Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? won both the 1963 Tony
Award for Best Play and the 1962–63 New York Drama
Critics’ Circle Award for Best Play. It is frequently revived
on the modern stage. The film adaptation was released in
1966.
Playwright Edward Franklin Albee III
(March 12, 1928 – September 16, 2016)
MIKE GRACIA
On this day in 20001, the U.S. and Great Britain began airstrikes in Afghanistan
in response to that state’s support of terrorism and Osama bin Laden. The act
was the first military action taken in response to the terrorist attacks on the
U.S. on September 11, 2001.
On this day in 1985.
On this day in 1991.
Clarence Thomas turned 69 on June 23.
It was on this day in 1998.
The musical "Cats" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on this day
in 1982. In 1997 the show became the longest running show in
Broadway history.
John J Mellencamp (John Cougar Mellencamp) is 66 today.
Singer-songwriter John Mellencamp is best known for his #1 hit song,
"Jack & Diane." He has been nominated for more than ten Grammy
Awards and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2008.
TIM MAGUIRE
The first televised debate between presidential candidates Richard M. Nixon
and John F. Kennedy took place in Chicago, IL on this day in 1960.
On this day in 1980, the Cuban government abruptly closed Mariel Harbor to
end the freedom flotilla of Cuban refugees that began the previous April.
On this day in 1957, the musical "West Side Story" opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on Broadway.
George Jacob Gershwin (September 26, 1898 – July 11, 1937)
George Gershwin was an American composer and pianist. Gershwin’s compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most
popular melodies are widely known. Among his best-known works are
the orchestral compositions Rhapsody in Blue (1924) and An American
in Paris (1928) as well as the opera Porgy and Bess (1935).
Thomas Stearns Eliot (September 26, 1888 – January 4, 1965)
T.S. Eliot was a British essayist, publisher, playwright, literary and social
critic, and "one of the twentieth century’s major poets". Eliot attracted
widespread attention for his poem "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
(1915), which was seen as a masterpiece of the Modernist movement.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
On this day on 1776.
A depiction of the hanging of Nathan Hale.
A border conflict between Iran and Iraq developed into a full-scale
war on this day in 1980.
Gerald Ford looks to where a shot was fired as he is leaving the St.
Francis Hotel.
On Sept. 22, 1975, Sara Jane Moore’s attempt to assassinate President Ford
was thwarted by Oliver Sipple, a disabled former marine. It was the second
attempt on Ford’s life in less than three weeks.
Sara Jane Moore
On this day in 1964, "Fiddler on the Roof" opened on Broadway. It was the beginning of a run of 3,242 performances.
Irving Berlin (Israel Beilin) (May 11, 1888 – September 22, 1989)
Irving Berlin was a Russian born, American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history.
SANDY KOZEL
Nicola Sacco (left) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)
Italian actor Rudolph Valentino starred in several well-known silent films including
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik, Blood and Sand (1922),
The Eagle, (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). He was an early pop icon, a
sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover". He had applied for U.S.citizenship shortly before his untimely death from Pleuritis, an inflammation of
of the membranes that surround the lungs. He was 31.
Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky.
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