JOHN BELMONT

Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)

NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the final lap
of the Daytona 500 race on this day in 2001. Earnhardt was inducted into
numerous halls of fame, including the NASCAR Hall of Fame inaugural
class in 2010.

John Joseph Travolta is 65 years old today.

Actor John Travolta starred in the 1970s hit films Saturday Night Fever 
and Grease. He went on to play Vincent Vega in the critically acclaimed
1994 film Pulp Fiction. Travolta  also starred in the action thriller Face/Off
(1997) with Nicolas Cage.  

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Sandra Annette Bullock was born in Arlington, Virginia.

Actress Sandra Bullock won an Academy Award for her leading role in the
2009 film The Blind Side. She has also played starring roles in films Speed 
(1994),Gravity (2013), The Proposal (2009), Miss Congeniality (2000), Crash 
(2005) and The Heat (2013).

Shirley Mae Jones was born in Charleroi, Pennsylvania.

Musical actress Shirley Jones starred as the mom of The Partridge Family on
ABC-TV from  September 25, 1970 – March 23, 1974. She won the Miss
Pittsburgh contest in 1952.

JOHN BELMONT

Ralph Dale Earnhardt Sr. (April 29, 1951 – February 18, 2001)

The crash that killed Dale Earnhardt (#3) in the 2001 Daytona 500.

Regarded as one of the most significant drivers in NASCAR history, Earnhardt
won a total of 76 Winston Cup races over the course of his career, including
the 1998 Daytona 500. He also won seven NASCAR Winston Cup
championships, tying for the most all-time with Richard Petty.

John Joseph Travolta is 63 years old today.

After dropping out of high school, Travolta moved to New York and landed a
role in a touring company’s production of Grease. He made his film debut as
John in the 1975 television movie The Tenth Level.

Mark Twain’s "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" was published
in the U.S. for the first time in 1885.

 
Samuel Langhorne Clemens
(November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)

Linda Denise Blair was born in St. Louis, Missouri.

Actress Linda Blair played the demon possessed Regan in The
Exorcist (1973). The role earned her a Golden Globe Award for
Best Supporting Actress and an Academy Award nomination. In
1977, she reprised her role in Exorcist II: The Heretic.

She became a child model at age six. In 1970, at the age of ten,
she made her big screen debut in The Way We Live Now.