GUADALUPE, Calif. (AP) — Archaeologists working in sand dunes on the central California coast have dug up an intact plaster sphinx (above) that was part of an
Egyptian movie set built more than 90 years ago for Cecil B. DeMille’s silent film
epic "The Ten Commandments” (1923).
The 300-pound sphinx is the second recovered from the Guadalupe-Nipomo
Dunes.
Cecil Blount DeMille
(August 12, 1881 – January 21, 1959)
JOHN BLEMONT
On this day in 1963, President Johnson (below) named a commission
headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President
John F. Kennedy.
In this 1964 file photo, the bipartisan presidential commission to
investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy sits
for an official picture, at the Veterans of Foreign Wars office on
Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP)
President Lyndon B. Johnson.
The U.N. General Assembly on this day in 1947, passed a resolution
that called for the division of Palestine between Arabs and Jews.
The first airplane flight over the South Pole was made by U.S. Navy
Lt. Comdr. Richard E. Byrd on this day in 1929.
A Ford Trimotor aircraft, the Floyd Bennett (S/N NX4542), was
selected for the epic polar air journey.
On this day in 1981.
On this day in 1986.
On this day in 2001.
ROSS SIMPSON
On this day in 1950, China entered the Korean conflict forcing UN
forces to retreat.
The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a
walled ghetto on this day in 1940.
On this day in 1973, Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court
that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key
Watergate tape. Woods was President Nixon‘s personal
secretary.
The motion picture "Casablanca" had its world premiere at the
Hollywood Theater in New York City on this day in 1942.
Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) is 78 today.
Considered the Queen of Rock and Roll, Tina Turner released
the single "Proud Mary" in 1971 and has received eleven
Grammy Awards, collaborating with many other popular artists.
Tina picked cotton with her parents as sharecroppers, and soon
moved in with her great-aunt after her parents divorced in 1978
and later worked as a nurse’s aide, dreaming of becoming a
nurse someday.
Rance Howard (November 17, 1928 – November 25, 2017)
Actor Rance Howard, the father of director Ron Howard, died Saturday. The elder
Howard was also the father of actor Clint Howard and grandfather of actresses
Bryce Dallas Howard and Paige Howard.
Rance Howard’s acting career spanned several decades since the 1950s. He
appeared in several of Ron Howard’s films, including "Apollo 13," "A Beautiful
Mind," "Splash," "How the Grinch Stole Christmas," "Parenthood" and "Grand
Theft Auto." (AP)
From left: Rance Howard and son Ron.
Rance Howard in a scene from Apollo 13, 1995.
TIM MAGUIRE
President Abraham Lincoln delivered his Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield
in Pennsylvania on this day in 1863.
Only true known photo of Lincoln delivering Gettysburg address in
1863. Lincoln is center (red arrow).
(National Archives and Records Administration)
On this day in 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat(center)became
the first Arab leader to set foot in Israel on an official visit. Israeli
Prime Minister Menachem Begin (left).
Ford Motor Co. announced it was ending the production of the
unpopular Edsel on this day in 1959.
Thomas Francis "Tommy" Dorsey Jr.
(November 19, 1905 – November 26, 1956)
Disc Jockey Dorsey.
Taxi Driver
Alicia Christian "Jodie" Foster is 55 years young today.
Jodie Foster gained fame for her role as a teenage prostitute in the 1976
Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver. She won Academy Awards for Best
Actress for her performances in The Accused (1988) and Silence of the
Lambs (1991) and also had starring roles in Contact (1997), Anna and
the King (1999), and Panic Room (2002).
Foster, then three, in a scene from the Doris Day Show.
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