by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Oct 1, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Jackie Gleason was the most famous television actor of his time and he was so hilarious that reruns of his shows and movies are still popular today. • At age 33, he became Chester A. Riley in the television production of “The Life of Riley.” • At age 36,...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 25, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
In the year 2000, a C-SPAN Poll ranking all U.S. Presidents was conducted by 58 presidential historians and scholars. Harry S. Truman ranked fifth behind Lincoln, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Washington and Theodore Roosevelt. I think that Truman and Winston Churchill were...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 19, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
After the end of World War II in 1945, the U.S. military commissioned captured German doctor Erwin Giesing and six of Hitler’s other physicians to write a detailed 225-page report of Adolf Hitler’s medical records. They showed that while he was Chancellor of the Third...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 18, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
On November 8, 1960, John F. Kennedy was elected President of the United States by the slim margin of 112,827 votes. His Electoral College victory margin of 303 to 219 was the closest since 1916. The 1960 campaign for the presidency of the United States was shrouded...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 10, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Tony Siragusa, nicknamed “the Goose,” was a defensive tackle for 12 seasons and a major player in the 2001 Baltimore Ravens’ Super Bowl-winning team. He also played for the Indianapolis Colts. From 2003 to 2015, he was Fox Sports’ sideline reporter for...
by Dr. Gabe Mirkin | Sep 4, 2022 | Deaths of Famous People
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader of the Soviet Union before its break-up in 1991. He supported Marxist–Leninist Communism but moved towards social democracy in his later life. From his early thirties onward, he suffered from diabetes that caused him to be...
