Robert James Waller (August 1, 1939 – March 10, 2017)

(AP) – Robert James Waller, whose best-selling, bittersweet 1992 novel
"The Bridges of Madison County" was turned into a movie starring Meryl
Streep and Clint Eastwood and a Broadway musical, has died in Texas.  

A longtime friend, Scott Cawelti of Cedar Falls, Iowa, said Weller died
early Friday at his home in Fredericksburg, Texas. He had been
fighting multiple myeloma, a form of cancer.

1995

Sharon Vonne Stone was born in Meadville, Pennsylvania.

Actress Sharon Stone became famous for her seductive role in the 1992 film,
Basic Instinct. She also received a Golden Globe Award for her work in the
movie Casino (1995). She quit school to become a fashion model in New
York City.

1995

SANDY KOZEL

Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922), the Scottish-born American scientist best
known as the inventor of the telephone, was granted the first official patent for
his telephone on this day in 1876,

In 1969, James Earl Ray pleads Guilty to the murder of Martin
Luther King Jr.