Rudolph Valentino
(nicknamed The Latin Lover)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)
1922
May 22, 1992 was the last "Tonight Show" with Johnny
Carson as host.
Carson presented retrospective of clips covering the
past 30 years. Carson said goodnight for the last time.
Comedian Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s "Tonight Show" for the
last time on this day in 1992. He had been host for 30 years.
Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed a non-aggression treaty
on this day in 1939.
It was on this day in 1927, despite worldwide demonstrations in
support of their innocence, Italian-born anarchists Nicola Sacco
and Bartolomeo Vanzetti are executed for murder.
On April 15, 1920, a paymaster for a shoe company in South
Braintree, Massachusetts, was shot and killed along with his
guard.
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.
Former priest John Geoghan, a notorious pedophile
whose case sparked the clergy molestation scandal
for 18 months, died on this day in 2003 after being
attacked at the state prison in Shirley.
It was on this day in 1926.
1921
Rudolph Valentino
(Rodolfo Alfonso Raffaello Pierre Filibert Guglielmi)
(May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926)
On this day in 1939, Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini signed a
military alliance between Germany and Italy known as the "Pact
of Steel."
Nazi Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
President Richard Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit
Russia on this day in 1972. He met with Soviet leader Leonid
Brezhnev.
In Birmingham, AL. on this day in 2002, a jury convicted former Ku
Klux Klansman Bobby Frank Cherry (above) of murder in the 1963
church bombing that killed four girls shown on the memorial below.
Johnny Carson hosted NBC’s "Tonight Show" for the last time on
this day in 1992. He had been host for 30 years.
Laurence Kerr Olivier (Baron Olivier) (May 22, 1907 – July 11, 1989)
English actor and director Laurence Olivier who, along with his
contemporaries Ralph Richardson and John Gielgud, dominated
the British stage of the mid-20th century. He also worked in films
throughout his career, playing more than fifty cinema roles. Late
in his career, he had considerable success in television roles.
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