B-Days: Roman Emperor Probus (232AD) Orville Wright, Ring
Lardner, Ogden Nash, Alfred Lunt, George Enesco, jockey Willie Shoemaker, Malcolm
Forbes, Tipper Gore, Gene Roddenberry, Colleen Moore the It Girl, Jill St.
John, Ginger Baker, Dawn Steel, John Stamos, Peter Gallagher is 59, Kyra
Sedgwick is 49, Matthew Perry is 45, Jonathan Frakes is 62, Bill Clinton is 68
1692- Salem Mass, The pilgrims executed four people as
witches. One was an elderly senile woman who just looked scary like a witch and
another was a Caribbean servant named Tituba who liked to tell children ghost
stories. One Rev George Burroughs, was a distant ancestor of Walt Disney.
1977- Groucho Marx, the last surviving Marx Brother, died
at age 86. In his final years Groucho had rewrote his will in favor of his
young personal secretary Erin Fleming. This spawned a furious legal battle
between Fleming and the Marx family.
2012- Director Tony Scott (Top Gun, Days of Thunder) jumped
to his death off a bridge in Los Angeles. He was 68.
2335 –
According to Star Trek the Next Generation, this is the birthday of William T Riker,
in Valdez Alaska, first officer of the Enterprise.
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