Have You Heard, today (10/21) marks the birthday of two men from our area who certainly made their mark.
Dr. Ronald McNair was born 65 years ago today in Lake City.
A nationally-renowned physicist, he was selected to join NASA’s astronaut corps in 1978.
He flew aboard “Challenger” in 1984 but his second flight lasted only 73 seconds, as the same shuttle exploded just after lift-off on January 28, 1986.
There are buildings all over the nation and even a crater on the moon named for McNair.
Ron McNair was only 35.
Dizzy Gillespie was born 98 years ago today in Cheraw.
Some consider him the greatest jazz trumpeter in history.
He was also a bandleader and an innovator, creating new styles by taking chances. He was credited for developing Latin Jazz and Bebop.
Gillespie died of pancreatic cancer in early 1993 at the age of 75.
Manfred Mann, a keyboardist whose bands took his name in the 1960s and 70s, turns 75 today.
That same day (10/21/1940), Ernest Hemingway’s novel “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” was published.
The last of the four Kennedy-Nixon debates took place 55 years ago tonight.
The Philadelphia Phillies won the first of their only two World Series titles 35 years ago tonight.
Kim Kardashian was born that same day.
Today is “Back to the Future Day,” the day to which the characters in the second “Back to the Future” film (1989) traveled.
And today is also the “International Day of the Nacho”!
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