Ginger Rogers (Virginia Katherine McMath) Independence, MO.
(July 16, 1911 – April 25, 1995)
Ginger Rogers appeared as the dance partner of Fred Astaire in a number
of classic movie musicals, such as Top Hat, Swing Time, and The Gay
Divorce. Her classic line, "Cigarette me, big boy," in the 1930 film Young
Man of Manhattan became a much-quoted catchphrase during the 1930s.
Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire danced together in 10 movies.
Martin Landau (June 20, 1928 – July 15, 2017) born in Brooklyn,
New York.
Landau died at the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles,
California on Saturday,July 15. He had been briefly hospitalized and,
according to his representative, died of “unexpected complications”
Martin Landau’s film career started in the 1950s, with early appearances
including a supporting role in Alfred Hitchcock‘s North by Northwest
(1959). He played regular roles in the CBS-TV series Mission: Impossible
(for which he received several Emmy Award nominations and a Golden
Globe Award) and Space: 1999.
George Andrew Romero (February 4, 1940 – July 16, 2017)
Both the Los Angeles Times and Variety are reporting movie maestro
George A. Romero died today of lung cancer. The writer/director is
known for his Night of the Living Dead franchise.
The chocolate chip cookie was invented by the American chef Ruth Graves Wakefield and chef Sue Brides in 1938. She invented the
recipe during the period when she owned the Toll House Inn, in
Whitman, Massachusetts.
Ruth Graves Wakefield (June 17, 1903 – January 10, 1977)
It is often incorrectly reported that the chocolate chip cookie was
an accident, and that Wakefield expected the chocolate chunks to
melt making chocolate cookies. In reality, Wakefield stated that she
deliberately invented the cookie. She said, "We had been serving a
thin butterscotch nut cookie with ice cream. Everybody seemed
to love it, but I was trying to give them something different. So I
came up with Toll House cookie." (Wikipedia)
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Alexander P. Butterfield (above) informed the Senate committee investigating the Watergate affair of the existence of President
Nixon’s recorded White House tapes on this day in 1973.
It was on this day in 1999.
Martha Stewart was convicted of insider trading and sent to jail
on this day in 2004. She is shown above with U.S. marshals, as
they leave the Manhattan federal court in New York.
On this day in 1969, Apollo 11 blasted off from Cape Kennedy, FL,
and began the first manned mission to land on the moon.
Apollo 11 Astronauts from left: Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins &
Buzz Aldrin.
