(Los Angeles) – Art Evans, the actor known for his roles in Die
Hard 2 (1990) and A Soldier’s Story (1984), died Saturday. The
cause of death was not disclosed.
One of Evans’s early roles was the first victim in the John
Carpenter horror film Christine (1983).
Arthur James Evans
(March 27, 1942 – December 21, 2024)
Art Evans autographed photo of his role in “Christine.”
ROSS SIMPSON
Madonna, aged 42, married Guy Ritchie, who was ten years
her junior, in a ceremony steeped in the groom’s Scottish heritage.
General George S. Patton, commander of the U.S. 3rd Army,
died in his sleep of pulmonary edema and congestive heart
failure from injuries suffered, not in battle, but in a freak car
accident at the age of 60.
While some have mourned what was a tragic loss at the time,
others over the decades have theorized Patton’s death was
anything but an accident.
Fueling speculation that the accident involving a U.S. Army
truck was not an accident but a coordinated assassination.
A soldier inspects the damage to the car General Patton was riding in when the accident that would prove fatal occurred.
The damage to the front end of the vehicle was substantial.
On the beach at Gela, Sicily, in 1943.
CINCINNATI (WKRC) – Rickey Henderson, MLB Hall of Famer
and the only player to reach 1,000 stolen bases, died Friday
at age 65 following a bout with pneumonia at the University
of California, San Francisco Medical Center. Five days short
of his 66th birthday.
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 from London to
New York exploded in midair over Lockerbie, Scotland,
killing all 243 passengers and 16 crew members aboard,
as well as 11 Lockerbie residents on the ground.
A bomb hidden inside an audio cassette player detonated
in the cargo area when the plane was at an altitude of 31,000
feet.
The disaster, which became the subject of Britain’s largest
criminal investigation, was believed to be an attack against
the United States. One hundred eighty nine of the victims
were American.
