Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- June 3

Happy Birthday!
1808 Jefferson Davis, president of Confederate States of America
1906 Josephine Baker, singer/ dancer
1911 Paulette Goddard, actress (The Great Dictator)
1919 Ely Callaway, Callaway golf founder
1924 Colleen Dewhurst, actress (Anne of Green Gables)
1925 Tony Curtis, actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 Allen Ginsberg, poet
1932 Dakota Staton, singer ("Please Send Me Someone to Love")
1936 Larry McMurtry, author ("Terms of Endearment", "Lonesome Dove")
1937 Edward Winter, actor ("M*A*S*H", "Soap")
1942 Curtis Mayfield, songwriter ("Move On Up")
1950 Suzi Quatro, singer/ actress (Leather Tuscadero from "Happy Days")
1950 Deniece Williams, singer ("Let's Hear it For the Boy")
1958 Scott Valentine, actor (Nick from "Family Ties")
1961 Charles Hart, songwriter (some of "The Phantom of the Opera")

Deaths:
1861 Stephen Douglas, debated Abraham Lincoln
2001 Anthony Quinn, actor (Lawrence of Arabia)

Events:
1888 Casey at the Bat is published.
1963 Burglary occured that led to the case of Gideon v. Wainwright.

History Lesson:
Casey at the Bat