Film director, producer, and screenwriter Quentin Tarantino first received acclaim for his 1990s crime films Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction andJackie Brown.He dropped out of High School his freshman year to go to acting school.
James Caan is best known for his role as Sonny Corleone in The Godfather (1972). Other notable film credits include Misery (1972) and Alien Nation (1988).
From left: Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat, President Jimmy Carter and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
The Camp David treaty was signed by Israel and Egypt on this day in 1979. It ended the 31-year state of war between the two countries.
On this day in 1997, the 39 bodies of Heaven’s Gate members were found in a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, CA. They had apparently committed suicide thinking that they would be picked up by a spaceship following behind the comet Hale-Bopp.
Marshall Applewhite (above) the leader of the Heaven’s Gate cult.
The first U.S. hockey team to win the Stanley Cup on this day in 1917.
On this day in 1964, the musical "Funny Girl" opened on Broadway starring Barbra Streisand.
Motown singer Diana Ross gained fame as a member of The Supremes and who later won a Golden Globe for her role as Billie Holiday in Lady Sings the Blues in 1972. She once dreamed of being a fashion designer.
Martin Luther King Jr. led a group of 25,000 to the state capital in Montgomery, AL. on this day in 1965.
King delivering a speech on the steps of the State Capitol.
In New York City on this day in 1911, 146 women were killed in fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company in New York City. The owners of the company were indicted on manslaughter charges because some of the employees had been behind locked doors in the factory. The owners were later acquitted and in 1914 they were ordered to pay damages to each of the twenty-three families that had sued.
On this day in 1997, former U.S. President George H.W. Bush’s 85th birthday was celebrated by a skydiving adventure at 9500 feet over Yuma, Arizona.
Aretha Franklin,1960
Aretha Franklin in April 2016.
Singer Aretha Louise Franklin is 76 years young today.
In 2017, Franklin canceled a series of concerts due to health reasons. During an outdoors Detroit show, Franklin told the audience to "keep me in your prayers". In July 2017, Franklin reemerged, appearing to lose more weight before a performance at the Wolf Trap in Virginia.
Sir Elton Hercules John (Reginald Kenneth Dwight) is 71 today.
Rock and roll legend Elton John has sold over 250 million albums in a career that’s spanned over 50 years. He is best known for such hit songs as "Rocket Man," "Tiny Dancer," "Bennie and the Jets" and "Candle in the Wind." He began playing the piano at age three and won a junior scholarship to the Royal Academy of Music.
William Shatner as Captain Harrison Byers in "The Judgment of Nuremberg" 1961.
Shatner played Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek from 1966 to 1994, and won the Saturn Life Career Award in 1980. He also played eponymous police sergeant T.J. Hooker on ABC/CBS from 1982 to 1986.
The Twilight Zone episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" from 1963.
