Star who was the first African American to win a Best
Actress Oscar, known for roles in "Monster’s Ball"
and "Bullworth."

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2017

Marilyn Monroe (June 1, 1926 – August 4, 1962)
(born Norma Jeane Mortenson)

Note: One of the last few photos of Marilyn Monroe taken
weeks before her death.

On August 5, 1962, movie actress Marilyn Monroe is found dead
in her home in Los Angeles. She was discovered lying nude on
her bed, face down, with a telephone receiver in one hand.

(AP) – Loni Anderson, who famously portrayed receptionist
Jennifer Marlowe in the comedy "WKRP in Cincinnati," has
died.

According to a statement to the Associated Press, Anderson
died at a Los Angeles hospital following a "prolonged" illness.

 
CAMILLE BOHANNON

Technical rendition of Atlantis docked to the Kristall module
of the Russian Mir Space Station. 

On June 29, 1995 the shuttle Atlantis docked with the Mir station
for the first time. This also marked the first in orbit docking of a
NASA spacecraft since the joint Apollo-Soyuz mission of July,
1975.

NASA’s Shuttle-Mir program continued for 11 missions and was
a crucial step towards the construction of the International Space
Station now in orbit.

Celebrated actress Jayne Mansfield was killed instantly on June
29, 1967, when the car in which she is riding struck the rear of a
trailer truck on U.S. Route 90 east of New Orleans, Louisiana.

Mansfield had been on her way to New Orleans from Biloxi,
Mississippi, where she had been performing at a local nightclub;
she had a television appearance scheduled the following day.