Kate Winslet in Titanic

Kate Elizabeth Winslet is an English actress and occasional singer. She is the
youngest actor to receive six Academy Award nominations, and won a Academy
Award for Best Actress for her role in The Reader (2008). Kate has won a wards
from the Screen Actors Guild, British Academy of Film and Television Arts, the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association, and has been nominated twice for an
Emmy Award for her work in television. Winslet studied drama from childhood,
and began her career in British Television in 1991. She made her film debut
in Peter Jackson’s Heavenly Creatures (1994). She is best known for her
leading role in Titanic (1997), the highest grossing film at that time.

(March 19, 2009)

On this day in 1947, President Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised presidential address from the White House, asking Americans to cut back on their use of grain in
order to help starving Europeans. The audience was limited due to television still being
in its infancy with only about 44,000 TV sets in American homes, compared with some
40 million radios. As a result of his food-conservation speech, Truman pioneered the
now-familiar ritual of a White House telecast to the nation.

Karen Allen in Animal House

Karen Allen is best known for her role as Marion Ravenwood in Steven
Spielberg’s Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) and Indiana Jones and the
Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008). Her major film debut was in National
Lampoon’s Animal House (1978). She also co-starred in Starman (1984)
and Scrooged (1988).

Karen Allen and Jeff Bridges as they appeared in Starman

Karen Allen and Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark

                     Raymond Albert "Ray" Kroc 

              (October 5, 1902 – January 14, 1984)

Ray Kroc was a fast food industry businessman who took over the small-
scale McDonald’s Corporation franchise in 1954 and built it into the most
successful fast food business in the world. Kroc was included in Time 100:
The Most Important People of the Century. He owned the San Diego Padres
baseball team from 1974.