Ron Killings born in Charlotte, NC
Killings is born in Charlotte, North Carolina. Killings develops an early interest in wrestling and music. After failing to make a successful career out of his music, he turns to promoter Jackie Crockett to pursue professional wrestling in 1997.
Duel
Spielberg directs this edge-of-your-seat TV movie about a man terrorized by a crazed truck driver while driving to work. The film is based on a script written by novelist Richard Matheson, and stars Dennis Weaver.
I was intimately familiar with the work of Richard Matheson because I was a complete, obsessive-compulsive Twilight Zone follower, and so I knew of his work on the Twilight Zone and some of his really great episodes of that.
Martin Freeman born in Aldershot, Hampshire
Born Martin John Christopher Freeman to parents Geoffrey Freeman and Philomena Norris. Martin has 3 older brothers and 1 older sister. As a child he had asthma and had to have a hip operation for a leg problem.
Most people have a passive relationship with music and clothes, with culture. But music was my first contact with anything creative. Music is it, as far as I’m concerned.
Bully Ray born in Queens, NY
Ray (Mark LoMonaco) is born in Queens, NY. He becomes a fan of tag team wrestling through watching the Road Warriors.
The Road Warriors, in my opinion, the greatest team of all time. But I wouldn’t pay money to see Hawk wrestle in singles competition.
Marc Andreessen born in Cedar Falls, Iowa
Marc Lowell Andreessen is born in Cedar Falls, Iowa. He grows up 10 miles outside New Lisbon, Wisconsin, a village of 1,500, on Castle Rock Lake. His mother, Pat, works in customer service at Lands’ End. His father, Lowell, is a sales manager for Pioneer Hi-Bred International Inc. On his father’s job:
It was an Amway kind of thing–farmers slowly going out of business on their family farms sell seed corn to other farmers slowly going out of business.
He has one brother, Jeff, a history major at the University of Wisconsin. Andreessen discovers programming at age 12. While recuperating from an operation he persuades his parents to buy him a Radio Shack computer.
Dead at 27
Morrison dies in Paris aged 27. He is found in a bathtub at his apartment at 17 Rue Beautraillis by his girlfriend, Pamela Courson. A doctor’s report states the cause of death is heart failure aggravated by heavy drinking.
Elon Musk born in Pretoria, South Africa
Elon Musk is born in Pretoria, the eldest child of South African engineer Errol and Maye, nee Haldeman, a Canadian fashion model. He spends part of his childhood in the suburb of Waterkloof and graduates from Pretoria Boys High School.
He reads for many hours a day during childhood and enjoys comic books and J.R.R. Tolkien’s writing. He discusses science and computers with his brother Kimbal, and sister, Tosca, and debates computers with his father, who divorces from his mother. Instead of hiring domestic help, the children do chores, unlike many other wealthy South African families at the time.
I guess I was a bit of an autocratic father – do this, do that…I was a single parent, and they simply had to help out.
He develops the ambition to migrate to the U.S. during childhood, to escape a South African society that he views as oppressive under apartheid.
Mark Henry born in Silsbee, TX
Henry is born in Silsbee, Texas. He develops an early interest in professional wrestling while watching Andre the Giant on television as a child. Despite struggling with dyslexia in school, he plays football and powerlifting until his senior year.
Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Piyush ‘Bobby’ Jindal is born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana to Amar and Raj Jindal. His parents are Hindu immigrants from Punjab, India and work as engineers. He is elder of two children.
My parents, and my mom especially, were adamant that, Look, we made the decision to come to America, our kids are Americans, they should grow up fully American. If you look at our childhood, it was pretty typical of a whole lot of other children’s childhoods.
Jessica Livingston born
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Ted Cruz born in Calgary, Alberta
Cruz is born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada to Eleanor Elizabeth Darragh Wilson and Rafael Bienvenido Cruz. His father is a Cuban immigrant and works in the oil sector.
Jason Calacanis born in Brooklyn
0 0 reuben reuben2014-11-26 00:38:022014-11-26 00:38:02Jason Calacanis born in BrooklynChris Jericho born in Manhasset, NY
Jericho is born in Manhasset, New York as the son of hockey legend, Ted Irvine of New York Rangers fame. Jericho would be raised in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. His interest in wrestling an music begin at a young age.
When I was a kid, I started playing in bands when I was 12. I had two dreams and I was able to pursue both of them. That is a pretty rare thing. I don’t take it for granted. Some people go, ‘You can’t do both.’ I say, ‘Yes, I can. Watch me.’ I’ve been nothing but a wrestling fan and a music fan since I was a young kid. I just couldn’t decide which one of them I wanted to do. So I said, ‘I’ll do them both.’
Janis Joplin dies at 27
Just 16 days after Jimi Hendrix was found dead at 27, Joplin dies at the same age due to accidental heroin overdose. She planned to meet her fiancee Seth Morgan and Peggy Caserta, but instead, she is found face down in her room at Hollywood’s Landmark Hotel with fresh puncture marks in her arm. Her father, Seth Joplin, however, disagrees with the reports that the cause of her death is drug overdose. Seth Joplin:
Since her death, there has been so much speculation-and that’s all it is. The coroner’s report won’t be issued for two weeks yet. The newspapers said it was an overdose. They don’t know that it was. We were out there in Los Angeles and there were no drugs found in the room. There were some sleeping pills. There might have been an accidental overdose of those. No one knows yet.
Dies after party
Hendrix dies after collapsing at a party in London. He was 27. Police say there is no question of foul play. A number of sleeping pills are found at the house in Notting Hill Gate and are taken away for analysis. Hendrix was in London since cutting short a European tour with his band after bass player Billy Cox fell ill with stress and exhaustion.
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Michael Arrington born in California
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0 0 Mark Devlin Mark Devlin2014-10-26 23:03:402014-10-26 23:03:40Michael Arrington born in Huntingdon Beach, CAFirst success
The first successful head transplant, in which one head is replaced by another, is carried out by Robert White at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine in Cleveland, Ohio. The head of one monkey is transplanted onto the body of another. There is no attempt to join the spinal cords so the monkey cannot move its body, but it is able to breathe with artificial assistance. The monkey lives for nine days until its immune system rejects the head.
Dance, Haythorn Marry
Charles marries Joanna Haythorn. Charles:
Marriage stabilized me. Jo is by nature an optimist, I’m much more of a pessimist and it’s a turbulent relationship. ‘But it’s lasted and will last, and that’s about all I can say. I think people stay married because they want to, it’s as simple as that.
Matthew McConaughey born in Uvalde, Texas
Matthew McConaughey is born in Uvalde, Texas to Mary Kathleen and James Donald McConaughey. His father runs an oil pipe supply businesses while his mother is a published author. He has two elder brothers. He attends Longview High School.
I had a very fortunate upbringing. I had mom and dad that spent a lot of time with us.