Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- October 6

Happy Birthday!
1908 Carole Lombard, actress (My Man Godfrey, Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
1914 Thor Heyerdahl, explorer
1942 Britt Ekland, actress (The Man with the Golden Gun, Cold Heat, The Children, Scandal)
1942 Fred Travalena, actor (ABC Comedy Hour)
1963 Elisabeth Shue, actress (Leaving Las Vegas, Back to the Future, Cocktail, The Karate Kid, The Saint)
1973 Rebecca Lobo, WMBA player

Deaths:
1892 Alfred Lord Tennyson, poet (Poems)
1989 Bette Davis, actress (What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?)

History Lesson:

Carole Lombard was married to actor Clark Gable. (Rhett Butler from Gone with the Wind)