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GREAT NEW ENGLAND HURRICANE IN 1938

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Without warning, a powerful Category 3 hurricane slammed into
Long Island and southern New England, causing 600 deaths and devastating coastal cities and towns. Also called the Long Island Express, the Great New England Hurricane of 1938 was the most destructive storm to strike the region in the 20th century.

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY

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TIM MAGUIRE

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Oliver Stone in Vietnam.

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William Oliver Stone is a film director, producer, and screenwriter. He won an Academy Award for Best
Adapted Screenplay
as writer of Midnight Express
(1978), and wrote the gangster film
remake Scarface
(1983). Stone achieved prominence as writer and          
director  of the war drama Platoon (1986), which
won
Academy Awards for Best Director and Best
Picture
. Platoon was the first in a trilogy of films  
based on the Vietnam War, in which Stone served
as an
infantry soldier. He continued the series with
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)—for which Stone
won his second Best Director
Oscar. Stone is 76
years old today.
 



 

  Midnight Express (Blu-ray)    

JFK [DVD] [1997]

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HISTORY WAS MADE ON THIS DAY IN 2005

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ROSS SIMPSON

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Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is 78 today.

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MANY WOULD LIKE TO FORGET THIS DAY

Pamplin Media Group - How I survived the Columbus Day Storm

A Deadly Wind': Former reporter tells survior stories from the Oct. 12, 1962 Columbus Day storm - Entertainment & Life - The Register-Guard - Eugene, OR

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