Joan Baez at the Oakland draft center.
In Oakland, California, at least 40 anti-war protesters, including
the folk singer Joan Baez, were arrested for blocking the entrance
during a sit-in at a Armed Forces induction center.
Joan Chandos Baez turned 75 in January.
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ROSS SIMPSON
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis
(April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989)
Her early interest was dance, but then she discovered the
stage, and gave up dancing. To her, it presented much
more of a challenge. When died, many of her fans refused
to believe she was gone.
Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth I in
"The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex” (1939).
TIM MAGUIRE
Michael Kirk Douglas is 72 today.
Michael Douglas studied drama at the University of California,
Santa Barbara. His role as flamboyant pianist Liberace in the
2013 HBO biopic Behind the Candelabra earned him an Emmy
Award.
1993
From left: Michael Douglas with his father Kirk Douglas.
ED DANAHUE
Sophia Loren (Sofia Villani Scicolone) is 82 years young today.
Sophia Loren was a finalist for a beauty pageant in Naples at the age of
fourteen. She voiced the character Mama Topolino in the 2011 Disney
feature Cars 2 (below).
TIM MAGUIRE
William Oliver Stone is 70 years old today.
As a teenager, Stone worked in the French Financial
Exchange. He then went into the Army and served in
Vietnam from June 1965 to 1968.His 1991 film JFK led
to Congress passing the Assassination Materials
Disclosure Act of 1992, which ended the secrecy
surrounding John F. Kennedy‘s assassination.
