Dryfuss won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1977 for “The Goodby Girl”
and was nominated in 1955 for “Mr Holland’s Opus”, a movie filmed in Portland.

 

It was on this date in 1960 that Muhammad Ali (Cassius Clay)
won his first professional fight. He beat Tunney Hunsaker in
6 rounds. Hunsaker was the Police Chief of Fayetteville,West
Virginia at the time.