Guest Author - Judith Hodges
Today in History- January 14th
Happy Birthday!
1741 Benedict Arnold, Revolutionary War Continental Major General known as a traitor
1863 Richard Felton, artist of the first Sunday comic strip ("Yellow Kid")
1875 Albert Schweitzer, physician
1892 Hal Roach, producer ("Our Gang", "The Little Rascals")
1906 William Bendix, actor ("The Life of Riley")
1915 Mark Goodson, producer ("The Match Game", "Password", "Card Sharks")
1919 Andy Rooney, journalist ("60 Minutes")
1924 Guy Williams, actor ("Lost in Space", "Zorro")
1934 Richard Briers, actor (Much Ado About Nothing, Love's Labour's Lost)
1938 Jack Jones, singer ("The Love Boat")
1938 Allen Toussaint, composer ("Working in the Coal Mine", "I Like It Like That")
1941 Faye Dunaway, actress (Network, The Chamber, Mommie Dearest)
1948 Carl Weathers, actor (Happy Gilmore, Rocky series)
1963 Steven Soderbergh, director (Ocean's Eleven, Erin Brockovich, Traffic)
1964 Shepard Smith, journalist ("The Fox Report")
1967 Kerri Green, actress (The Goonies, Lucas, Summer Rental)
1967 Emily Watson, actress (The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Gosford Park, Punch-Drunk Love)
1968 LL Cool J, rapper/ actor (Last Holiday, S.W.A.T., Any Given Sunday)
1969 Jason Bateman, actor ("Arrested Development", "The Hogan Family", Starsky & Hutch, Dodgeball)
1969 Dave Grohl, drummer/ singer from Foo Fighters/ Nirvana ("Learn To Fly", "Breakout")
1979 Jordan Ladd, actress (Club Dread, Cabin Fever)
1981 Steven Grayhm, actor (The Five People You Meet in Heaven, White Chicks)
Deaths:
1742 Edmond Halley, dicoverer of Halley's Comet
1898 Lewis Carroll, author ("Alice's Adventures in Wonderland")
1943 Eric Knight, author ("Lassie, Come Home")KIA in WWII
1957 Humphrey Bogart, actor (The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca, To Have and Have Not)
1977 Anais Nin, author ("Delta of Venus")
1977 Peter Finch, actor (Network, The Flight of the Phoenix)
1978 Blossom Rock, actress ("The Addams Family")
1986 Donna Reed, actress (It's A Wonderful Life, From Here To Eternity, "The Donna Reed Show")
2006 Shelley Winters, actress ("Roseanne", Alfie, Lolita)
Events:
1639 Fundamental Orders is the first constitution of the US.
1784 Treaty of Paris is ratified by the Continental Congress.
History Lesson:
Learn more about Halley's Comet.
