CARLATA BRADLEY

1990

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Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847 – October 18, 1931)

Edison sold candy, newspapers, and vegetables to train passengers who
were going from Port Huron to Detroit. He felt that the invention of sound
in film had ruined the medium.

Jennifer Joanna Aniston was born in Sherman Oaks, California.

Her role as Rachel Green on Friends from 1994 to 2004 on NBC earned
her an Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild
Award. For her performance in the 2002 film The Good Girl, she received
a nomination for an Independent Spirit Award. She has also starred in such
films as  Bruce Almighty (2003), and Horrible Bosses (2011),

She worked as a telemarketer, waitress, and bike messenger to support
her acting career,

Jennifer Aniston in Office Space, 1999.

The single Long Tall Sally by Little Richard reached number one on the
Billboard rhythm and blues chart, staying at the top for six of 19 weeks,
while peaking at number six on the pop chart. It received the Cash Box
Triple Crown Award in 1956. It is #55 on Rolling Stone‘s list of The 500
Greatest Songs of All Time.

The song became one of Little Richards’ best-known hits and has
become a rock and roll standard covered by hundreds of artists,
including the Beatles and Elvis Presley.

Little Richard (Richard Wayne Penniman) turned 84 December 5.

CARLATA BRADLEY

1962   

1992

1949 Broadway opening on this day.

Arthur Asher Miller (October 17, 1915 – February 10, 2005)

Packy (April 14, 1962 – February 9, 2017)

Packy was an Asian elephant at the 64-acre Oregon Zoo located in Portland,
Oregon. He was famous for having been the first elephant born in the Western Hemisphere in 44 years. At the time of his death, he was the oldest male Asian
elephant in North America. In July 2013, Packy was diagnosed with tuberculosis
and was euthanized today following the veterinarians’ decision that his TB was
was drug resistant.