Banks settled into a 48-day siege. A second attack also failed, and it was only after the fall of Vicksburg that the Confederate commander, General Franklin Gardner surrendered the port. The Union gained control of the river and navigation from the Gulf of Mexico through the Deep South and to the river's upper reaches. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/the-siege-of-vicksburg-american-civil-war-dvd-mp4-download-usb-driv4.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1945: The History Of Rocketry: Science And Technology During World War II: Science And Technology In Nazi Germany: Research And Development In Nazi Germany (R & D In Nazi Germany): Wunderwaffen (German: "Wonder Weapons", "Miracle Weapons"); V-Weapons (German: Vergeltungswaffen, "Vengeance Weapons", "Retaliatory Weapons", "Reprisal Weapons"): The V-2 (The V-2 Rocket, German: Vergeltungswaffe 2, "Vengeance Weapon 2"; Aggregat 4, German: "Aggregate 4", A-4): The V-2 Sounding Rocket: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Captured V-2 Rockets: American Captured V-2 Rockets: The White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) (The Alamogordo Bombing And Gunnery Range, The White Sands Proving Ground [WSPG]) -- The United States Army establishes the military testing area and firing range known as The White Sands Proving Ground (WSPG), which had been The Alamogordo Bombing And Gunnery Range, and is now known as The White Sands Missile Range (WSMR), in White Sands, New Mexico. After the conclusion of World War II, 100 long-range German V-2 rockets that were captured by U.S. military troops were brought to WSPG. Of these, 67 were test-fired between 1946 and 1951 from the White Sands V-2 Launching Site. The first successful launch of one of these American V-2 rockets occurred on May 10, 1946. On October 24, 1946, a camera on board the V-2 No. 13 rocket took the first photograph of earth from outer space. Known unofficially as the White Sands rocket (official name V-2 No. 13), it was a modified V2 rocket. The rocket reached a maximum altitude of 65 miles (105 km). The famous photograph was taken with an attached DeVry 35mm black-and-white motion picture camera. This motion picture serves as the episode opening segment of "The Twentieth Century With Walter Cronkite" television documentary series. Th American V-2 test series project was followed by testing of American-made rockets, which tests continue to this day, along with tests of other aeronautical technologies. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/one-small-step-the-space-race-to-land-a-man-on-the-moon-dvd-mp4-us4.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1962: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Nuclear Warfare: Nuclear Weapons Testing: American Nuclear Warfare: American Nuclear Weapons Testing: Operation Fishbowl: Starfish Prime Test: -- The effects of a nuclear test at orbital altitudes are studied as part of Starfish Prime, a high-altitude nuclear test conducted by the United States, a joint effort of the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) and the Defense Atomic Support Agency. It was launched from Johnston Island, and was the largest nuclear test conducted in outer space and one of five conducted by the US in space. A Thor rocket carrying a W49 thermonuclear warhead (manufactured by Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory) and a Mk. 2 reentry vehicle was launched from Johnston Island in the Pacific Ocean, about 1,450 kilometres (900 mi) west-southwest of Hawaii. The explosion took place at an altitude of 250 miles (400 km), above a point 19 miles (31 km) southwest of Johnston Island. It produced a yield equivalent to 1.4 megatonnes of TNT. The explosion was about 10 degrees above the horizon as seen from Hawaii, at 11 PM Hawaii time. Ariel 1 was among several satellites inadvertently damaged or destroyed by the Starfish Prime high-altitude nuclear test on July 9, 1962, and subsequent radiation belt. Its solar panels sustained damage from the irradiation, affecting Ariel 1's operations. The satellite operated even after the nuclear test. The radiation disabled the timer that would have deactivated the satellite after one year, effectively extending the satellite's life. It decayed from orbit on May 24, 1976. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/nuclear-war-films-12-dvd-operation-fishbo12.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1955: The Aftermath Of World War II: The Cold War: Nuclear Arms Race: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto: Nuclear Weapons Policy: Nuclear Weapons Governance: The Russell-Einstein Manifesto: -- In the midst of the Cold War, Bertrand Russell issues The Russell-Einstein Manifesto in London, which calls for a reduction of the risk of nuclear warfare. It highlighted the dangers posed by nuclear weapons and called for world leaders to seek peaceful resolutions to international conflict. The signatories included eleven pre-eminent intellectuals and scientists, including Albert Einstein, who signed it just days before his death on April 18 1955; Max Born, Percy W. Bridgman, Leopold Infeld, Frederic Joliot-Curie, Hermann J. Muller, Linus Pauling, Cecil F. Powell, Joseph Rotblat, Hideki Yukawa and Bertrand Russell. A few days after the release, philanthropist Cyrus S. Eaton offered to sponsor a conference - called for in the manifesto - in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, Eaton's birthplace. This conference, held in July 1957, was to be the first of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs. The manifesto called for a conference where scientists would assess the dangers posed to the survival of humanity by weapons of mass destruction. Emphasis was placed on the meeting being politically neutral. It extended the question of nuclear weapons to all people and governments. One particular phrase is quoted often, including by Rotblat upon receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995: "Remember your humanity, and forget the rest." On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/bertrand-russell-face-to-face-interview-mp4-video-download-or-dvd.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1937: Film (Motion Pictures): The History Of The Film Industry (The History Of The Motion Picture Industry): Lost Films: Film Fires: The 1937 Fox Vault Fire: -- The silent film archives of Fox Film Corporation are destroyed by the 1937 Fox vault fire, a major fire broke out in a 20th Century Fox film storage facility in Little Ferry, New Jersey, United States. It was caused by the spontaneous combustion of nitrate film stored in inadequately-ventilated vaults. The fire resulted in one death and two injuries, and destroyed all of the film in the vault. This fire was responsible for the loss of most of the silent films produced by Fox Film Corporation before 1932. Also destroyed were Educational Pictures negatives and films of several other studios. It brought attention to the potential for decaying nitrate film to spontaneously ignite, and changed the focus of film preservation efforts to include a greater focus on fire safety. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/hollywood-1980-tv-documentary-series-13-shows-4-dual-lay1980134.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1992: Crime: Crime In China: Organized Crime: Organized Crime Triads: Kowloon Walled City: -- Filming of the Hong Kong action crime thriller film Crime Story begins, providing the last look at Kowloon Walled City before its demolition began on March 23, 1993. Crime Story, also known as New Police Story, released in the Philippines as Police Dragon, was directed by Kirk Wong, and stars Jackie Chan, Kent Cheng, Law Kar-ying and Puishan Au-yeung. The film was released in Hong Kong on June 24, 1993, three months after the demolition of Kowloon began. Unlike most Jackie Chan films, which feature a combination of action and comedy, Crime Story is mostly a serious film. The film is based on actual events surrounding the 1990 kidnapping of Chinese businessman Teddy Wang, wealthy founder of the Chinachem Group corporation. Kowloon Walled City was an ungoverned, densely populated de jure Chinese enclave within the boundaries of Kowloon City, Hong Kong. Originally a Chinese military fort, the walled city became an enclave after the New Territories were leased to the United Kingdom by China in 1898. Its population increased dramatically following the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong during World War II. By 1990, the walled city contained 50,000 residents within its 2.6-hectare (6.4-acre) borders. From the 1950s to the 1970s, it was controlled by local triads and had high rates of prostitution, gambling, and drug abuse. In January 1987, the Hong Kong government announced plans to demolish the walled city. After an arduous eviction process, and the transfer of de jure sovereignty of the enclave from China to Britain, demolition began in March 1993 and was completed in April 1994. Kowloon Walled City Park opened in December 1995 and occupies the area of the former walled city. Some historical artefacts from the walled city, including its yamen building and remnants of its southern gate, have been preserved there. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/heaven-man-earth-the-organized-crime-of-the-chinese-triads-dvd.html

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July 9, 1947: #BOTD: O. J. Simpson, American football player who played in the National Football League (NFL) for 11 seasons, primarily with the Buffalo Bills, actor, media personality and convicted criminal, presumed murderer of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman (d. April 10, 2024) is #born Orenthal James Simpson in San Francisco, California, the son of Eunice (nee Durden), an orderly at a psychiatric ward, and Jimmy Lee Simpson, a custodian for a Federal Reserve Bank and a private club, a cook and a well-known drag queen in the Bay Area who later in life announced that he was gay, dying of AIDS in 1986. Simpson is regarded as one of the greatest running backs of all time, but his professional success was overshadowed by his trial and controversial acquittal for the murders of his former wife Nicole and her friend Ron Goldman in 1994. Simpson played college football for the USC Trojans, where he won the Heisman Trophy as a senior, and was selected first overall by the Bills in the 1969 NFL/AFL draft. During his nine seasons with the Bills, he received five consecutive Pro Bowl and first-team All-Pro selections from 1972 to 1976. He also led the league in rushing yards four times, in rushing touchdowns twice, and in points scored in 1975. Simpson became the first NFL player to rush for more than 2,000 yards in a season, earning him NFL Most Valuable Player (MVP), and is the only NFL player to do so in a 14-game regular season. He holds the record for the single-season yards-per-game average at 143.1. After retiring with the San Francisco 49ers in 1979, he acted in film and television, became a sportscaster, and was a spokesman for a wide variety of products and companies, notably Hertz. He was inducted to the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983 and the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1985. In June 1994, Simpson was charged with murdering Brown and Goldman after they were stabbed to death in Los Angeles. His eight-month murder trial received international publicity and exacerbated racial divisions in the U.S., culminating with his acquittal in October 1995. Three years later, he was found liable for the murders in a civil suit from the victims' families but paid little the 33.5M USD judgment. In 2007, Simpson was arrested in Las Vegas, Nevada, and charged with armed robbery and kidnapping. He was convicted the following year and sentenced to 33 years' imprisonment with a minimum of nine years without parole. Simpson served his sentence at the Lovelock Correctional Center in rural Nevada until being paroled and released in 2017. For the remainder of his life, he resided in Florida and Nevada, dying from cancer in Las Vegas, aged 76. His remains were cremated, and the ashes given to his children. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/scams-schemes-and-scoundrels-james-randi-vs-con-men-mp4-download-dvd.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1916: #BOTD: #HBD! Joe Liggins, African American R & B, jazz and blues songwriter, pianist and vocalist who led Joe Liggins and his Honeydrippers in the 1940s and 1950s (d. July 26, 1987) is #born Theodro Elliott in Seminole, Oklahoma to Harriett and Elijah Elliott, and took his stepfather's surname, Liggins, as a child. He apparently dropped the name Theodro and adopted the names Joseph Christopher during the 1930s, making his full name Joseph Christopher Liggins, Jr. His band appeared often on the Billboard magazine charts. The band's biggest hit was "The Honeydripper", which topped the US Billboard R & B chart (at that time called the "Race Records" chart) for 18 weeks, during the aftermath months of World War II from September 1945 to January 1946. Joe Liggins' song "Yeah Yeah Yeah" served as an inspiration for The Beatles song "She Loves You". Joe Liggins was the older brother of R & B band leader and guitarist Jimmy Liggins. Joe Liggins died of a stroke, in Lynwood, California, at the age of 71. His burial details are not publicly disclosed. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/armed-forces-radio-presents-jubilee-otr-jazz-music-mp3-dv3.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1946: #BOTD: #HBD! Mitch Mitchell, English drummer and child actor, best known as a teenager as the star of the British children's television programme Jennings At School, as a star in a leading role in the 1960 British film Bottoms Up with Jimmy Edwards, and especially as the drummer of The Jimi Hendrix Experience (d. November 12, 2008) is #born John Graham Mitchell in Ealing, Middlesex, to Phyliss C (nee Preston) and Thomas J Mitchell. He was inducted into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2009. Mitchell became a musician through working at Jim Marshall's drum shop on Saturdays while still at school. Among drummers, his chief influences were Elvin Jones and Tony Williams. One of his first bands was the Soul Messengers, formed at the Ealing Club with saxophonist Terry Marshall, son of Jim Marshall. Early in his career he gained considerable musical experience as a touring and session musician, working with Pete Nelson and the Travellers, Frankie Reid and the Casuals (1962), Johnny Harris and the Shades, the Pretty Things, Bill Knight & the Sceptres, the Riot Squad, and the Who as a session drummer while the band was in the process of replacing Doug Sandom with Keith Moon. In 1965, he also temporarily replaced Viv Prince as drummer in the Pretty Things. From December 1965 until October 1966, Mitchell was the drummer of Georgie Fame and the Blue Flames, appearing on their 1966 album Sweet Things. In a 2015 interview, Fame recalled: "His main hero was jazz drummer Ronnie Stephenson and if you look at early film clips of Mitch, he had that Ronnie Stephenson look, the way he set his jaw. And he loved crashing around on the cymbals like Ronnie, but in my band I liked the arrangements pretty tight. When he started splashing around I'd say 'just play the hi-hat!'". Mitchell auditioned for the Jimi Hendrix Experience on October 6, 1966 and was chosen over Aynsley Dunbar in a coin toss. Mitchell's fast, driving, jazz-influenced playing meshed well with Hendrix's open-ended, revolutionary approach to the electric guitar. He played on the three best-selling Experience studio albums, Are You Experienced (1967), Axis: Bold As Love (1968), and Electric Ladyland (1968). Mitchell remained with Hendrix after the Experience broke up when Noel Redding quit in June 1969. He performed with Hendrix's expanded lineup at Woodstock (August 1969). Mitchell was replaced briefly with Buddy Miles for the Band of Gypsys album (1970), but rejoined Hendrix (with Billy Cox on bass) for the April-September 1970 The Cry of Love Tour. He recorded most of the material for Hendrix's unfinished fourth studio album, which appeared on The Cry of Love (1971), Rainbow Bridge (1971), and War Heroes (1972). In December 1968, Mitchell played with the Dirty Mac, an all-star band assembled for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Others included John Lennon as vocalist and rhythm guitarist "Winston Leg-Thigh"; Yoko Ono providing improvised primal screams; Eric Clapton as guitarist, and Keith Richards as bassist. The group recorded a cover of "Yer Blues" as well as a jam called "Whole Lotta Yoko". While working with Hendrix from late 1969 until early 1970, Mitchell also collaborated with the Jack Bruce and Friends band fronted by ex-Cream bassist/vocalist Jack Bruce, with keyboardist Mike Mandel and jazz-fusion guitarist and future the Eleventh House frontman Larry Coryell. After Hendrix' death, Mitchell finished production work with engineer Eddie Kramer on incomplete Hendrix recordings, resulting in the releases The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge. In 1972, he teamed up with guitarists Mike Pinera and April Lawton to form Ramatam. They recorded the first of Ramatam's two albums and were an opening act for Emerson, Lake & Palmer at a number of concerts. Mitchell and Hendrix had been offered spots in the band Keith Emerson and Greg Lake were forming, but Carl Palmer got the drum position instead. Ramatam never achieved commercial success, and Mitchell left the act before their second album was released. He also performed in concerts with Terry Reid, Jack Bruce, and Jeff Beck as a substitute for drummer Cozy Powell. Mitchell drummed alongside John Halsey in the 1970s jam band Hinkley's Heroes, the only time he played alongside another drummer. In 1974, he auditioned for Paul McCartney's band Wings but lost the part to Geoff Britton in another coin toss. For the rest of the 1970s through to the 1990s, Mitchell, semi-retired and living in Europe, continued to perform and occasionally record. In 1986, Mitchell teamed up with jazz musician Greg Parker and made a music video session of Led Zeppelin's "Black Dog". He did session work on Junior Brown's Long Walk Back album and participated in various Hendrix-related recordings, videos, and interviews. In 1999, Mitchell was part of the Gypsy Sun Experience, along with former Hendrix bassist Billy Cox and guitarist Gary Serkin. He also appeared on Bruce Cameron's album Midnight Daydream that included Billy Cox, Buddy Miles and Jack Bruce. He spent his final days celebrating Hendrix's music on the 2008 Experience Hendrix Tour. For nearly four weeks the tour travelled on an 18-city tour of the US, finishing in Portland, Oregon. The tour also featured Billy Cox, Buddy Guy, Jonny Lang, Robby Krieger, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Eric Johnson, Cesar Rosas, David Hidalgo, Brad Whitford, Hubert Sumlin, Chris Layton, Eric Gales, and Mato Nanji. Five days after the tour ended Mitchell died in his sleep on November 12, in his room at the Benson Hotel in Portland of "natural causes". Mitchell had been in ill health for many years due to alcohol-related problems. He was the last surviving member of the original Experience. Mitchell had planned to leave Portland that day to return to his home in England. He was buried in Seattle. He is survived by his wife, Dee, a daughter, and two grandchildren. Queen drummer Roger Taylor has described Mitchell as his early role model. He said: "I still think listening to Mitch Mitchell, especially the early stuff with Hendrix, is just fantastic". Matt Sorum, drummer with the Cult, Guns N' Roses, and Velvet Revolver, has praised his "pure musicianship" and called him "one of the greatest drummers of all time". In an interview with the Police drummer Stewart Copeland in the late 2000s, Copeland listed the Jimi Hendrix Experience debut album Are You Experienced as his favourite drum album of all time, and relates that as a child in school, he would walk around with drum beats in his head and wonder how Mitch Mitchell would carve out a rhythm were he to play that song. 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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1540: The English Monarchy (The Monarchy Of The Kingdom Of England): The Wives And Mistresses Of Henry VIII: The Wives Of Henry VIII: Royal Annulments: -- King Henry VIII Of England annuls his marriage to his fourth wife, Anne Of Cleves; he had married her only six months prior on January 6, 1540. Born Anna von Kleve, she was Queen Of England from January 6 to July 9, 1540 as the fourth wife of King Henry VIII. Most historians believe that Henry's misgivings about the marriage were blamed on Anne's alleged unsatisfactory appearance and her failure to inspire him to consummate the marriage. He felt that he had been misled after his advisors had praised Anne's beauty: "She is nothing so fair as she hath been reported", he complained. Henry's chief minister Thomas Cromwell received some blame for the Holbein portrait painting of Anne, which Henry believed had not been an accurate representation of her, and for some of the exaggerated reports of her beauty. When the king finally met Anne, he was reportedly shocked by her plain appearance. As the marriage was never consummated, she was not crowned queen consort. Following the annulment, she was given a generous settlement by the King. As former queen, she received a generous settlement, including Richmond Palace, and Hever Castle, home of Henry's former in-laws, the Boleyns. Anne of Cleves House, in Lewes, East Sussex, is just one of many properties she owned, though she never lived there. Henry and Anne became good friends - she was an honorary member of the king's family and was referred to as "the King's Beloved Sister". She was invited to court often and, out of gratitude for her not contesting the annulment, Henry decreed that she would be given precedence over all women in England save his own wife and daughters. Anne lived to see the coronation of Queen Mary I, outliving the rest of Henry' wives, and Henry himself. On Sale @ 15% Off Discount Till Midnight PT! https://store.earthstation1.com/monarchy-in-the-uk-british-royal-history-mp4-video-download-dvd-set.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1999: #DOTD: #RIP: James Farmer, African American activist and politician, co-founded Congress Of Racial Equality (b. January 12, 1920) #dies of complications from diabetes in Fredericksburg, Virginia at the age of 79. His remains were cremated, and his ashes given to his daughters. Among his legacies and honors: A bust of Farmer was installed on the campus of Mary Washington College; In 1987, Mary Washington College created the James Farmer Scholars program, to encourage minority students to enroll in college; In 1995 the City of Marshall renamed Barney Street where Farmer grew up to James Farmer Street in honor of him and his father; In 1998, President Bill Clinton awarded Farmer the Presidential Medal of Freedom; A quote of his chiseled in stone at his memorial at the University of Mary Washington, Fredericksburg, Virginia: "Freedom and equality are inherent rights in the United States: therefore, I encourage young people to take on the task by standing up and speaking out on behalf of people denied those rights. We have not yet finished the job of making our country whole."' In 2012, the Library of Virginia named Farmer as one of its inaugural honorees in its "Strong Men and Women" series of African American trailblazers; and In 2020, the University of Mary Washington renamed the former Trinkle Hall to James Farmer Hall in honor of Dr. Farmer, who spent his final years as a professor of history at the university. James Farmer was born James Leonard Farmer Jr. in Marshall, Texas. James Farmer was a civil rights activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement "who pushed for nonviolent protest to dismantle segregation, and served alongside Martin Luther King Jr." He was the initiator and organizer of the 1961 Freedom Ride, which eventually led to the desegregation of interstate transportation in the United States. In 1942, Farmer co-founded the Committee of Racial Equality in Chicago with George Houser and Bernice Fisher. It was later called the Congress Of Racial Equality (CORE), and was dedicated to ending racial segregation in the United States through nonviolence. Farmer served as the national chairman from 1942 to 1944. He was an honorary vice chairman in the Democratic Socialists of America. By the 1960s, Farmer was known as "one of the Big Four civil rights leaders in the 1960s, together with King, NAACP chief Roy Wilkins and Urban League head Whitney Young.". He was one of the "Big Six", which refer to the chairmen, presidents, and leaders of six prominent civil rights organizations active during the height of the Civil Rights Movement who were instrumental in the organization of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963 (Big Six members: Martin Luther King Jr., James Farmer, John Lewis, A. Philip Randolph, Roy Wilkins, Whitney Young). His life was constantly in danger, not least of all because he was married a white woman, Lula Agnes Peterson (1922-1977), controller for the National Congress of Racial Equality, with whom he had two children. https://store.earthstation1.com/open-mind-race-relations-in-crisis-dvd-june-12-1963-mal121963.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1850: #DOTD: #RIP: Zachary Taylor, career officer in the United States Army nicknamed "Old Rough and Ready" who rose to the rank of major general and become a national hero for his victories in the Mexican-American War, 12th President Of The United States from March 4, 1849 until his death (b. November 24, 1784) #dies suddenly of a stomach disease after eating raw fruit and iced milk in Washington, DC, aged 65; Vice President Fillmore assumed the presidency and served the remainder of his term. He is buried alongside his wife Margaret Mackall Smith Taylor at The Zachary Taylor National Cemetery, a United States National Cemetery located at 4701 Brownsboro Road (US-42), in Louisville, Kentucky. Zachary Taylor won election to the White House riding upon his fame as a military hero, despite his vague political beliefs. His top priority as president was to preserve the Union; he died 16 months into his term; with his administration accomplishing little aside from the ratification of the Clayton-Bulwer Treaty, and having made no progress on the most divisive issue in Congress and the nation: slavery, which had been inflaming tensions in Congress. He remains the only President to come from Louisiana. Zachary Taylor was born into a prominent family of plantation owners in Barboursville, Virginia who moved westward to Louisville, Kentucky, in his youth; he was the last president born before the adoption of the Constitution. He was commissioned as an officer in the U.S. Army in 1808 and made a name for himself as a captain in the War of 1812. He climbed the ranks of the military, establishing military forts along the Mississippi River and entering the Black Hawk War as a colonel in 1832. His success in the Second Seminole War attracted national attention and earned him the nickname "Old Rough and Ready". In 1845, during the annexation of Texas, President James K. Polk dispatched Taylor to the Rio Grande in anticipation of a battle with Mexico over the disputed Texas-Mexico border. The Mexican-American War broke out in April 1846, and Taylor defeated Mexican troops commanded by General Mariano Arista at the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, driving Arista's troops out of Texas. Taylor then led his troops into Mexico, where they defeated Mexican troops commanded by Pedro de Ampudia at the Battle Of Monterrey. Defying orders, Taylor led his troops further south and, despite being severely outnumbered, dealt a crushing blow to Mexican forces under General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna at the Battle of Buena Vista. Taylor's troops were transferred to the command of Major General Winfield Scott, but Taylor retained his popularity. The Whig Party convinced a reluctant Taylor to lead its ticket in the 1848 presidential election, despite his unclear political tenets and lack of interest in politics. At the 1848 Whig National Convention, Taylor defeated Winfield Scott and former Senator Henry Clay for the party's nomination. He won the general election alongside New York politician Millard Fillmore, defeating Democratic Party nominees Lewis Cass and William Orlando Butler, as well as a third-party effort led by former president Martin Van Buren and Charles Francis Adams Sr. of the Free Soil Party. Taylor became the first president to be elected without having previously held political office. As president, he kept his distance from Congress and his Cabinet, even though partisan tensions threatened to divide the Union. Debate over the status of slavery in the Mexican Cession dominated the national political agenda and led to threats of secession from Southerners. Despite being a Southerner and a slaveholder himself, Taylor did not push for the expansion of slavery, and sought sectional harmony above all other concerns. To avoid the issue of slavery, he urged settlers in New Mexico and California to bypass the territorial stage and draft constitutions for statehood, setting the stage for the Compromise Of 1850. Historians and scholars have ranked Taylor in the bottom quartile of U.S. presidents, owing in part to his short term of office (16 months), though he has been described as "more a forgettable president than a failed one". https://store.earthstation1.com/portraits-of-american-presidents-nos-142-tv-series-mp4-download1424.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: The Golden Age Of Second Avenue DVD, MP4 Video Download, Flash Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1939: #DOTD: #RIP: Boris Thomashefsky (Russian: Boris Pinkhasovich Tomashevsky, sometimes written Thomashevsky, Thomaschevsky, etc.; Yiddish: Boris Tomashevsky), Ukrainian-American Jewish singer and actor who became one of the biggest stars in Yiddish theater (b. May 12, 1868) #dies of unspecified causes in New York City, aged 71. Thomashefsky is buried with his wife, who, although separated from him by 1911, never divorced him, in the Yiddish theater section of the Mount Hebron Cemetery, Flushing, Queens, New York. In the third Marx Brothers movie, Monkey Business, Groucho Marx (in defending his right to hide in a gangster's moll's closet) exclaims, "That's what they said to Thomas Edison, mighty inventor, Thomas Lindbergh, mighty flyer, and Thomashefsky, 'mighty like a rose'!" Tribute was also paid in Mel Brooks' stage and film musicals based on his 1968 film The Producers, when Max Bialystock attributes his acumen as a Broadway producer to the tutelage of "the great Boris Thomashefsky" in the song "The King of Broadway". In 2011, Shuler Hensley portrayed Boris Thomashefsky in The Thomashefskys: Music and Memories of a Life in the Yiddish Theater, a concert stage show celebrating the Thomashefskys and the music of American Yiddish theatre hosted by their grandson the conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. The show aired on the PBS series Great Performances in 2012. Boris Thomashefsky was born Boruch-Aharon Thomashefsky in Osytnyazhka (Yiddish: Ositnyashke), a village in the Chyhyryn county of the Kiev Governorate of the Russian Empire (today in the Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine). He grew up in the nearby town of Kamyanka (today in the Cherkasy Oblast, Ukraine), until, at the age of 11, he left for Berdychiv where he trained as a meshoyrer (choir singer) in the renowned synagogue choir of cantor Nisan Belzer. In 1881, he emigrated with his family to the United States, and just a year later, while still a teenager, he was largely responsible for the first performance of Yiddish theater in New York City, in what was to become the Yiddish Theater District. He has been credited as the pioneer of Borscht Belt entertainment. Although Thomashefsky left Imperial Russia at a time when Yiddish theater was still thriving there (it was banned in September 1883), he had never seen it performed prior to the 1882 performance he brought together in New York. Thomashefsky, who was earning some money by singing on Saturdays at the Henry Street Synagogue on the Lower East Side, was also working as a cigarette maker in a sweatshop, where he first heard songs from the Yiddish theater, sung by some of his fellow workers. Thomashefsky managed to convince a local tavern owner to invest in bringing over some performers. The first performance was Abraham Goldfaden's Yiddish operetta ?? ????? (The Witch). The performance was a mild disaster: pious and prosperous "uptown" German Jews opposed to the Yiddish theater did a great deal to sabotage it. His performing career was launched in part due to an instance of this sabotage-bribing the soubrette to fake a sore throat: Thomashefsky went on in her place. Shortly afterward, the teenage Thomashefsky was the pioneer of taking Yiddish theater "on the road" in the United States, performing Goldfaden's plays in cities such as Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Boston and Chicago, all in the 1880s; for much of the 1880s, Chicago was his base. After Yiddish theater was banned in Russia, his tours came to include such prominent actors as Siegmund Mogulesko, David Kessler, and Jacob Adler, with new plays by playwrights such as Moses Ha-Levi Horowitz. In 1887, playing in Baltimore, he met 14-year-old Bessie Baumfeld-Kaufman, when she came backstage to meet the beautiful young "actress" she had seen on stage, only to discover that "she" was Boris. Bessie soon ran away from home to join the company, and eventually took over the ingenue roles, as Boris moved on to romantic male leads. They married in 1891. In 1891, with Mogulesko, Kessler, and Adler all engaged in starting the Union Theater, Moishe Finkel brought the still relatively unknown Thomashefsky back to New York to star at his National Theater, where Thomashefsky became enough of a success in Moses Halevy Horowitz's operetta David ben Jesse as to force the Union Theater temporarily to abandon its highbrow programming and compete head on. After Adler recruited Jacob Gordin as a playwright and found a way to draw the masses to serious theater with Gordin's The Yiddish King Lear, and then turned to Shakespeare's Othello, Thomashefsky decided to show that he could compete on that ground as well, and responded with the first Yiddish production of Shakespeare's Hamlet, in which, by all reports, he acquitted himself excellently. His production of Hamlet was more than just a direct translation; the story was also adapted to make it more accessible to a devout European Jewish audience. At the start of the play, young Hamlet has been away at Rabbinical college, and his uncle has seduced the Queen Mother away from King Hamlet, breaking the old man's heart. There are sectarian jokes regarding communication with angels. Claudius spreads a rumor that Prince Hamlet has succumbed to nihilism while away, but his scheme is discovered and the traitor is sent to Siberia in his nephew's stead. The play ends early, with Hamlet ceremonially marrying Ophelia at her funeral then dying of a broken heart. These types of edits were not uncommon in the Yiddish-language theatre scene. Some critics view it as a step away from immigrant assimilation, others as one step further towards common ground between the new residents and their American neighbors. These productions ushered in what is generally seen as the first great age of Yiddish theater, centered in New York and lasting approximately until a new wave of Jewish immigration in 1905-08 once again resulted in a vogue for broad comedy, vaudeville and light operettas, which the Thomashefskys embraced wholeheartedly, especially in performing Leon Kobrin's plays about immigrant life. Other notable Thomashefsky productions included Yiddish versions of Uncle Tom's Cabin, Goethe's Faust and, unlikely as it may seem, Wagner's Parsifal. According to the Jewish Virtual Library, in an adaptation of Hamlet called Der Yeshiva Bokher (The Yeshiva Student), "a wicked uncle smears rabbinic candidate's reputation by calling him a nihilist and the young man dies of a broken heart." (They don't say whether this was the production that went head-to-head with the Adler/Kessler Othello.) By 1910, Thomashefsky owned a 12-room home on Bedford Avenue in Brooklyn, plus a bungalow by the sea, and 20 acres (81,000 m2) in Hunter, New York, which included an open-air theater, Thomashefsky's Paradise Gardens. Each of his three sons had an Arabian horse. However, in 1915, Thomashefsky filed for bankruptcy, listing assets of 21,900 bucks and debts of 76,297.65 bucks. In 1935, late in his career, Thomashefsky was an actor/singer in Henry Lynn's Yiddish film Bar Mitzvah, in which he played a melodramatic role with gusto and co-produced the film. He sang, Erlekh Zayn (Be Virtuous), a song from a 1924 Yiddish play, Bar Mitzvah. With his wife, actress Bessie Thomashefsky, he had three sons, as well a daughter who died when she was six years old. The third son, Theodore, changed his name to Ted Thomas and became a stage manager. One of Ted Thomas's sons is conductor Michael Tilson Thomas. The first son, Harry, went on to direct the film The Yiddish King Lear (1935), under the auspices of the Federal Theatre Project, and later moved with his mother to Los Angeles. The second son, Mickey, had affairs with two women at the same time, which led to a dramatic murder-attempt/suicide in 1931, reminiscent of his aunt Emma Thomashefsky Finkel's notorious 1904 affair. Both Mickey and his Aunt Emma were left paralyzed by the attempted murders by jealous mates and both later died of complications related to their wounds; Emma, many years later, in 1929, and Mickey, five years after in 1936. Boris Thomashefsky carried on a long-term affair with Yiddish actress Regina Zuckerberg, an Austrian-born actress twenty years younger than Bessie. This caused Boris and Bessie to separate. Both went on to have successful but separate careers. However, Boris became a pauper in the 1930s. Both Thomashefskys did much to shape the world of modern theatre from the follies to Broadway and gave a start to many actors, composers and producers who went on to start and own theaters and movie studios. Even the Gershwin brothers had their start with the Thomashefkys. They were also prominent in addressing controversial social issues of the day and in teaching the Greenhorns how to be Americans. They not only founded theaters and production companies, but had publishing houses and many other successful business adven https://store.earthstation1.com/the-golden-age-of-second-ave-yiddish-theatre-in-america-dvd.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Not So Wild A Dream: Eric Sevareid DVD, Video Download, USB Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1992: #DOTD: #RIP: Eric Sevareid , nicknamed Buddy, American journalist (b. November 26, 1912) #dies of stomach cancer at age 79 in Washington, D.C. His remains were cremated; some of his ashes scattered over Norway, and some were given to his widow Suzanne St. Pierre. Eric Sevareid was born Arnold Eric Sevareid in Velva, North Dakota to Norwegian immigrants; he preserved a strong bond with Norway throughout his life. Adventurous from a young age, several days after he graduated from high school, he and his friend Walter Port embarked on an expedition by canoe from Minneapolis to York Factory on Hudson Bay, sponsored by the Minneapolis Star newspaper (now The Star Tribune). While attending the University of Minnesota, he was an activist against ROTC recruitment on campus. He was one of a group of elite war correspondents hired by pioneering CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow, and thus dubbed "Murrow' Boys". He was the first to report the fall of Paris when it was captured by the Germans during World War II. Traveling into Burma during World War II, his aircraft was shot down and he was rescued from behind enemy lines by a search and rescue team established for that purpose. He was the final journalist to interview Adlai Stevenson before his death. After a long and distinguished career, he followed in Murrow' footsteps as a commentator on the CBS Evening News for 12 years for which he was recognized with Emmy and Peabody Awards. https://store.earthstation1.com/eric-sevareid39s-not-so-wild-a-dream-d39.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1797: #DOTD: #RIP: Edmund Burke, Irish-English philosopher, author, academic, statesman and politician (b. January 12, 1729 ) #dies in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire aged 68, and is buried there alongside his son and brother. Born in Dublin, Burke served as a member of parliament (MP) between 1766 and 1794 in the House Of Commons of Great Britain with the Whig Party after moving to London in 1750. Burke was a proponent of underpinning virtues with manners in society and of the importance of religious institutions for the moral stability and good of the state. These views were expressed in his A Vindication of Natural Society. He criticised the actions of the British government towards the American colonies, including its taxation policies. Burke also supported the rights of the colonists to resist metropolitan authority, although he opposed the attempt to achieve independence. He is remembered for his support for Catholic emancipation, the impeachment of Warren Hastings from the East India Company, and his staunch opposition to the French Revolution. In the 19th century, Burke was praised by both conservatives and liberals. Subsequently in the 20th century, he became widely regarded as the philosophical founder of modern conservatism. On November 1, 1790, Edmund Burke published the political pamphet "Reflections On The Revolution In France", in which he correctly predicted that the French Revolution will end in a disaster. One of the best-known intellectual attacks against the French Revolution, Reflections is a defining tract of modern conservatism as well as an important contribution to international theory. Above all else, it has been one of the defining efforts of Edmund Burke's transformation of "traditionalism into a self-conscious and fully conceived political philosophy of conservatism". In Reflections, Burke asserted that the revolution was destroying the fabric of good society and traditional institutions of state and society and condemned the persecution of the Catholic Church that resulted from it. This led to his becoming the leading figure within the conservative faction of the Whig Party which he dubbed the Old Whigs, as opposed to the pro-French Revolution New Whigs led by Charles James Fox. The pamphlet has not been easy to classify. Before seeing this work as a pamphlet, Burke wrote in the mode of a letter, invoking expectations of openness and selectivity that added a layer of meaning. Academics have had trouble identifying whether Burke, or his tract, can best be understood as "a realist or an idealist, Rationalist or a Revolutionist". Thanks to its thoroughness, rhetorical skill and literary power, it has become one of the most widely known of Burke's writings and a classic text in political theory. In the 20th century, it influenced a number of conservative intellectuals, who recast Burke's Whiggish arguments as a critique of Bolshevik programmes. The statement "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" is often attributed to Burke, despite the debated origin of this quote. In 1770, it is known that Burke wrote in "Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents" "[W]hen bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle." https://store.earthstation1.com/story-of-civilization-will-amp-ariel-durant-mp3-dvd-11-audiobo311.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1974: #DOTD: #RIP: Earl Warren, American jurist and politician, 30th Governor of California (1943-1953), nominee of the Republican Party for Vice President in 1948, as the running mate of Thomas E. Dewey, 14th Chief Justice of the United States, best known for 1) the liberal decisions of the so-called Warren Court, which outlawed segregation in public schools and transformed many areas of American law, especially regarding the rights of the accused, ending public school-sponsored prayers, and requiring "one man-one vote" rules of apportionment of election districts. He made the Supreme Court a power center on a more even basis with Congress and the Presidency, especially through four landmark decisions: Brown v. Board of Education (1954), Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), Reynolds v. Sims (1964), and Miranda v. Arizona (1966); and 2) as the chair what became known as the Warren Commission, which was formed to investigate the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy (b. March 19, 1891) #dies of cardiac arrest at Georgetown University Hospital in Washington, D.C., at 8:10 p.m. on July 9, 1974 at the age of 83. He had been hospitalized since July 2 due to congestive heart failure and coronary insufficiency. On that same day, he was visited by Justices Brennan and Douglas, until 5:30 p.m. Warren could not resist asking his friends whether the Court would order President Nixon to release the sixty-four tapes demanded by the Watergate investigation. Both justices assured him that the court had voted unanimously in United States v. Nixon for the release of the tapes. Relieved, Warren died just a few hours later, safe in the knowledge that the Court he had so loved would force justice on the man who had been his most bitter foe; Warren had closely followed investigations into the Watergate scandal and the Nixon administration's subsequent attempts to cover up that break-in, confirming Warren's low regard for him, privately stating that Nixon was "perhaps the most despicable president that this country has ever had." Warren had his wife and one of his daughters, Nina Elizabeth Brien, at his bedside when he passed away. After he lay in repose in the Great Hall of the United States Supreme Court Building, his funeral was held at Washington National Cathedral, and he was interred at Arlington National Cemetery. Earl Warren was born in Los Angeles, California. He made the Supreme Court a power center on a more even basis with Congress and the Presidency, especially through four landmark decisions: 1) Brown v. Board of Education (1954), which ruled ruling that U.S. state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional; 2) Gideon v. Wainwright (1963), which ruled that the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which sets forth rights related to criminal prosecutions, requires U.S. states to provide attorneys to criminal defendants who are unable to afford their own; 3) Reynolds v. Sims (1964), which ruled that the electoral districts of state legislative chambers must be roughly equal in population; and 4) Miranda v. Arizona (1966), which ruled that law enforcement in the United States must warn a person of their constitutional rights before interrogating them, or else the person's statements cannot be used as evidence at their trial. https://store.earthstation1.com/simple-justice-brown-v-board-of-education-segregation-battle-dvd.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 2002: #DOTD: #RIP: Rod Steiger, American actor noted for his portrayal of offbeat, often volatile and crazed characters, considered one of Hollywood's most charismatic and dynamic stars (b. April 14, 1925) #dies of pneumonia and kidney failure at the age of 77, as a result of complications from surgery for a gallbladder tumor in a Westside hospital in Los Angeles. He is buried in Forest Lawn - Hollywood Hills Cemetery. The film Saving Shiloh, released in 2006, was dedicated to his memory. Rod Steiger was born Rodney Stephen Steiger in Westhampton, New York, the only child of Lorraine (nee Driver) and Frederick Steiger, of French, Scottish and German descent. He is closely associated with the art of method acting, embodying the characters he played, which at times led to clashes with directors and co-stars. He famously starred as Marlon Brando' mobster brother Charlie in On the Waterfront, the title character Sol Nazerman in The Pawnbroker, and his Academy Award winning performance for Best Actor as police chief Bill Gillespie opposite Sidney Poitier in the film In the Heat of the Night. During the 1970s, Steiger increasingly turned to European productions in his search for more demanding roles, such as portraying Napoleon Bonaparte in Waterloo (1970). https://store.earthstation1.com/waterloo-napoleon-wellington-blucher-steiger-plummer-welles-dvd.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1938: #BOTD: #HBD! Brian Dennehy, American actor of stage, television, and film (d. April 15, 2020) is #born Brian Manion Dennehy in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A winner of one Golden Globe, two Tony Awards and a recipient of six Primetime Emmy Award nominations, Dennehy had roles in over 180 films and in many television and stage productions. His film roles included First Blood (1982), Gorky Park (1983), Silverado (1985), Cocoon (1985), F/X (1986), Presumed Innocent (1990), Romeo + Juliet (1996), Ratatouille (2007), and Knight of Cups (2015). In the Day One, winner of the 1989 Emmy award for Outstanding Drama/Comedy Special, Dennehy starred as General Leslie Groves, head of the Manhatten Project to develop the Atomic Bomb. Dennehy won the Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Miniseries or Television Film for his role as Willy Loman in the television film Death of a Salesman (2000). According to Variety, Dennehy was "perhaps the foremost living interpreter" of playwright Eugene O'Neill's works on stage and screen. He had a decades long relationship with Chicago's Goodman Theatre where much of his O'Neill work originated. He also regularly played Canada's Stratford Festival, especially in works by William Shakespeare and Samuel Beckett. He once gave credit for his award-winning performances to the play's authors: "When you walk with giants, you learn how to take bigger steps." Dennehy was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame in 2010. Brian Dennehy died of cardiac arrest caused by sepsis at his home in New Haven, Connecticut, aged 81. His remains were cremated, and his ashes were given to his wife of thirty years Jennifer Arnott. https://store.earthstation1.com/day-one-dvd-before-hiroshima-and-after-docudrama-2-disc2.html

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July 9, 1951: #BOTD: #HBD! Chris Cooper, American actor who has appeared in several major Hollywood films, including American Beauty (1999), October Sky (1999), The Bourne Identity (2002), Seabiscuit (2003), Capote (2005), Syriana (2005), The Kingdom (2007), Where the Wild Things Are (2009), The Town (2010), The Muppets (2011), Cars 3 (2017), A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood (2019), and Little Women (2019) is #born Christopher Walton Cooper in Kansas City, Missouri. Cooper's early performances include John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan; the 1989 CBS-TV Western miniseries Lonesome Dove; the 1991 indie Western drama Thousand Pieces of Gold, and the 1992 ABC-TV docudrama Bed of Lies, opposite Susan Dey. He also portrayed Sheriff July Johnson in the acclaimed miniseries Lonesome Dove (1989), which became one of the most successful Westerns in history. Cooper won both the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role as John Laroche in the 2002 film Adaptation. He played a lead role in the historical and political thriller Breach (2007), playing FBI agent and traitor Robert Hanssen. He played Daniel Sloan in the 2012 political thriller The Company You Keep, and Norman Osborn in The Amazing Spider-Man 2 (2014). He also portrayed Al Templeton on the 2016 Hulu miniseries 11.22.63. He is a frequent collaborator with director John Sayles, including Matewan (1987), City of Hope (1991), Lone Star (1996), Silver City (2004) and Amigo (2010). https://store.earthstation1.com/thousand-pieces-of-gold-1991-dvd-rosalind-chao-chris-co1991.html

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July 9, 2019: #DOTD: #RIP: Rip Torn, American actor whose career spanned more than 60 years (b. February 6, 1931) #dies at his home in Lakeville, Connecticut, at the age of 88 due to complications from Alzheimer's disease. He is buried at the Poughkeepsie Rural Cemetery in Poughkeepsie, New York. Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. in Temple, Texas, the son of Elmore Rual "Tiger" Torn Sr., and Thelma Mary Torn (nee Spacek). The senior Elmore was an agriculturalist and economist who worked to promote the consumption of black-eyed peas, particularly as a custom on New Year's Day. Thelma was an aunt of actress Sissy Spacek. The family is of German, Austrian, and Czech/Moravian ancestry. The nickname "Rip" is a family tradition among men in the Torn family, having been used by his father, uncle, and a cousin. Rip Torn was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for playing Marsh Turner in Cross Creek (1983). Torn's portrayal of Artie the producer on The Larry Sanders Show received six Emmy Award nominations, winning in 1996. He also won an American Comedy Award for Funniest Supporting Male in a Series, and two CableACE Awards for his work on the show, and for his roles as Zed in the Men in Black franchise (1997-2002) and Patches O'Houlihan in Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story (2004). Appearing as an interview subject in Studs Terkel's 1974 oral-history book Working, Torn confessed, "I have certain flaws in my make-up. Something called irascibility. I get angry easily. I get saddened by things easily." While filming Maidstone (1968), Torn struck director and star Norman Mailer in the head with a hammer. With the camera rolling, Mailer bit Torn's ear and they wrestled to the ground. The fight continued until it was broken up by cast and crew members. The fight is featured in the film. Although the scene may have been planned by Torn, the blood shed by both actors was real, and Torn was reportedly outraged by Mailer's direction. In 1994, he filed a defamation lawsuit against Dennis Hopper over a story Hopper told on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Hopper claimed that Torn pulled a knife on him during pre-production of the film Easy Rider (1969). According to Hopper, Torn was originally cast in the film, but was replaced with Jack Nicholson after the incident. Torn claimed in his lawsuit that Hopper pulled the knife on him. A trial court judge ruled in Torn's favor and Hopper was ordered to pay 475K USD in compensatory damages, but denied Torn's request for punitive damages, ruling Hopper had not acted with malice. Hopper appealed. On April 1, 1998, a California appellate court upheld the ruling for compensatory damages, and reversed the ruling for the punitive damages, requiring Hopper to pay another 475K USD. https://store.earthstation1.com/hiailuze1mp4.html

Today's EarthStation1.com #OnThisDay Commemorative Memorial Title: Song Of The South (1946) Feature Film DVD, Video Download, USB Drive

Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 1948: #DOTD: #RIP: James Baskett, African American actor and singer, the first Black male performer to receive an Oscar, and the last adult actor to receive an Honorary Oscar for a single performance, for his portrayal of Uncle Remus in the 1946 Disney feature film Song Of The South in which he became famous for singing "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" (b. February 16, 1904) #dies at his home of heart failure resulting from diabetes at age 44. He is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. He was survived by his wife Margaret and his mother Elizabeth. He is buried at Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis. James Baskett was born James Franklin Baskett in Indianapolis, Indiana. He began his performing career in New York City where he joined up with Bill 'Mr. Bojangles' Robinson. Using the name Jimmie Baskette, he appeared with Louis Armstrong on Broadway in the 1929 black musical revue Hot Chocolates and in several all-black New York films, including Harlem is Heaven (1932). He later moved to Los Angeles, California, and had a supporting role in the film Straight to Heaven (1939), starring Nina Mae McKinney. In 1941 he voiced Fats Crow in the animated Disney film Dumbo, and he also had bit parts in several B movies, including that of Lazarus in Revenge of the Zombies (1943), a porter in The Heavenly Body (1944), and native tribal leader Orbon in Jungle Queen (1945). From 1944 until 1948, he was part of the cast of the Amos 'n' Andy Show live radio program as lawyer Gabby Gibson. In 1945, he auditioned for a bit part voicing one of the animals in the new Disney feature film Song of the South (1946), based on the Uncle Remus stories by Joel Chandler Harris. Walt Disney was impressed with Baskett's talent and hired him on the spot for the lead role of Uncle Remus. Baskett was also given the voice role of Brer Fox, one of the film's animated antagonists, and also filled in as the main animated protagonist, Brer Rabbit, in one sequence. This was one of the first Hollywood portrayals of a black actor as a non-comic character in a leading role in a film meant for general audiences. Baskett was prohibited from attending the film's premiere in Atlanta, Georgia, because Atlanta was racially segregated by law. Although Baskett was occasionally criticized for accepting such a "demeaning" role (most of his acting credits were that of African American stereotypes), his acting was almost universally praised, and columnist Hedda Hopper, along with Walt Disney, was one of the many journalists and personalities who declared that he should receive an Academy Award for his work. Baskett had been in poor health during the filming of Song of the South due to diabetes and he suffered a heart attack in December 1946 shortly after the film's release. His health continued to decline, and he was often unable to attend the Amos 'n' Andy radio show he was on, missing almost half of the 1947-1948 season. On July 9, 1948, during the show's summer hiatus, James Baskett died. https://store.earthstation1.com/song-of-the-south-dvd-1946-movie-and-animation-fea1946.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 2013: #DOTD: #RIP: Toshi Seeger, German-born Japanese American filmmaker, producer and environmental activist, wife of legendary American folk musician Pete Seeger (b. July 1, 1922) #dies at her home in Beacon, New York, nine days before what would have been her 70th wedding anniversary, and eight days after her 91st birthday. She was surrounded by her husband; their children Daniel, Mika and Tinya; six grandchildren, including singer Tao Rodriguez-Seeger; and one great-grandson. Her remains were cremated, and the ashes given to her widower Pete Seeger, who died six months later, on January 27, 2014, aged 94. Toshi Seeger was born Toshi Aline Ohta in Munich, Weimar Republic, German Reich to Virginia Harper Berry, an American originally from Washington, D.C., and Takashi Ohta, a Japanese exile from Shikoku; her grandfather, who had translated Marxist writings into Japanese, had been ordered to leave Japan - however, Takashi Ohta took his father's place, as permitted under Japanese law at the time, and went into exile. He met Virginia Berry while traveling, and they married and lived in Munich. Toshi and her parents moved to the United States when she was six months old and she was raised in Greenwich Village and Woodstock, New York. She attended the Little Red School House in Manhattan and graduated from The High School of Music & Art in 1940. A filmmaker who specialized in the subject of folk music, Toshi's credits include the 1966 film Afro-American Work Songs In A Texas Prison and the Emmy Award-winning documentary Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, released through PBS in 2007. In 1966, Seeger and her husband, folk-singer Pete Seeger, co-founded the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater, which seeks to protect the Hudson River and surrounding wetlands. Additionally, they co-founded the Clearwater Festival (officially known as The Great Hudson River Revival), a major music festival held annually at Croton Point Park in Westchester County, New York. She met her future husband, Pete Seeger, at a square dance in 1939. The couple married in 1943 with an engagement ring bought with money borrowed from Pete's grandmother. In 1949 they moved to a log cabin without running water or electricity, with a view of the Hudson River. She has been credited as the foundation of Seeger's personal and professional success. Toshi, along with their children, went with Pete to his hearings before the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in Washington during the 1950s. Pete Seeger was cited for contempt of Congress in 1961, but his conviction was later overturned. Toshi Seeger helped to set up the Newport Folk Festival during the early 1960s. She has also been credited with helping to discover Mississippi John Hurt, a country blues musician, during the same era. In 1965, she took part in The March From Selma To Montgomery, Alabama. She developed a career as a filmmaker and producer, often focusing on folk music and musicians. Many of her films are preserved at the Library of Congress. In 1966, she released Afro-American Work Songs In A Texas Prison, which focused on the traditional songs sung by Texas prison inmates as they chopped down trees. When Pete Seeger's ban from television appearances for his political views was lifted in 1965, Toshi produced and directed a public television series, Rainbow Quest, hosted by her husband 1965 to 1966. Her official credited title for the show was "Chief Cook And Bottle Washer." Toshi and Pete Seeger co-founded both the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater and its related musical offshoot, The Great Hudson River Revival, also known as the "Clearwater Festival". She used the festival to rally public support for cleaning up the Hudson River. Under her direction, the festival also instituted a number of ideas which were not utilized at other music festivals during the 1970s and 1980s, providing sign language interpreters, disabled-accessible wheelchair access, and recycling programs. She recruited up-and-coming musical artists to perform at the festival through its planning committee, including Tracy Chapman, before they achieved popularity elsewhere. The Clearwater Festival now attracts more than 15,000 attendees to Croton Point Park each summer. Toshi Seeger executive produced the 2007 PBS documentary, Pete Seeger: The Power of Song, which won an Emmy Award. She was 85 years old at the time of the documentary's production. She served on numerous civic, environmental and artistic organizations, including the New York State Council on the Arts. https://store.earthstation1.com/the-weavers-wasn39t-that-a-time-dvd-1981-docum391981.html

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Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:00:00 PDT

July 9, 2004: #DOTD: #RIP: Isabel Sanford, African American stage, film, and television actress and comedian, best known for her role as Louise "Weezy" Mills Jefferson on the CBS sitcoms All in the Family (1971-1975) and The Jeffersons (1975-1985) #dies at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, California at the age of 86. Her publicist attributed it to unspecified natural causes. She is interred at Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles. For her contribution to the television industry, Isabel Sanford has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame located at 7080 Hollywood Boulevard. Isabel Sanford was born Eloise Gwendolyn Sanford in Harlem, New York City. In 1981, she became the second African-American actress to win a Primetime Emmy Award after Gail Fisher and the first African-American actress to win for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. https://store.earthstation1.com/color-adjustment-40-years-of-black-americans-on-tv-dvd-download-u40.html