Chuck Yeager Dies: First Person To Break The Sound Barrier, Subject Of ‘The Right Stuff’ Was 97

Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorLaverne Cox will be in the interviewer’s chair for her first podcast, a weekly series from Shonda Rhimes’ Shondaland Audio and iHeartMedia.“The Laverne Cox Show” (working title), hosted by the “Orange Is the New Black” star, is slated to debut in February 2021. Each week, the show will feature Cox’s conversations with guests who “provoke thought and potentially new outlooks,” according to Shondaland Audio.

direct to your inboxThe first person to get the Covid-19 vaccine in Tameside said she feels ‘lucky’ to be part of the landmark fight against the virus – and is already planning her delayed birthday celebrations.Mary Murray, from Dukinfield, was the first in the borough to receive the jab at the new vaccination centre in the car park of Hyde Leisure Centre on Wednesday (December 16).Mary, 80, was given the vaccine by nurses while sat inside a car at the drive-through service, in a historic moment

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The first person in one state to receive the long-waited COVID-19 vaccine called the jab a “moment of hope” in the fight against the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has recommended that the initial doses be administered to health care workers and residents and staff of long-term living facilities.Though states are not required to follow the federal agency’s recommendations, many will follow them.

sexually abusing three teenage boys on board the paddle steamer has died.David Neill, 76, captained the world famous ship between 1975 and 1997 but lured all three teenagers in with the promise of jobs on the ship and then a career in the Royal Navy.He forced all of his victims, now in their 50s, to relive their ordeals at his hands during a trial at the High Court in Glasgow.Neill, of Galston, Ayrshire, was convicted by jurors of four charges of indecent assault between March 1982 and September

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Chuck Yeager was a retired U.S. Air Force brigadier general who was the first human to break the sound barrier.Yeager enlisted in the U.S.

“The COVID-19 vaccination programme is the single biggest immunisation programme in the history of the NHS and we are absolutely privileged and excited that our Salford Royal site and group is one of the first in the country to receive the vaccine and be at the forefront of its delivery in Greater Manchester.

The first Coronavirus vaccine has been successfully administered outside of the clinical vaccine trials to a woman named Margaret Keenan!

Covid-19 vaccine. We told how Maggie Keenan, 90, received the ground breaking jab at 6.31am on Tuesday in Coventry.

Covid-19 vaccine. Margaret Keenan, known as Maggie, was vaccinated at 6.31am on Tuesday.

Ellise Shafer editorChuck Yeager, the first person to break the sound barrier and a subject of the book and film “The Right Stuff,” has died. He was 97.Yeager’s wife, Victoria Yeager, announced his death on Twitter Monday night.

Chuck Yeager, the historic test pilot portrayed in the movie “The Right Stuff,” is dead at the age of 97, according to a tweet posted on his account late Monday. "It is w/ profound sorrow, I must tell you that my life love General Chuck Yeager passed just before 9pm ET," said the tweet, attributed to his wife, actress Victoria Scott D'Angelo.

Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter.CELEBRITY chef Ross Burden has died aged 45 after a battle with cancer.New Zealand-born Ross first gained TV fame reaching the final of Masterchef in 1993 before going on to appear regularly alongside Ainsley Harriott on Ready Steady Cook.In 2010 he returned to New Zealand to join the judging panel on the country’s first MasterChef series.His sister, Kirsten Hughes, is reported to have said the former model