1) Margaret Seddon. Born November 8, 1947. In 1978 she was selected as one of the first six female astronauts. Prior to her she had earned her Doctor of Medicine from the University of Tennessee College of Medicine in 1973. She flew on three shuttle missions, April 1985, June 1991 and November 1993.

2) Kathryn Sullivan. Born October 3, 1951. One her first flight she became the first US woman to perform a space walk in October 1984. She flew on a total of three shuttle missions.

3) Anna Fisher. Born August 24, 1949. She received a bachelor of science in Chemistry in 1971 and a doctor of Medicine in 1976 from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her first and only flight was in November 1984. In 1987 she was on the Astronaut Selection Board for the 1987 class of astronauts.

4) Judith Resnick. Born April 5, 1949. Before entering the space program she had received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1970, and a doctorate in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland in 1977. Her first flight was in August 1984 on a 7-day mission. She was mission specialist on the January 1986 Challenger which exploded after takeoff, killing all aboard.

5) Sally Ride. Born May 26, 1951. She was a nationally ranked tennis player, but chose science and college over tennis. Ride was the first US woman in space on the Challenger June 1983 mission, the seventh shuttle flight. She also flew in October 1984 along with Kathryn Sullivan, the first flight to have 2 female members.

6) Shannon Lucid. Born January 14, 1943. Her first mission was in June 1985. She has flown on six shuttle missions, although two of them were her transportation to and from the Mir on which she spent 188 days. She has logged 5354 hours (223 days) in space part of which was spending 188 days on Mir. She holds the US longest space endurance and most flight hours by any non-Russian. At 64 she still works at NASA.

1) Clark Gable and Carole Lombard. They first met in 1932 while making a movie together, but show no interest in one another. They met again in 1935 while Gable was no longer living with his wife and Lombard had just divorced William Powell. At his time they fell deeply in love with one another even calling each other Ma and Pa., They married after Gable received a divorce for his wife. Their love ended when in 1942 a plane that Lombard was on crashed killing her.

2) Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. They meet at a Hollywood studio while filming To Have and Have Not. The still married Bogart was 44 and Bacall was 19. Bogart managed to receive a divorce and they married in 1945. They were together until Bogart death from cancer in 1957.

3) Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. They were first paired on screen in Woman of the Year in 1942 and would appear together in 9 movies. Spenser, a devote Catholic, would not end his marriage and they loved in secret, until he separated from his wife. He never divorce, but they became partners off-screen as well.

4) Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman. Even after being together for nearly 50 years, the two are still in love. Woodward once said the reason for the success of their marriage, “One reason is he makes me laugh every day.” The fact they live in Conn. away from Hollywood, may be another reason.

5) Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. One of the most turbulent romances was between Taylor and Burton. When they meet while filming Cleopatra, both were in high profile marriages. They were married to each other twice, proving you can’t live with them, nor live without them.

6) Susan Sarandon and Tim Robbins. They met on the set of Bull Durham in 1988. The story had Sarandon, Robbins lover, leave him for the character played by Kevin Costner. By the end of filming Sarandon and Robbins was a couple. They have not wed, but have two children and live together as a family juggling a life of entertainment and social activism.

1)    King was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the son of Reverend Martin Luther King Sr. and Alberta Williams King.

2)    King received a B.A. in sociology from Morehouse College, and a Ph.D. in Systematic Theology from Boston College in 1955.

3)    King began his work in equal rights after learning of the arrest of Rosa Parks in 1955 for her failure to give up her bus seat to a white man. He founded the Southern Christian leadership Conference in 1957. The group was created to harness the moral authority and organizing power of black churches to conduct non-violent protests in the service of civil rights reform.  His most famous speech was given during the Civil Rights March, formally called the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, in 1963.  The words, ‘I have a dream’ will be remembered from the speech.

4)    King was assassinated on April 14, 1968 on the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. He was in Memphis to deliver a speech in support of black garbage workers who had been on strike since March 12 for higher wages and better treatment.  The assassination led to riots in more than 60 US cities.

5)    Two months after the murder of King, James Earl Ray was captured at London Heathrow airport.  Ray confessed to the murder during interrogation in Memphis, although he recanted the confession 3 days later.  Under the advice of his attorney he plead guilty to avoid a trail conviction and a possible death penalty.  In later times the family of King has their doubts that Ray was the assassin.  Ray died in prison on April 23, 1998 from complications related to kidney disease.

6)    In 1986, a federal holiday established in his name was observed for the first time. President Reagan signed the law in 1983 creating the holiday to be observed on the third Monday in January.

1)    Nancy Pelosi was born Nancy Patricia D’Alesandro on March 26, 1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. She is the youngest of six children and the only girl.

2)    Her father Thomas D’Alesandro, Jr. and her brother Thomas D’Alesandro, III both served as Mayor of Baltimore.

3)    Pelosi was first elected to the House in 1987, representing California’s 8th district. The Eighth District includes most of the City of San Francisco. She has received 76-86% of the votes in each election.

4)    In 2002 she was elected as the Democratic leader in the House by her colleagues after having served a year as House Democratic Whip. On November 16, 2006 she was elected by the Democratic Caucus Speaker- designee, becoming the first woman Speaker of the House when the 110th congress began on January 4, 2007.

5)    Pelosi attended Trinity College in Washington, D.C. graduating in 1962. It was there that she met, Paul Pelosi, a native of San Francisco. After they married they move to San Francisco and together have five children: Nancy Corinne, Christine, Jacqueline, Paul and Alexandra, and six grandchildren. The Pelosi’s have a family worth of about 25 million making her one of the riches members of congress.

6)    By being Speaker of the House she is second in the presidential line of succession, behind Dick Cheney, the current Vice President. She is the first woman to be only two deaths away from the Presidency.