William Shatner as Captain Harrison Byers in "The Judgment of Nuremberg" 1961.
Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek from 1966 to 1994, and won the Saturn Life Career Award in 1980. He also played eponymous police sergeant T.J. Hooker on ABC/CBS from 1982 to 1986.
The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from 1963.
The Stamp Act was passed on this day in 1765. It was the first direct British tax on the American colonists. It was repealed on March 17, 1766.
On this day in 1987, a barge loaded with 32,000 tons of refuse left Islip, NY, to find a place to unload. After being refused by several states and three countries space was found back in Islip.
On NBC-TV, Tom Brokaw (above) called the barge the“homeless garbage barge” from Islip, N.Y. On CBS-TV, Dan Rather called the Mobro barge “the most-watched load of garbage in the memory of man."
Tara Lipinski, at 14 years and 10 months, became the youngest women’s world figure skating champion on this day in 1997.
Andrew Lloyd Webber (Baron Lloyd-Webber) is 70 today.
Legendary showman and musical theatre impresario Andrew Lloyd Webber is known for "Cats," "The Phantom of the Opera," and "Jesus Christ Superstar." He was honored with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was also inducted into the Songwriter’s Hall of Fame.