FAMOUS MOMENTS IN HISTORY
In 1752 he performed his famous kite experiment in a rainstorm with his son William.
BEN FRANKLIN
He made a famous over the shoulder catch in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series
WILLIE MAYS
Cary Grant escapes a crop dusting plane in this Hitchcock film
NORTH BY NORTHWEST
In 1905 he taught us E=mc squared.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
In 1968 this music legend recorded his album 'LIVE AT FOLSOM PRISON'
JOHNNY CASH
On December 26, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware leading to this Battle that helped turn the War in our favor.
THE BATTLE OF TRENTON
He missed a 47 yard field goal in Super Bowl 25, giving the Giants the win, instead of the Buffalo Bills.
SCOTT NORWOOD
He won his first Oscar for the animated short 'Flowers and Trees' in 1932. He went on to win a total of 22 competitive Oscars and 4 honorary, bringing his total Oscar wins to 26, the most in film history.
WALT DISNEY
This Soviet became the first human to orbit Earth in 1961.
YURI GAGARIN
Their final public performance was on a rooftop at the Apple Corps headquarters in London on January 30, 1969
THE BEATLES
In 49 BC he marched his army across the Rubicon River, starting a Roman Civil War that ended the Roman Republic and created the Roman Empire.
JULIUS CAESAR
With a temperature of -13 degrees on December 31, 1967, these two two teams played for the NFL Championship in a game known as the Ice Bowl.
GREEN BAY PACKERS & DALLAS COWBOYS
Get the kids out of the room! She became the first mainstream American Actress to perform a nude scene in the 1963 film 'Promises! Promises!'
JAYNE MANSFIELD
A German physicist named Wilhelm Rontgen was experimenting with cathode ray tubes in a dark room in 1895, when he noticed a nearby chemically coated screen glowing. He realized some unknown light was passing through the air and discovered it could pass through human flesh, leading to the discovery of this practice.
THE X-RAY
This is the name of the dance Michael Jackson made famous when he performed 'Billie Jean' on Motown 25.
The Moonwalk
The French Revolution began in 1789 when Paris citizens stormed this medieval fortress challenging absolute monarchy.
THE BASTILLE
There is a famous picture of Muhammad Ali standing over a boxer after knocking him down in a fight in 1965. Who is the boxer he knocked down?
SONNY LISTON
Against the idea of actors competing against one another for awards, viewing artistic performance as unquantifiable and subjective, he became the first Best Actor winner to refuse his Award in 1970.
GEORGE C. SCOTT
He is known as the father of modern genetics. He discovered the principles of heredity through breeding experiments with garden pea plants
GREGOR MENDEL
After finishing his service in the Army, he appeared on The Frank Sinatra Timex Show on March 26, 1960
ELVIS PRESLEY
The deadliest War, seeing the most casualties in World History with an estimated 70-85 million deaths was
WWI
WWII
HUNDRED YEARS WAR
WWII
He became the first black man to manage a baseball team. Serving as a player/manager for the Cleveland Indians in 1975, hitting a home run in his first at bat of the season.
FRANK ROBINSON
Edwin S. Porter made this film for Thomas Edison's company in 1903, and it is considered the first narrative film to use cross cutting, action sequences and a complete chronological story, running about 12 minutes long.
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY
These two men proposed the double helix structure of the DNA molecule in 1953 while working at Cambridge University's Cavendish Laboratory.
James WATSON & Francis CRICK
His first public performances were in New Orleans in 1913. His last was on January 29, 1971 in Washington D.C. where against doctor's orders to rest his heart and kidneys, sang and played classics like 'Hello Dolly'.
LOUIS ARMSTRONG