Boris Pasternak’s romantic novel, Doctor Zhivago is published
in the United States on September 5, 1958. The book was banned
in the Soviet Union, but still won the Nobel Prize for Literature in
1958.
Boris Leonidovich Pasternak
(29 January] 1890 – 30 May 1960)
( From HistoricTalk)
One can never know when those CPR skills will be needed! This incredible photo, entitled "Kiss of Life", features two coworkers,
Randall G. Champion and J.D. Thomspon, utility workers out
performing maintenance on electricity lines in 1967. Champion accidentally brushed against a low voltage line and went
unconscious. His harness kept him from falling off the pole,
while his quick-thinking coworker below him climbed up and
gave him mouth-to-mouth. It was the photographer, Rocco
Marabito who had been driving past, who called for an
ambulance!
Thompson saved Champion’s life that day, and Rocco Morabito
won the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography for “The Kiss
of Life” in 1968. Champion lived another 35 years, surviving
another electrical shock along the way, before dying of heart
failure in 2002.
J.D. Thompson holds a copy of the photo that captured him saving a fellow electrical lineman’s life.
Retired photographer Rocco Morabito
CAMILLE
BOHANNON
Sir George Ivan Morrison is 77 years old today.
Van Morrison, is a Northern Irish singer-
songwriter and multi-instrumentalist whose
recording career spans six decades. He has
won two Grammy Awards.
CAMILLE BOHANNON
Charles Robert Redford Jr. is a actor, director and producer
and the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy
Award from four nominations, a British Academy Film Award,
Presidential Medal of Freedom. In 2014, two Golden Globe
Awards, the Cecil B. DeMille Award and Time named him one
of the 100 most influential people in the world. He’s 36 today.
Appearing on stage in the late 1950s, Redford’s television
career began in 1960, including an appearance on The
Twilight Zone in 1962 (below).
The Twilight Zone episode: "Nothing in the Dark."
1969
Actor and producer Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is particularly
known for his nine collaborations with filmmaker Martin Scorsese,
and is the recipient of various accolades, including two Academy
Awards, a Golden Globe Award, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, and
a Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
In 2009, De Niro received the Kennedy Center Honor, and he also
received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack
Obama in 2016. De Niro is 79 years old today.
1970
Robert De Niro in The Deer Hunter (1978)
De Niro in Godfather Part 2 (1974)
Raging Bull (1980)
Cape Fear (1991)
