(Fox News/ AP) – According to her family, award-winning actress Nanette Fabray, known for her roles in “The Band Wagon” and “Caesar’s Hour,” passed away Thursday.
Fabray’s son, Dr. Jamie MacDougall, told The Associated Press that his mother died at her home in Palos Verdes Estates. He told the Los Angeles Times that she passed away from natural causes. The starlet began her successful career at the age of 3, singing and dancing in Vaudeville performances as "Baby Nanette."
On this day in 1945, the 28th Regiment of the Fifth Marine Division of the U.S. Marines reached the top of Mount Surabachi. A photograph of these Marines raising the American flag was taken by Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal (below).
Joe Rosenthal poses on top of Mt. Suribachi on Iwo Jima.
Joseph John Rosenthal (October 9, 1911 – August 20, 2006)
During the Persian Gulf War on this day in 1991, ground forces crossed the border of Saudi Arabia into the country of Iraq. Less than four days later the war was over due to the surrender or withdraw of Iraqi forces.
Iraqi troops emerge from heavily protected bunker to surrender to gun-toting Saudi soldiers.
Scottish scientists cloned the first mammal, a sheep called “Dolly”.
From left: The comedy team of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy.
At the Staples Center in Los Angeles on this day in 2000, Carlos Santana received a record-tying eight Grammy’s. Michael Jackson set the record back in 1984 when he won awards for "Thriller."
Marty Allen(Morton David Alpern)born in Pittsburgh, PA. (March 23, 1922 – February 12, 2018)
Marty Allen was a comedian and actor who worked as a comedy headliner in nightclubs, as a dramatic actor in television roles, and was once called "The Darling of Daytime TV". He also appeared in films. Allen, a veteran of World War ll, died Monday in Las Vegas, Nevada of complications from pneumonia.
On February 8, 1937, the Senate Judiciary Committee met to consider President Roosevelt’s request.
On this day in 1994, white separatist Byron De La Beckwith was convicted in Jackson, MS, of the 1963 murder of civil rights leader Medgar Evers (pictured below).
Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963)
William Seward Burroughs II (February 5, 1914 – August 2, 1997)
Burroughs was a writer and artist, a primary figure of the Beat Generation and a major postmodernist author whose influence is considered to have affected a range of popular culture as well as literature. He wrote eighteen novels and novellas, six collections of short stories and four collections of essays.
Richard Remick Smothers and Thomas Bolyn Smothers lll.
Henry Louis Aaron is 84 years old today.
Hank Aaron, nicknamed "Hammer" or "Hammerin’ Hank", is a retired American Major League Baseballright fielder who is currently the senior vice president of the Atlanta Braves. He played 21 seasons for the Milwaukee/Atlanta Braves in the National League (NL) and two seasons for the Milwaukee Brewers in the American League, from 1954 through 1976. Aaron held the MLB record for career home runs for 33 years, and he still holds several MLB offensive records. He hit 24 or more home runs every year from 1955 through 1973, and is one of only two players to hit 30 or more home runs in a season at least fifteen times. In 1999, The Sporting News ranked Aaron fifth on its "100 Greatest Baseball Players" list.