(Los Angeles) – Art Evans, the actor known for his roles in Die
Hard 2 (1990) and A Soldier’s Story (1984), died Saturday. The
cause of death was not disclosed.
One of Evans’s early roles was the first victim in the John
Carpenter horror film Christine (1983).
Arthur James Evans
(March 27, 1942 – December 21, 2024)
Art Evans autographed photo of his role in “Christine.”
On December 22, 1808, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony
No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67—the “Fifth Symphony”—received
its world premiere in Vienna. It was a benefit concert held
for Beethoven at the Theater an der Wien. It would soon
become the world’s most recognizable piece of classical
music.
Ludwig van Beethoven
(baptized 17 December 1770 – 26 March 1827)
ROSS SIMPSON
Madonna, aged 42, married Guy Ritchie, who was ten years
her junior, in a ceremony steeped in the groom’s Scottish heritage.
On December 22, 1956, a baby gorilla named Colo entered the
world at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, becoming the first-ever
gorilla born in captivity. Weighing in at approximately 4 pounds,
Colo, a western lowland gorilla whose name was a combination
of Columbus and Ohio, was the daughter of Millie and Mac, two
gorillas captured in French Cameroon, Africa, who were brought
to the Columbus Zoo in 1951.
Before Colo’s birth, gorillas found at zoos were caught in the
wild, often by brutal means. In order to capture a gorilla when
it was young and therefore still small enough to handle, hunters frequently had to kill the gorilla’s parents and other family
members.
Mother Millie with her daughter Colo who died in 2017.
