On July 6, 1994, the movie Forrest Gump opened in U.S.
theaters. A huge box-office success, the film starred Tom
Hanks in the title role of Forrest, a good-hearted man with
a low I.Q. who winds up at the center of key cultural and
historical events of the second half of the 20th century.

Forrest Gump was based on a 1986 novel of the same
name by Winston Groom, who (like his main character)
grew up in Alabama and served in the Army during
Vietnam.

Forrest and Jenny

On June 23, 1989, Tim Burton’s noir spin on the well-known story
of the DC Comics hero Batman was released in theaters.

Michael Keaton (below) starred in the film as the multimillionaire
Bruce Wayne, who has transformed himself into the crime-fighting
Batman after witnessing his parents’ brutal murder as a child.

On this day in history, June 20, 1975, the movie
"Jaws," directed by Steven Spielberg, opened
in theaters in the United States. 

Stars: Robert Shaw, Roy Scheider and Richard Dreyfuss

Director Steven Spielberg.

On May 8, 1963, with the release of Dr. No, North American
moviegoers get their first look–down the barrel of a gun–
at the super-spy James Bond (codename: 007), the immortal
character created by Ian Fleming in his now-famous series
of novels and portrayed onscreen by the relatively unknown
Scottish actor Sean Connery.

Sir Sean (Thomas) Connery
(25 August 1930 – 31 October 2020)

ROSS SIMPSON

Elvis Presley (The King of Rock and Roll) married Priscilla Beaulieu at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada on
May 1, 1967.