Archive for September 5th, 2011

IT WAS A BIG SURPRISE ON THIS DAY IN 1976

Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis 1976

After a 20-split, Dean Martin (left) made a surprise appearance on Lewis’s annual
Labor Day MDA telethon on September 5, 1976. The meeting had been orchestrated
by a mutual friend, Frank Sinatra.

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ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ON THIS DAY IN 1975

fordportrait

Fromme was sentenced to life in prison, but was released from
custody on August 14, 2009, nearly 3 years after Ford’s death.

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