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EVE ARDEN WAS BORN ON THIS DATE IN 1908

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Actress Eve Arden (April 30, 1908 – November 12, 1990). Her almost 60-year
career included many supporting and leading roles in film, radio and television, but
she is perhaps best remembered for playing a high school teacher in the classic
sitcom Our Miss Brooks. It began as a radio show broadcast on CBS from 1948
to 1957. When the show was adapted to television (1952–56), it became one of the medium’s earliest hits. In 1956, the sitcom was adapted for the big screen with the
same name. Arden also has special guest appearances as Rydell High School
principal McGee in the films Grease (1978) and Grease 2 (1982). She was
inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1995.

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LAST GAME FOR ‘’THE IRON HORSE’’ ~ THIS DATE IN 1939

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Henry Louis "Lou" Gehrig (June 19, 1903 – June 2, 1941), was a Major League Baseball first baseman. He played his 17-year baseball career entirely with the New
York Yankees (1923-1939). His career was cut short by ALS, now commonly known
as Lou Gehrig’s disease. Gehrig holds the record for most career gland slams at
23 total. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939. In 1941 Lou Gehrig
died of the neuromuscular disease at the age of 37. He was voted the greatest first baseman of all time in 1969 by the Baseball Writer’s Association.

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RECORD RECORDED ON THIS DATE IN 1960

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Fats Domino with his 2010 American Music Masters Award.

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DANIAL DAY-LEWIS IS 54 TODAY

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Daniel (Michael Blake) Day-Lewis is an English actor with both British and
Irish citizenship. His portrayals of Christy Brown in My Left Foot (1989) and
Daniel Plainview in There Will Be Blood (2007) won Academy and BAFTA
Awards for Best Actor, and Screen Actors Guild as well as Golden Globe
Awards for There Will Be Blood. His role as Bill “The Butcher”Cutting in
Gangs of New York (2002) earned Lewis the BAFT Award and a Screen
Actors Guild Award. He is known to remain completely in character for the
duration of a film shoot.

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UMA THURMAN IS 41 TODAY

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Actress Uma Thurman has had leading roles in a variety of films, ranging from
romantic comedies and dramas to science fiction and action movies. Among
her best-known performances are those in the Quentin Tarantino films Pulp
Fiction (1994), for which she received an Oscar nomination, and Kill Bill
(2003). She won a Golden Globe Award for her role in HBO’s Hysterical
Blindness
(2002). Uma will be a member of the jury for the main competition
at the 2011 Cannes Film Festival.

 
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