David Soul (David Richard Solberg)
(August 28, 1943 – January 4, 2024)

Actor David Soul,  the blond half of the TV crime-fighting duo
"Starsky and Hutch"who went on to become a successful pop
singer, has died.

Soul was a 3 pack a day smoker for fifty years. Although he
stopped smoking ten years prior, he was seriously affected
by COPD. He had also had a lung removed due to cancer.

Soul died in a London hospital, surrounded by family on
Thursday.   

1975

On January 5, 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate
Bridge, as workers began excavating 3.25 million cubic feet
of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.

On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened, Celebrations lasted for a week! Vehicles were not permitted to cross on the first
day, so 200,000 people made their way across the bridge on foot
or roller skaters. The day after it opened, President Roosevelt, who
was in Washington D.C., had pushed a button that allowed vehicles across the bridge.

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Glynis Johns, known for her role as Mrs. Winifred Banks in
the 1964 film classic "Mary Poppins" has died. She was 100.

Mitch Clem, her manager, told The Associated Press she
died Thursday of natural causes at an assisted living home
in Los Angeles.

On January 4, 1996, General Motors announced at the Greater
Los Angeles Auto Show it will build an electric car, dubbed the
EV1, to be launched in the fall of that year.