Henry Kissinger and Le Duc Tho reach a cease fire agreement to stop hostilities in Vietnam.  “Peace with honor” was to get out in 60 days and let Vietnam become Communist.

Lexington Herald-Leader - is a newspaper based in the city of Lexington, Kentucky. According to the 1999 Editor & Publisher International Yearbook, the Herald-Leader's paid circulation is the second largest in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.

Minh Surrenders, Vietcong in Saigon; 1,000 Americans and 5,500 Vietnamese Evacuated By Copter to U.S. Carriers (South Vietnam surrendered April 30, 1975 to the Viet Cong. The collapse came 2 1/2 hours after the United States pulled down the Stars and Stripes and left the country it had spent 14 years trying to keep out of Communist hands. President Duong Van (Big) Minh announced the surrender in a 60-second address to his people)

Calling it a night.......................

Novaya Gazeta is a Russian newspaper known in its country for its critical and investigative coverage of Russian political and social affairs. It is published in Moscow, in regions within Russia, and in some foreign countries.

Oswald Slain! (On Nov 24,1963, at 12:20 p.m., in the basement of the Dallas police station, Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of President John F. Kennedy, is shot to death by Jack Ruby, a Dallas nightclub owner)

Pelican crossings were introduced in 1969 and are controlled by traffic lights. The name comes from PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled crossing. Separate signals tell pedestrians when they may cross

Queen urges country to be strong in face of crisis (The Queen has urged the country to unite and said every individual has an important role to play in the coming days and months to tackle the coronavirus pandemic. She said the UK is “entering a period of great concern and uncertainty”, but added that the country’s “history has been forged by people and communities coming together to work as one”)

Off to work...........................

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Last October a new pro-grouse shooting group lurched on to the scene in the form of an 'aggressively chanting' mob outside a Harrogate theatre. They were there to protest against Chris Packham (who was appearing at the theatre that night), who they claimed, amongst other things, was 'destroying moorland communities' and they threatened to enter the theatre and disrupt the event. Local...

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Diane Sawyer - is an American television broadcast journalist known for anchoring major programs on two networks including ABC World News Tonight, Good Morning America, 20/20, and Primetime newsmagazine while at ABC News. During her tenure at CBS News she hosted CBS Morning and was the first woman correspondent on 60 Minutes. Prior to her journalism career, she was a member of U.S. President Richard Nixon's White House staff and assisted in his post-presidency memoirs.

A side note - my father was the principal at Melbourne Heights Elementary which Diane Sawyer attended in Louisville. Her mother was a teacher at the same school and my parents knew their family well.

In 1963, at the age of 18, she won the American Junior Miss pageant.

Her first job in television was as the "weather girl" at Louisville's WLKY television station. I believe that was around 1967.

Top Rock-Roll Trio Killed In Airplane Crash (On February 3, 1959, American rock and roll musicians Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and "The Big Bopper" J. P. Richardson were killed in a plane crash near Clear Lake, Iowa, together with pilot Roger Peterson. The event later became known as "The Day the Music Died", after singer-songwriter Don McLean referred to it as such in his 1971 song "American Pie")