Retired actor Charles Robert Redford Jr. is 83 today.

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On this day in 1961, Berlin was divided by a barbed wire fence to halt
the flight of refugees. Two days later work on the Berlin Wall began.



Clinton (Clint) Eastwood Jr. is 89 today.
Clint Eastwood gained fame as an iconic actor in such classic
Western films as A Fistful of Dollars and The Good, the Bad
and the Ugly (1967) and as Detective Harry Callahan in the
Dirty Harry franchise beginning in 1971. He later became a
renowned director, receiving the Academy Awards for Best
Director and Best Picture for his films Unforgiven (1992) and
Million Dollar Baby (2004).

On this day in 1980, Mt. Saint Helens erupted in Washington state. A
total of 57 people were killed along with 3 billion dollars in damage.




Mt. Saint Helens as it looks today.