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| Cone (Jay McCaslin) |
| 1980 |
Sum 41 bassist (Age: 30) |
| Jennifer Paige |
| 1973 |
(Age: 37) |
| John Fugelsang |
| 1969 |
T-V host (America's Funniest Home Videos,
Flix) (Age: 41) |
| Charlie Sheen (Carlos Estevez) |
| 1965 |
Actor (Platoon, Wall Street,
T-V's Spin City and Two and a Half Men) (Age: 45) |
| Valerie Perrine |
| 1943 |
She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar
for Lenny in 1975 and for Best Supporting Actress for
Superman in 1979. Her other notable film apperances include
Slaughterhouse-Five and The Electric Horseman., (Age: 67) |
| Eileen Brennan |
| 1938 |
She was nominated for a Best Supporting
Actress Oscar in 1981 for playing "Captain Doreen Lewis" in Private
Benjamin and won a Best Supporting Actress Emmy later that
year for playing the same role in the T-V series. She's been nominated for
six other Emmys, most recently for a recurring guest shot on Will and
Grace. (Age: 72) |
| Anne Jackson |
| 1926 |
The wife of fellow "method" actor Eli
Wallach has worked extensively on Broadway and appeared in such
films as The Shining and Lovers and Other Strangers. (Age:
84) |
| 2007 |
Tobey Maguire marries jewelry
designer Jennifer Meyer in a secret ceremony in Hawaii. |
| 2004 |
Actress Gena Lee Nolin marries
pro hockey player Cale Hulse. |
| 2004 |
The terrorist school siege in Belsan,
Russia ends in tragedy -- 340 people die when Russian commandos storm the
building. |
| 2001 |
St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bud Smith
becomes the 16th rookie in modern baseball history to throw a no-hitter,
shutting down San Diego. |
| 1999 |
Cedric the Entertainer marries
stylist Lorna Wells. |
| 1997 |
"You Make Me Wanna" by Usher
is certified gold. |
| 1997 |
Arizona governor Fife Symington
is convicted of lying to get millions in loans to shore up his collaspsing
real estate empire. (Symington's conviction is later overturned and he is
pardoned by President Clinton in January 2001.) |
| 1994 |
China and Russia proclaim an end to any
lingering hostilities, pledging they will no longer target nuclear missiles
or use force against each other. |
| 1992 |
Prince signs a
100-million-dollar contract with Warner Brothers, surpassing record deals
with Michael Jackson and Madonna to become
the highest-paid musician. |
| 1988 |
Kevin Bacon marries
Kyra Sedgwick. |
| 1983 |
Eurythmics' "Sweet Dreams (Are
Made of This)" hits number-one on the Billboard pop chart. |
| 1982 |
More than 400-thousand people attend the first
US Festival in San Bernardino, California. The B-52's,
Fleetwood Mac, The Police, Cars,
Ramones, Jackson Browne, Talking
Heads, Tom Petty, Grateful Dead,
Pat Benatar, Dave Edmunds, Santana,
The Kinks, Eddie Money, Gang of
Four, English Beat and Jerry Jeff Walker
play the three-day event, which is organized and financed by Apple Computer
co-founder Steve Wozniak. |
| 1977 |
Japanese slugger Sadaharu Oh
hits his 756th homer, breaking Hank Aaron's record. |
| 1977 |
The Mary Tyler Moore Show turns off
the lights. |
| 1970 |
Football coach Vince Lombardi
dies in Washington, D-C. |
| 1967 |
C-B-S pulls the plug on What's My Line. |
| 1967 |
Woody Guthrie, the folksinger
who wrote "This Land Is Your Land" and inspired Bob Dylan
and many others, dies of Huntington's chorea at 52. His son Arlo
will follow in his father's musical footsteps. |
| 1939 |
Britain and France declare war on Germany, two
days after the Nazis invade Poland. |
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