Actress Reese Witherspoon is best known for her roles
in the movies "Election"(1999) and "Legally Blonde”(2001.
Forbes named her the world’s highest-paid actress, and
in 2023, she was named one of the wealthiest celebrities
in the U.S. with an estimated net worth of $440 million
George Harrison (25 February 1943 – 29 November 2001
On November 29, 2001, English musician and songwriter
George Harrison died of lung cancer that had spread to
his brain at the age of 58.
Harrison achieved global fame as a member of the Beatles
and went on to a successful solo career that included
frequent collaborations with many of the foremost
musicians of his generation.
The youngest member of the Beatles, Harrison was born
in Liverpool in 1943 and joined the group, then known as
the Quarrymen, when he was barely 15.
Harrison became the group’s lead guitarist and frequently
sang, but he developed a reputation as the “quiet Beatle”
Just after 6 p.m. on April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King Jr.was fatally
shot while standing on the balcony outside his second-story
room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee.
The civil rights leader was in Memphis to support a sanitation
workers’ strike and was on his way to dinner when a bullet
struck him in the jaw and severed his spinal cord.
King was pronounced dead after his arrival at a Memphis hospital.
He was 39 years old.
On November 23, 1936, the first issue of the pictorial magazine
Life was published, featuring a cover photo of the Fort Peck
Dam’s spillway by Margaret Bourke-White.
Life actually had its start earlier in the 20th century as a different
kind of magazine: a weekly humor publication, not unlike today’s
The New Yorker in its use of tart cartoons, humorous pieces and
cultural reporting.
When the original Life folded during the Great Depression, the
influential American publisher Henry Luce bought the name and
re-launched the magazine as a picture-based periodical on this
day in 1936.
Henry Robinson Luce (1898 – 1967)
This 2012 photo shows the Fort Peck Dam spillway in
northeast Montana.
U.S. Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Guion S. Bluford became
the first African American to travel into space when the
space shuttle Challenger lifted off on its third mission. It
was the first night launch of a space shuttle, and many
people stayed up late to watch the spacecraft roar up
from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 2:32 a.m.
The Challenger spent six days in space, during which time
Bluford and his four fellow crew members launched a
communications satellite for the government of India,
made contact with an errant communications satellite,
conducted scientific experiments, and tested the shuttle’s
robotic arm.
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. will be 82 years old on
November 22.
