Sally Ride, the first U.S. woman in space, has died.
Ride died Monday at her home in La Jolla, CA. She had battled pancreatic cancer for the past 17 months, according to her company, Sally Ride Science.
Ride trail blazed into space on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983, when she was 32. Since then, 42 other American women have followed her lead and flown into space.
Sally Ride was 61.
Sherman Hemsley, best known as the wise-cracking dry cleaner, George, who went from poverty to “movin on up to a deluxe apartment in the sky” on “The Jeffersons,” has died.
Hemsley appeared as “George Jefferson” on “All In The Family,” before landing his spin-off show, “The Jeffersons” opposite the late Isabell Sanford. He also starred as the protective “Deacon Frye” on TV’s “Amen” with Clifton Davis, as well as the Broadway show “Purlie” and a host of other stage and television performances.
Hemsley died at his home in El Paso, TX. He was 74.
