Today in History- September 18

Happy Birthday!
1895 John Diefenbaker, Canadian Prime Minister
1905 Greta Garbo, actress (Mata Hari, Anna Karenina)
1905 Eddie 'Rochester' Anderson, actor (Brewster's Millions, The Jack Benny Program)
1917 June Foray, voice actress (Granny from Looney Tunes, Lucifer
from Cinderella)
1920 Jack Warden, actor (Brian's Song, Saul from While You Were Sleeping)
1933 Robert Blake, actor (Baretta, In Cold Blood, PT 109, Our Gang)
1940 Frankie Avalon, singer/ actor (Beach movies)
1952 Dee Dee Ramone, bassist from the Ramones (I Wanna Be Sedated)
1961 James Gandolfini, actor (Tony Soprano from The Sopranos)
1964 Holly Robinson Peete, actress (21 Jump Street, Hanging with Mr. Cooper)
1971 Jada Pinkett, actress (The Nutty Professor, Scream 2, The Matrix Reloaded)
1971 Lance Armstrong, cyclist
1973 James Marsden, actor (Cyclops from the X-Men, Ally McBeal)
1979 Alison Lohman, actress (White Oleander, Big Fish)

Deaths:
1970 Jimi Hendrix, musician (Foxey Lady, Purple Haze)

Events:
1975 Patty Hearst, newspaper heiress, arrested for robbery.

History Lesson:
This is the review I wrote about Holly Robinson Peete's book about football.