Alan Wolf Arkin (March 26, 1934 – June 29, 2023)
Oscar winner Alan Arkin, whose background in improvisation
with characters from the 1960s comedy “The Russians Are
Coming, the Russians Are Coming”, “Glengarry Glen Ross”
to “Little Miss Sunshine”, and “Argo,” died at his home in
Carlsbad, California Thursday at age 89. He had a history
of heart problems.
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Alan Arkin and Alec Baldwin.
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With the Wind, one of the best-
selling novels of all time and the basis for a blockbuster
1939 movie, was published on June 30, 1936.
In 1926, Mitchell was forced to quit her job as a reporter
at the Atlanta Journal to recover from a series of physical
injuries. With too much time on her hands, Mitchell soon
grew restless. Working on a Remington typewriter, a gift
from her second husband, John R. Marsh, in their cramped
one-bedroom apartment, Mitchell began telling the story
of an Atlanta belle named Pansy O’Hara.
Margaret Munnerlyn Mitchell
(November 8, 1900 – August 16, 1949)
Judy Garland (Frances Ethel Gumm)
(June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969)
Judy Garland was an award winning actress,
singer, dancer and vaudevillian. While critically
acclaimed for many different roles throughout
her career, she is widely known for playing the
part of Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
Christine King Farris, sister of Martin Luther King Jr.
ATLANTA (AP) — Christine King Farris, the last living sibling
of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., has died.
Her niece, the Rev. Bernice King, tweeted that her “beloved
aunt” died Thursday.
On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docked
with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-
made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
This historic moment of cooperation between former rival
space programs was also the 100th human space mission
in American history.
