Died January 11

She was the first female director of TV for the BBC.

Their hits included “Chapel of Love” and “Iko Iko.”

He was an effective and influential advocate for Native American rights.

Adelson was the largest donor to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

He was the only one of his family who lived—and he lived to the age of 90.

The guitarist avoided the Buddy Holly plane crash by losing a coin flip.

Steven McDonald, the NYPD detective who forgave the teenager who paralyzed him, died Tuesday, Jan. 11, 2017, according to multiple news sources. He was 59.

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

For decades, schoolchildren the world over have learned about Anne Frank. The teenager who hid with her family from the Nazis, in an attempt to escape the concentration camps where …

Her curvaceous body and glamorous social life made her a favorite of tabloid press in the 1950s and 1960s.