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SALLY STRUTHERS IS 66 TODAY

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Sally Ann Struthers is best known for her role as Gloria Stivic on 
the CBS-TV sitcom All in the Family (1971-1979), for which she
won two Emmy awards. She was born in Portland, Oregon where
she attended Gant High School.

Rob Reiner, Jean Stapleton, Carroll O'Connor and Sally Struthers (from left) (baby is unidentified; possibly Jason or Justin Draeger)

 

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REMEMBERING WALTER BRENNAN

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   Walter Brennan (July 25, 1894 – September 21, 1974) 

Brennan is one of three men to win three Oscars, having won the
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor on three occasions
between 1936 and 1940. He is best known for playing Grandpa
McCoy on The Real McCoys, ABC/CBS 1957-1963).

  

 

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LOUISE FLETCHER IS 79 TODAY

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Estelle Louise Fletcher

Fletcher won Best Actress for One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975) 
where she played mean Nurse Ratched. Before Fame she worked as a
secretary by day and took acting lessons by night.

 

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Louise as asylum Nurse Ratched

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AMERICA’S FIRST WAR DOG

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                                                  Stubby                            
                            
                               (1916 or 1917 – April 4, 1926)

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a brick in the Walk of Honor at the United States World War I monument,
Liberty Memorial, in Kansas City
 
        
                           

Sergeant Stubby was a stray Pit Bull/Terrier mix,that became the most decorated
war dog of World War I and the only dog to be promoted to sergeant through
combat. He served 18 months ‘over there’ and participated in seventeen battles
on the Western Front. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks,
found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the
seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him. Back home
his exploits were front page news on most major newspapers.  

Stubby was wounded in the foreleg by the retreating Germans throwing hand
grenades
. He was sent to the rear for convalescence, and as he had done on
the front was able to improve morale. When he recovered from his wounds,
Stubby returned to the trenches.

 

 

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Upon returning home, Stubby became a celebrity and marched in,
and normally led, many parades across the country. He met with 
Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Calvin Coolidge, and Warren G.
Harding.


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RECORD BROKEN ON THIS DAY IN 1922

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Johnny Weissmuller swim
Weissmuller in action

Competition swimmer and actor Johnny Weissmuller broke the world record
for 100-meter freestyle swimming set by Duke Kahanamoku‘s of Hawaii and
became the first person to swim the competition, held at Neptune Beach in
Alameda, in under one minute with a time of 58.6 seconds.

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Olympians Johnny Weissmuller, left, and Duke Kahanamoku
at the 1924 Olympic games in Paris

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