Born July 1919

He was the first to identify CFCs in the atmosphere.

Col. dePyssler served in World War II, the Korean War, the French Indochina War, and the Vietnam War, as well as at the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

Robert Morgenthau was the district attorney of Manhattan from 1975 to 2009, the borough’s longest-serving DA who presided over cases that made nationwide news.

In 1953 Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first to climb to the summit of Mt Everest.