Lana Turner (Julia Jean Turner) (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995)
Lana Turner was an actress who over the course of her nearly 50-year
career achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress. She
best known for her role in the 1959 remake of “Imitation of Life”. She had
previously appeared in Ziegfeld Girl in 1941 and in “Somewhere I’ll Find
You” in 1942.
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ROSS SIMPSON
President George W. Bush’s first State of The Union Speech on
this day in 2002.
A bomb exploded at an abortion clinic in Birmingham, AL, killing an
off-duty policeman and severely wounding a nurse on this day in
1998. Eric Rudolph (below) was charged with this bombing and
three other attacks in Atlanta.
Edgar Allan Poe’s "The Raven" was published for the first time in the "New York Evening Mirror on this day in 1845.
Edgar Allan Poe
(January 19, 1809 – October 7, 1849)
On this day in 1936, Ty Cobb received the most votes of any player
on the inaugural Baseball Hall of Fame ballot, receiving 222 out of
a possible 226 votes (98.2%); no other player received a higher percentage of votes until Tom Seaver in 1992. In 1999, editors at
the Sporting News ranked Ty Cobb third on their list of "Baseball’s
100 Greatest Players".
TY COBB, BABE RUTH, HONUS WAGNER, CHRISTY
MATHEWSON, WALTER JOHNSON.
Oprah Winfrey (Orpah Gail Winfrey) is 64 today.
Television host and producer Oprah Winfrey was named the
most influential woman in the world by TIME magazine and
hosted The Oprah Winfrey Show, the highest-rated syndicated
program on air, from 1986 to 2011. She was crowned Miss Black
Tennessee while in college and began co-anchoring the evening
news when she was nineteen. Oprah became the world’s first
female black billionaire and the richest self-made American
woman. She had a net worth over $2 billion in 2013.
The first issue, June 2000.
Linda Denise Blair was born in St. Louis, Missouri.
Actress Linda Blair played the possessed Regan in The Exorcist (1973)
which earned her a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress
as well as an Academy Award nomination. In 1977, she reprised her role
in Exorcist II: The Heretic. Her career began as a child model at age six
in 1970.
Baby Rose Marie was a popular radio personality in 1928.
Rose Marie Mazzetta (August 15, 1923 – December 28, 2017)
(FoxNews) – Rose Marie, the actress made famous for her role as Sally
Rogers on famed 1960 sitcom “The Dick Van Dyke Show,” has died.
The news comes from the star’s official Twitter account, which stated
she had passed at her home in Van Nuys California.
(CBS photo)
From left: Rose Marie,fellow cast members Mary Tyler Moore, Morey Amsterdam and Dick Van Dyke, front, on ‘The Dick Van Dyke Show’
in the early 1960s.
Humphrey DeForest Bogart (December 25, 1899 – January 14, 1957)
Humphrey Bogart played Rick Blaine in Casablanca (1942) and Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). The American Film Institute called him the greatest male
star in cinema’s history in 1999. His other film credits include The Big Sleep (1946)
The African Queen (1951) and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
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Humphrey Bogart and wife Lauren Bacall in 1955.
