Guest Author - Judith Hodges

Today in History- October 15

Happy Birthday!
70 B.C. Virgil, poet (The Aeneid)
1844 Friedrich Nietzsche, philosopher
1900 Mervyn LeRoy, director (No Time for Sergeants, Little Women, Gypsy)
1920 Mario Puzo, writer (The Godfather)
1924 Lee Iacocca, auto tycoon
1926 Jean Peters, actress (Niagara, Apache)
1926 Evan Hunter, author AKA Ed McBain (The Birds, 87th Precinct)
1937 Linda Lavin, actress (Alice from "Alice")
1942 Penny Marshall, actress/director (Laverne from "Laverne and Shirley")
1945 Jim Palmer, baseball player
1946 Richard Carpenter, singer/musician from the Carpenters ("We Have Only Just Begun")
1948 Chris De Burgh, singer ("The Lady in Red")
1953 Tito Jackson, singer from The Jackson Five ("ABC", "I'll Be There")
1954 Tanya Roberts, actress (A View to a Kill, "Charlie's Angels", "That '70s Show")
1959 Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York
1959 Todd Solondz, director (Welcome to the Dollhouse)
1959 Emeril Lagasse, chef/TV host ("Emeril Live")
1969 Vanessa Marcil, actress (Brenda from "General Hospital", "Las Vegas")
1970 Eric Benét, singer ("A Day In The Life")
1970 Ginuwine, R&B singer ("Pony")

Deaths:
1964 Cole Porter, composer ("Kiss Me Kate")

Events:
1951 "I Love Lucy" makes its TV debate.

History Lesson:
Jean Peters was married to Howard Hughes at one time.

"I Love Lucy" ran for 6 years with a number of spin offs.