Actor Harrison Ford is 79 today.
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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY
IT WAS ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY
It was announced by President Truman on this day in 1945, Japan
had surrendered unconditionally. The surrender ended World War II.
Japanese foreign affairs minister Mamoru Shigemitsu signs the
their Instrument of Surrender on board USS Missouri as General
Richard K. Sutherland watches, September 2, 1945.
It was on this day in 2003.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act into
law on this day in 1935. The act created unemployment insurance
and pension plans for the elderly.
On this day in 1969, British troops arrived in Northern Ireland to
intervene in sectarian violence between Protestants and Roman
Catholics.
Lech Walesa
Stephen Glenn Martin is 73 years old today. Born in Waco, Texas.
Comedian, actor and musician Steve Martin is best known films include
The Jerk (1979), Father of the Bride (1991), Roxanne (1987), Three Amigos
(1986), Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988) and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
(1987). He hosted the Academy Awards in 2001, 2003 and 2010 and he has
hosted NBC’s Saturday Night Live on a number of occasions.
While he has played banjo since an early age, and included music in his
comedy routines from the beginning of his professional career, he has
increasingly dedicated his career to music since the 2000s, acting less
and spending much of his professional life playing banjo, recording,
and touring with various bluegrass acts, including Earl Scruggs.
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Stephen Glenn "Steve" Martin is 71 today.
While attending UCLA, Steve Martin appeared on an episode
of The Dating Game on ABC-TV and worked at night clubs. He
dropped out of the university at age 21.
Playing the banjo from an early age, he released his debut music
album The Crow: New Songs for the 5-String Banjo in 2009 and
it went on to win the Grammy Award for Best Bluegrass Album.
1987
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Harrison Ford is 74 today.
Ford reached the second-highest rank in the Boy Scouts of
America and worked as a counselor for the Reptile Study
merit badge at Napowan Adventure Base Scout Camp. He
worked as a carpenter and briefly served as a stagehand
for The Doors.
Harrison Ford in American Graffiti, 1973.
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