1971 Birthday Jay Kearney, WLAF receiver for the Frankfurt Galaxy 1953 Event KHOL (now KHGI) TV channel 13 in Kearney, NB (ABC) begins broadcasting 1941 Event 1st U.S. destroyer (Kearney) torpedoed in WW II, off Iceland 1941 Event German U-boat torpedoes U.S. destroyer Kearney 1936 Birthday Dick Cavett, Kearney, Nebraska, talk show host, Dick Cavett Show 1918 Birthday Tony Mottola, born in Kearney, New Jersey, guitarist/host, Melody Street 1846 Event General Stephen W Kearney's U.S. forces captures Santa Fe, New Mexico