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• Denzel Washington is the son of a Pentecostal minister, who also worked at the local water department, and a hairdresser. This gifted actor holds a degree in journalism from Fordham University. He got his start in the hospital drama “St. Elsewhere” and appeared in the series for its entire six-year run. His son John plays professional football for the St. Louis Rams. He celebrates his birthday every December 28. • Those who remember the 1968 Summer Olympics might recall a spunky little 16-year-old gymnast named Cathy Rigby. Before she wrapped up her gymnastics career, she had garnered eight gold medals in various international events. Her next career move was to the Broadway stage. She prepared for it with seven years of voice and acting lessons. She is best known for her Broadway portrayal of Peter Pan, a perfect role for this little pixie.

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• At age 19, Hughes and his new bride moved to Hollywood to chase his dream of making movies. By the time he was 23, one of his films had won an Academy Award. His 1930s film “Hells Angels,” about World War I aviators, was the most expensive movie to date, costing $3.8 million to produce. It was while making this film that Hughes, who had taken his first flying lesson at age 14, earned his pilot’s license. • Hughes’ interest in aviation led him to branch out into aircraft design. In 1937, in his H-1 Racer, he set an airspeed record when he flew non-stop from Los Angeles to New York City in just under seven and a half hours with an average speed of 322 mph. The following year, he flew around the world in 91 hours, setting another record.

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• Howard Hughes was a high school dropout. However, his wealthy father, owner of Hughes Tool Company and patent holder for a drill bit for oil drilling rigs, took care of that. A hefty donation to Cal Tech soon had Howard enrolled there, and later at what is now Rice University, studying math and aeronautical engineering. When his father died just a few weeks after Hughes’ 18th birthday, he dropped out of Rice and took over the tool company.

• When the U.S. Government ordered a giant cargo plane from Hughes Aircraft during World War II, Hughes used $18 million of government funds and $7 million of his own money to build it. It was officially known as the Hughes H-4 Hercules and nicknamed The Spruce Goose, even though most of the plane was made of birch, with small amounts of maple, poplar, balsa and spruce. The craft was designed to hold 750 armed troops or two 30-ton tanks. It contained eight 3,000-horsepower engines and had a wingspan of nearly 320 feet, 20 feet longer than a football field, making it the largest aircraft ever made from wood. The plane made only one flight, one mile long, on November 2, 1947, and remained in its own custom-built hangar for the next 33 years, costing $1 million per year to maintain. She now has a permanent home at the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. • Hughes suffered from an extreme obsessivecompulsive disorder most of his life, which led to bizarre behavior, including locking himself away for months at a time, living on chocolate bars. He spent the final years of his life as a recluse, living in his penthouses in the Bahamas and Mexico. He is thought to have died on a private jet en route to a Houston hospital. His appearance had so deteriorated that the FBI used his fingerprints to identify his body. At 6’4” tall, he was a mere skeleton at 90 lbs.. In his later years, he had become addicted to painkillers and morphine, and X-rays of his body showed broken-off hypodermic needles embedded in his extremities. • The 2004 film “The Aviator” starred Leonardo DeCaprio as Hughes and earned 11 Oscar nominations. Howard Robard Hughes, Jr. (December 24, 1905 – April 5, 1976) Hughes left over $2.5 Billion to be fought over in the courts.

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In recognition of Wright Brothers Day on December 17, Tidbits takes a closer look at these creative geniuses who made the world’s first powered, sustained, piloted flight on that date in 1903. • Wilbur and Orville Wright began their working careers in 1889 in the printing business, publishing The West Side News in Dayton, Ohio. Four years later, the pair opened a bicycle rental and repair shop, later branching out into bicycle manufacturing. In their free time, they studied aeronautics and experimented with building a flying machine. • The two brothers incorporated their knowledge of bicycles into their plane design. They were familiar with the principles of balance, chain and sprocket systems, wind resistance and aerodynamic shaping, and recognized the need for a strong but lightweight craft. Starting with kits and gliders, and constructing their own wind tunnel, the Wrights experimented for four years before their historical flight. • The Wrights chose the Atlantic coast at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, as the site for their manned gliding experiments based on its consistent breezes and soft landing surface. They began practicing their piloting skills in non-powered gliders there in 1900. They constructed the Wright Flyer I in 1903 out of spruce and muslin fabric, carving their own wooden propellers. A gasoline engine built in the bicycle shop was added, and the craft was ready for it inaugural flight. • On December 14, 1903, the brothers flipped a coin to determine who would be the first pilot of the Flyer, with Wilbur winning the toss. However, after only 3.5 seconds, the craft lurched up, stalled, then smashed into the sand, creating some minor damage. Three days later, with the damage repaired, Orville took the controls and flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. Three more flights followed that day — Wilbur flying 175 feet in 12 seconds, followed by Orville’s 200-foot flight for 15 seconds, concluding with Wilbur flying an amazing 852 feet in 59 seconds. All the flights were about 10 feet above the ground. • Within minutes of the fourth flight, a strong gust of wind flipped the Flyer over several times, causing extensive damage. The plane was shipped home and never flew again. Many years later, Orville restored it, and the craft was lent to several museums before settling into its permanent home in 1948 at the Smithsonian where it can be seen today. • There were five witnesses to the flights, three of them members of a U.S. government life-saving crew, an area businessman and a local teenager. The newspapers seemed to pay no heed to the monumental feat for nearly a year and a half. Even the Wrights’ hometown Dayton Journal didn’t publish the story, claiming the flights were “too short to be important.” • In May of 1906, the Wrights were granted a patent for a “flying machine.” They incorporated as The Wright Company in 1909, not only selling aircraft, but also transporting commercial air cargo and running a flying school as well. One of their more famous pupils was Henry “Hap” Arnold, who went on to become a Five-Star General, commanded U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II and was the first head of the U.S. Air Force.

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● On Dec. 19, 1732, Benjamin Franklin of Philadelphia first publishes “Poor Richard’s Almanack.” The book, filled with proverbs preaching industry and prudence, was published continuously for 25 years and became one of the most popular publications in colonial America, selling an average of 10,000 copies a year. ● On Dec. 17, 1843, Charles Dickens’ classic story “A Christmas Carol” is published. When Dickens’ father was thrown into debtors’ prison in 1824, 12-year-old Charles was sent to work in a factory. The miserable treatment of children and the institution of the debtors’ jail became topics of several of Dickens’ novels. ● On Dec. 18, 1886, the often-controversial baseball legend Ty Cobb is born in Narrows, Ga. In 1911, he led the league in eight offensive categories, including batting (.420), slugging percentage (.621), hits (248), doubles (47), triples (24), runs (147), RBI (144) and steals (83), and won the first American League MVP award. ● On Dec. 13, 1915, detective novelist Kenneth Millar, better known by his nom de plume Ross Macdonald, was born in Los Gatos, Calif. He wrote 24 mystery novels, 20 of them featuring detective Lew Archer, who first appeared in “The Moving Target” (1949). ● On Dec. 14, 1977, the film “Saturday Night Fever” had its world premiere at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Los Angeles. Four No. 1 pop hits were launched by the movie’s landmark soundtrack album, including “How Deep Is Your Love.” ● On Dec. 15, 1944, legendary bandleader Glenn Miller (also a captain in the U.S Army Air Force) disappears over the English Channel en route to France for a congratulatory performance for American troops who had recently helped to liberate Paris. The wreckage of Miller’s plane was never found.

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