SANDY KOZEL

Nicola Sacco (left) and Bartolomeo Vanzetti

Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi di Valentina d’Antonguella)

(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)

Italian actor Rudolph Valentino starred in several well-known silent films including
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921), The Sheik, Blood and Sand (1922),
The Eagle, (1925) and The Son of the Sheik (1926). He was an early pop icon, a
sex symbol of the 1920s, who was known as the "Latin lover".  He had applied for U.S.citizenship shortly before his untimely death from Pleuritis, an inflammation of 
of the membranes that surround the lungs. He was 31.   

Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Banky.

Cynthia Jane "Cindy" Williams was born in Los Angeles, California.

Cindy Williams starred as Shirley Feeney on the ABC television series Laverne
and Shirley from 1976 to 1983. She also portrayed Laurie Henderson in the hit
1973 coming of age film American Graffiti. She debuted as an actress through
a variety of commercials for Foster Grant sunglasses (below).  

A 1972 Foster Grant Commercial with Cindy Williams.

Jerry Lewis  (Joseph Levitch)
(March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017)

Lewis died this morning of natural causes at his home
in Las Vegas, Nevada at 9:15 AM (PT). His manager Mark
Rozzano said Jerry “passed peacefully.”

 
The comedy team of Jerry Lewis (left) and Dean Martin in 1949.  

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CAMILLE BOHANNON

Soviet hard-liners announced on this day in 1991, President Mikhail Gorbachev had been removed from power. Gorbachev returned to
power two days later.

Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev turned 86 in March.

On this day in 1934, Adolf Hitler was approved for sole executive
power in Germany as Fuehrer.

Francis Gary Powers (center), an American U-2 pilot, was convicted
of espionage in Moscow on this day in 1960.

Inventor and television pioneer, Philo Farnsworth made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-
electronic television. He was also the first person to demonstrate
such a system to the public.

Philo Taylor Farnsworth
(August 19, 1906 – March 11, 1971)

On this day in 1977.