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HORROR FILM ACTOR BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1887

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Boris Karloff (William Henry Pratt)

(November 23, 1887- February 2, 1969)

Boris Karloff is best remembered for his roles in horror films such as
Frankenstein’s monster in Frankenstein (1931), Bride of Frankenstein
(1935), and Son of Frankenstein (1939). His best-known non-horror
portrayal is the Grinch, as well as the narrator, in the animated TV  
special of Dr. Seuss’s How the  Grinch Stole Christmas (1966).     

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LOOKING BACK AT TODAY IN HISTORY ~

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       Tim Maguire

 

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WESTERN ICON BORN ON THIS DAY IN 1859

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                     William H. Bonney
 
(William Henry McCarty, Jr.) 

                          (November 23, 1859 – July 14, 1881) 

Bonney became a frontier outlaw in the American Old West. According to legend,
he killed 21 men, but it is generally believed that he killed between four and nine

men. He himself was shot dead at age twenty-one by legendary sheriff Pat Garrett.


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                         Pat Garrett

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