Charles Milles Manson (Charles Milles Maddox) (November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017)
(Fox News) – Charles Manson, the hippie cult leader who became the hypnotic- eyed face of evil across America after orchestrating the gruesome murders of pregnant actress Sharon Tate and six others in Los Angeles during the summer of 1969, died Sunday after nearly a half-century in prison.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Manson died of natural causes at 8:13 p.m. Sunday at Kern County hospital,
Lonnie Melvin "Mel" Tillis(August 8, 1932 – November 19, 2017)
(Fox News) – Country music singer Mel Tillis, whose six-decade career included hits such as “I Ain’t Never” and “Coca Cola Cowboy,” died today (Sunday).
His publicist said Tillis passed away at Munroe Regional Medical Center in Ocala, Fla. He was previously inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame and Grand Ole Opry. Former President Barack Obama awarded Tillis the National Medal of Arts in 2012 (below).
Mel Tillis was among eight recipients of President Obama’s National Medal of the Arts in 2012.
President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania on this day in 1863.
Only true known photo of Lincoln delivering Gettysburg address in 1863. Lincoln is center (red arrow). (National Archives and Records Administration)
On this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat(center)became the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left).
Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the unpopular Edsel on this day in 1959.
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey Jr. (November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956)
Disc Jockey Dorsey.
Taxi Driver
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is 55 years young today.
Jodie Foster gained fame for her role as a teenage prostitute in the 1976 Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver. She won Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances in The Accused (1988) and Silence of the Lambs (1991) and also had starring roles in Contact (1997), Anna and the King (1999), and Panic Room (2002).
Foster, then three, in a scene from the Doris Day Show.
.jpg)
