Drew Barrymore gained fame as a child actress in Steven Spielberg‘s film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982). She won a Screen Actors Guild Award in 2010 for her portrayal of Little Edie in Grey Gardens. Drew made her directorial debut with the 2009 film Whip It!
Drew Barrymore as Gertie in the Steven Spielberg movie E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial.
John Glenn made space history on this day in 1962 when he orbited the world three times in 4 hours, 55 minutes. He became the first American to orbit the Earth. He was aboard the Friendship 7 Mercury capsule. Glenn witnessed the Devil’s Cigarette Lighter while in flight.
In West Warwick, RI on this day in 2003, 100 people were killed and more than 230 were injured when fire destroyed the nightclub, The Station. The fire started with sparks from a pyrotechnic display being used by Jack Russel’s Great White. Ty Longley, guitarist for the band, was one of the victims in the fire.
American Tara Lipinski, at age 15, became the youngest gold medalist in winter Olympics history when she won the ladies’ figure skating title at Nagano, Japan on this day in 1998.
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910)
In Montgomery, AL, on this day in 1861, Jefferson Davis was inaugurated as the President of the Confederate States.
Jefferson Davis was sworn in as Provisional President of the Confederate States of America on the steps of the Alabama State Capitol (above/below).
On this day in 1970, The Chicago Seven defendants were found innocent of conspiring to incite riots at the 1968 Democratic national convention.
Police arrest protesters outside of the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.
John Joseph Travolta is 64 years old today. Born in Englewood, NJ.
John Travolta starred in the 1970s hit films Saturday Night Fever and Grease. He later went on to play Vincent Vega in the critically acclaimed 1994 film Pulp Fiction.
On this day in 2001, NASCAR driver Dale Earnhardt, Sr., was killed in a crash during the final lap of the Daytona 500 race. He died instantly from blunt force trauma to the skull.
John Gavin (Juan Vincent Apablasa) (April 8, 1931 – February 9, 2018)
(FoxNews) – Fox News confirmed today John Gavin, the movie star who graced the big screen in “Psycho,” (1960) “Imitation of Life" (1959) and “Thoroughly Modern Millie” (1967) died this morning after a long illness.
Lana Turner (Julia Jean Turner) (February 8, 1921 – June 29, 1995)
Lana Turner was an actress who over the course of her nearly 50-year career achieved fame as both a pin-up model and a dramatic actress. She best known for her role in the 1959 remake of “Imitation of Life”. She had previouslyappeared in Ziegfeld Girl in 1941 and in “Somewhere I’ll Find You” in 1942. .
