On September 10, 1960, Hurricane Donna hit the Florida Keys
as a Category 4 storm. Having formed near Cape Verde off the
African coast, it would go on to cause 150 deaths from Puerto
Rico to New England over the course of two weeks.

Donna first attained hurricane status on August 31 and headed
west toward the Caribbean Sea.

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.

TIM MAGUIRE

Oliver Stone in Vietnam.

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. 

      
ROSS SIMPSON

Robert Anthony De Niro Jr. is 78 today.